SALAD STORIES #1

 

Happy monday my littles kitties, 

Today, I wanted to have a little pre-holiday special week with a salad theme week... You know I'm capable of making a flowery theme week in the middle of autumn so a special "detox" and salad week in the middle of December is no big deal! "Detox" with quotation marks because the following recipes will not always be light but at least I hope they will make you want to eat well, to take care of yourselves and to quit frozen pizzas... 

So why this theme... Well because I love eating salads but when it comes to imagining them, there is nobody... I often mix together everything that is in my fridge, like some sort of salad free style artist. But there is always something missing or too much of it, I have to admit I'm not good at imagining a salad... But I don't admit complete defeat though, it'll come around, and I already learned a lot during these past weeks...

The fact remains that I wanted to set this special week a long time ago but it took a long time to make it because, yes you'll have guests every day this week, some friends I love, people I had a crush on, other who are passionate , they will all give you their own vision of the winter salad...

I'm thrilled to introduce you to Justine B., the first of "the good people" on the blog,  remember? Well I will leave you together

 

 

• Hi Justine, can you introduce yourself quickly ?

 Waiting to be retired and to spend my life wearing raining boots in the middle of my vegetable patch, I grow chives and mini peppers on my flat window side. I am more a dry sausage/red wine than a macaroon/champagne kind of girl, I hate the guy who decided there was to be only 3 meals a day and I have horror of mini macaronis.

•  What is your first culinary "Madeleine de Proust"?

Honey toast on a Viennese bread baguette with a layer of butter, to eat with a freshly squeezed orange juice with extra brown sugar.

 

 

• You take care of yourself by eating well, when did it clicked for you?

I think it never really clicked, good food really runs in my family. I have a grand-father that thought me to enjoy eating well and the importance of choosing the good products ever since I was little. (He also thought me that you NEVER cut the roquefort horizontally and I take this opportunity to spread the word to the largest number of people). 

• What is your favorite ingredient, the one you put everywhere not even thinking about it?

Olive oil, but not any kind! The one from a small Greek producer that comes around twice a year. I buy it 10L at a time and if I could, I'd drink directly from the bottle.

 

• What meal do you cook when you don't feel so good (that also works for the day after a party...)?

Though question, typically it is the one out of two situations where I cannot resist the song of the siren of junk food... Oups! (sorry grandpa)

• What is your detox tips before and/or after the holidays?

A raclette ? ha ha ha 

 

 

• Today you work in advertisement with a devouring passion for treating people, when will you consider a career change?

Somewhere in a parallel word, another version of myself is cooking, a chef's hat glued onto her head. She doesn't know it yet but some day, I'll built a machine capable of opening the door to her word and I'll still her place. (Demoniac laugh).