This week on French Fridays with Dorie the rest of the Doristas are making Arman’s Caviar in Aspic (page 29).  This recipe was not going to fly in my house so I decided to do a make-up.  I handed my husband the cookbook and said pick something. He picked vegetable barley soup with the taste…

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…

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…

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…