Post by davidhr on Dec 13, 2022 7:35:05 GMT -5
Lara returned to her Facebook and Instagram pages to wish fans the following:
“A little thought to you at the beginning of December ... as the holidays approach, I wish you to spend beautiful moments of sharing with family and friends”
This was included with a nice picture at
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=728063772011252&set=a.259330805551220
and
Of course, we wish the same for her…however, any holiday cheer was interrupted by the sudden death of one of her relatives. An article in fr.news.yahoo.com/lara-fabian-choc-proches-meurt-220400274.html describes the tragedy:
--------------------------------
Lara Fabian in shock: one of her relatives dies suddenly, struck down by a "cardiac arrest"
Upset, Lara Fabian learned terrible news on December 9, 2022: the death of one of her relatives who died suddenly at only 55 years old. Inconsolable, she shared her pain on Instagram as well as last words to her friend.
Decidedly, the bad news is piling up around Lara Fabian . On December 9, 2022, the interpreter of the title Tout shared her pain following the death of one of her relatives at only 55 years old, “ following a cardiac arrest, in a Parisian hospital ”, relayedThe Parisian .
" Dear Franck. The last image I will keep of you is that of our last meeting for my show at the Olympia... You who loved music and artists so much... The world of television is losing one of those who made it possible to offer it so many beautiful entertainments … My emotional thoughts accompany you and my heart turns to yours,“ wrote Lara Fabian, in the caption of a snapshot of her friend, the producer Franck Saurat. Close to Jean-Luc Delarue , Franck Saurat had founded with the former animator a production company which had notably created Stars à domicile, Sosie ! or not sosie ? or more recently I love you Coiffure & Ils s'aiment...enfin presque.
" It is with great sadness that I learned this morning of the disappearance of #FranckSaurat. Together we wrote a page in the history of varieties and created the first Carson Prod shows in the 2000s. He was a great producer " commented Daniela Lumbroso." I just learned the very sad news for @francksaurat whose path I had the chance to cross. All my thoughts go out to his family and friends. Hats off to the artist." said Alex Goude .
A totally unexpected news, given the very young age of the producer who seems to have succumbed to "a sudden death of adulthood". France 3 paid him a poignant tribute on Friday, December 9, 2022, during the rebroadcast of its program 300 Choeurs dedicated to the most beautiful musicals.
---------------------------------------
And speaking of the deceased: The ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ FB site posted a link to a concert that will air on C8 (in France) of what they call “an evening to share the emotion and Magic of Christmas through the greatest hits of Christmas sung by legendary stars” [including Lara]. Given that a number of the ‘stars’ mentioned have already passed away, it’s probably a good bet that it will not have any live performances. The advertisement for it can be seen at
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=686658512828953&set=a.216252733202869
There were some more stories associated with Lara on her book tour. Lara gave a nice interview to Soir magazine, with the scan posted by the Lara Fabian est ton autre FB site (https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=689414105886727&set=pcb.689414122553392); here’s the translation:
-----------------------
I speak to the heart through the belly
Lara Fabian has published a book made of recipes as well as confidences, a "gourmet autobiography".
More than a book of recipes, it is the opportunity for the one who usually keeps a jealous eye on her private life as well as on the secrets of her heart to confide as never before. Since her childhood and even beyond, since the improbable meeting between her father and her mother, Lara Fabian retraces the long road that led her to the light.
When you started the project of this cookbook, did you think it would lead you so far in terms of confidences?
LF: I didn't have any particular goal or ambition for this book. I am pleased with the reception it has received so far. The feedback I get is that people like it a lot, even if they find it very atypical. It's true that I tell a lot about myself and that I approach this part like I never did before. I reveal my passions and my love for the table, but not only. Things that are very personal but also very simple, like the ingredients that make Italian cuisine. It is a book that speaks to the heart, even if it is through the stomach.
In this book, you tell your story since childhood and you confide how the meeting between your mother and your father was constitutive of what you are today. To succeed in life, there are no recipes, only happy coincidences?
