Re: dessert - we always have chocolate fondue at Christmas. It's quick, easy, festive and "convivial", and who doesn't love a bowlful of melted chocolate?! You can buy pots at Casa in Cormontreuil for 5 euros.
dfresne | 12.24.06 - 5:16 am | #

Good luck with food preparation and enjoy the Christmas meals!
It's been nice to virtually walk into your home, guided by the descriptions and looking at the pictures.
May | 12.24.06 - 10:39 am | #

We neighbour a turkey farm
Silent night
Happy Christmas
Be happy
Alan j | 12.24.06 - 1:45 pm | #

Hope everything went really well over Christmas and that all your hard work paid off! Bisous xo
Nicnu | Homepage | 01.02.07 - 8:06 pm | #

Hi Oiseau

All the best for 2007!

I hope your Christmas & New Year went swimmingly. You get extra marks for improvising when recipes go wrong, you know.

-Fruey
fruey (Let's Have It) | Homepage | 01.03.07 - 3:13 am | #

That turkey would have totally given me the willy nillies too. I guess a ham would have been even worse, though, eh?
Nancy | Homepage | 01.03.07 - 1:07 pm | #

It all looks lovely. I always have the butcher cut the head and feet off our turkey-or I buy one already stuffed and ready to go at Picard.
Linda Mathieu | Homepage | 01.04.07 - 3:30 am | #

I've never heard Delia's name mentioned in quite that way before. Usually I hear it in awed whispers or loud praise. Personally, while I think she is a great cook, I feel that her recipes are sometimes complicated than they need to be. I've been working on a French recipe book (online) where I try to take a striped-down approach to recipes and I find that my simplist recipes get a lot more visits than my more complicated ones. Also find that the dessert recipes get almost as many visits as all the other recipes put together.
Doug (French food & recipe buf | Homepage | 01.06.07 - 2:15 pm | #

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parquet floor | Homepage | 02.17.07 - 5:05 am | #