As spring is here and we are in the middle of asparagus season I thought that would be great to make a sorbet to celebrate it all.  I cook my asparagus different ways, one of the best preparation for me is to cook them in a frying pan with a bit of olive oil, salt […]

Everybody knows the benefits of lemon.  I use lemon everywhere, I drink it, I use it on my skin as a toner, I brush my teeth with it.  I love its sunny colour, its acidity, its texture and the kick that gives to my dishes and my health.  The common lemons are Eureka or Lisbon […]

I’ve always loved old bistrots.  The good old meals we get there are like anywhere else. Bistrots are like your grand-mother’s cuisine, real, hearty, comforting.  It reminds me of my childhood, when we were on holiday, with my dad driving hours in the country side to reach the village where we would spend a few […]

It’s been 4 months… 4 months that I haven’t written anything on my blog.  The reason why is that I put it on the side for a while, a little while… The end of 2017 has been a bit hectic, it’s the usual when you’re a chef but on the top of everyhing I added […]

My Italian people, please forgive me. I know what you think, risotto is made with rice and not with barley, quinoa or not even with faro (commonly used in Italy), I know. But we can sometimes, slightly change the original recipe and see how it goes. I agree that we won’t have the same texture […]

What’s more beautiful than heirloom tomatoes ? The season is coming to an end…. I’ve already made tarte tatin with beetroot, mangoes…. but never with tomatoes. My sister who is a goddess in her kitchen and a tomato lover, posted a picture of her cherry tomato tart tatin, it was so cute that I thought […]

I couldn’t be a vegetarian, just because of that : prosciutto.  I’ve always loved it and had the chance to taste some of the most delicious in the world, from Parma, from Corsica, the famous patta negra from Spain…. It’s just divine. The name prosciutto is Italian and regions have different variety and can take […]

You’re taking me just back from New York City. I came back yesterday morning, just enough time to unpack have a shower and lunch and go to work. It was hard… the return, this week in NY went so fast, too fast, and I did so much that I still haven’t had the time to […]

After cooking for 65 people, 2 appetizers + 4 courses meal , after needing 2 days to recover before going back to the real life still sore, I am back on my beloved blog.  My problem is that , I always buy far too much food. I shared the left overs with the staff helping […]

So, my client was organizing an event at hers and asked me if I could make pickled sardines.  She had different infused vodka and as we know, in Russia they eat pickled fish while drinking vodka that’s why I went for that dish.  I love sardines, in a can, fresh, with vinegar as my mum […]

I am at my office, a café that I really like around the corner of my  house.  After 2 intense weeks with my mum who was visitng and as always a lot of drinking and overdose of meat, I am going green for a few days/weeks. Before giving you the recipe of my vegan burgers […]

On my precedent post, I was talking about the fact that I don’t eat enough cereals and grains, and a few days later, I was in this French kind San Francisco restaurant, I tried farro. I won’t give you the name of that restaurant as I don’t remember it, simply because the overall experience was […]

Butternut squash is a winter fruit that grows on a vine… A bit boring…. And Brian Mcknight in my ears is teasing me…. Difficult  to concentrate… It’s not boring and I love learning about ingredients and told you about the very little I know, but not now.  Right now I prefer to tell you about […]

I hope that you are starting this new year the nicest way.  If you were wondering, my people, I am starting 2017 the best way, full of energy, a lot of work, a beautiful skin and zero alcohol ! Yes zero wine, zero alcohol for exactely 12 days… I am doing good… Well, it’s hard […]

So 2 days ago was Thankgiving and so was my birthday.  So let’s talk about history.  Not history about myself as I am old, but not old enough yet, but history about Thanksgiving.  It all began on the shores of Cape Henry in Virginia. In 1607, the first English colonists arrived : 105 English, amongst […]

It’s something I didn’t want to do…. But…. I said I would do it so I am keeping my words… I will give you the trick on how to get pinky, girly quail eggs.  I am a bit jealous now as those eggs are so easy to make that they will be on a lot […]

Doing some catering and having had a lot of events lately, I obviously have some left overs…. Little things like half of a red onion, 1 jalapeno,  lentils, some mascarpone cheese, polenta, bacon… I usually make a soup with vegetable and other stuff I have left but this time I didn’t feel like having a […]

