This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from My Paris Kitchen is one I’ll keep in my back pocket from now on. Basically it’s roasted cauliflower, elevated by the addition of dukkah. Dukkah is a blend of toasted nuts and seeds, pounded to not quite a powder that you can use to flavour any number … Read more
Raise your hand if, at the back of your kitchen cupboards, you have a stash of little glass yoghurt pots that you carried back from France. Uh huh. I thought so. For the past decade or so, I’ve been to France at least once a year and on every trip, my first grocery haul from … Read more
Longtime readers will know a few things about me: I love to cook and bake. I love to teach others to cook and bake (in person and through my writing and photography). I love France. I love French food and the French language. I love to teach others about French food and how to speak … Read more
For French Fridays today, I’m sharing a book that I love about two things I love – the French language and French food. Not a novel, not a phrase book but a book about language with stories (and lessons) intertwined with useful (and interesting) turns of phrase and expressions. Pretty much a language and food … Read more
I’ve got an exciting new feature coming to French Fridays every second week! From today until, well, I’m finished, I’ll be posting about cooking through David Lebovitz’ My Paris Kitchen along with a group of friends who “met” when we cooked our way through Dorie Greenspan’s Around my French Table from 2010 – 2015. I’ve … Read more
Poulet rôti. THE “fast food” to eat when in France. I mean, when your local market sells chickens like this, it’s hard to resist.. Look at those potatoes, roasting gloriously in the dripping chicken fat. Doesn’t sound so appealing when you put it like that but oh, it’s SO good. I’m always thankful for the … Read more