Soupe au Pistou (a Provençal classic)
Recipes abound in print and online for Soupe au Pistou, a bean and vegetable soup that is a Provençal classic. Mine is not much different from the rest, but it's here because I love it so much. It...
View ArticleTakenoko Miso Potage: Creamy Bamboo Shoot Soup With Miso
Takenoko or bamboo shoot is a quintessential harbinger of spring in Japan. My mother bought a couple of beautiful, huge shoots at a grocery store in Kyoto last week and had then shippedh ome to...
View ArticleHooray for Fermentation, plus Hummus with Miso
There's one unfortunate side effect of cancer treatment, which doesn't get talked about a whole lot. But it makes you really cranky.That side effect is that your digestive system sort of stops working...
View ArticleCherry clafoutis with browned butter
We're just about at the end of the cherry season here in northern Provence. This was a pretty good year for cherries, since we were able to enjoy them from early May onwards. Sometimes they are so...
View ArticlePepper-Lemon Chicken Karaage: gluten and soy-free
Happy New Year!I had all kinds of plans for 2014, but at the moment my no. 1 priority is getting healthier. So, for the time being things on this site will be fairly low key. But I thought I would...
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