Tuesday, November 24, 2009

How To Make Diaper Cake Baby Carriage

Mistral loser

Where we learn that the rates Ryanair benefit restaurateurs, the Swedish government (25% tax and state alcohol monopoly we do not fund eighteen months leave Maternity by miracle) and French winemakers
Back ... 'A long weekend in Stockholm, that's where the small collection of Hachette is timely, we measure the perverse effect of prices broke from RyanAir ... moreover, can someone tell me how to amortize planes, pay the kerosene, pilots and airport charges with tickets to 0 €? RyanAir is always subsidized by governments and the tourism boards ...?
Indeed, when it comes to pay a return Beauvais Stockholm 49 euros (29 + 10 + 10 booking fee for payment by Visa, ah, ah ...), does not hesitate to offer a good restaurant in one of the most expensive capitals in Europe, maybe a tad less than London, though ...
Hesitation between tables renamed the capital city during a previous trip, I had dabbled on the Sea of Pontus and other breweries, which I had fond memories of New Scandinavian cuisine served in beautiful rooms of wood and chrome, and where the fixture to the chair and the dishes are all beautifully designed and chosen
... Just look around and return the plates and cups with logo to review at once all Sentou, State Headquarters and the Now Design section to live Maison et Objet.
By following the curve of the hand bent-birch glued or hull of its head, it plays to recognize icons: Aalto Sariñena, Eames chauvinist ... but not too much, even the Scandinavian open seats Le Corbusier in their coffee shops. We nibble cakes
spidery zoubliés grain and seeds with notes of licorice pending a kitchen cleared the merger and re-anchored to its roots land-sea-forest.
Our choice of the evening, the restaurant Le Mistral (one star), has moved to the suburbs, allowing us a small 700m warm-up beyond the metro in a dark street (it is dark for 3 o'clock in the afternoon). It is lit only by small traditional lamp behind the windows of the ground floor of small wooden houses painted without shutters or curtains.
The restaurant is located in one of these houses. The frame is downright monastic, widely spaced tables, everything is white or ecru. Raw linen tunics waitresses are just modern enough to avoid an image of Carl Larsson, the table where they cut the bread candlelit evokes a composition of Chardin.





Everyone is affable but when the wine it spoils:
Fonsalette Red Castle 2001 (100 € euros anyway! The first bottle is 60 €), is shown then we open somewhere out of sight, the boss proposes the carafe, which he did before then we used to nimbly carafe in the fridge behind the bar, we see the corner of his eye. We ask him to leave at room temperature.

carrots raw and cooked lobster and raw
saffron, coffee, meadowsweet




says it all: a few slices of carrot hide a lobster cut in three, another is wrapped around a microphone mashed carrots. Oil is prepared with a pipette, saffron is homeopathic virtual coffee unless it be the powder on the bottom of the plate. I never traced the Meadowsweet which I still smell heady and sweet in the nose, associated with bees, having felt and trampled all my childhood and also drunk as tea.
IN-TER-LO-QUES we were

potatoes with dried lavender and brown butter, creamy
egg and fish eggs with yogurt





Four districts of almost raw potato and browned on the outside, standing on a microlichette fish eggs with yogurt, buttered brown particles, soft-boiled egg yolk cold, not feeling lavender
IN ... -B-LO-QUES we were re-

Root vegetables flavored with seaweed and sea juniper
apple juice, raw onion and oyster drinking




A little better with that one , though:
Medley of Songs forgotten vegetables, raw, poached, fried, sugar beet in all its forms, some potato chips ... a very good cube of potato, sounds a bit thin ...
From chews (salad), yes, algae, where? Broth cold drink side, 100% oyster in the nose, 100% celery ball in the mouth gathers no nothing like that. But this is my son who bears the final blow: "it is not gargouillou. St. Michael pray for us!

Lobster Swedish carefully roasted, raw and cooked beets, cocoa, dried berries and hibiscus in a brown butter shellfish



Now I'm more objective, raw beetroot, but at a pinch there, and cooked for the second consecutive flat, tired ... it
The tail of the baby-fried lobster, claws boiled or steamed and peeled. Cocoa powder, hibiscus powder I do not know what she said (different title) and coral powder St Jacques are still figuration homeopathic, one begins to think they could have s express surface lobster, lukewarm in the end. For small hard berries, cranberries? not rehydrated as lobster, why when the acidity is already provided by the oxalys,? Far too many people in this base where everyone dances alone in his corner.
But I wanted to love the powder as a pollen Coral Sea but we've played less than a mandolin ...


