About F&V

 

Fleur & Venture 

Recipes by Samantha Duquette (Aspiring Culinary Pirate)

 

Here you’ll find recipes and helpful tidbits — keep your knives sharp, salt your pasta water, and pat your meat dry before searing, everyone — but you most definitely will not find a heartwarming story about Grandma’s Sunday dinner, because no one wants to scroll through 30 pages of “story time” when they’re hungry and ready to cook.

Here is where you'll come when you’re panicked and trying to impress the in-laws or a romantic interest.  A step-by-step survival guide to not completely f*cking up those important moments of nourishment for your mind, body, soul, or otherwise.

A bit about me – I’m a California Licensed Esthetician, published freelance writer, and about a million other things by trade.  I grew up cooking and you can find me dancing like an idiot in my kitchen on any day of the week.  I will forever still be learning – and make no mistake, if I can stick my hand in a chicken, gut a fish, and boil a lobster, so can you.  

 

So without further ado,

No microwave. No dishwasher. Let’s do this.

Edit: A note to those that may find themselves saying something along the lines of “by not adding stories, she’s removing certain traditions”:  First, please open any cookbook that’s actually worth your money. In it, you will find a veritable slew of recipes and very few, if any, pages dedicated solely to long-winded explanations. Secondly, it doesn’t do you any good to hear my warm and fuzzy stories about people appreciating my food – however, preparing my food and serving it to your loved ones will inspire your own warm and fuzzy stories and to me, that’s even more important. I want you to feel a sense of accomplishment. I want you to connect with the people making the effort to be present in your life. Third, people aren’t coming back to my recipe blog to re-read the stories…they come back because the recipe was good. My recipes are detailed, some even bordering on tedious, so you can prepare them properly. I stand by not bogging down this website with enormous amounts of text that’s only there for search engine optimization (to me, that’s bordering on spam).

If you end up with a good story after preparing something from this site, then please, by all means, put it in the comment section and we can all converse from there – because isn’t that true communication and connection anyway, when it isn’t just one-sided?