Check out the Ratatouille recipe!

This one is a summer recipe, well suited to those enjoying all that fabulous French weather.  A chilled ratatouille is not something I had ever tried before and I have to say it was interesting.  If it sounds like your thing, head over the recipe and give it a go. On the cycling front, it’s…

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…

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…

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…

Here it is, Corsican Cheesecake!

Let me just start by saying that these Corsicans know how to make a cheesecake!  Gabriel Gaté’s Corsican Cheesecake is a decadent, luscious and light take on the type of cheesecake we Australians are probably most familiar with.  This recipe is really easy, quick and let’s face it, just plain yummy.  Next time you need…

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…

Get your palate on… we’re off to Corsica!

Okay ladies and gentleman, it’s time to join me on a journey through the culinary highlights of the 2013 Tour de France!  Kicking off at 10pm tonight on SBS we are heading to Corsica where Gabriel Gaté will be cooking up a storm with a Crayfish Linguine (langouste de Corse aux linguine) on Taste le…