This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and is a bean salad, said to have been served for the first time in 1940. Created by Helen Corbitt, culinary director of Neiman Marcus, it was dubbed “caviar” as a nod to the shape of the (inexpensive) beans … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is one I’m not sure I’d make again but I’m glad I tried it! Dorie says: I spotted these white-glazed ring cookies (the name means “little wheels”) the first day we were in Barcelona, bought some and then bought them every day thereafter. I’d find them … Read more
I made this week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie over a month ago now but it was so good I can still taste it! Pimento Cheese isn’t something I was familiar with so I was a bit curious making it – I mean, cheese, pimentos, mayonnaise, … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is one that I knew from a while ago I probably wouldn’t be able to complete properly because it requires a special piece of equipment – a pizzelle maker which, in my book would need to argue long and hard as to why it deserves a … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was the perfect showcase for local peaches here in Southwest France – it’s *just* the right time for them! We celebrated 7 years of owning our little piece of Southwest France last weekend with a special meal with … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a cutie – baby buckwheat bars! Dorie says: The people of Brittany, on the western coast of France, call the flour they mill from buckwheat blé noir, or black wheat — the color is that dark. The flour we get is not always that dark, … Read more