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Comment on Tapenade by sophie

sophie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:46:54 +0000

ben on met un bocal entier d’olives vertes et un petit bocal de câpres. Si ça fait trop pâteux, un petit filet d’huile d’olives (j’avoue qu’il m’arrive aussi d’y fourrer un peu d’ail)….mais cette conversation est terrible, je n’ai qu’une envie, me fabriquer de la tapenade…sauf que je n’ai que l’huile comme ingrédients….ca ne va pas le faire du tout du tout! Tu me diras ce que tu en penses hein!

bisous

Comment on Lawbreaker by sophie

sophie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:44:15 +0000

C’est pour la France, merci d’avance!!!!

bisous

Comment on Lawbreaker by Sabine

Sabine — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:18:29 +0000

On va tous finir dans une prison allemande, tenue par des français!!! Papyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Comment on Tapenade by Sabine

Sabine — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:17:15 +0000

Mon joli poussin :) Est-ce que tu as des mesures précises pour la recette? Je vais tenter mais le problème c’est que notre mixer est grand et du coup c’est pas évident de mélanger des trucs pâteux (mais des soupes, en voiture: ça marche super).

C’est quoi ces façons de fourguer des anchois partout??? Merci d’être avec moi sur ce coup-là ;)

xxxx

Comment on Lawbreaker by sophie

sophie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:08:55 +0000

crimineeeeeelllle! Arrêtez la!!! Pst, c’est la grande brune là bas….euh…attends un peu….il me semble que moi aussi, je suis allée piocher dans les placards masculins de la maison….bon, on oublie tout alors hein…comment ça, vous voulez m’arrêter moi aussi….m’en fous, je vais appeler Super Résistant…..Au secooooouuuuuurrrssss!

bisous

Comment on Tapenade by sophie

sophie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:07:13 +0000

pssst, pourquoi tu fais pas ta propre tapenade? Nous on l’a fait à la maison, olives vertes, un peu d’aïl, et des câpres. Un tour au mixer, un peu d’huile d’olive si c’est trop pâteux et hop….on en a même fait en Pologne pour les cousins de David!

Pas pour te décevoir mais la quasi-totalité des tapenades du commerce contient des anchois. Ceci dit, c’est meilleur sans, je suis bien d’accord.

bisous

Comment on Tapenade by Sabine

Sabine — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:04:41 +0000

Your description of Provence is making my little heart beat faster! I miss pretty much everything you talk about, really badly.

I will try to find some pictures of mine to post – it will be good for my soul too :)
xxx

Comment on Tapenade by Bliss Doubt

Bliss Doubt — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:04:32 +0000

My last trip was to the government sponsored “plus beaux villages de France” with Backroads, starting from Avignon, which was merely a place for everybody to meet, and ending in Gordes. We stayed in exquisite small hotels and really, the high point of the trip was food. We visited an olive mill where those tapenade chips were developed by the owner, a goat farm where we got to milk the goats. I can’t remember the names of all the villages where we went now. I know we went to chateauneuf du pape, because our host told us about a wine they call “declasse”, which is chateauneuf du pape without the label affixed (but we didn’t get any).

I visited provence once before, but as a vacation when I spent my junior year of college in France. It was not the direct experience of the peaceful life of the countryside and earth’s bounty bursting forth. That first time was museums and historic places in Avignon, Aix and the roads between the two. This time, the cherry and apricot trees were spilling their fruit into the roads. The porch of a house where we stayed was covered with spilled mullberries. The pathway to a farmhouse restaurant was littered with black olives from the tree above. Our small group of six people played boules, had picnics, took long walks. I love the plane trees that make a canopy over all the roads. You are completely correct that it is the most beautiful region on earth.

France is my soul’s home. I just can’t afford to live there, not even in the areas of France with the lowest cost of living, much less so the “baronial belt” where I last visited.

Comment on Tapenade by Sabine

Sabine — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0000

You are my hero for standing up for tapenade! I can attest growing up in Provence spoils you for life as far as certain foods are concerned… So I am left infuriated that here it is incredibly expensive, and that green tapenade is nowhere to be found (just as worthy and excellent as black if you ask me – maybe even my favourite of the two).

As far as anchovies are concerned, quite predictably it tastes really fishy when it’s added. For me tapenade should be a strong olivey punch in the face, and the saltiness should only come from the capers.
And my god, those chips sound like perfection and are going to make my head explode :)

Where did you go when you went to Provence? I was born and bred in Aix, so I’m not necessarily impartial if I say it’s the most beautiful place in the world ;)

Comment on Appointments, buckets and clothes by Sabine

Sabine — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:50:29 +0000

Moi aussi mon puceron doré! (Ne me demande pas, j’ai dormi 5 heures…).
Ça me tue de ne pas savoir – peut être que j’ai rêvé des francs-maçons et que je me suis à demi réveillée, et que j’ai gribouillé sur un bout de papier mon idée de revanche pour toutes les conversations à minuit sous nos fenêtres??
Des bisous!