This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie. To be honest, it’s one I wasn’t particularly keen to make this month, given I knew I wouldn’t be able to find gorgeous corn like I do at home (I’m in France for a couple more weeks and corn […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Vanilla Polka Dots
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is so simple but has a bit of “wow” factor both in appearance and taste (especially when made with French butter!). Dorie says: There’s a lot to be said for simplicity, and these cookies say it elegantly. They are made from the Do-Almost-Anything Vanilla Cookie Dough, […]
A Letter from Paris
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. This week’s selection for Summer Reads is part-mystery, part-memoir, part-history book set in wartime and post-war Europe and Australia and once I started it I couldn’t put it down. I read it in one sitting – again, […]
Walking the Camino de Santiago: Las Herrerías to O Cebreiro
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that this summer (2019) I’m walking 200km along the Camino de Santiago, from Léon to Sarría in Spain. This is the fourth leg of the Camino which I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to some of the […]
French Fridays: Chicken with Mustard from My Paris Kitchen
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen – Chicken with Mustard – is notable for two reasons: It’s the recipe on the cover of the book and It’s our FINAL RECIPE from this book Yup – since February 2016, twice a month I’ve blogged about the recipes from […]
Walking the Camino de Santiago: Villafranca del Bierzo to Las Herrerías
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that this summer (2019) I’m walking 200km along the Camino de Santiago, from Léon to Sarría in Spain. This is the fourth leg of the Camino which I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to some of the […]
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