This week on French Fridays with Dorie the group is making Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Parsley Coulis. I have yet to find these elusive Jerusalem artichokes and I am not organized enough to order them so I did a make-up instead. We were having a dinner party and it actually rained that day in California…
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Osso Buco a L’Arman
This week on French Fridays with Dorie we are diving into beef with osso buco a l’arman (page 270). All month long I have been checking the markets I shop at to see if they carried it and veal shanks proved to be hard to find. My husband said we needed to find a butcher,…
Palets des Dames, Lille Style
Today on French Fridays with Dorie we are celebrating Dorie’s birthday with sweets from her new cookbook Baking Chez Moi. With the release of her new cookbook, just 4 days away, Dorie has shared some baking recipes in advance. Palets des Dames, Lille Style; Canneles; and Chocolate Cream Puffs with Mascarpone and Rose Filling. My…
Shrimp and Double Carrots
We are back to fish Fridays on French Fridays with Dorie. After my husband read “monkfish is so popular that it costs more than lobster”, we decided not to look for it and go with a substitution. I am getting better about reading the Bonne Idee and so we went with shrimp. Cooking carrots in…
Celery-Celery Soup
This week on French Fridays with Dorie we have stepped into Fall foods and made a soup, celery-celery soup (page 65). I love the velvety texture of pureed soups so I was looking forward to this one. When I bought the celery root, the produce guy said “making soup”? I guess that is what it…
Vanilla Vegetable Salad
The heat wave is gone, the marine layer is back and my oven is back on. But for this week on French Fridays with Dorie we did not need our ovens. Vanilla vegetable salad (page 114) only needed a vegetable peeler, carrots, yellow summer squash, olive oil, lemon and a dash of vanilla extract. I…
Cafe Salle Pleyel Hamburger
This week on French Fridays with Dorie is tuna and mango ceviche (page 178). I have mentioned before that I don’t like tuna that does not come out of a can and I also don’t like raw fish or meat. My husband dislikes mangoes and avocados so this recipe just wasn’t going to fly in…
French Lentils
This week on French Fridays with Dorie we prepared french lentils: a basic recipe (page 367). I have never made lentils before, eaten them many times but never cooked them. This was an interesting technique to keep the onion whole unless I missed something. I managed to confuse the insertion of a clove into the…
Curried Chicken, Peppers, and Peas en Papillote
The last en papillote we made for French Fridays was baby bok choy, sugar snaps, and garlic which I loved so I was looking forward to trying the same technique with chicken. The prep for curried chicken, peppers and peas (page 221) could not have been easier. Place cut up chicken breasts, sliced red onion,…
Gerard’s Mustard Tart
Since mushrooms do not go over well in my house, I decided to do a make-up for French Fridays with Dorie. I have seen many rave reviews about Gerard’s Mustard Tart (page 154) so I decided to make that. This was delicious. Dorie’s tart dough is fool proof and I like her ratio of ingredients….
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