This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and is one I’ve had my eye on since I first got the book! Triple-Layer Parsnip and Cranberry Cake is like a fancy version of a carrot cake (made with parsnips, brilliant!) filled with tart cranberry sauce and luscious […]
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Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Cheddar-Seed Wafers
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was a quick and easy savoury cracker recipe. Dorie says: I started making these in Paris with bits of leftover shredded cheese from my favorite fromagerie and finished by making them in Connecticut with Cabot’s Seriously Sharp Cheddar from my local supermarket. Whether I serve them […]
Book Review: Jacques Pépin’s Quick & Simple
This book, Jacques Pépin’s latest, comes at a perfect time for everyone as we find ourselves cooking more at home than ever before. After 8 months, many people are “cooked out” and tapped out for ideas of what to make fore dinner every single day. It’s tough, for sure to keep that motivation going but […]
Cook the Book Fridays: Roasted Acorn Squash Wedges from Everyday Dorie
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Dorie describes it as: “wedges of roasted squash, its dense, naturally sweet flesh herb-accented from the za’atar and slightly tart from the molasses. And the skin—my favorite part—had spots of tasty char and, where the oil mixture had puddled, […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Carrément Chocolat, The Fancy Cake (aka, our LAST recipe!)
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is our FINAL RECIPE from the book! That’s right – after 6 years of posting 2 x recipes a month from this book, we’ve reached the end! This will be the third book I have cooked/ baked my way through (first was Dorie’s Around my […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Pain de Gênes Buttons
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was pain de gênes – “soft, chewy cookies with a texture that’s a cross between a sponge and a pound cake.” (Sorry, Dorie, I gotta disagree here – these most definitely fall into the “cake” category, there is nothing cookie-like about them!). Dorie says the recipe […]
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