I often forget, when it’s been a long time since I visited the Loiret, where the Country Boy is from, that Paris is not the rest of France. I even forget as…
Category: Pizza and the Like
Potimarron, goat cheese, caramelized onion chausson
Sometimes, when I get too happy, I start to freak out. It’s as though there’s a part of me watching my life from the outside, waiting to pounce on a perceived moment…
Homemade Pizza
You know when you were little, and someone you saw every year at Christmas seemed to exclaim, every time you saw them, “You’ve gotten so tall!” And how it made you a…
Pizza Margherita and Family
Family is sacred in France, which means that one of the first questions I get when I detail the journey that brought me here is, “Don’t you miss your family?” I’ll be…
potimarron, goat cheese, caramelized onions, crust, tomatoes
Being an eternal student, I’ve always felt — and still do — that the year starts in September. January is so random, so in the dead of winter. It doesn’t feel like…
Pissaladière
People don’t change. Or at least… that’s always been my theory. Sure, you can change your mind, change your hair, change your job or even change your life, but I’m fairly certain…
Tarte à l’oignon
It happens to all of us every once in awhile. Sometimes you read the recipe wrong. Other times, the recipe was wrong to begin with. The oven ran cold, you thought the…
Sweet Potato, Goat Cheese and Balsamic Onion Tart
There aren’t a lot of things that smell better than onions slowly caramelizing in butter. I’m not necessarily telling you all of this just so that you are immediately aware (if you…
Potato Pizza
I am not a vegan. Far from it, since meeting the Canadian, even if I did have my vegetarian “phase” back in high school for more than a year (it shocked my…
Real Pizza
Remember my sad attempt at recreating my brother’s pizza? Well, as I was reading Brilynn’s post over at Jumbo Empanada’s about what real food was, I started thinking about what real food…