LF: I tell all this, even if it is with a lot of distance and humor because these are ingredients that have constituted my life and my path, no matter how difficult it may have been for me to accept them, I never wanted any other. This is why, as I explain in the book, I have always preferred regrets to remorse. This book is also there to give the context of some of my most famous songs. How I found the material, the inspiration too, to give them life. It's about love and the urgency to let yourself be carried away by it. There is no other way to live it. Otherwise, we would only live it halfway.
There are many ingredients that make you the person and artist you are today. What would be the one that best characterizes you?
LF: Resilience has always been, in my eyes, the first condition of living. It is essential to be able to go through life and trials with a form of grace. We must not fear everything that can potentially destroy us because in reality, it is what builds us. We must be able to draw on our own reserve of strength. It is an essential exercise, which makes us understand that where we see limits, there are in fact only possibilities.
Food, its preparation and sharing are at the center of your life, but you explain how you will one day be confronted with the hell of food disorders.
LF: This is a period of my life that lasted seven years. It was all the more violent because for me, food was the ultimate gesture of love. The one that had sealed my childhood and that continued to animate my daily life. How it comes to this? Nobody really knows. For my part, I believe that there are pains that crystallize and remain sealed in us, making us suffer again and again. Whatever the way this pain is expressed, eating disorders or any form of addiction, this disorder is not the problem in itself. It is like the fireman who is trying to save our lives.
Is the publication of this cookbook your way of expressing that all these problems are now far behind you?
LF: Absolutely. Today, I realized that food goes so much further than filling a physiological need. Food can also be the most absolute point of comfort. Especially when you manage it with moderation! Feeding others, putting myself at their service, in every way possible, is my beacon on the horizon.
In the course of the pages, you evoke some people of whom you tell that they "changed" your life. But you had to recognize them and allow them to do so?
LF: For a very long time, I didn't have this disposition. I often experienced what I call "bad karma", too often. Fortunately, over time, my ability to recognize and avoid them has developed. Just as I have learned to recognize all the good people in my life and to keep them.
In the past, you have had your ups and downs and many disappointments. Have you ever doubted that you will ever be able to reach your dreams?
LF: Of course I have had doubts, I have thought that I would not be able to do it and I have told myself so but...I have never believed myself!
------------------------------------------
Excellent questions by the interviewer (Francesca Caseri), and, as usual, wonderful philosophical answers by Lara.
An article concerning her appearance last week on Franceinfo can be found at (https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-monde-d-elodie/tout-lara-fabian-se-raconte-dans-un-livre-de-cuisine-autobiographique_5489799.html); here’s what it says:
-----------------------------------------
Tout: Lara Fabian tells all about herself in an autobiographical cookbook
Every day, a personality invites herself into the world of Élodie Suigo. Today, singer, songwriter and author, Lara Fabian. She has just published a gourmet autobiography in a cookbook: "Tout" (Libre Expression).
Lara Fabian is a singer, author, composer. She is back with, not a new album, but a book called Tout (Editions Libre Expression). It's a tasty book. At first glance, it's a cookbook, which she created herself, including 17 stories around 30 recipes that evoke memories of the little girl, the teenager, the mother, the artist, of the woman she has become over time.
It's a logical follow-up to your best of tour which has just ended and which retraced 30 years of hits. This time you have decided to put things in writing. Are you letting go in this book?
Lara Fabian: It's an autobiography, after all. The stories end around the time I meet Gabriel, my husband, and it's true that I had never done it like that. Sometimes, I had done it in music, I had also revealed myself through certain interviews, but in this form of true, almost cinematographic story, no. I feel like when you read it, you see what's going on.
You talk a lot about your parents. It was also a tribute that you wanted to pay them. Belgian father, Sicilian mother, you were born at seven months by caesarean section and we learn for example in this book, that your mother was in a coma at the time of your birth. She woke up nine days later.
LF: Yes. It was a crisis of eclampsia, a rise of albumin in the blood. And then, we are super happy because in absolute terms, my mother survived. Normally moms don't survive this. That she woke up, that I was able to have the chance to be her daughter, it was a real gift.
You talk about your childhood and we discover that you had a lot of trouble accepting this difference. In any case, to understand it and it made you sad.
