Vegetable Barley Soup with the Taste of Little India Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Parsley Coulis

Spur-of-the-Moment Vegetable Soup, aka Stone Soup (The Carrot Version) Leek and Potato Soup, Smooth or Chunky, Hot or Cold Lyonnaise Garlic and Herb Cheese (aka Boursin’s Mama) Why waste the space? However, I found a bunch of recipes of interest in Around My French Table, and already tried one! This is a book I would actually like to have in print-plus, I'm now keenly interested in finding more of her cookbooks, too. The book is from the vantage point of someone who has lived, grocery shopped, and cooked in France, but she knows her audience is American, and suggests necessary recipe changes for ingredients that are accessible and affordable.Usually when I read a cookbook, I find maybe a couple recipes I want to try that's a big reason why I buy few cookbooks these days. The asides on French culture, like how to handle oneself in a cheese shop, were incredibly fun.She also understands her audience. I loved that most also featured little 'good ideas' on modifications, too. Her voice truly comes across on every page-these recipes are not mere recitations of ingredients and do this and that. She presents 300 French recipes in this book-recipes that often look intimidating-but does so with a gentle, calming manner. I now understand the buzz around her cooking. I've heard of Dorie Greenspan for a few years now, but this was my first time reading one of her books (thanks to a borrow through Prime Reading).

Hundreds of other recipes are remarkably easy: a cheese and olive quick bread, a three-star chef’s Basque potato tortilla made with a surprise ingredient (potato chips), and an utterly satisfying roast chicken for “lazy people.” Packed with lively stories, memories, and insider tips on French culinary customs, Around My French Table will make cooks fall in love with France all over again, or for the first time.

Julia’s praise was echoed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which referred to Dorie’s “wonderfully encouraging voice” and “the sense of a real person who is there to help should you stumble.” Now in a big, personal, and personable book, Dorie captures all the excitement of French home cooking, sharing disarmingly simple dishes she has gathered over years of living in France.Īround My French Table includes many superb renditions of the great classics: a glorious cheese-domed onion soup, a spoon-tender beef daube, and the “top-secret” chocolate mousse recipe that every good Parisian cook knows-but won’t reveal. When Julia Child told Dorie Greenspan, “You write recipes just the way I do,” she paid her the ultimate compliment.

Dorie greenspan around my french table