Pig and Lentil Soup
I had some pig and some lentils lying around, so I made some soup. Zo znooty! I had some flour, water, yeast, and salt lying around, too. Advertisements
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That’s Why They Call Them Noms
Paris has its own Chinese food. It’s similar to, but not quite the same as American Chinese food. (I have never been to China, but have heard that they have Chinese food there, too.) The most distinctively French Chinese delicacy is a kind of egg roll called a “nem.” It’s a small, crispy, bubbly, greasy […]
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Hidden Hamburger
There is a hamburger bun under that egg, and a pretty tasty burger with cheese and unidentifiable sauce and accent meat. Of course, the French choose to Frenchify the hamburger, a food item that combines German, British, and American cuisine. It’s why they put cheese on the top of their ham sandwiches and serve their […]
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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Ratatouille
If you have seen a certain Pixar movie you know that ratatouille is the znootiest of all French vegetable stews. At the end of the movie a znooty food critic has a trippy flashback upon eating a particulary znooty layered ratatouille. Andi makes hers the old fashioned way, in a dutch oven… …but first she […]