LF: Initially, yes. We all need to belong to a group. And then, one day, we realize that in this difference, there is great richness because there is a form of transmission inherent in this difference. In the lunchroom, opening what mum was making for me was directly setting me aside from the others because I didn't have a sandwich. Me, I had a thermos with meatballs in tomato sauce or a piece of lasagna, that's it.
We find the recipe for dumplings in this book!
LF: The table was one of the first steps that marked this difference from the others.
What will allow you to discover yourself, to build yourself as a child, then as a woman, it will be music. It's the same, music has always been part of your life. That is to say that there was this table and this need to communicate, to experience emotions also as a family.
LF: Yes, to celebrate with simplicity. We didn't turn on the TV, we took the guitar. We decided not to necessarily discuss, but we all got together around a song we knew and we sang it.
The book is called Tout. What does this song represent in your journey?
LF: The first huge success, which came from a huge injury. The fact of being able to converge a sentence and at the same time to approach it in a resilient way. Because a love ends, a song is born and the love of an audience begins. So it was a very strong path for me. Knowing that in music, in the expression of music, I could find comfort. Not just because I had told myself where words weren't enough, but because, all of a sudden, I belonged to a group that was going through the same thing as me and that ended up loving me for it.
What made you stumble or doubt?
LF: So many things. The eyes of our loved ones. It is sometimes in the gaze of a parent that we find our initial security. And when, in the gaze of a parent, although we find love, we may not necessarily find approval right away, it is an incredible force of inertia. It was the case, sometimes, in the mistrust of my dad, even if he was a big fan and he was someone very present in my life. He helped me, financed the first demos of my career... But in reality, he's also someone who sometimes stimulated me by pushing me against the wall of some of my beliefs and that allowed me to be who I am today.
We have the feeling when reading this book that the fight is over, that you have won. We actually feel that today more than yesterday, you have become invincible.
LF: And in fact, I want to tell you even beyond those around us. It's going back, it's finding this space inside that even if tomorrow our children grow up and leave, a love story can begin and can end. Everything is possible.
We have baby pasta on one side, mum's meatballs on the other and then little sweets. Food is what comforts you and today, it seems that it also allowed you to calm down. We also have the feeling that a page has been turned and that you have started another life.
LF: Yes, it's true. For me, the transmission that I have discovered in the last five years thanks to the programs The Voice , La Voix or Star Academy has allowed me to realize that when we take a leap to the side of our past thanks to young artists, we become much more indulgent with ourselves.
--------------------------------
And on RTBF (https://www.rtbf.be/article/lara-fabian-cuisine-les-boulettes-sauce-tomate-11119442) – warning! – The following involves a recipe!
---------------------------
Lara Fabian cooks the meatballs in tomato sauce!
A winning combo of songs, melodies and good food: and who gets involved? Singer Lara Fabian! For decades, the artist has been taking us on lovely walks with a repertoire that leaves us speechless! That's for the heads side, because on the tails side, the artist reveals to us today a more intimate facet. Lara Fabian tells us about herself through cooking, the one who shaped her, the one who fed her both literally and figuratively, the one who accompanied her in the great moments of her life. Among her hobbies: meatballs in tomato sauce!
Tomato sauce meatballs
For 6 to 8 people
For the dumplings
1.2 kg minced turkey meat or mixture of minced meat consisting of 400 g pork, 400 g beef and
400 g veal
3 eggs
200 g Pecorino cheese
, grated 100 g and grated parmigiano cheese
2 cloves of garlic
45 ml (3 tbsp)
Breadcrumbs (option: gluten-free)
4 slices sandwich bread without the crust, soaked in milk (option: gluten-free with gluten-free sandwich bread soaked in macadamia vegetable drink)
Salt and pepper
30 ml (2 tbsp.) olive oil, for cooking
For the sauce
3 cloves of garlic, pressed
45 ml (3 tbsp.) olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
2 bottles of 700 ml passata-type tomato coulis
1 bottle of 340 ml cherry tomato sauce
15 ml (1 tbsp.) tablespoons) sugar
Salt and pepper
1 In a bowl, place all the ingredients for the meatballs, except the olive oil, and mix until the meat seems perfectly seasoned and homogeneous.
2 With a bowl of water nearby to wet your hands and make maneuvering easier, form balls of a large tablespoon each and place on a plate.
