This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was a lovely little cocktail cookie which i served at our Shine For Shelterbox charity fundraiser last week. I left out the ham to make them vegetarian and used a sharp Manchego cheese (I did have comte but I ate it … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was tabbouleh. Proper Lebanese-style tabbouleh which is more herbs than anything else. In this post on his site, David says: Much of what gets called Tabbouleh bears little resemblance to what Lebanese Tabbouleh is. When I moved to France and began … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was one of the very few from the book that I wouldn’t call “a hit”. Butternut squash bread soup aka pandade is a dish David waxes lyrical about – put simply: a baked casserole that’s served like a soup but is … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was actually a Bay Leaf Pound Cake with an orange glaze but I opted for a plain orange pound cake that David suggests. The bay leaf version involved infusing butter with bay leaves for a while and I thought that apart … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was perfect for Canadian Thanksgiving which fell early this year, catching a few of us by surprise, especially given the very hot September we had. Fortunately the weather cooperated to give us a typical Thanksgiving weekend with chilly temperatures just perfect … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was madeleines – and, in fact, I made madeleines twice in a day – once with a parent-child cooking class and once making David’s recipe. (my 7-13 year old kid bakers did a great job in my class didn’t they?) Madeleines … Read more