Category: Cookbooks

This week's French Fridays with Dorie is a strange, little cookie. Grated egg yolk. Kalamata olives. Powdered sugar. Potato starch. So strange and yet so delightful -- it's Pierre Herme’s Olive Sables. I really was a little skeptical about these and they are certainly not the type off cookie you necessarily want to dip in …

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I had every intention of skipping this week's French Fridays with Dorie because I didn't think I'd have enough time to make it. Then I checked the schedule and saw that it was Cheesy Crème Brûlée and well, I found myself heading right to the store to pick up supplies. I love crème brûlée and …

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This week's French Fridays with Dorie was fairly interesting -- pork tenderloin, cut into pieces, browned and then cooked quickly in orange juice, zest and segments, cardamom and onion. So, um, I changed a few things. Originally, the diced onions were to be added with the orange, but I caramelized those a bit first thing, …

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I received the Bouchon Bakery Cookbook for Christmas and besides being a beautiful cookbook, it also appears to have my most favorite muffin recipe ever in it. Originally, the recipe was for carrot muffins but I have been using squash (once butternut and most recently delicata) to make wonderful, somewhat healthy, winter muffins. The cookbook …

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