Maitre Marcel

14th September 2019

Free-range chicken in a casserole

There is free-range and free-range.. The poultry on sale at the butcher’s or in the supermarket may be labelled free-range but that does not mean they could roam about the farm as their ancestors. There are some poultry farmers around here with large barns where the birds can actually move around and are not squeezed together in cages. We also know some people that keep […]

Poultry

28th July 2019

Poached free-range chicken with nettles

Faced with a plump free-range chicken, I used this delicious recipe for slow poaching in a stock with nettles.

Main dish Poultry Vegetables

28th June 2019

Pigeon aux petits pois – pigeon and peas

A simple version of a classic French dish with pigeon and peas.

Fish

11th June 2019

Melva with garlic, ginger and soy sauce

At the fishmongers there was a “Melva”, a sturdy fish that looked like tuna but much smaller. I never saw one before. It is also called “false Bonito” as it is the same family as the Bonito but it bleeds more and has a more pronounced flavour. I took it and ended up with a good two kilos of fish. I kept the head and […]

Main dish Poultry

4th May 2019

Bird in a bag, guinea fowl with fresh garlic

A great and easy recipe for a succulent guinea fowl cooked in a bag with garlic and tomatoes.

Lamb Main dish

24th April 2019

Garlic and pepper sauce for roast lamb

The other day I had ordered a leg of milk-fed young lamb at the butcher’s for Easter, but he provided an older and heavier animal and I ended up with 2,5 kilos of meat.We decided to invite four people over for an impromptu Easter Sunday lunch.