It’s All Maya!

 
About a year ago this time I was talking to a friend of mine and asking her the usual, how things were going, etc.  Our conversation went something like this:
Me:  So, what’s new?
Monique:  Oh Gérard came to see me today (her ex) and we were talking about how there are so many festivities honoring music, […]

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Chez Moi:
I don’t usually compare books when I do a book review of something I’ve read, but these two books have so many similarities, yet nothing in common, that I just had to write about both of them simultaneously.  (I know it’s an oxymoron, but it fits here perfectly.)
I first read Chez Moi by Agnès […]

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It’s the same old adage of which came first, the chicken or the egg!  Earlier this month I heard a tale from a friend of a friend.
Friend: My friend and her mom went to have lunch at Neiman-Marcus and they decided to have the “Neiman-Marcus Cookie” for dessert.  The cookie was so good that my […]

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All the food blogs on Paris seem to be talking about the Hidden Kitchen which is one of many underground private restaurants around the world.  The one that most Paris bloggers are writing about has been operating for just under two years by a couple from Seattle, Laura and Braden.
The idea is you cook an upscale 10 course […]

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Another weekend has passed and another wonderful experimental dinner by my French chef!  How long this is going to last all depends on how patient Patrick is going to be!  Or more precisely, how long it’s going to take me to stop jumping the gun!
Again I set a lovely table for another sumptuous meal.  The […]

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I asked Patrick a few days ago, “Shouldn’t we be back in Paris by now?” (We go back and forth every year.)  Two years ago when we took my mom we were already there by the middle of February.  I, of course, wanted mom to spend Springtime in Paris so she could fall in love […]

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This weekend Patrick came up with a great idea!  He told me he wanted to start trying out new recipes to get his creative juices flowing as a chef.
“What I want to do is try out some new things and see how well certains foods blend together and I want you to grade me on […]

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This morning I had a really crazy dream!  I was in a classroom with a bunch of other students listening to a physics professor expound about some advanced theoretical equation.  When he finished writing on the board, he turned and looked at us as we sat there and said, “So can anyone solve this?….”
All of […]

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When I think of Mexican cuisine, cheesecake is not the first thing that comes to mind!  Well actually it’s not even the second or third or tenth thing that comes to mind, but apparently it did to 55 pastry chefs who spent 60 hours making the world’s largest cheesecake in Mexico City yesterday!
Under the supervision […]

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No, I’m not talking about what we had for dinner Christmas Eve.  Patrick as usual out did himself!  We started off with Foie Gras, then Smoked Salmon, an Almond Crusted Rack of Lamb cooked to perfection with Patrick’s wonderful Champagne Sauce, Candied Roasted Tomatoes and Twice Roasted Brussel Sprouts (Much better than once roasted I guess!) […]

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