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Between mouthfuls and among the remnants of wrapping paper, let me say two words: Merry Christmas! And before you rave about the succulent occasion, I'll tell you a small episode in the lives of two, which might sound familiar.

Before arriving in London, I was a little skeptical about my fitness / adaptation with this city. I figured the gray, sprawling, somewhat hostile, a little surly. However, intercultural, I have already given, but it is precisely this apparent closeness that left me perplexed.

Between London and Paris, a multitude of small details make the difference, some more dangerous than others: the pounds, big smiles sellers in stores, the sash windows, the cars in the wrong direction, without mixing valves ...

different too, the size of mattresses. And
precisely where I wanted to happen. Because there is a concern. The mattress English, it seems, are huge, king size style. Is it to adapt to royal dreams inhabited by giants coaches and rivers of diamonds (seyants hat), is it because it's so dark you want to forget in sleep, is it just because the English love to be different?
fact remains that these beds disproportionate me pose a fundamental problem, which may well hamper my conjugal harmony.
You see, the concept of bed is very simple: a mattress, a comforter, size M and C.

Usually, M is much smaller than C , thus ensuring smooth nights, each property nestled in the thick padded. It must still be noted that some incidents may disrupt the balance of this configuration, especially when the man is cold, and mobilizes well proven technique called maki .

The technique of maki is very simple man, enjoying a moment of inattention night the other occupant of the bed, it appropriates the comforter completely enveloping like a piece of pickled cucumber , from the edge, the strategy then is to pull out of his skin to adhere perfectly to the sheet of nori (the quilt, so) . Consequently, the second body present on the mattress (the cookie, so) is found bench, exposed to frost bite of the night.
If you know what kind of difficulties, do not hesitate to fake an apocalyptic nightmare to wake up the cucumber and, very quickly, get your due.

although this happens rarely, and we were sinking up to the nights peaceful.
However, since our installation in our sweet home, M> C . Mattress Giant exceeds all sides, nothing doing, the quilt remains Lilliputians. Consequence: lost in this vastness, the two bodies in deep sleep phase seem to have an irrepressible need to pull this poor quilt, which did not ask anyone, it. As if she had to join after his bed perfectly so that everything goes well. Sleep in the middle (and namoure) no difference is mathematical: if M> C, even with a namoure fabulous, you have to worry about anything. Night after night, the same fiery fight replays, dissension flat ...

One remedy : another quilt. That's it, you're in trouble, it was as simple as that. (Thanks Mom and Santa Claus)

And since I'm not resentful (or I do not remember so if it was me who won or lost the quilt), I still continued to cook Meanwhile, as these little appetizers fresh and vivid, edaname (exquisite soybeans), black olives, cottage cheese, mashed potatoes with herbs and candied citron.


And as he was not spiteful either, as he had just concocted for me this wonderful chocolate tart, breathy, sensual and flowing, accompanied by a frozen carrot orange. Make me think to ask him the recipe if you made eyes.


And on the evening of theme parties Youplaboum, I can only advise you the egg to 65 with a few slices of truffle , mélanosporum, what else.



Jolie also greed: this little dessert to praline crunchy hazelnuts drenched whole, creamy dark chocolate, champagne sabayon . Point biscuit necessary, that keeps here the purest delicacy, its delicious flavors and textures free.


Until next year, I continue to rave to the present I do not think so deserving, and trying to master my new camera ...

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a bit of Patrick Roger

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Too Patrick Roger ?

my new favorite

Corsican citron

candied citron 3 days

myself

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Edaname, olives, cottage cheese, mashed potatoes with herbs and candied citron

For 2
Edaname 100 grams (or other beans)
a handful of black olives from the garden
2 tablespoons cottage cheese
a small piece of candied citron
love with a big handful of coriander and mint
few cumin seeds, salt Pepper

Crush the herbs in a mortar, adding a little olive oil until a nice paste.


Cook soybeans and Refresh under cold water. Mix with olives, pitted and coarsely chopped, season with cumin, salt and pepper. Place the container in
chose a spoon of the mixture bean olives, a tablespoon of cottage cheese, mashed a little grass and a couple of pieces of finely chopped candied citron. Keep refrigerated.

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Champagne Dessert Crunchy

For 1 / 2 frame 20x20

* Praline chrunchy
70 Gr dark chocolate praline
160 Gr
60g whole hazelnuts roasted, coarsely chopped

* Creamy Chocolate
150g cream 150g chocolate


* Champagne Sabayon
2 egg yolks,
25 g sugar, lemon zest ½
,
70 g of champagne
2 sheets of gelatin, 125 g cream


* Some orange peel and lemon confit

crunchy praline
coverage Melt in a double boiler, add the praline and hazelnuts. run in a frame. Block the cold.

