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Some melted Gruyere, Dijon mustard and garden fresh tomato slices on a toasted baguette...yum...!

Prime, dry-aged porterhouse steaks from Peter Luger...!
;-)

Not too long ago, dear friends took me to dine in a resto in the Seventh Arrondissment named Le Violin d’Ingres, owned by Chef Christian Constant.
I was served a crunchy sliced baguette with thick pats of rich French butter that was topped with pepper, crunchy fleur de sel (Brittany sea salt) and ground allspice. The famous food writer Patricia Wells had dined here, as well, and dubbed this dish “rue Saint-Dominique Caviar as the resto is located on 135, rue Saint-Dominique.

I love to bake and cook at night, especially in the summer months...it is so peaceful when the rest of the house is asleep...

I put on a Julia Child DVD softly in the background and experiment with gluten free reciepes.
Last night I made GF crepes with rice flour to reheat for breakfast, a crusty GF bread, GF brownies and a blood orange sorbet was whirring in my ice cream machine as I played with recipes and baked my heart out.

Thank the Lord for the night-time...! (sorry Neil Diamond...)

Wow...I wish that I had known about this "round-up".
After we saw the first showing in my area on Friday morning,
we went home and made Boeuf Bourguignon on page 318 of MtAoFC.
Yes, we ate late and yes it was yum...

I also did a "Julie & Julia giveaway" on my food blog to celebrate the movie and my one year blog anniversary:

http://feastingonpixels.blogspot.com/2009/08/happy-one-year-blogiversary-and-winner.html

A very inspiring movie for anyone that loves to cook,
and even those that don't...but just love to eat.

(insert Julia's voice here)
Bon appètit…!

Cool and retro...wish I had a butcher in my chill chest to
meet my needs for veal bones for wanting to make stock at 2am.
Really love Al (in this( well who doesn't...lol...)
One of my fave episodes on Home Improvement.

We ate at his restaurant Table 52 in Chicago...
the place is really lovely...the food, well, not so much.
Amazing what Oprah can do...and not in a good way...

Contains: egg...just one egg in a half-dozen.

I imagine the recession has hit Ireland as well...lol...

Although I have eaten burgers all over the world, but as a Southside Chicago native I would have to say my fave burger is from Top-Notch Beefburger.
The meat is fresh and cooked to order.
My sister and I love to share the 1/2 pound Western Burger with fresh tomato, lettuce, Jalepeno cheese, bacon, BBQ sauce, grilled green pepper and grilled onions.
Mmmmmmmmmm...

Not diet food for sure, but a wonderful treat once or twice a year.
The best burger in the city of Chicago bar none.

Stupid, stupid stupid...
Very disappointing presentation of a person I thought
of as an excellent chef.
I expected much more of him...really sad.

Love this post...
I have been growing herbs and flowers on the lower patio of my condo.
On my upper balcony, away from the rabbits, I have successfully grown tomatoes, lettuce, kale, peppers, peas, carrots and beans.
I always havest more than our family can use and it is wonderful
to be able to either share or can what I have grown.

I have already have my wonderful plantings in place for this season
and look forward to watching my food-bank grow over the summer.