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Happy Chinese New Year 2012 – The Year of the Dragon!

Asian Soup

Today January 23, 2012 at midnight will start the first day of the Chinese New Year. This is one of the most important Chinese Holidays, it lasts for 15 days, each year is associated with one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac, and this year is the Year of [...]

Soupe du Jour:How about a super-food soup to be healthy in January (and all year long!)

Jujube soup

Two years ago thanks to Eva and Ron (my favorite vendors-farmers at Temecula Farmer’s Market – Tretowan Organic Farm, Rainbow, CA) I discovered Jujube fruits for the first time. When I found out about this amazing super-food I posted a post about these fruits in order for my readers to know [...]

Soupe du Jour: Red Lentils soup

Red Lentils SOUP

red lentils sweet potatoes soup

I have been making this soup for years. I kept the original recipe in my notebook unforunately, I do not know the source, it was back when I was living in NYC. But if you know me you know that I never follow a [...]

Sun chokes and Almond dip

jerusalem artichokes or sunflower chokes

I discovered Sunflower chokes recently and I fall in love with this vegetable root right away. Sun chokes (called also Jersualem artichoke or sunflower chokes) look like ginger roots and have a sweet, nutty flavor, similar to water chestnuts. This is a very versatile food. It can [...]

2 Epiphany French King cakes for Gourmands only!

Epiphany King Cake with dried persimons

gateau des Rois brioche style

In France we celebrate Epiphany day with a cake called Galette des Rois, kings cake. Usually the first Sunday of January on Epiphany day family and friends gather together to eat this cake. In the North of France we eat the [...]

A clean start to 2012 : Superfood salad for breakfast

Superfood winter salad

After indulging in too much food and too many drinks, light meal and whole food are what your body is craving for. Even if this year our holidays were based on simple food (except just a little Foie Gras— Merci Isabelle and Jerome your homemade Foie Gras from the Gers [...]

Bonne Annee ! Happy New Year!

My Glogg

BONNE ANNEE 2012 QUE CELLE-CI SOIT DOUCE ET HEUREUSE!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

Click here for the recipe: Sweddish Glogg recipe with a twist (I used Mission Figs ( instead of raisins) and [...]

Noel! Joli Noel!

Santa treats & Edible Gifts Celine"s Cuisine

I am so lucky. I learned all my cooking by watching my mom. And lately while I was working on my cookbook I realized how my cooking is connected to my childhood. My mother has been cooking only and exclusively from scratch. She is a self-taught, she learned [...]

Teaching 12 years old Middle Schools kids how to cook from scratch

RODRIGO PENA/FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER

One thing that I learned as a cooking instructor is that people love to cook but they are just do not aware of it they think they can’t cook. When they join my classes they can duplicate the dish/ meal we made during the class in their own kitchen. Most [...]

Soupe du Jour: A soup as light as a cloud – Fumiko Ono Soup by Sooishi

Great and delicious food does not need to be complicated and fancy. Really simple cooking technique can make big effect. What is really important is using the best and delicious seasonal ingredients you can find.

I discovered this recipe through Sooishi Blog few months ago by chance and loved this blog and its [...]