Creamy Chocolate Porter
cream to a boil, pour onto the ground cover, stir, pour over praline layer.

champagne sabayon mousse
Blanch yellow, sugar and zest. Mix and pour the champagne, whisk in water bath until the mixture doubles in volume, incorporate gelatin soaked and pressed then continue whisking off heat until lukewarm.
Mix the whipped cream. Flow through and allow to cool.
Before serving, add some diced orange peel and lemon.

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After the Rain - A plate of vegetables and fried rice ice cream, frozen citrus and candied pistachios

It was still a little strange, it must be said. What what? Well, it was rather unlikely not to be touched by adversity, the Fate who returns sting repeatedly. Until a few days, until 15.59 or so, I remained quiet about.

About Zen when I plant my macbook. Because I plant with extended warranty, and it's already 788 pounds of savings.
Pretty cool when the other half dies macbook mini three days later, dying in its settings from 1 January 1970. Downright
phlegmatic when bronchitis tears my trachea. Significantly
weighted conjunctivitis while attacking my left eye.
Resigned when I see an allergic attack on my white hands.

But more than the accumulation of these incidents, the drop was precisely the accumulation of water droplets which discharge their gloom over the city oozing. Yes, we're in London, no doubt about it. It is dark gray, not to mention the utter darkness that points from 4:02 p.m..

You tell me that Paris is like night and there is barely an hour later. Except that no, it's not the same, one more hour, mean that it is still 4:30 p.m. daily. 16.30, as a snack. And I do not take my lunch when it's dark.

Having ranted, cursed and trampled across the UK, so faithful to his photographs, I asked competent authorities shine. Day and night. I have not answered
for the day, but it was beautiful, as if by magic. Probably because it was my birthday.


rays are distributed, but morale remains sunny. After all, my cards arrived, my memory has been supported (and having discussed the temperature measurement of sugar finger while the defense is a great success in itself, is not it?) is nearly Christmas, and London is great.

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No recipe mince pies or Christmas pudding, just a nice plate of vegetables, served when you-know-maybe-who came dinner at home. Also at that famous dinner, I cooked up an ice cream for dessert grilled rice (recipe inspired by Fumiko), with a citrus jelly and candied pistachios few. Unfortunately, the photos are terrible, but trust me on this one.

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vegetable plate, speck, cauliflower semolina

Serves 4
mini leeks, bok choy, mini, mini asparagus, mini fennel, cherry tomatoes
1 / 2 butternut
1 large tablespoon Dijon mustard 4 slices Speck

cauliflower lemon

few shavings of pecorino di fossa (Pecorino matured in a pit as its name suggests, very powerful, earthy flavors presques riddled)

Peel the butternut squash (with a razor vegetables) and cut few thin slices on the top with a mandolin. Place in a bowl of cold water. Cook the rest of butternut (furnace or water) and mix by adding water to a smooth texture but not liquid. Add mustard, salt and pepper and set aside. Blanch the bok choy
, asparagus and fennel separately and refresh under cold water. Peel the tomatoes. Grill mini leeks baked, they must begin to blacken slightly. The whole book.
Grill speck in the oven for ten minutes at 180 degrees, turn oven off and leave the slices.
Grate the cauliflower and stir to microplane with the zest of 1 / 2 lemon (also at the microplane, if possible).

Just before serving, heat the butternut squash and sauté the vegetables in a tablespoon of olive oil. Spoon a large dollop of butternut in the bottom plates, arrange the vegetables in creating the terrain, add the toasted slice of Speck and sprinkle a little cornmeal cauliflower. Add a few shavings of pecorino di fossa and serve.

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Ice fried rice, frozen citrus, candied pistachios

Ice grilled rice

50g Basmati rice 60g sugar 15g honey

50cL milk

Cook rice in a dry skillet. The grains are slightly brown and smell of puffed rice cereal (such Smacks, remember?).
Cook rice in 30cl of water, about twenty minutes, until tender. Add sugar, honey and 2 / 3 milk. Mix until a homogeneous preparation by adding the remaining milk as you go. Keep refrigerated and churn just before serving.

citrus jelly

1 lemon 1 lime 1 orange

50cL
water 125g sugar 3 sheets gelatin
(6gr)

Prepare a syrup with water and sugar. Slice
regularly citrus slices and place in a large bowl. Bring to boil and pour over citrus. Cover with film and marinate at room temperature for 24 hours.
Recover citrus slices. (I do care for pickling and other sweets s)
Pass the syrup through a chinois. A small portion of the syrup, heat and dissolve gelatine previously soaked in ice water. Mix the rest of the syrup. Allow to cool
freeze.

To serve, combine jelly whip, spread a nice scoop at the bottom of the containers, add a scoop of ice cream and some candied pistachios.

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That's all folks!

Well, I finally tell you my adventures in U.S., it is time that this blog is closing its doors. Starting tomorrow, I'm starting a new job in a new city , I probably still full of anecdotes to tell, but this time I will not do it in a blog, I did a little tour I think the concept ...

