The Paris of the West
Andi brought me to Paris. Today, I brought her to the Paris of the West: Cheyenne, Wyoming.
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Marché
Doonuts
Nope, that’s not a typo. I saw these at Monop and had to try them. Ok, these are little donut-shaped snack cakes, with an intriguing extra “o” in the name. I’m not going to tell you that they taste great. They’re not really znooty either. What is interesting is the texture. It’s mostly a fairly […]
Pasta Sauce Mega-Post
Pasta sauce is my favorite thing to cook. I make it often, usually from canned tomatoes. When we saw the tomatoes at the street market, Andi suggested I try to make a sauce with them. Challenge accepted! The tomato stand was large and busy, and they had tomatoes of every description. I wanted some of […]
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You say tomate
My tomato taster evaluating a fresh tomato from the Rue Edgar Quinet street market. More later…
Croutons
There’s an old joke that the French look down on American cooks because we buy croutons at the store rather than make them from old bread. About that… I have to say that these French supermarket croutons look pretty znooty. I did not buy them. 