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November 19, 2009 - 12:40pm | by dorette
Please visit  the C'est si Bon! Blog for culinary world updates, happenings with our students, interns and participants, and bien sur, seasonal updates on the grounds at C’est si Bon!
 
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Peas, They're Sweet and Snappy

May 12, 2011 - 6:36pm | by dorette
sugar snap peas with green garlic and mint
 
if you’ve ever grown sugar snap peas, you know anticipation is half the fun. this is a slight variation on the spring duo of peas and mint. even with the added cucumbers and yogurt dressing, it’s a snap to prepare!
 
serves 2
 
½ pound sugar snap peas, slice thinly on the bias 
1 large cucumber, peeled, halved the long way and sliced in thin crescents
1 shoot of green garlic, sliced thinly
 
dressing
½ cup greek yogurt mixed with juice and zest of one lemon
1 tablespoon each fresh mint and chives, chopped
coarse salt and pepper to taste
 
prepare all the vegetables and place in a medium bowl. in another bowl mix the yogurt and lemon and add the herbs. add salt and pepper to taste.  
 
pour over the sugar snaps, cucumbers, and green garlic. mix well.
 
 

The Days of May

January 4, 2011 - 4:18pm | by dorette

In the midst of blooming peonies, we are busy planting the garden with many summer lovelies!

 

May Flowers Brought to You By April Showers!

Tomato and pepper varieties, yellow squashes of summer, and those beautiful round zucchini from Provence.

Around C'est si Bon! we note the apple tree is set with apples, bushes are bursting with raspberries and blueberries, and the figs are ready to rock and roll.

The new season of programs has begun. 

Won't you join us?

Just as cold in Birmingham as Vail

January 21, 2011 - 7:34pm | by dorette

Believe me, we thought we were headed towards warmer climes as we shot out of chapel hill and hurdled -- okay, meandered, towards the south and sweet-home-for-three-days Alabama.

First thing we saw at the rest stop were great piles of shhh.. snow.  and it was cold! Had we missed a turn somewhere and were back in gulp, Colorado?

We checked in and ate pie at cosmos pizza at Five Points and enjoyed talking with an Aretha look-alike who clued us in to the Blues Band playing back at our hotel.

The next morning we stumbled upon a Strawberry Fields-ish dream. chaffin's Carousel Carving school at Five Points. we walked up a very steep hill and down another, passed the University Hospital and the University of Alabama at (you guessed it) Birmingham, eagerly anticipating the Food Blog South Conference.

We headed back to Five Points and lunch and waited for the next day to begin.