Chevreu it based baked, poached cabbage and crusty bread and green squash




excellent fillet served pink as a piece of boiled cabbage and a piece of fried fat-calvo nero lamb, it works. Given a cube of squash but no bread, neither green nor white. Surrounded by a thin layer of translucent Colonnata, another piece, cooked him, who said better ? (Drumroll ...) two days! At what temperature, please, we would like to know because it might be a culture broth. We've all been sick the next day but of course we have blamed the Thai lunch, and if the offense is not a dirty mouth, that!

Zucchini creamy sorbet almond
olive oil and fleur de sel




Today, the pumpkin replaced the zucchini cold soup version, actually a kind of custard slightly potironnée and ice cream with almonds complex. But the whole is just barely sweet. The leader does not yield anything, it persists and signs in the flower of salt.


cherry tomatoes preserved in hibiscus juice
blackcurrant, ice milk and raw honey






Another dessert that is a bit redundant (you must amortize the Pacojet ?), yet sweet lip ...
With coffee filter warm completely bland (but snoring pedigree), a spoonful of chocolate mousse emulsified in water with more olive oil served with the same foam version of dehydrated chips hiding small pucks for almost sugarless chocolate praline.
to tarnish the whole was moderately liked the forced sale of the second bottle of sparkling water ten minutes after our arrival: the glasses filled to the brim begins as soon as they are in the best American diner and the bottle that uncorked arrives at the table immediately. At dessert time, Rebelote, filling glasses to the brim, we assume the 3rd bottle and we are required by telling us it is offered. At the time of the addition, the three are duly charged ...


Ultimately many technical but with one third of bof, one third of rambling and a third acceptable for me is a loser Mistral country stars ...

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Ideas For Saree Blouses

Castêtus Botanicus

child I was biberonnée to Latin botanical; I confess that I spent a little over his head: my father was talking forest of Quercus and Cedrus, and when my mother opened a jar of dried under Crataegus soothing, sweetish smell my rose
heart ... More Later, I made the Peterson guide wild plants in North America my bedside book. Long, I am driven in the morning, then I drank my coffee barefoot in my garden of Yvelines name my perennials in Latin, French and English vernacular, blocking pitifully at each return of spring after months off before throwing in the towel and diagnose MYSELF Early Alzheimer ... (I must say that over 400 perennials, it started to jam!)
When it leans a little botanical nomenclature is fascinating.
The rigor of this sometimes giving poetry, a plant or fungus can be defined by:
-habitat "pratensis (grass)
-properties: Amanita" muscaria "kills flies and makes people very sick without killing them is his girlfriend "phalloides," it far more treacherous because of its resemblance to harmless fungus, which gets stuck


-its taste, sometimes subjective or overestimated Lactarius deliciosus (while the "edulis" from Boletus edulis only means edible!), besides Roger Phillips, a native of perfidious Albion, does not he write with a touch Irony?, about the delicious milk caps: "Much esteemed and edible On The Continent"
-color: "Alba", "albissima," "albicans" (white, very white, white) and why make it simple, as in Greek with all versions of "leucobases"
-style "reptens" (creepy)
-shape "bifidus" (two branches) or "phalloides (phallus-shaped with the same register all star categories, one which many mistake for a bad joke mycologist schoolboy, the Phallus impudicus, we mark off because of its stench and nearly at its fly-Pilot )
- its "inventor" Inocybe Patouillardii, not very credible for a deadly fungus, Theodore Patouillard, yet it had the cool air as the name of mycologist. At the same time that Mr. Fuchs gave its name to the fuchsia should save you once and for all the recurring fault on the spelling of that color.
Snob, Latin, botany, you say?
Not at all, because take a look at Courson or Saint Jean de Beauregard (Sunday) and see the nursery hair pulling in discussions with clients surreal because of all the vernacular or regional names given to plants ( when you come out of Latin Frenchified): the "finger thing", "horns of stuff," "the fountains of thing," is like the "snowball" and other "Negro heads" (they say chocolate meringues, what should we say now?) When talking about mushrooms.
Because of my gargantuan last harvest, I had neglected yet another fungus that is dear to me: agaric or pink meadow, or rather pink meadow: Arvensis pratensis, campestris (with source) or sylvestris (or near the woods), or bisporus, this band of wild cousins, which was domesticated in Paris mushrooms. I have a soft spot for Snowball, (that's probably accurate !!!), Agaricus macrosporus, anise-scented and sometimes I pick up in the Cevennes around the house, his hat can reach a diameter of 8 to 10 cm before opening.
But it must still be vigilant, I had a few years ago a false joy in discovering a trail of agarics extraordinary, she was still there last week at All Saints:



actually Agaricus xanthodermus (hell, but of course xanthos as yellow as ... dermus dermis) or Agaricus yellowing, easy to identify when we know hardly touched because it is tinged with yellow.
Strangely, it can make you sick ... some people only.
In France, swears by the Paris mushrooms perfectly closed and they are discarded or sold off as soon as their plates pink brown. Yet, in Britain and the United States, it sells and fully mature adult subjects with their almost black strips under the name of Portobello. The heads are often placed under the grill with garlic and herbs or fried in slices to garnish the most snobbish hamburgers.



