Thanksgiving is my ultimate favorite dinner to cook. Not because I have master in cooking the turkey but I have also have the timing down to exactly where everything is ready at dinner time.
My Thanksgiving Menu:
Turkey (of course)
Potato Leek Soup
Green Bean Casserole
Mashed Potato & Gravy
Stuffing
Butternut Squash
Cranberry Jelly
Sweet Potato Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Did I forget anything else? Mind you there will be only 2 of us but possibly 4. Thanksgiving is one of those meal where I think you can never get enough of food. Plus I have random friends (I call "Homeless") that sometime don't know what they are doing for Thanksgiving and will just stop by.
I think one of the most important cookware you can own is this oval roaster from Martha Stewart. I have cooked chicken, turkey, prime rib and pork roast. I can never fail cooking in this roaster. Cooking at high heat with the lid, not only steam the meat but also creates a crust on the outside of the meat. The meat comes out tender and juicy.
What is your favorite cookware you can't live without?
Le Jardinier Fâché
Le Jardinier Fâché
"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece." Claude Monet
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Potager French Kitchen Garden
Potager or the French kitchen garden are more popular than ever in Franch. According to the French government survey taken in 1994, it revealed that 23 percent of the fruit and vegetables consumed by the French are home-grown. In the potager or French kitchen garden, the gardeners have use the companion planting technique where they intermingled vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs since the medieval times.
My all time favorite potager garden is of course the Potager du Roi near the Palace of Versailles.
The Potager du Roi or Kitchen Garden of the King produced fresh vegetables and fruits for the table of the court of Louis XIV. It was created between 1678 and 1783 by Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, the director of the royal fruit and vegetable gardens.
Isn't it amazing?!! It covered twenty-five acres with a circular pond and fountain in the center, surrounded by a Grand Carré. The Grand Carré consist of a large square made up of sixteen squares of vegetables. The King could watch the gardeners work around the raise terrance. A high wall surrounded the Grand Carré. There are twenty-nine enclosed gardens, with fruit trees and vegetables behind the wall . The different chambers of the gardens created individual microclimates, which allowed La Quintinie to grow fruits and vegetables out of their usual season. There were also special gardens for melons, herbs, cucumbers, strawberries and cherries. He raised fifty varieties of pears and twenty varieties of apples for the King’s table, and sixteen different varieties of lettuce.
My all time favorite potager garden is of course the Potager du Roi near the Palace of Versailles.
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Potager du Roi Versailles, December 2008. Photo by Eric Lefèvre, article via Wikipedia, h/t: theediblegarden. |
Isn't it amazing?!! It covered twenty-five acres with a circular pond and fountain in the center, surrounded by a Grand Carré. The Grand Carré consist of a large square made up of sixteen squares of vegetables. The King could watch the gardeners work around the raise terrance. A high wall surrounded the Grand Carré. There are twenty-nine enclosed gardens, with fruit trees and vegetables behind the wall . The different chambers of the gardens created individual microclimates, which allowed La Quintinie to grow fruits and vegetables out of their usual season. There were also special gardens for melons, herbs, cucumbers, strawberries and cherries. He raised fifty varieties of pears and twenty varieties of apples for the King’s table, and sixteen different varieties of lettuce.
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