This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. It’s also the FINAL recipe* the Cook the Book Fridays group will make – having started working our way through this in November 2018. Five and a half years!
This book joins my “cooked my way through it” shelf of cookbooks along with Around my French Table, My Paris Kitchen, Baking Chez Moi and Dorie’s Cookies.
* FULL DISCLOSURE: I still have a couple of recipes to make from this book (Tempura’d Vegetables, Seafood or Even Fruit and Warm Squid Salad). I actually made but didn’t post the Herbed, Boneless Leg of Lamb – and the state of my head was such that I didn’t even realise I hadn’t posted it… so I will post about that too.This was from when I couldn’t cook or blog due to brain surgery in the spring of 2023 (now there’s a phrase I never thought I would be writing…) and I will post these three recipes over the next little while. But I couldn’t NOT join in this week, especially with a gorgeous and tasty recipe like Rosa Jackson’s Bourride.
Bourride is a fish stew with a rich aioli (garlic mayonnaise). Rosa‘s version (check our her upcoming book on Niçoise cuisine!) braises the fish with the vegetables and then the aioli is mixed in for a delightfully light yet full-of-flavour fish dish that I made for my dad and Neil and we enjoyed it with a wonderful Chablis with wich we toasted my recently departed mum. She would have loved this dish and I am sure she would have loved that I made this final dish in her kitchen for my dad <3.
Every time I would start working my way through a new cookbook, I would send my mum a copy so she could follow along. She so loved a Dorie recipe…
This recipe is a fairly simple one that you could even pull together on a weeknight but it’s also “guestable” – good enough for a fancy dinner with guests! This is a theme with many of the recipes in Everyday Dorie – dishes you’d want to serve to company but that are simple enough to make on a weeknight. I’m so glad we’ve cooked our way through this book because it’s given me lots of ideas to keep in my back pocket. Thanks, Dorie. Again.
Get the recipe for Rosa Jackson’s Bourride on page 190 of Dorie Greenspan’s Everyday Dorie.
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Oh that looks so beautiful with all that lovely delicious sauce…such a nice photo of it all. We loved this and I will make this one again. So fun to hear about your mother and her cookbooks, a lovely memory for you to cherish. It’s been such a joy seeing your recipes each post and learning from you…thank you ever so much, Mardi. I’m so happy that I will get to continue seeing and learning from you at Baking with Dorie. xo
This is one of the loveliest food pics, starting with the bourride, the plate as well as the table cloth with delicate eye-popping pattern. I’m sure your mom would’ve enjoyed the food and the presentation. Sorry to hear about her passing. The shared love of cooking and Dorie’s recipes between mother and daughter is impressive. The book you published is there too. I’m sure you’ve made her proud!
Really, that photo is so good…better than the book’s, I think (and certainly better than mine- haha). Look at all those flags in your mum’s books– I’d say she gained honorary membership to this group and to TWD!
Congrats to our Friday group…we did it! I love how your moms cookbooks all have bookmarks in them…she must have been following along and taking notes on which to make. I love it. Seems fitting to dedicate this last one in her honor. I agree with you…this was delicious and “guestable’!