Tag: Taste le tour

Coming up tonight: Ratatouille with lemon chantilly

Okay, so last night Gabriel took us on a tour of Nice;  home of the mesclun lettuce and nicoise salad.  We toured  farmers markets  laden with gorgeous produce,  olive oil farms and were introduced to the mouth-watering street food Socca. I’ve highlighted the link, because if you were interested in giving a recipe for Socca…

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Nice to eat you, Marengo Chicken

Fancy sharing a meal with Napoléon?  Well, if so you are about 200 years too late, but all is not lost!  Come over and whip up the recipe for Marengo Chicken, a dish created and served by Napoléon’s personal cook in honour his victory in the Battle of Marengo. So, I may not know much about…

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Congratulations Simon!

Woohoo!  What a great effort from Victorian Simon Gerrans last night to win Stage 3 on the Tour de France!  Memo to the Orica GreenEdge bus driver … this is what the Team Manager actually meant when he said that the team needed to ‘take out a stage’ on Corsica … Although your  individual efforts…

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Coming up tonight: Corsican Cheesecake!!

Check back later tonight to see the results of my Corsican Cheesecake adventure!  I have lots of taste testers lining up for this one, so fingers crossed it makes a big cake! Also, you might have noticed that I am now running a poll on each recipe that I try from the Taste le Tour…

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