This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’ My Paris Kitchen used the leftover salt cod and potato purée from the recipe we made a couple of weeks ago. Well actually some of us had to make an entire new (half) batch of the purée. I had saved some of the original purée … Read more
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’ My Paris Kitchen is one I can’t say I remember ever seeing in a restaurant here in France although I have eaten it in people’s homes. Brandade de morue – or salt cod and potato purée – is a warm dish of puréed potatoes with … Read more
The focus for this year’s Food Revolution Day was about sharing the power of cooking, the benefits of cooking from scratch and, ultimately showing people that changing our food choices can make us both healthier and happier. Instead of one official recipe as there has been in years past, this year, we have a set of … Read more
It is 10.30pm on Thursday, May 7th 2015. It’s 4 years and 7 months since I started cooking from and posting weekly about Dorie Greenspan’s Around my French Table for French Fridays with Dorie. And I would be remiss to not acknowledge that I am a little emotional as I write this post. It’s the … Read more
No, I mean really. You read the title right. Sardine escabeche. Even if you don’t know what escabeche is, if you read this blog on a regular basis, you’ll know that fish is not exactly my favourite food. And especially not fishy fish like sardines. Ew! But this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe – … Read more
We’re nearly there – just a handful of French Fridays with Dorie recipes to complete but we’re still not done with the fish (two more fish recipes to complete still after this!). Fortunately for me, this week’s selection (salmon tartare, p 180) was a relatively easy one and even more fortunately for me, I happened … Read more