‘Cocktail cookies’ are the new breed of appetizer allegedly making quite a stir in Paris these days. I say ‘allegedly’ because I have not been there recently to have one myself. I’m hearing this second hand from Dorie and David but I have no reason to believe they aren’t tell me the truth. Besides, Paris […]
Lime and Honey Beet Salad
French Fridays with Dorie – Haiku You can stop screaming What trauma did beets cause you? You carry on so. Say? Don’t you like beets? Have you tried them recently? Um, can I have yours? Better than the plague So keep some perspective please Shush you. Eat your beets. Lime and Honey Beet Salad Beets […]
June 15, 2012 by 43 Comments
Lyonnaise Garlic and Herb Cheese Spread
French Fridays with Dorie Seeing that Boursin Cheese is one of my true guilty pleasures I was looking forward to trying out this Lyonnaise Garlic and Herb Cheese Spread in Dorie Greenspan’s book “Around My French Table”. I don’t really consider Boursin a sophisticated food stuff. Its not really made in France and I find […]
June 11, 2012 by 6 Comments
Olive Oil Ice Cream with Lemon Infused Olive Oil and Fleur de Sel
French Fridays with Dorie Olive Oil Ice Cream I hope you will pardon my brevity as I begin posting a few French Friday’s with Dorie assignments over the next few days. I’ll start with this week’s assignment and go backwards. I knew the idea of olive oil ice cream would seem a bit odd […]
June 8, 2012 by 31 Comments
Roasted Cider Sage Pork Chops
Won’t you consider the pork chop? Actually, I suspect that most of you who read this blog probably give the pork chop ample consideration. Its just me. I don’t. So I guess I’m really just talking to myself here. Up until now I have failed to show much consideration for this particular cut of […]
May 29, 2012 by 17 Comments
Double Chocolate Bread With Peanut Butter Spread
I recently attended a special housewarming for Belinda, the lady across the street. The first time I ever saw Belinda she was wearing her bathrobe and dragging a heavy trash bag down the street to a neighbor’s construction dumpster. In her high heels. Brad’s infamous party had come and gone without many injuries or any severe […]
May 17, 2012 by 27 Comments
Rosemary Parmesan Crackers
I ran into an old friend a couple of weeks ago while shopping at the supermarket. Her name is Rosemary and she is someone I knew back in elementary school. I happened to have some fresh rosemary in my shopping basket at the time. It was a coincidence that I found amusing so, true to form, […]
May 7, 2012 by 53 Comments
Navarin Printanier: Spring Lamb Stew
French Fridays with Dorie I have a stew problem. Stew. Eew. I hear the word “stew” and immediately relive my experience of opening hundreds of #10 cans of it every Wednesday afternoon while working as a summer camp counselor. My wrist still aches when I remember the hours it takes to feed an entire camp […]
May 2, 2012 by 16 Comments
Sardine Rillettes
French Fridays with Dorie Meh. The Sis Boom dictionary defines “rillettes” as lovely bits of pork chopped and slowly cooked in its fat for up to several hours. Mmm. Pork Fat. Duck fat is good too so duck rilletes are too. The bits are then shredded and suspended in that very fat before being […]
April 27, 2012 by 28 Comments
Lemon Buttermilk Ice Cream
I don’t often have buttermilk in the refrigerator. When I do have it on hand, however, the quart sized carton will always be at least three quarters full. (Why don’t they sell smaller sizes?) It will also have worked itself to a position of near invisibility by being out of sight and out of reach near the back […]
April 25, 2012 by 7 Comments
Blood Orange Sidecar
We a lucky enough to be gifted annually with a box of blood oranges from our good friend, Mahin. Mahin knows of my long standing blood orange passion so when her tree overfloweth with them each year she graciously parts with its offerings in our direction causing much celebration. This has made exploring ways […]
April 21, 2012 by 8 Comments
File This Under: My Food Writer Destiny…
Food Writer My first letter home from summer camp in 1970 wherein I started my career as a food writer. The meals were “horrible” so I felt compelled to write about it. Some things never change — like my spelling. I have to run now. My Food Writer Destiny
April 15, 2012 by 19 Comments
Whole Roasted Curried Cauliflower
If it weren’t for the fact that I detest food blog posts that kick off with an apology for a lack of recent posting I would be apologizing right now as, well, I haven’t written for awhile. So, I’m sorry for not apologizing because, you know, I detest that sort of thing. Its not […]
April 13, 2012 by 20 Comments
Big Apple Manhattan, do you crave it?
Are you flexible enough to embrace a Big Apple Manhattan? It seems correct somehow that rye whiskey serves as the traditional foundation for a classic “Manhattan”. A good rye whiskey is solid yet brash, fortifying yet with the complexity of a good wine. The loud intensity of a good rye whiskey screams to be noticed. […]
March 26, 2012 by 17 Comments
Cocoa Sablés
French Fridays with Dorie – Haiku Pretty much the same… World Peace, Korova, Sable Dorie must love ’em Three cookbooks! Chocolate short breads in each. Redundant cookie! Eh, what can you do? You cannot stop with just one So grab some cold milk Shout from the rooftop! Evangelical cookies Dorie preaches them. Cocoa Sablés And […]
March 23, 2012 by 51 Comments
