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Merluchon

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  A simple dinner at the house in Orthez: small “merluchons” broiled with garlic, lemon and olive oil…yummy! Merlu is the Atlantic fish that we know in English as hake. You will also find it on French menus as colin  and as far as I have been able find, merluchon just means small merlu. Merlu […]

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  A simple dinner at the house in Orthez: small “merluchons” broiled with garlic, lemon and olive oil…yummy! Merlu is the Atlantic fish that we know in English as hake. You will also find it on French menus as colin  and as far as I have been able find, merluchon just means small merlu. Merlu

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Fall 2016 Cooking Class

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Hands-on Chicken Workshop What:  A hands-on workshop all about cooking chicken.  Each student will work with their own chicken to learn the basics, then divide up in pairs to actually practice three different cooking methods. When:     Three class dates will be offered Sunday November 6, 2016, 12noon to 3:30pm or Monday November 7,

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Hands-on Chicken Workshop What:  A hands-on workshop all about cooking chicken.  Each student will work with their own chicken to learn the basics, then divide up in pairs to actually practice three different cooking methods. When:     Three class dates will be offered Sunday November 6, 2016, 12noon to 3:30pm or Monday November 7,

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Oreilles de cochon en persillade

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A really tasty dish at restaurant Chez Canaille in Pau….pigs ears simmered until tender, cooked on the plancha until crispy, then tossed with garlic-parsley persillade.  That’s right, a whole plate of pig’s ears.

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A really tasty dish at restaurant Chez Canaille in Pau….pigs ears simmered until tender, cooked on the plancha until crispy, then tossed with garlic-parsley persillade.  That’s right, a whole plate of pig’s ears.

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The repas marcaire

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The Vosges are a chain of low mountains that run along the western extreme of the Alsace, separating it from the Lorraine.  Although these days the  Vosges are much prized in the winter by skiers, both downhill and cross county, and in the summer by hikers, in the past they comprised a region only sparsely

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The Vosges are a chain of low mountains that run along the western extreme of the Alsace, separating it from the Lorraine.  Although these days the  Vosges are much prized in the winter by skiers, both downhill and cross county, and in the summer by hikers, in the past they comprised a region only sparsely

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Saturday lunch, Alsace-style

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Quick photo of me at lunch with the part of the Drohman family that lives in Alsace…where, incidentally,it is spelled Drohmann.  This photo only shows a part of the group, which numbered about 25 guests, all of whom are either cousins, cousines or their spouses and children. This branch of the family split from my

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Quick photo of me at lunch with the part of the Drohman family that lives in Alsace…where, incidentally,it is spelled Drohmann.  This photo only shows a part of the group, which numbered about 25 guests, all of whom are either cousins, cousines or their spouses and children. This branch of the family split from my

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In Alsace

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I am in Alsace!  As a prelude to a visit to our house in the SW of France, decided to plan a week in a region about which I don’t know very much…a considerable shortcoming on my part, given that I have family that live in Flaxlanden, a village outside of Mulhouse in southern Alsace.

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I am in Alsace!  As a prelude to a visit to our house in the SW of France, decided to plan a week in a region about which I don’t know very much…a considerable shortcoming on my part, given that I have family that live in Flaxlanden, a village outside of Mulhouse in southern Alsace.

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Cafe Presse

Clinton & Trump, head to head Monday

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Join us for the first 2016 Presidential Debate Monday September 26, 2016 6pm to 7:30pm On the big screen over the bar at Café Presse No reservations    No cover charge    Everyone welcome. And if politics is not your thing, no worries, the back room at Café Presse will be a politics-free zone all evening (although

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Join us for the first 2016 Presidential Debate Monday September 26, 2016 6pm to 7:30pm On the big screen over the bar at Café Presse No reservations    No cover charge    Everyone welcome. And if politics is not your thing, no worries, the back room at Café Presse will be a politics-free zone all evening (although

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Now on the menu at Le Pichet

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September 2016   Terrine aux frittons de porc, salade aux poires asiatiques et aux choux rouges Terrine of ground pork and confit of heart, kidney and liver, with a salad of Asian pear, apples, red cabbage, parsley, yellow mustard seeds and walnut oil

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September 2016   Terrine aux frittons de porc, salade aux poires asiatiques et aux choux rouges Terrine of ground pork and confit of heart, kidney and liver, with a salad of Asian pear, apples, red cabbage, parsley, yellow mustard seeds and walnut oil

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Now on the menu at Le Pichet

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Fall but summer produce is still filling the  farmer stalls!  Celebrate the transition from late Summer to Fall at Le Pichet with dishes that reflect the end of season bounty.

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Fall but summer produce is still filling the  farmer stalls!  Celebrate the transition from late Summer to Fall at Le Pichet with dishes that reflect the end of season bounty.

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