I will continue to follow the "news" U.S. of course, here , there, or there (just to name a few) ...

So I want to thank my parents, without whom I would not be here today, my producer, who has always believed in me, the guy who stole my bike wheel , the agent of the MTA that made me a fine in the subway on the day of my arrival, the guy who invented the doors closing by themselves, drivers Chinese buses , owners of hostels in Washington the security guards at the U.S. Open the agents ATA La Guardia Airport , and all others who m have helped to have things to say about this blog.

And of course thank you to everyone who came here occasionally or regularly, I know I'll miss you, it's always best to leave First, all that, but be strong, life goes on :-)

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Roadtrip - Day 25 & 26: Yosemite

Today, 3 songs for the price of one!

Take the long way home ...

The end has no end ...

California here we come, right back Where we started "from ...


The Topaz Lake (who would rather be called the Grey Lake, in my opinion) is located about 1500 m altitude, so we again had not warm during the night, but c That was still better than sleeping at 3 in the car (Y 'was still one of us who stayed there for fear of being too cold in the tent, I would say that not to condemn not, but it was not me!).

So I say and I repeat , even in California, in May, there is still snow (if we were told that unless you have zero English Sierra Nevada realized that it means snowy mountains):

But we still got lucky the first pass of the day was good (otherwise we would have visited the Lake Tahoe it seems that's nice!):


Bah finally we just made a slight detour of only 2 or 300 km! But it was worth it, is the only real mountain road that was made, and it was very nice ...

Then there are always people who have traveled much more than we

A Angels Camp, there is the Jumping Frog Jubilee , damage which we did not have time to stop it would be nice (the next road trip I do, it will be at least 6 weeks, 3 and a half weeks is too short)!

There are green hills:

And the "hippie style" California!

Failing to find a rest area beside the road, the car squats the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints " picnic:

And here we are Finally, at the entrance to Yosemite National Park (he must have be at least 15 hours):

Yosemite is one of my big hits Heart of the trip is almost certain that I will return one day, we really have not had much time to do so (we had thought of missing the plane back but our boss was not too much agreement ...). Waterfalls, greenery, it changes everything we had done so far:

Bridalveil Falls :
El Capitan, which attracts thousands of climbers each year:

As usual, everyone had told me that Yosemite was great, but I was not expecting that at all.

is also one of the places where we saw the most people. Much in other places we've never had any concern for campsites in place (even the Grand Canyon had not booked and we had a place without problems, although there were many people), there there was only the walk-in campground, which consists of locations that can accommodate 6 people maximum. We happily arrived in time to have 3 seats on the same location (if not with one tent, two different locations that would have been problematic!). And our neighbor had the same tent as us ...

The bear-proof bins, where to store everything that smells (food, toiletries, dirty socks ;-)), because nothing should be left in the car, the bears can shred the door 's they were very hungry (but our tent is not "bear-proof" it, it sucks right?)!

It was really strange to see young people everywhere, it was felt to return to life in society, we realized that after a large majority of nights in campgrounds with 3 / 4 empty (whose only other occupants were rather older people in RV) we had almost become a little asocials!

In fact, the landscape level is much less "exotic" as canyons, deserts, cacti, etc. ... but it is precisely the contrast that I think I much appreciated.

And for once, we do not see the sunset from the car!

Yosemite falls (740 m, 6th highest in the world):

The next day, wake up early enough to enjoy the last day (bouuuuuuuuuuh):

As in other parks, it has had time to do the tourist part (the Yosemite Valley ), where urge all visitors (which is perhaps 2% of the park!).

It must be really nice to go in the backcountry, hiking and climbing.

I will return there, it's decided!

Until we put it in his eyes in the valley

Mirror Lake (you can see why):

View of Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point:

And finally, we come down to south park to see Mariposa Grove, the forest of giant sequoias:

The California Tunnel Tree, cut to get the procedures (and mainly to attract tourists!), the tree is always living:

Faster cutting these trees to move!

The Fallen Monarch:

And so ends this trip really extra ...

We saw so many different things, all superb, it was really an incredible experience ...

I loved all the parks, I loved camping (despite the health conditions sometimes a bit questionable, but hey no one ever died from not showering for 3 days), I loved the road (albeit sometimes long and monotonous), I loved having the impression of being in another world, completely cut off from what was happening outside, in short, I loved this trip and I can tell you that back in the plane in San Francisco that was hard ...

... trèèèèèèèèèès drive (and of course returning the airplane he is NEVER late).

Last view of SF San Mateo Bridge (impressive):

THE E ND

Well, I no longer believed, but I finally managed to overcome my review of the trip, I hope it made you want to leave or leave on the roads of south-western USA, me anyway it made me want to return. .. Tomorrow I will

say goodbye ;-)