This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Mary Dodd’s Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies have a lot going on! These cookies are fairly easy to whip up – you need to have cooked bacon and also bacon fat – I cooked my bacon strips and used the fat that rendered from there … Read more
This post is produced in partnership with Derlea Foods . Many long-time readers will know that I’ve been cooking and baking for most of my life and that my inspiration was my mum. Mum was always baking or cooking something when I was growing up and I spent a lot of my time in the … Read more
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