3 Pour the olive oil into a frying pan and quickly brown the meatballs on each side. To book.
4 For the sauce, in a large saucepan, sauté the onion and garlic in 45 ml (3 tablespoons) of olive oil for 7 to 8 minutes.
5 Pour in the tomato coulis, mix and simmer for about 15 minutes.
6 After the 15 minutes, add the cherry tomato sauce and the sugar. Salt and pepper.
7 Once the sauce is hot and well seasoned, gently dip the meatballs into it.
Continue cooking for 30 minutes.
Recipe taken from the book "Tout" Lara Fabian published by Edition Libre Expression (groupelivre.com)
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[Since we’ve been covering Lara on all these shows, and her recipes are one of the draws for the hosts, it seems appropriate to include at least one recipe in these News Updates! ]
A picture of Lara at RTBF on the show 'Bientot a table' can be found at
www.facebook.com/BientotATable/photos/a.10152332895037439/10161979157332439/
with the podcast presumably available at www.auvio.be [for those who can access it].
Lara responded to some questions on ‘Basique’; the video is available thanks to the Lara Fabian est ton aure FB site at
www.facebook.com/basiqueofficiel/videos/478678694376699/
**When asked what her singing career and cuisine have in common, Lara said freedom, control, experience, a mixture and deployment of desires.
**When asked about the privileged ingredients of her voice, she repeated she had first noted its effect on her grandmother when she was eight years old.
**When asked what voice would she desire, she mentioned Maurane.
**When asked what does a successful duo required, she answered generosity, sharing.
**When asked what is a key ingredient for a pretty voice (in children), Lara answered, “the resonance of the soul”.
Interesting pictures/videos of the week: From the Lara Fabian Family FB site, at
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=126283646950911&set=a.119466624299280
And from the ‘journal des femmes’ (which had an article based on interviews we covered),
www.journaldesfemmes.fr/people/actus/2871261-lara-fabian-troubles-alimentaires-poids-sante-livre/
Undoubtedly Lara will be back with her family as Christmas approaches, wherever that may take place, and the book promotion may well end with the holidays. What happens next, we shall see. Stay safe, everybody,
David
“A little thought to you at the beginning of December ... as the holidays approach, I wish you to spend beautiful moments of sharing with family and friends”
This was included with a nice picture at
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=728063772011252&set=a.259330805551220
and
http://instagram.com/p/Cl30_-_t7Ag
Of course, we wish the same for her…however, any holiday cheer was interrupted by the sudden death of one of her relatives. An article in fr.news.yahoo.com/lara-fabian-choc-proches-meurt-220400274.html describes the tragedy:
--------------------------------
Lara Fabian in shock: one of her relatives dies suddenly, struck down by a "cardiac arrest"
Upset, Lara Fabian learned terrible news on December 9, 2022: the death of one of her relatives who died suddenly at only 55 years old. Inconsolable, she shared her pain on Instagram as well as last words to her friend.
Decidedly, the bad news is piling up around Lara Fabian . On December 9, 2022, the interpreter of the title Tout shared her pain following the death of one of her relatives at only 55 years old, “ following a cardiac arrest, in a Parisian hospital ”, relayedThe Parisian .
" Dear Franck. The last image I will keep of you is that of our last meeting for my show at the Olympia... You who loved music and artists so much... The world of television is losing one of those who made it possible to offer it so many beautiful entertainments … My emotional thoughts accompany you and my heart turns to yours,“ wrote Lara Fabian, in the caption of a snapshot of her friend, the producer Franck Saurat. Close to Jean-Luc Delarue , Franck Saurat had founded with the former animator a production company which had notably created Stars à domicile, Sosie ! or not sosie ? or more recently I love you Coiffure & Ils s'aiment...enfin presque.
" It is with great sadness that I learned this morning of the disappearance of #FranckSaurat. Together we wrote a page in the history of varieties and created the first Carson Prod shows in the 2000s. He was a great producer " commented Daniela Lumbroso." I just learned the very sad news for @francksaurat whose path I had the chance to cross. All my thoughts go out to his family and friends. Hats off to the artist." said Alex Goude .
