Author Archives: Phillip Lemarque

Garlic Roasted Chicken

Ingredients: Utensils 1 Chef’s knife 1 Potato Peeler 1 Covered Pot 1 Oven Kitchen twine Instructions: Enjoy this delicious and aromatic Garlic Herb Roasted Chicken, a prime figure in your kitchen. Glazed Carrots

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Rouget a la Provencale

Ingredients For 4 people Steps Cut the eggplant into chunks, the zucchini into slices, and with the tomatoes remove the seeds, peel, and chop the garlic after removing the husk. 1 Place 4 soup spoons of olive oil in a … Continue reading

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The 4th

The Declaration of Independence is the nation’s birth certificate. Also the 4th of July is the most watched televised hot-dog-eating contest in the world. 150 million of hot dogs will be consumed on that day in the entire Nation. Coney … Continue reading

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Ginger Slaw

INGREDIENTS FOR THE DRESSING: •1/3 cup rice vinegar •1 tablespoon honey •1 tablespoon tamari or soy sauce •1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil •1 tablespoon finely grated peeled fresh ginger •1 clove garlic, minced •1/2 teaspoon kosher salt •1/4 teaspoon freshly … Continue reading

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Parade

What Is The Coney Island Mermaid Parade? Each year, over 3,000 creative individuals craft their costumes and participate in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade that hundreds of thousands come to watch. Summer is here, and with it comes New York’s … Continue reading

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Rare Wines

How Wine Becomes Rare or Expensive Not all wine starts out expensive or rare – although some do – but it can become that way over time.  As people consume the bottles of a given vintage, they reduce the number … Continue reading

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Why we wrote the series Bonjour Never Land

A question asked many times…, why did you write your book? It’s a great question and easy to answer. There was never any plan to write a book; Stella and I had never written one before. It happened from the … Continue reading

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Strange Idea

Maybe it’s not so strange after all. After living in the good old US of A for many years, Stella and I decided to make the jump…back to France, our birthday land. Oops, quite a surprise. I guess it is … Continue reading

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Winning the Big One

Is winning the big one everything? What about the story of that guy who spent 42 years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool? Irving V. Link, for forty-two years, at seven o’clock every morning, wearing a perfectly fitted bathing suit, … Continue reading

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Seafood Gratin

Ingredients For the sauce:  1 cup seafood stock or clam juice  1 cup heavy cream  1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons good white wine, such as Chablis, divided  3 tablespoons tomato puree  1/2 teaspoon saffron threads  8 ounces raw shrimp, peeled, … Continue reading

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