Mint is not the herb I often use in the kitchen, and yet I buy it sometimes when I simply cannot resist its fresh,…
Usually when the lamb season starts, I start enjoying it by grilling lamb chops. However, since it has been quite cold for over a week…
I know in the spring I should normally start craving light green salads, raw vegetables, grilled fish… but what can I do if one day…
Having bought a serious amount of wild garlic and having made a lot of wild garlic pesto, I had been using it mainly as a…
As a continuation of the Primary Dashi recipe I posted last week this post will be a very short one. As a quick reminder, dashi…
Ramsons, wild garlic, buckrams, bear’s garlic, bear paw garlic… (Allium Ursinum) is a wild, wide-leaved plant with a very distinct garlic scent and apparently a…
They are quick, they are easy, they require few ingredients, they don’t need any beating, rolling, kneading, they help using up leftovers and, most of…
Dashi (出し) is the Japanese word meaning more or less “stock”. However dashi cannot be compared to the Western countries’ stock’s concept. Dashi is THE cornerstone…
I would like to proudly announce my accomplishment of gerbeaud, the very first layered cake in my life and one of the monuments of the…
It has been ages since I wrote about shochu, so it is high time I related my further adventures with this incredible Japanese product. First…