FFwD: Vegetable Barley Soup with the Taste of Little India, with Cilantro Pistou

This, like all of the French Fridays with Dorie Indian-influenced recipes this was good, but I wanted a little more...something. It was a very nice rainy, cold weather meal though. The only substitutions I made were hul-less barley for the pearl barley and a sweet potato for the parsnip - only because these were the …

Food Blogger Cookbook Swap: Vanilla-Cardamom Madeleines & Tate’s Bake Shop Baking for Friends

I was recently a participant in the Food Blogger Cookbook Swap, hosted by Alyssa of EverydayMaven and Faith of An Edible Mosiac. I sent a cookbook to a fellow food blogger and received a cookbook in return - Tate's Bake Shop: Baking for Friends from Lisa at Flour me with Love. Thanks, Lisa! I'm trying …

FFwD: Paris-Brest

This week's French Fridays with Dorie is Paris-Brest, which is a particular Parisan pastry that was created in the olden days (the 1890s) to commemorate the Paris–Brest bicycle race. It's pâte à choux dough (like for cream puffs or gougères) piped out in circles, baked, sliced in half, and filled with an almond praline vanilla …