Charcutepalooza Grand Prize Winner- acookblog.com’s Peter Barrett
Peter Barrett's Rubber Boots Bravo. Bravo, Bravo, Bravo to you all! And especially to Peter Barrett, the persistently innovative, mouthwatering edgy talent from cookblog who swept the votes to become...
View ArticleWhat goes around comes around, again and again… New trends for 2012
It's just bacon. A couple of years ago someone, some too-clever-for-their-own-good someone, declared bacon was out… and that in the coming year pork belly was in. That set me off. It’s been cupcakes in...
View Articlehere chick, chick, chick… they’ve flown the coop!
The mother hen in me is clucking around the Internet, pecking over at Twitter, and flying over the Wire as my SAF chicklets leave their nest for the first time to work in real life farms and butcher...
View ArticleMAGYC Pies at Camont
a MAGYC PIE... There are pies and there are PIES. There is magic and there is MAGYC. And yes, this is a bonafide, real, authentic MAGYC PIE. Over the years, I have dabbled in savoury pies as the visual...
View ArticleInspired Cooking- a January lunch menu
Pre-1970 Cooking. Cooking in France. Cooking in Gascony, France. What inspires you to cook? A recipe? A photograph in a cookbook? A blog post? Here at Camont, I look around my Gascon world for the...
View ArticleSynchronized Cooking- the new Olympic sport?
truffled homemade pasta coming up! I imagine fireflies pulsing in rhythm in a tree in some remote forest. Then a school of little silver fish darting left in unison, then blinking silver right. A flock...
View Articleit’s all about the buzzzzz: NEW working grrls-at-Camont
Oh Honey! Beekeeping-at-Camont, Round 2. A couple summers ago I trapped? caught? coaxed? a wild swarm to move into my waiting hive- la ruche. I savored the summer apiarist antics while discovering the...
View ArticleWeekend Breakfast-at-Camont. Asparagus & HAM
It begins here, with two good ingredients. Ham- Eric Ospital’s Ibaiona brand from the Basque Country. Asparagus- local, just picked and carried to the market so fresh it snaps. This week, my Kitchen...
View ArticleLamb Tails from the Keeping Kitchen.
If wishes were beggars, horses would ride… or be careful what you wish for. This little cook wished for lambs a couple of years ago. Lamb is quite dear here in France. Why? No idea! So I decided to...
View ArticleFrench Summer Playlist
Pretend this is an audio track: “Just pull over here.” = Field of Sunflowers. “I’ll go get the Rosé. Buzet or Cotes de Gascogne? = Night Market “How many tomatoes should I buy?” = Lavardac Wednesday...
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