A totally unexpected news, given the very young age of the producer who seems to have succumbed to "a sudden death of adulthood". France 3 paid him a poignant tribute on Friday, December 9, 2022, during the rebroadcast of its program 300 Choeurs dedicated to the most beautiful musicals.
---------------------------------------
And speaking of the deceased: The ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ FB site posted a link to a concert that will air on C8 (in France) of what they call “an evening to share the emotion and Magic of Christmas through the greatest hits of Christmas sung by legendary stars” [including Lara]. Given that a number of the ‘stars’ mentioned have already passed away, it’s probably a good bet that it will not have any live performances. The advertisement for it can be seen at
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=686658512828953&set=a.216252733202869
There were some more stories associated with Lara on her book tour. Lara gave a nice interview to Soir magazine, with the scan posted by the Lara Fabian est ton autre FB site (https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=689414105886727&set=pcb.689414122553392); here’s the translation:
-----------------------
I speak to the heart through the belly
Lara Fabian has published a book made of recipes as well as confidences, a "gourmet autobiography".
More than a book of recipes, it is the opportunity for the one who usually keeps a jealous eye on her private life as well as on the secrets of her heart to confide as never before. Since her childhood and even beyond, since the improbable meeting between her father and her mother, Lara Fabian retraces the long road that led her to the light.
When you started the project of this cookbook, did you think it would lead you so far in terms of confidences?
LF: I didn't have any particular goal or ambition for this book. I am pleased with the reception it has received so far. The feedback I get is that people like it a lot, even if they find it very atypical. It's true that I tell a lot about myself and that I approach this part like I never did before. I reveal my passions and my love for the table, but not only. Things that are very personal but also very simple, like the ingredients that make Italian cuisine. It is a book that speaks to the heart, even if it is through the stomach.
In this book, you tell your story since childhood and you confide how the meeting between your mother and your father was constitutive of what you are today. To succeed in life, there are no recipes, only happy coincidences?
LF: I tell all this, even if it is with a lot of distance and humor because these are ingredients that have constituted my life and my path, no matter how difficult it may have been for me to accept them, I never wanted any other. This is why, as I explain in the book, I have always preferred regrets to remorse. This book is also there to give the context of some of my most famous songs. How I found the material, the inspiration too, to give them life. It's about love and the urgency to let yourself be carried away by it. There is no other way to live it. Otherwise, we would only live it halfway.
There are many ingredients that make you the person and artist you are today. What would be the one that best characterizes you?
LF: Resilience has always been, in my eyes, the first condition of living. It is essential to be able to go through life and trials with a form of grace. We must not fear everything that can potentially destroy us because in reality, it is what builds us. We must be able to draw on our own reserve of strength. It is an essential exercise, which makes us understand that where we see limits, there are in fact only possibilities.
Food, its preparation and sharing are at the center of your life, but you explain how you will one day be confronted with the hell of food disorders.
LF: This is a period of my life that lasted seven years. It was all the more violent because for me, food was the ultimate gesture of love. The one that had sealed my childhood and that continued to animate my daily life. How it comes to this? Nobody really knows. For my part, I believe that there are pains that crystallize and remain sealed in us, making us suffer again and again. Whatever the way this pain is expressed, eating disorders or any form of addiction, this disorder is not the problem in itself. It is like the fireman who is trying to save our lives.
Is the publication of this cookbook your way of expressing that all these problems are now far behind you?
LF: Absolutely. Today, I realized that food goes so much further than filling a physiological need. Food can also be the most absolute point of comfort. Especially when you manage it with moderation! Feeding others, putting myself at their service, in every way possible, is my beacon on the horizon.
In the course of the pages, you evoke some people of whom you tell that they "changed" your life. But you had to recognize them and allow them to do so?
LF: For a very long time, I didn't have this disposition. I often experienced what I call "bad karma", too often. Fortunately, over time, my ability to recognize and avoid them has developed. Just as I have learned to recognize all the good people in my life and to keep them.
In the past, you have had your ups and downs and many disappointments. Have you ever doubted that you will ever be able to reach your dreams?
LF: Of course I have had doubts, I have thought that I would not be able to do it and I have told myself so but...I have never believed myself!
------------------------------------------
Excellent questions by the interviewer (Francesca Caseri), and, as usual, wonderful philosophical answers by Lara.
