This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Dorie describes it as: “wedges of roasted squash, its dense, naturally sweet flesh herb-accented from the za’atar and slightly tart from the molasses. And the skin—my favorite part—had spots of tasty char and, where the oil mixture had puddled, […]

Cook the Book Fridays: Roasted Acorn Squash Wedges from Everyday Dorie

Lemony green beans with crispy breadcrumbs and parmesan
I’ve been enjoying a version of this dish for years at a local restaurant – so convenient that I’ve never thought to make my own. It’s simple enough – green beans with a crunch from some breadcrumbs and some salt from grated Parmesan. I’ve added some lemon zest for brightness here although I don’t think […]

Cook the Book Fridays: Miso-maple-jammed sweet potatoes
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was a great way to use up the handful of sweet potatoes that came in our veg box last week. Typically I don’t do much with sweet potatoes other than mash them or make soup so this was […]

Cook the Book Fridays: So-Good Miso Corn from Everyday Dorie
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was a great recipe to use up some of the fabulous corn that’s around right now! Basically it’s (ideally) fresh corn kernels cooked in a skillet until slightly charred with some miso paste and butter. Dorie adds za’atar […]

Cook the Book Fridays: Granola-topped squash and root vegetable gratin
For this week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays we once again made something of our own choosing from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Regular readers will know that usually, we all make the same recipe every week we post but since we we haven’t been able to be sure what we will and […]

French Fridays: Ratatouille Tian from In the French kitchen with kids
(image © Kyla Zanardi) You may not know what a tian is, but if you’ve seen the movie Ratatouille, you’ll be familiar with a version of this presentation of vegetables sliced thinly, cooked and served in an elegant stack. The dish you see in the movie was created by Chef Thomas Keller (of The French […]
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