Cooking
Dinner for Guests
We hadn’t cooked any recipes from Mastering the Art of French Cooking lately, so when we started planning a meal for friends, we thought about an old favorite: casserole-roasted chicken with tarragon. If you want to get amazing results you have to do every step the way that Julia Child says to do it. So in addition to the recipe in the old favorite book, we watched the 60-year-old TV episode where Julia Child showed American cooks how to make this dish. Back then, it was revolutionary!
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These original episodes of The French Chef are of course in black-and-white.
As you may know, Julia Child’s cooking show pretty much invented Food TV. |
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| Julia Child’s recipe recommends roasted potatoes and peas with mushrooms as side dishes. OK. |
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| Unbelievably delicious! |
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| Our guests. |
Best Breakfast
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| Another great bake by Len. |
Reading
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A bit of reading about Tokyo for a change of scene. Tokyo on Foot is a delightful collection of images.
Thanks to Emma at Words and Peace for recommending these books. |
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| Reading next: classic haiku. |
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This is not one of the best novels by Patricia Highsmith.
I didn’t like any of the tediously portrayed characters and they weren’t
quirky enough to be interesting. |
Watching Peter Ustinov’s Poirot
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We wondered why we hadn’t seen these Agatha Christie films before. Each one has an all-star cast.
They have a delightful light touch. We also watched Kenneth Branagh’s Orient Express: very heavy-handed. |
The Weather is Grim
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Woody, the Michigan Groundhog saw no shadow and (as superstition has it) said no to more winter.
I agree that winter should end, but unfortunately, Woody is only right 35% of the time. (Photo Credit)
The “weather” in our nation isn’t so great either. |
What I was doing two years ago
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| Whale watching in Baja California, February, 2023. |
Photos © 2023, 2025 mae sander
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