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United Parcel Service

August 11, 2014 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

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Ok, that’s not French, but…

May 5, 2014 by Ullrich

Ah! A real Vietnamese Bobun: If you really want to go for it, plan well ahead because a full afternoon filled with preparations will pass by.

Categories: Dinner, good food, Michelin, signature dish, skills, World • Tags: Bobun, Essen, Food, Food photography, Kochen, Recette, Recipe, Vietnam

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France meets Maghreb – or is it Turkey?

September 28, 2013 by Ullrich

I owe this recipe to an excellent Turkish restaurant that I used to visit when I was living in Berlin many years ago. The place, called “Merhaba” (meaning something like “Hi, there!”), makes the Mediterranean cuisine shine. What I always found very intriguing was how the chefs there were elegantly adding acidity to their dishes by using (cold) yoghurt. Acidity, in fact, is one key element of tasteful cooking. Without any, your dishes will have a tendency to come across […]

Categories: chefs, Dinner, good food, hero butchers, signature dish, skills, World • Tags: Bouffe, Cuisinier, Essen, Food, Foodie, Kochen, Manger, Recipe, Rezepte

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mushroom fairytales of early fall

September 1, 2013 by Ullrich

On the markets of Paris, chanterelles are sold under the name girolles and both are quite different kinds of mushroom. The latter are firm and fleshy with thick stems, almost golden and snow-white on the inside, the former are softer, skinny guys, more on the brownish side and clearly less classy. A nice pan of girolles counts among the great pleasures of this late summer/early fall season. I used a chunk of the excellent pancetta I drove home from Italy to spice up […]

Categories: France, good food, nature, Paris, skills • Tags: Cuisinier, Essen, Food, Food photography, Foodies, Kochen, Manger, Recettes, recipes

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Parfait, in French, means perfect

July 1, 2013 by Ullrich

For your next party: Prepare a “Parfait de foies de volaille” that will bring about the “Ah’s” and “Oh’s” of your peers and plenty of demands for the recipe! All you need is a food blender.

Categories: Apéro, good food, signature dish, skills, Snack • Tags: Cuisinier, Essen, Food, Foodie, Kochen, Recette, Recipe, Rezepte

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Fish soup, heart-warming, spirit-lifting

June 29, 2013 by Ullrich

A good and hearty fish soup offers rare pleasures and always puts me in that Southern, summerish mood. Learn about some basic rules.

Categories: Dinner, France, good food, Lunch, nature, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Cuisinier, Food, Foodie, Kochen, Recettes, recipes, Rezepte

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Fishing for compliments: Home-made Anchovies

June 5, 2013 by Ullrich

Marinating fish is no big deal, actually, you only need to know some basic rules.

Categories: Apéro, Dinner, good food, Lunch, nature, seafood, skills • Tags: Cooking, Cuisinier, Essen, Food, Recettes, recipes, Rezepte

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Roll up your sleeves, be a French pâtissier!

June 2, 2013 by Ullrich

Baking the French way is an operation quite similar to heart surgery. But once you have prepared your own “tarte aux framboises”, a raspberry tart(e), you’ll feel quite proud, and rightfully so!

Categories: chefs, Dessert, France, good food, images, skills • Tags: Backen, Baking, Dessert, Food, pastry chef, Pâtisserie, Recettes, recipes, Rezepte

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Fourty shades of pray: French tourte

May 26, 2013 by Ullrich

Cooking may be fun most of the time – but when you really go for it, it turns into hard labour. That is certainly true for the classic French dish called tourte, a bourgeois marvel of culinary decadence which basically combines two elaborate dishes into one.

Categories: Dinner, France, good food, images, Lunch, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, French food, recipes

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French Terrine: Ramp up the big guns!

May 24, 2013 by Ullrich

A home-made terrine makes the pride of each amateur chef. A poor man’s feast in former times, it has turned into an almost ceremonial dish nowadays. Here are some basic rules for how to do it at home.

Categories: Apéro, Dinner, France, good food, hero butchers, Lunch, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, recipes

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Sowing for summer: Home-grown herbs

April 14, 2013 by Ullrich

Why would you buy expensive bunches of rosemary, thyme, mint or basil at your “gourmet” store or greengrocer’s over and over again – when you can plant them yourself on you window sill? I mean: really?

Categories: chefs, good food, Paris, poetry, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Herbs, Vegetarian

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Get your hands dirty! It’s worth it.

April 13, 2013 by Ullrich

The cured cod adventure continues. Some new ideas about how to treat that picturesque fish.

Categories: Dinner, France, good food, nature, Paris, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, recipes

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