My dilemma, eating or not eating these agarics pushed flush with the exhaust?

In fact, mature blades provide a very powerful perfume, which returns the mushroom-button to the rank of small player.
If you are interested in mushrooms, buy a serious book that really helps to identify the return of the collection. Many books I have fallen in the hands and it is remarkable because it has mushrooms young, old, twisted and cut.


Book translated from English by Solar:
http://www.solar.fr/site/les_champignons_&100&9782263034589.html

I have already mentioned, but I insist, the books by Roger Phillips ( sometimes in association with Martyn Rix) would be among the first that I would choose if my house was on fire ... What

purists forgive me, next time I will take care to check the botanical writing conventions: capitalization, parentheses, italics (I suddenly Blogger mysteriously deprived of these subtleties and tools hitherto usual layout, fonts, sizes !) and in a second step we will cultivars ...

Monday, November 9, 2009

My Knuckle Is Bruised And Sore To Touch ?

Cocagne

Alleluia
Gods answered me when I no longer believed.
October 22, the woods were yet friendly, small foam invigorated by the first rains, but no trace of fungus, a mushroom unless incongruous, beautiful and fresh, unique sentinel. While I was
down in the south, a friend calls me and says he "made" in the forest of 4.5 kilos X (somewhere in the Ile de France, I do not want to expose myself to his retaliation ...) I prances and n 'I constantly go back to Paris although it has announced an exit in the Cevennes. I could mount Lozère eyes closed but I will not take the risk to puncture the tires of the Kangoo father just because she wears a plate of Gard ... Monday, returning to Paris, I left standing after the wood gatherers Sunday (with the philistines who collect plastic bags). When I arrive with a friend Tuesday at 10 am 30, I am furious : Already 4 cars and a cold rain that began to fall. I met a collector who is leaving the forest, it is at the very least 6 kilos of beautiful specimens in the arms, the paper bag exploded under the weight and the rain ...
Three or four guys marauding, heavy bags in hand, but I do not know, I'm off to my corner, 10 minute walk. The gap in the fence of the game reserve has been closed since the week after, we must remove the barbed wire and very quickly it is a festival is known as one every ten years



My friend was beginners luck, she uncovers porcini mushroom on and discovers the thrill of the hunt, I remember when his incredulous amusement when I was describing to him what it took when another of my fads.


Attention mimicry, three fungi are hidden in this picture

Indifferent to the cold rain pierces us and laughing at our ridiculous Kway, one comes to wonder if the mushrooms do not broadcast any substance hallucinogenic or at least hilarious. It is only hunger and the arms that take under 15 kg that we are out of the woods.



time to dry vaguely hair swallowing a panini at the counter of a bakery and buy tennis socks to try to wipe the inside of my Doc Marteens, we leave for another timber for further 5kg in one hour until that the combined effect of the light down and have a meniscus fragile because of our euphoria
Before the rain, I have not had the courage to clean there. Sort, clean, slice and bake at once large and ill fucking then slice and freeze in strength enough to fill a drawer full freezer will take us until 10 pm.



I have never in my life seen such a concentration of beautiful subjects, not a worm and very little slugs, but nothing except to throw the big foam, a miracle. With
caps:
Peel and dry the mushrooms if they are dirty wash under running cold water with a soft brush or Scotch Brite nine. Dry well.
Slice thinly and arrange in a circle on individual plates.
Place a fillet of your best olive oil, a little sea salt and a few drops of lemon juice.
were first printing of a mushroom of Paris behind for a second then it explodes in bursts of humus and forest ... sublime ...

I like mushrooms in cream but when they are as good, I cook just flat loosely nor bullied, into slices to skillet with olive oil or duck fat.
In Barcelona, in the tapas bars, they serve them like that, gilt-edged with olive oil with a raw egg yolk to burst in the middle of the plate, completely decadent.
Yesterday I removed the nets of a guinea, (I confit the legs and wings in duck fat with garlic and thyme for another day) and have them stuffed with butter mixed thyme of my land, sage and savory (picked last week in the dark in the valley near Argensol Sant'Ambrogio) and surrounded by bacon.



This small canyon of dry scrubland 11 months on 12 may collect devastating and deadly floods


I also milled and chopped green cabbage quarter. Broth with the carcass, I had a very small risotto classico while all the threads gently braising. Cabbage juice sauce bronze while I was skipping a few mushrooms in duck fat and I finished the risotto a dollop of mascarpone and parmesan with a turn of pepper ...
Guineafowl, savory, bacon, risotto, porcini mushrooms and cabbage ... it works very nicely ...