Nothing says holidays celebration than a triple-layer parsnip and cranberry cake. Yes, it takes a lot of effort to make: the cakes (three skinny ones, no less), the gingered-cranberry…
Appetizer/ breakfast/ easy everyday/ Fish/ make ahead/ Pantry essentials/ Seafood/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Smoked Fish and Parsnip Cakes | Make Ahead
How do you make a cake without the usual sugar and wheat flour, in other words, a more nutritious kind for everyday eating? The answer is to make savory…
Roasting vegetable is among my favorite methods in cooking vegetables. To me, the way roasted veggies concentrate flavor is what steamed veggies can never do. I also like the…
Vegetable soup. Warm soup. Spicy soup. Soup for dinner served with some homemade bread. A parsnip soup that’s so earthy, naturally sweet and comforting. It begs the question…
Dorie Greenspan/ Fish/ French/ my favorites
Rosa Jackson’s Bourride | Last Recipe from Everyday Dorie
Hard to believe this is going to be the last Everyday Dorie‘s recipe I’m participating in the cooking club Cook-the-Book-Fridays since the first post in October, 2018. Now we’ve…
These devil’s thumbprints are fun to play with. What I did differently than Dorie was the filling on the cookies. She recommends raspberry and chocolate fillings. But when I…
Brandade is traditionally a blend of creamy mashed potatoes and salted cod. Salted cod needs to be soaked over several hours or days before you can start cooking the…
classics/ easy everyday/ French/ Side/ Simmer/ vegetarian
Red Lentils with Garlic and Thyme | Nigella Lawson
A bag of organic red lentils has been residing in the pantry for quite a while. You can’t really ignore it because of its bright color. This recipe is…
Ellie Krieger/ foundation recipe/ Pantry essentials/ pasta/ Soup
The Checklist to Build Your Own Favorite Soup | Minestrone
Winter is upon us, when the outside temperature drops and stays low, our craving turns to a warm and hearty bowl of soup. What can be more sustaining and…
Instead of a cranberry side, what about having cranberry front and center in a seasonal Thanksgiving dessert? We made an elaborate triple-layer parsnip and cranberry cake from Everyday Dorie…
There are so many amazing cakes and cookies to bake for the holidays. The parsnip cranberry cake and, of course, the yule log or Bûche de Noël (who can…
Cranberry is a must-have on the Thanksgiving table. After making a parsnip and cranberry cake, I have close to a bag of leftover cranberry. The idea of combining cranberry…
Among the three items in this week Cook-the-book-Fridays David Lebovit’z’s dish, roast lamb with braised vegetables and salsa verde, my favorite is the vegetables. In all fairness, the lamb,…
My interest in roast cabbage soared when I saw a big tray of it as a family meal for the kitchen staff. On that day, I was taking a…
The roasted root vegetables are similar to the baked Provençal vegetables (tian), which we made a while ago, from My Paris Kitchen. The roasted root vegetable may not have the look.…
My favorite way of cooking vegetables is roasting them on a sheet pan in the oven. This roasted winter vegetables dish is a no-brainer. Including the easy-to-do prep work…
David Lebovitz/ Roast/ Salad
Farro Salad with Radicchio, Root Vegetables & Pomegranate – Cook-the-Book-Fridays
Wheat berry (or farro) salad with radicchio, root vegetables and pomegranate is a long name and a mouthful. The recipe comes from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen. The good…