Tag: salad

19th May 2014

Sesame chicken, peas with turnips

I often buy a small chicken called poussin on the market because it is sufficient for two people. Here I first braised the chicken in butter and oil and then completed the cooking in the oven with tomatoes and sesame seed. I served it with peas and turnips cooked in a chicken stock and some green salad in a reference to the classic French pea recipe […]

20th March 2014

Burrata with escarole salad

There are plenty of culinary things that I do not know about. We recently had a dinner with a good friend from Argentina in a restaurant with my name (Marcel, 15 rue de Babylone) with which I have absolutely no relation. She opted for a dish because it had “Burrata” in it and I must confess I expected some TexMex ingredient that she, as from […]

7th October 2013

Mad about Maatjes – a herring salad

In France you can buy and eat many things, but for foreigners there is always some speciality that is difficult to find. Like Maatjes herring (or Matjes herring); fresh young herring that has only been treated with a light saline solution shortly after it has been taken out of the nets. There are pots of herring in brine, sweet and sour, but that is not […]

30th July 2013

Raw beetroot and cucumber salad

The other day I was on the market a bunch of raw beetroots. Normally they are sold individually in large bulbs, sometimes cooked. The bunch had nice leaves which the greengrocer cut off, but I later learned that those leaves are an excellent source of vitamin A, and you can eat them raw or cooked. The problem with beetroot is that it colours purple your […]

15th May 2013

A vegetarian meal

I am not a vegetarian. In fact, I almost always eat meat or fish. But there is no reason even for passionate carnivores not to eat a meal from time to time without any meat, fish or eggs. With vegetables aplenty in Spring, I made this evening meal with carrots cooked with cumin seed (for taste), artichokes cooked with lemon (to prevent the chokes from […]

11th March 2013

Guinea fowl with carrots and cumin

When I was young, carrots were orange. Standardised orange. I  did not even imagine it could be different. But the wild carrots that grew in the area of Afghanistan, some five thousand years ago, had various colours. According to the carrot museum (yes, there is one, be it virtual only) it is due to Dutch growers (oh no, not again) that carrots became widely used in […]

6th March 2013

Dandelion salad with pork chops

Yes, the French even eat flower leaves, as do ruminants, and they have a good reason because it contains many valuable nutrients. I guess the taste was acquired by foragers in times of poverty and famine but even in our times of abundance and heavy diets the leaves are wonderful for the body. The name stems from ‘Dents de Lion’, lions teeth, due to the […]