We made a healthy start to the New Year with Simplest Breton Fish Soup (page 96) for French Fridays with Dorie. Almost everything about this soup was new to me. I haven’t made a fish soup before and never eaten mussels. I made a half recipe which made a lot of soup. I was worried…
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Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Parsley Coulis
My foodie friend and neighbor Tracy who runs the food blog tiny cook Big Appetite bought me some sunchokes at the farmers market. Having never found the elusive sunchokes for French Fridays with Dorie I was pleasantly surprised. Tracy decided to make roasted sunchokes and I decided to make soup (page 76). As you can see the…
Lamb and Dried Apricot Tagine
This week on French Fridays with Dorie we are making lamb and dried apricot tagine (pages 284-285). We love Moroccan food so we were looking forward to this dish. Everyone loved this dish. It was soft and flavorful and couscous was the perfect side dish. I would make a few adjustments next time. I…
Storzapretis (corsican spinach and marjoram gnocchi)
I am going to bestow bragging rights for all of our November recipe selections on French Fridays with Dorie. We have tackled osso buco, duck and now gnocchi. As with the previous two recipes, I have never made gnocchi before. I knew I needed some background information and help. My son uses Youtube for everything…
Pan-Seared Duck Breasts with Orange
I have been having difficulty finding fresh ingredients for our French Fridays with Dorie Fall selections. Still haven’t found the elusive Jerusalem artichokes and I couldn’t find kumquats this week. One alternate given for kumquats was tangerines which I couldn’t find either. We decided to stay simple and substitute with orange. So really I made…
Potato Gratin (Pommes Dauphinois)
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…
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,…
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…
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