Boozy jumbled-fruit croustade in Everyday Dorie can take different types of dough. Among them, the phyllo dough is Dorie’s choice, but my least favorite. The last…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites
Mokonuts’ Rye-Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies | Baking with Dorie
I’ve been busy making and eating these cookie, and somehow, it escapes me to tell our readers all about them. Dorie says: To describe the…
I call this a Sicilian pasta with sardines instead of pasta with sardines, fennel and pine nuts as in Everyday Dorie. I’m in the winter wonderland…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Gluten free/ Toss/ year round
Cauliflower Tabbouleh | Everyday Dorie
Dorie calls the cauliflower tabbouleh a time-honored salad moving into the 21st century. I can’t agree more since cauliflower has become so popular and indispensable in…
Stuffed cabbage is everything that Dorie describes: earthy and rustic. Many cultures have a version of it that goes back generations. Dorie’s version mixes beef, pork…
Dorie’s Spatchcocked chicken is one of the recipes in Everyday Dorie I’ve repeated over and over again since the early months of the pandemic. I finally…
Chocolate/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ foundation recipe
Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies | Baking with Dorie
After 30 years of publishing and 14 cookbooks later, Dorie Greenspan’s new book Baking with Dorie wins instant acclaim from believers like me. When I look…
5 ingredients or less/ Appetizer/ Dorie Greenspan/ Roast
Paper Thin Potato Rosettes | Everyday Dorie
This is a wonderful time of the year. Can’t resist to make something seasonally appropriate as well as pretty: the potato rosettes from Dorie’s website. She…
Morocco is a place of endless intrigue and mystery. It has been on our list of travel destinations which has sadly been derailed. However, we can…
Bake/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites/ Sauté/ year round
Caramelized Onion Galette with Parm Cream | Everyday Dorie
The galette, an open-faced rustic tart, has got cousins around the world. One of them is the Provencal pissaladière, an Alsatian onion pizza. Everyone loved it…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Gluten free/ Grill/ my favorites/ vegetarian
Umami Vegan Burgers | Everyday Dorie
The umami burgers from Everyday Dorie is most extraordinary. Burgers are so everyday, in cities and countryside — and for good reasons. Using a few umami…
I’ve forgotten how long it has been since I last grill a piece of steak preferring, primarily, a plant-based diet. This week’s recipe at Cook-the-Book-Fridays is…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Low fat/ Salad/ Side/ summer/ Toss
Cowboy Caviar Salad or Side | Everyday Dorie
I had no idea about the origin of the cowboy caviar or salad until I hear it in Everyday Dorie from Dorie. The salad is often…
This is my first encounter with pimento cheese. It is a creamy spread made with cheese, pimentos and mayonnaise, often referred to as the pâté of…
Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit
Drop-Biscuit Apricot and Blueberry Cobbler | Everyday Dorie
Instead of a peach cobbler that Dorie makes in Everyday Dorie, I bake an apricot and blueberry cobbler — for several reasons. I did a southern-style…
Dorie is surprised how much she enjoys the process of making these oven-charred tomato-stuffed peppers. My surprise has more to do with the reactions from my…
There are a few seasonal ingredients in which we indulge: wild-caught Chilean sea bass and blood oranges. That’s what we have and I put them into…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Low fat/ Side/ Soup
Green Goddess Sipper, Soup or Shots | Everyday Dorie
The green goddess sipper, soup or shots remind me of gazpacho, except it’s green rather than red. The green tone comes from the demi-goddess dressing (more…
Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Poultry/ Toss
Luang Prabang Chicken-Chili Sandwiches | Everyday Dorie
Dorie takes us to Luang Prabang, Laos, where street vendors in the night market make chicken-chili sandwiches with chutzpah. Basically, these are bamboo-skewered grilled chicken stuffed…
There are a few tomato tarts I love on this blog and in New York restaurant (Dirt Candy) simply because they are fantastic and meticulous creations.…
Layering a chicken chili with a cornbread topping, that’s the essence of a chicken-chili tamale pie. This is my first. It’s very much like the way…
Berry/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ Salad/ spring
Spring Avocado and Berry Salad | Everyday Dorie
If you like berry and cream, the combination of avocado and berry in a salad sounds like a natural extension. Nevertheless, it’s a surprise to see…
Bake/ breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Pantry essentials/ Side
Western Frittata | Everyday Dorie
“A frittata is a dish that every cook should know how to make,” says Dorie in the opening sentence of the western frittata recipe in Everyday…
Last time I made something similar to the Mediterranean shepherd’s pie was the chicken pot parmentier from My Paris Kitchen by David Lebovitz. Remember that! They…
There is a lot to like about a citrus-flavored cheesecake — sweet and tangy and velvety. Dorie’s tangerine-topped cheesecake is streamlined, meaning “it has convenience on…

























