A few days ago I received one of Gordon Ramsay‘s cookbooks I had ordered. Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy is a collection of recipes for everyday life, which you can prepare without spending a lot of money or standing in the kitchen for hours (it says so on the book-cover).As I’ve said before already: I don’t like celebrity cookbooks. Often you open them with high expectations and once you try Read More ...
It’s autumn which means it’s pumpkin season! Normally every market should be filled with a great variety of pumpkin/squash/acorn. Yeah well that’s normally :p Unfortunately here in the south of France pumpkin is not really a staple food. When Halloween approaches the big supermarkets import a few pumpkins but whatever they don’t manage to sell is sometimes being offered for weeks after as prepacked pumpkin slices. I’ve had a lot Read More ...
“Les soupes, c’est pour les vieux” (Soups are for old people) “Errm… mais moi j’aime la soupe :p” (Uhm… but I like soup :p) “Pas possible!” (Can’t be!) I remember having a similar conversation with my husband’s adorable aunt. Well I’m not quite sure if young people really have come to hate soup nowadays, but I can’t imagine autumn without colorful vegetable soups. I must admit that the above soup Read More ...