An article concerning her appearance last week on Franceinfo can be found at (https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-monde-d-elodie/tout-lara-fabian-se-raconte-dans-un-livre-de-cuisine-autobiographique_5489799.html); here’s what it says:
-----------------------------------------
Tout: Lara Fabian tells all about herself in an autobiographical cookbook
Every day, a personality invites herself into the world of Élodie Suigo. Today, singer, songwriter and author, Lara Fabian. She has just published a gourmet autobiography in a cookbook: "Tout" (Libre Expression).
Lara Fabian is a singer, author, composer. She is back with, not a new album, but a book called Tout (Editions Libre Expression). It's a tasty book. At first glance, it's a cookbook, which she created herself, including 17 stories around 30 recipes that evoke memories of the little girl, the teenager, the mother, the artist, of the woman she has become over time.
It's a logical follow-up to your best of tour which has just ended and which retraced 30 years of hits. This time you have decided to put things in writing. Are you letting go in this book?
Lara Fabian: It's an autobiography, after all. The stories end around the time I meet Gabriel, my husband, and it's true that I had never done it like that. Sometimes, I had done it in music, I had also revealed myself through certain interviews, but in this form of true, almost cinematographic story, no. I feel like when you read it, you see what's going on.
You talk a lot about your parents. It was also a tribute that you wanted to pay them. Belgian father, Sicilian mother, you were born at seven months by caesarean section and we learn for example in this book, that your mother was in a coma at the time of your birth. She woke up nine days later.
LF: Yes. It was a crisis of eclampsia, a rise of albumin in the blood. And then, we are super happy because in absolute terms, my mother survived. Normally moms don't survive this. That she woke up, that I was able to have the chance to be her daughter, it was a real gift.
You talk about your childhood and we discover that you had a lot of trouble accepting this difference. In any case, to understand it and it made you sad.
LF: Initially, yes. We all need to belong to a group. And then, one day, we realize that in this difference, there is great richness because there is a form of transmission inherent in this difference. In the lunchroom, opening what mum was making for me was directly setting me aside from the others because I didn't have a sandwich. Me, I had a thermos with meatballs in tomato sauce or a piece of lasagna, that's it.
We find the recipe for dumplings in this book!
LF: The table was one of the first steps that marked this difference from the others.
What will allow you to discover yourself, to build yourself as a child, then as a woman, it will be music. It's the same, music has always been part of your life. That is to say that there was this table and this need to communicate, to experience emotions also as a family.
LF: Yes, to celebrate with simplicity. We didn't turn on the TV, we took the guitar. We decided not to necessarily discuss, but we all got together around a song we knew and we sang it.
The book is called Tout. What does this song represent in your journey?
LF: The first huge success, which came from a huge injury. The fact of being able to converge a sentence and at the same time to approach it in a resilient way. Because a love ends, a song is born and the love of an audience begins. So it was a very strong path for me. Knowing that in music, in the expression of music, I could find comfort. Not just because I had told myself where words weren't enough, but because, all of a sudden, I belonged to a group that was going through the same thing as me and that ended up loving me for it.
What made you stumble or doubt?
LF: So many things. The eyes of our loved ones. It is sometimes in the gaze of a parent that we find our initial security. And when, in the gaze of a parent, although we find love, we may not necessarily find approval right away, it is an incredible force of inertia. It was the case, sometimes, in the mistrust of my dad, even if he was a big fan and he was someone very present in my life. He helped me, financed the first demos of my career... But in reality, he's also someone who sometimes stimulated me by pushing me against the wall of some of my beliefs and that allowed me to be who I am today.
We have the feeling when reading this book that the fight is over, that you have won. We actually feel that today more than yesterday, you have become invincible.
LF: And in fact, I want to tell you even beyond those around us. It's going back, it's finding this space inside that even if tomorrow our children grow up and leave, a love story can begin and can end. Everything is possible.
We have baby pasta on one side, mum's meatballs on the other and then little sweets. Food is what comforts you and today, it seems that it also allowed you to calm down. We also have the feeling that a page has been turned and that you have started another life.
