This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was a wonderfully easy summer recipe that I’ll keep in my back pocket when I have a surplus of supper cherry tomatoes – often, since I can’t resist them – especially the pretty multicoloured ones – at farmers’ … Read more
When I lived in Paris in the late 1990s, I was *really* into entertaining. I regularly hosted groups of 4-6 friends for dinner. Sound fancy, huh? Well here are a few more facts for you to consider about those statements: For 4 of the 5+ years I lived in Paris, my apartment was 18m2 (just … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was a perfect “feels like 40˚C” dinner this past week. Dorie says she uses the mairnade year-round on whatever fish is freshest but that she likes it particularly on halibut in the winter. Well, our weather couldn’t have … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was chosen because it has a (if I’m being honest, a little bit) fussy dough that we can use for BOTH TWD recipes this month! Better to make one batch and do both cookies in this month than make 1/2 the dough in two different months, … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and is actually a combination of two recipes – Dorie’s “Demi-Goddess” dressing and a cold vegetable soup (or “sipper” or “shot” which I think are more appropriate than “soup” for this recipe). So yeah before you make the soup, … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was one I’d been intrigued with since I saw the name. Anytime it’s “mum” as opposed to “mom”, you know it’s got something to do with England or Australia. And, indeed, Natasha (of the recipe’s name) is Australian. And this recipe is her mum’s. Dorie says: … Read more