 Let’s talk about meat balls… First of all, I’ve always loved meat balls, they are small enough to be enjoyed just like that at a cocktail party  and big enough, added to spaghetti to be one of my comfort food. Second, it’s a bit like the croquettes, the whole world is making meat balls, different […]

It was 2 days ago while I was running like crazy, in the middle of a 5 days events where I had to deliver breakfast and dinner everyday for 38 vegetarian people. Running errands, I stopped to grab an egg and ham sandwich on the go. I love eggs sandwich.  Then something happened, the girl […]

I heard about the Whole30 program, the one that is supposed to revolutionize your food habits and so, your life.  It says that going green and essentially vegetarian, addind fish and meat here and there is the solution to our bloated belly, fat excess and infammation we all have in our bodies. Avoiding grains, legumes, […]

The whole world is making croquettes. The croquettes, croquetas, aloo-tiki, korokke, crocchette, made with the same main ingredient, the potato, usually shaped in oval, round, cylindrical, then deep fried. The croquettes put everyone agrees., in Cuba, Russia, Japan, Ecuador, Ireland, India…  Whatever the skin color is, regardless the religion, the country, food brings people together, […]

Italian cuisine is one of my favourite…with the Mexican one, the Caribbean one and of course, the French one 🙂 Italian cuisine is all about the ingredients, their freshness, the origin (Italian are too vain to buy a non-Italian products, anyway). Italy is all about the respect of the season, the use of natural and […]

It takes a lot of time and practise to make a filo (or phyllo) pastry. Clearly, mine is a ready-to-roll one. Who knows, one day I might go to central Asia or Greece and learn how to do it…. It’s actually on my bucket list.  The practise is coming from the Ottoman empire. Made with […]

I have been invited recently to taste some cold water prawns…. I couldn’t attend the tasting but since then I read a lot about prawns and the famous cold water ones. They live in a natural cold water habitat like Norway, Greenland, Canada…They are initially all males and become females after 3 years. They are […]

It was when I decided to behave, just before a week-end which was supposed to be wild. Before my trip to Tangier I wanted to go green, at least for a day. I bought those moong beans (or mung beans) a while ago and hadn’t tried it till now. My friend Kim who took me […]

Let’s face it, I live in London and Spring is acting like a diva again, it’s not here as yet and will come whenever it will be ready. For now we have to be happy as it’s asparagus season. Little green beauties, British and healthy. Known in Egypt 3000BC but also in Syria and in […]

They are everywhere on market stalls… The green vegetables. Courgettes, asparagus, cabbage, cress, spring onion, spinach… Young and tender vegetables, with or without cooking. There is this Italian atmosphere in London in April, everybody smiles, the sun is out, the temperature is higher…We just need good quality and simple food with a lot of olive […]

I think the storm has passed…. At least for me… People who work in hospitality started feeling the hurricane from October. The wave is almost gone and after cooking lunches for hundreds of people, made thousands of canapés, helping friends in their restaurants as they were took in the storm too, it all calmed down, […]

What to say about my long absence on my blog ? Well…nothing really except that I took it a bit more easy, blog talking at least. Apart from that it was actually busy for the last few months. New customers I cooked for, I made a lot of canapés, started to make breakfast and lunches […]

It’s been a perfect day… Sunny, hot but not too much, market for my vegetables, bakery for my bread and cooking at home trying a few things for my event tomorrow. Nina Simone is playing ‘Good Bait’ (one of my favorite), a glass of red wine, ‘le chéri’ is not with me today and it’s […]

  I am so excited that I find difficult to focus on work. My Paris’ trip is coming soon…. OMG Paris… Me, French from the south always so excited when it’s about Paris. Paris is definitely a woman. Beautiful, elegant, generous… Paris and her bistros, Paris and her dogs’ poop on the pavement, Paris and […]

After several events cooking for my clients, I can, at least today, come back to my very first love, eating ! I am reading a book which I won’t mention the name as it’s a bit boring, but that book is about food of course and the author was talking about pureed watercress. Lunch time, […]

So, I think we can say it now, Spring is here !!!! Everything is more beautiful with the sun, people are more beautiful and smily, gardens are more beautiful, we walk barefoot and don’t worry about what to wear really… After a routine check earlier this week at the hospital, they told me that I […]