LF: Yes, it's true. For me, the transmission that I have discovered in the last five years thanks to the programs The Voice , La Voix or Star Academy has allowed me to realize that when we take a leap to the side of our past thanks to young artists, we become much more indulgent with ourselves.
--------------------------------
And on RTBF (https://www.rtbf.be/article/lara-fabian-cuisine-les-boulettes-sauce-tomate-11119442) – warning! – The following involves a recipe!
---------------------------
Lara Fabian cooks the meatballs in tomato sauce!
A winning combo of songs, melodies and good food: and who gets involved? Singer Lara Fabian! For decades, the artist has been taking us on lovely walks with a repertoire that leaves us speechless! That's for the heads side, because on the tails side, the artist reveals to us today a more intimate facet. Lara Fabian tells us about herself through cooking, the one who shaped her, the one who fed her both literally and figuratively, the one who accompanied her in the great moments of her life. Among her hobbies: meatballs in tomato sauce!
Tomato sauce meatballs
For 6 to 8 people
For the dumplings
1.2 kg minced turkey meat or mixture of minced meat consisting of 400 g pork, 400 g beef and
400 g veal
3 eggs
200 g Pecorino cheese
, grated 100 g and grated parmigiano cheese
2 cloves of garlic
45 ml (3 tbsp)
Breadcrumbs (option: gluten-free)
4 slices sandwich bread without the crust, soaked in milk (option: gluten-free with gluten-free sandwich bread soaked in macadamia vegetable drink)
Salt and pepper
30 ml (2 tbsp.) olive oil, for cooking
For the sauce
3 cloves of garlic, pressed
45 ml (3 tbsp.) olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
2 bottles of 700 ml passata-type tomato coulis
1 bottle of 340 ml cherry tomato sauce
15 ml (1 tbsp.) tablespoons) sugar
Salt and pepper
1 In a bowl, place all the ingredients for the meatballs, except the olive oil, and mix until the meat seems perfectly seasoned and homogeneous.
2 With a bowl of water nearby to wet your hands and make maneuvering easier, form balls of a large tablespoon each and place on a plate.
3 Pour the olive oil into a frying pan and quickly brown the meatballs on each side. To book.
4 For the sauce, in a large saucepan, sauté the onion and garlic in 45 ml (3 tablespoons) of olive oil for 7 to 8 minutes.
5 Pour in the tomato coulis, mix and simmer for about 15 minutes.
6 After the 15 minutes, add the cherry tomato sauce and the sugar. Salt and pepper.
7 Once the sauce is hot and well seasoned, gently dip the meatballs into it.
Continue cooking for 30 minutes.
Recipe taken from the book "Tout" Lara Fabian published by Edition Libre Expression (groupelivre.com)
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[Since we’ve been covering Lara on all these shows, and her recipes are one of the draws for the hosts, it seems appropriate to include at least one recipe in these News Updates! ]
A picture of Lara at RTBF on the show 'Bientot a table' can be found at
www.facebook.com/BientotATable/photos/a.10152332895037439/10161979157332439/
with the podcast presumably available at www.auvio.be [for those who can access it].
Lara responded to some questions on ‘Basique’; the video is available thanks to the Lara Fabian est ton aure FB site at
www.facebook.com/basiqueofficiel/videos/478678694376699/
**When asked what her singing career and cuisine have in common, Lara said freedom, control, experience, a mixture and deployment of desires.
**When asked about the privileged ingredients of her voice, she repeated she had first noted its effect on her grandmother when she was eight years old.
**When asked what voice would she desire, she mentioned Maurane.
**When asked what does a successful duo required, she answered generosity, sharing.
**When asked what is a key ingredient for a pretty voice (in children), Lara answered, “the resonance of the soul”.
Interesting pictures/videos of the week: From the Lara Fabian Family FB site, at
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=126283646950911&set=a.119466624299280
And from the ‘journal des femmes’ (which had an article based on interviews we covered),
www.journaldesfemmes.fr/people/actus/2871261-lara-fabian-troubles-alimentaires-poids-sante-livre/
Undoubtedly Lara will be back with her family as Christmas approaches, wherever that may take place, and the book promotion may well end with the holidays. What happens next, we shall see. Stay safe, everybody,
David