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Tag Archive 'cheese'

Spelt, Carrot and Parsnip Cake (Recipe)

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Most baked goods (like cookies) taste best right out of the oven. Carrot cake, however, always seems to get better over a few days. I wanted to try my hands at making a healthy cake (or is it more of a bread?) that I could eat either for breakfast or as a mid-day energy snack. [...]

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Best of 2011: My Favorite Foodie Finds (Paris)

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Like I said in the 1st post in this series (on Berlin), 2011 was filled with lots of foodie adventures. I made some fun discoveries traveling, yet many of my favorite finds were right here in Paris. From restaurants and wine bars to markets and vegetables, here are my top picks for the year. Favorite [...]

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Berry Delight (Recipe)

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

It took me quite some time to find where to buy frozen berries in France. When I first arrived as a junior in college, I was an avid smoothie drinker – concocting one pretty much every day or so. Since I had other priorities that first year, I kind of let smoothie-drinking go by the [...]

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Oxford Blue and Marksbury Cheddar

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

It’s the Quatorze Juillet back in France. A good day to write about cheese, no? I haven’t been in Oxford very long, but I’ve already noticed quite an admiration for France – in culinary terms at any rate. Walk down the streets in the city center and you’ll come across many French-style bakeries selling croissants, [...]

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Pear & Roquefort Cake (Recipe)

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Today’s my blog’s first birthday! In honor, I made a cake. This was an adventure, considering I had never made a savory cake before. On my way home last Friday I was imagining exactly how I wanted it to turn out- and trying to figure out which ingredients (and in which proportions) would make it [...]

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Cheese in Amboise

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Amboise, a small town in the Loire Valley, is known primarily for its overbearing medieval castle- once home to some of France’s most famous rulers, as well as to Catherine of Medici’s ten children! Amboise is also renowned for Clos-Lucé, the stately home where Leonardo da Vinci (invited by the French King Francois I) spent [...]

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