Sometimes dishes are just screaming to be made from the depths of your freezer, fridge or pantry. This recipe was a happy accident last week in France, cobbled together from a bunch of ingredients originally bought for other recipes that yielded leftover “bits and pieces” that, in a tiny fridge need to be used up … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and it’s a beauty – a tart dough made into a galette filled with leeks, mushrooms and bacon. I mean – how do you go wrong there? A galette is just a free form single layer pie/ tart and … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was caillettes (literally: little quails but actually a sort of large meatball made with sausage meat, liver and chard or other greens and wrapped in caul fat- somewhere between a pâté and a meatball, as explained in this excellent article by … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen is a classic bistro dish – leeks with bacon-mustard vinaigrette. And by “classic” we mean it really should not be messed with. As in, the bacon is a David addition. His partner, Romain, raised his eyebrows when he first say David … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie, and is a perfect addition to your holiday table. Who doesn’t like Brussels sprouts, right? Uh, well, mostly that would be me! But something magical happens when you combine Brussels sprouts with bacon and then add maple syrup and, … Read more
The recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen is a dish that scares many people – soufflé. BUt this one is a little less scary because it’s one of the “twice baked” versions – basically you bake it, it looks all lovely and puffy when it’s risen but you don’t … Read more