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Tag Archives: french cooking
The best moules, ever (until next time)
Dorie’s recipe read, “mussels and chorizo with or without pasta,” but she failed to mention that serving this dish, whether with pasta or not, would generate accolades and exclamations of, “Wow, this is really amazing!” I served without pasta, but … Continue reading
Posted in family, food, friendship
Tagged Cooking, Food, french cooking, French Fridays with Dorie, friends, mussles
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Stinky cheese: gorgonzola-apple quiche
When I was in France with KDM, she tried to get me to eat stinky cheese. I gave it my best shot, but each stinky cheese, with its bluish veined ripples of bacterial and mold infection, and its pungent aroma, … Continue reading
Posted in cheese, family meals, food, lessons, mistakes, paris
Tagged Cooking, family, Food, french cooking, french food, French Fridays with Dorie, quiche
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The most perfect food on earth
That would be the potato. I love its many variations. Growing up, however, I was not such a huge fan of potatoes, and I trace my disregard to the staple boiled and mashed potatoes that we ate in my house. … Continue reading
Posted in family, food, neighbors, potato
Tagged Dorie Greenspan, family, Food, french cooking, French Fridays, potato
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Dinner and dancing — the french way
We don’t have fancy dinner parties, but because I have been on a cooking jag, it is always good when we can cajole friends and relatives into coming to sample whatever new recipe I’ve decided to try. I know that … Continue reading
Posted in dancing, family, food, ice cream
Tagged beef daube, Cooking, dancing, dinner party, Dorie Greenspan, family, Food, french cooking, kale gratin
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Quatre-quarts: four by four mistakes
When I read the directions for Dorie’s quatre-quarts, this week’s French Fridays recipe, I thought, “Oh, how simple, I’ll double the recipe and make two!” Dorie notes that the recipe is simplicity itself — four parts each eggs, flour, butter, … Continue reading