The Tomato Knife

From Culture to Cooking: Discovering Life in France

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Growing Wild Asparagus

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Spring has (literally) sprung early in our apartment this year.
Meet Fergie, the wild asparagus plant that has been mesmerizing us for a few weeks now.
I had a good laugh when I walked in the door from work one evening and saw Sébastien holding a small terracotta pot sporting the most awkward, scrawny, spiky reincarnation of [...]

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Easy, Creamy Mushroom Tomato Sauce (Recipe)

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I love big projects, especially cooking projects- big messy ones where you have long cleaning sessions afterward.
I, however, like most, don’t have endless hours each evening to spend concocting unknown dishes (nor do I always have the time to trek through Paris hunting down the various ingredients typically required of such ventures).  That’s why [...]

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Cabbage Flowers

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Our thoroughly amusing find at the farmers’ market this week: a bouquet of cabbage flowers.

On the sign, it was simply marked “choux” (the French word for cabbage), but a quick Internet search revealed a couple other potential names in English: flowering kale and ornamental cabbage. I’m still a bit confused about these guys, for the [...]

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