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This collection features 19 recipes, with seasonal ingredients such as artichokes, asparagus, lamb, and strawberries. We hope these recipes inspire you to curate menus for dinner parties, luncheons, cocktail parties, and family meals.

 Provencal Recipes

Let your taste buds explore this digest of traditional Provencal recipes and innovative culinary twists using regional, seasonal ingredients from the South of France.

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Appetizer · David Scott Allen · Provencal Recipes · Taste

Goat Blue Cheese and Pear Timbales a Light Starter Course

April 4, 2018
This recipe combines sharp, creamy blue goat cheese and ripe Anjou pears in a lovely savoury flan or timbales. The Anjou pear is also called the Genovian pear (in Italy), and perhaps that is a good example of the transferability of the language of cooking. A timbale in French cuisine is a sweet or savoury, custard-like recipe that is cooked in a cylindrical pan or bottomless dish (flan ring). In Italian, the same dish is called a Timballo.
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Appetizer · David Scott Allen · Provencal Recipes · Taste

Spicy Carrot Goat Cheese Pâté a Recipe for those Bits in the Fridge

March 30, 2018
We all agree that food waste is terrible, and in North America where shopping for many tends to involve large format stores with bulk packaging...often we buy too much. Even if you are a conscious shopper and dedicated cook like David sometimes there end up being some leftover bits in the fridge. Now, in Cocoa & Lavender's kitchen nothing gets wasted so he created this recipe for spicy carrot goat cheese pâté.
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