by Ullrich
I like wrapping, rolling, packaging food – it brings love and elegance to your table. Here, beetroot leaves make a perfect coating for fish fillets topped with mushroom duxelles. Just excellent!
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, Lunch, nature, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Cuisinier, Essen, Food, Food photography, Kochen, Manger, Recettes, Recipe, Rezepte
by Ullrich
The street markets in Paris will ruin me sooner or later, financially. But this morning, I couldn’t resist to a perfect daurade that I turned into a simple and noble French dish.
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, Lunch, nature, Paris, poetry, seafood, signature dish • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, recipes, Seafood
by Ullrich
I often think about how privileged France as a culinary country is. The two oceans alone – the Mediterranean to the South, the Atlantic to the West – are an endless source for excellent ingredients. I just prepared some excellent palourdes, hard clams.
Categories: Apéro, Dinner, France, seafood • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, French cuisine, recipes
by Ullrich
I confess that I’ve spent half of Holy Friday cooking. I actually don’t know whether that’s considered a sin by our Christian authorities (I guess so). To defend myself, I would argue that it was all about fish. I even created an original dish of my own!
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Skills, Food, France, recipes, Seafood
by Ullrich
Last night, I tried it again. Cured Cod, Stockfish, Bacalhau. It was a moment of decision-making. I would either create something alright – or never touch a Morue again.
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking Skills, Fish, Food
by Ullrich
Today, after my visit at the street market not far from home, I couldn’t help unpacking everything I had bought just to admire my great catch.
Categories: France, good food, hero butchers, Paris, poetry, seafood • Tags: Food, France, savoy cabbage, smoked haddock
by Ullrich
…require substantial investments, unfortunately, but then there are hardly meals more satisfying, more festive, more splendid. In Paris, you’ll go Rive Gauche to hunt down your perfect, wild seafood and sooner or later you’ll end up buying your fish and shellfish at Poissonnerie du Dome close to Tour Montparnasse where they sell fare that is normally reserved to the best restaurants in town. Over the weekend I had such a feast, consisting of a giant spider crab, oysters and the […]
Categories: good food, Paris, seafood • Tags: Food, France, recipes
by Ullrich
Just in case that you have missed it: the fishing season for scallops has been opened officially this week – since Monday the yellow-coated heroes are out on the sea for you in Normandy, in Brittany to get aboard what the French so nicely call coquilles St. Jacques. For the fishermen, scallops mean pure money. In Normandy, a fishermen told me recently, that the precious shellfish makes almost 60 percent of his yearly income. For us consumers, scallops stand for pure, […]
Categories: France, good food, seafood, skills • Tags: Cooking Skills, Food, recipes
