A bacon and eggs and asparagus salad sounds pretty simple, right? It even sounded a little boring to me when I first read this month’s French Fridays with Dorie schedule. At least from the writing standpoint. But I actually had a lot of fun making this salad because of the six-minute egg that lies on top [...]
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Bacon and Eggs and Asparagus Salad, French Fridays with Dorie
Posted in French Fridays with Dorie, tagged around my french table, asparagus, bacon, dorie greenspan, french fridays with dorie, six-minute egg on May 20, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Spinach and Bacon Quiche, French Fridays with Dorie
Posted in French Fridays with Dorie, tagged bacon quiche, dorie greenspan, french fridays with dorie, quiche on May 13, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Thanks to French Fridays with Dorie, I’m more confident in my tart-making skills. I started with a sweet tart crust – the sweet comes from the powdered sugar in the recipe – to make Dorie’s orange-almond tart and torteau de chèvre. This was the perfect crust for me to start with because I merely had to press it into [...]
Torteau de Chèvre, French Friday with Dorie
Posted in French Fridays with Dorie, tagged around my french table, cheesecake, dorie greenspan, goat cheese cake, torteau de chevre on May 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »
There are few desserts I don’t like, and one of them is plain, traditional cheesecake. I don’t like the texture. It’s too rich and creamy for my taste. So when I first heard we were making torteau de chèvre – a simple goat cheese cake with a sweet sugar cookie-like crust - for this week’s French Fridays with Dorie, I was expecting that [...]
Chocolate Eclairs, French Fridays with Dorie Rewind on a Monday
Posted in French Fridays with Dorie, tagged chocolate eclairs, chocolate pastry cream, dorie greenspan, french fridays with dorie, ganache, gougeres on May 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I was both excited and very intimidated about making chocolate éclairs for French Fridays with Dorie. Making them requires using a bag and pastry tip to pipe the dough onto a baking sheet, then the pastry cream into the middle of the éclair. I can’t use a pastry bag. Every time I fill it with [...]
Quinoa Salad, French Fridays with Dorie
Posted in French Fridays with Dorie, Fun Food Bites, tagged around my french table, dorie greenspan, french fridays with dorie, havarti cheese, lunch, quinoa salad on April 1, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Every month, the FFwD crew votes on the recipes we will make for the next month’s French Fridays with Dorie. I voted for this week’s quinoa salad recipe, but I thought about skipping this post. After all, what was I going to say about salad? I thought about it though, and realized this recipe is [...]
Scallops with Caramel-Orange Sauce, French Fridays with Dorie
Posted in French Fridays with Dorie, tagged around my french table, dorie greenspan, french fridays with dorie, Monterey Bay Aquarium, sauce, scallops, sea scallops, sustainable seafood guide on March 25, 2011 | 20 Comments »
I love a good excuse to splurge on one of my favorite foods. So thank you, French Fridays with Dorie, for this week’s selection: scallops. I’ve used bay scallops to make cioppino, a fish stew. But I’ve never cooked sea scallops because they’re so pricey. At half the price of their larger counterparts, the bay scallops [...]
Adapting Recipes and Beggar’s Linguine, French Fridays with Dorie
Posted in French Fridays with Dorie, tagged around my french table, beggar's linguine, butter sauce, dates, dorie greenspan, figs, french fridays with dorie, pistachios, pumpkin seeds on March 11, 2011 | 18 Comments »
I’ve gotten away from posting recipes lately. That’s because after nearly two years of blogging, I still don’t understand when I can post a recipe without upsetting the original author, or how much I need to tweak a recipe to call it my own. This, even though I got some great comments on the subject from Wendi [...]
Savory Cheese and Scallion Bread, French Fridays with Dorie
Posted in French Fridays with Dorie, tagged around my french table, cheddar, dorie greenspan, french fridays with dorie, quick breads, scallions on March 4, 2011 | 17 Comments »
I have two very clear memories of my time in Paris more than a decade ago. They both involve baguettes. The first happened on the Metro. Across from where I was standing, a man held a baguette, secure in its paper sleeve. The long loaf of bread, with one end resting securely against his thigh, [...]
