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Easy Soup: Fresh Fava beans soup

For years my sister who lives in Paris, France has been raving about fresh fava beans. On my side I knew only the dried ones and never tasted fresh ones. So I was very happy to see that Rays Ranch ( Temecula Farmer’s Market) was selling some fresh ones last Wednesday. I thought it will [...]

Chorba North African soup

Chorba Soup

I live in Southern California, Temecula Valley between San Diego, Los Angeles and near Palm Springs. The decor is very similar to Morocco (North Africa): dry hills, palm, dates, avocados, almonds, and olive trees. The weather is beautiful all year long with hot summer and cold winter nights. Like in Morocco when [...]

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 about [...]

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 recipe. [...]

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 be [...]

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 was [...]

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 of [...]

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 philosophy [...]

Halloween Muffins!

I have been in “Homemade” mood lately. I am making our own baguettes, sandwich bread, pastas and even Ricotta from scratch! I want my family to eat healthy and it feel good to make and create thing homemade from scratch.

I had left two very ripped bananas and if when know me, you [...]

French Basque villages, Madona and Mache Salad for lunch

I am still going through my Summer in France pictures and I realize how Southern West of France is a unique place. Located between the Atlantic Ocean, the Pyrenees Mountains, with Spain border nearby and Bordeaux not too far, this is one of the most beautiful area in France. Actually,  Madona thinks the same thing she [...]