My latest event was last Saturday. 35 people, 210 canapes, 140 choux and 8 quiches… Sounds a lot for a little person like me and it is. But I enjoyed it so much…. I am the kind of person who loves that stress, short (just a few hours) but so intense. You have to be […]

Especially for Justina… We all have food memories… I lived in the country side in the south of France from the age of 8 to 16 and I have my greatest food memories from that period. Climbing on trees and stay up there for hours with friends eating cherries, going with my dad to pick […]

2012 was again a really fast one…. Last year at the same time, I was starting my blog… One year later I am writing from another kitchen, Levitra lowest price uk a bigger one where I can happily spread myself. I still enjoy so much working on my blog, still working hard to improve it […]

Still in Japan (at least in my head) after my post about the Kobe beef, I was strolling on the web and found an awesome Japanese cooking program called ‘Delicious Nippon’. The presenter, Judy Ongg and the culinary specialist Naoyuki Yanagihora in tradional clothes are talking about an ingredient, its origin, where and how it’s […]

I remember going to the market with my mum… And seeing her buying broad beans in Spring, watermelon in July-August and pears, oranges…in winter. A lot of years later I still go to the market with my mum but seeing strawberries or melon on stalls in winter just make me upset. We have great vegetables […]

Those who know me well know that I have a very pronounced taste for exoticism. Exotic countries, exotic dishes, music and exotic people… Sweet and savory mixes, fish with coconut sauce… My friend Nicolette offered me the Levi Root’s book ‘Spice it up’. I love this book, pictures are very beautiful, colorful and make my […]

We are the 30th of August and I realise that summer is almost finished, and I haven’t seen it really, once again… In the same time, it’s been very short, it started mid-July ! Before that, rain again and again… My mum told me that if we really Crash Course Into Parkour-how To Parkour like […]

I am going toward the South today… I am going to Nice for a week. I can’t to wait to be on the beach a glass of rosé wine in one hand, a pan-bagnat on the other… London is still beautiful and hot as well for one week now, that make us fancy salads only. […]

Last week, I was invited to a pizza making class in Chiswick… I have to be honest, I was a bit sceptical. I thought that it would be again the kind of class runs by an anything-but-italian chef willing to fill in his buy rocket italian how to get ex back restaurant on Monday and […]

There are some days when you have to decide not to do anything, I mean nothing more than your day at work. London’s effervescence can make you feel dizzy so we have to be strong and say stop sometimes. No friend to see, no dance class, no jogging, no photoshoot, nothing! Or maybe just a […]

It happened when I was in Brazil… For the first time of my life I loved crab! I have always envied people who love crab, I find it very convivial to eat with your fingers, no fuss with fork and knife, just a glass of white wine to pair with, that’s it. My father loves […]

A few of my friends asked for the recipe after tasting it, so here it is…. It is the perfect snack for a picnic, for a light dinner served with a salad. You can keep it in the fridge for a few days, it will still be moist and delicious ! For a loaf baking […]

Yesterday we had a burst of Spring… After 3 weeks of rainy, windy days. At least farmers are happy as it didn’t rain last winter. Now it is so much that UK is flooding. On that beautiful day yesterday I did my outside activities, running, buying pak choi and tofu at my local Thaï shop, […]

This colourful and tasty salad can be prepared the day before, just add the lime juice at the last minute to avoid the leaves to ‘cook’. You can either cook the beef the day before or at the last minute if you prefer it warm. Don’t hesitate to put a lot of mint if you […]

Carrots soup, serves 2 – 500ml of beef or vegetables stock – 4 big carrots – Cream cheese – Coriander – Cumin or curry spices Boil the stock and add the carrots peeled and chopped. Once the carrots are softs, put carrots and stock in a food processor, add cream cheese, coriander and curry. That’s […]

I will call it ‘Pam’s Christmas turkey’. Pam, my sister, made that dish for Christmas in adding her own touch to the original recipe. Simple, but a real feast for the eyes and palate! Pam’s Christmas turkey, serves 2 – 2 pieces of turkey (or chicken) breast, around 200g each – 200g of cooked chestnuts […]

Today on my day off, I was planning to go shopping and make my Pam’s Christmas turkey  (Pam is my sister) to take some pictures. Thursday is a bad day for me, there is no market. I have been to 7 different shops, I even went to Tesco and Sainsbury’s (which I normally avoid especially […]