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FRENCH FRIDAYS: THE RED KURI IS PURTY

November 26, 2014 by Mary 14 Comments

Once upon a time, in the snow-peaked Colorado High County, lived a brilliantly colored, teardrop-shaped squash named Red Kuri. She tipped the scales at three pounds, a bit hippy, you might say. It’s all about her unique essence of squash infused with chestnuts that suggests her possibilities. Her fatal flaw? If she is baked, braised,… 

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Filed Under: Around My French Table, Doris Greenspan, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Soups, Uncategorized Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Dorie Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie

French Fridays Under Stage 3 Drought Restrictions

March 7, 2014 by Mary 26 Comments

Tartines

This week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe is Two Tartines from La Croix Rouge. According to Ms. Greenspan, our leader extraordinaire, La Croix Rouge is one of Paris’s busiest, most chic cafés. Chic grabs my interest but it’s the roast beef and smoked salmon tartines that whet my appetite.     Besides being just darn… 

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Main Dishes, Snacks Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Create Amazing Meals, Dorie Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie, Two Tartines from La Croix Rouge, Vintage Paso:Zinfandel and other Wild Wines

EVERY BITE IS WHITE – LIGHTS ON BRIGHT

February 13, 2014 by Mary 27 Comments

This week’s French Fridays recipe choice is Hélène’s All-White Salad, a bunch of crunch created by Dorie’s friend, Hélène Samuel. She has loved this salad since first eating it at Samuel’s cafe, Délicabar Snack Chic, located in Paris’s renown Le Bon Marché department store. Built by Gustave Eiffel in 1852 and now owned by the… 

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SAVORY SCALLOPS KISSED BY SWEET SAUCE

January 31, 2014 by Mary 21 Comments

Scallops with Caramel-Orange Sauce and Spiced Butter-Glazed Carrots

This week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe choice is the dessert Paris-Brest, a celebratory creamy puff ring made from  light pastry dough called pâte à choux. Already this sounds complicated, doesn’t it? It was created in 1891 to honor the Union Des Audax Français, an amateur bicycle race that is still peddling strong today. Paris-Brest… 

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Filed Under: LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Main Dishes, Seafood & Fish Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Cambria, Dorie Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie, Hearst Ranch Winery, Scallops with Caramel-Orange Sauce, Spiced Butter-Glazed Carrots

GETTIN’ MESSY with MOULES MARINIÈRE

January 24, 2014 by Mary 30 Comments

GETTIN’ MESSY with MOULES MARINIÈRE

Cambria, California This week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe choice is Moules Marinière. It proved to be the perfect anchor to my celebratory feast after settling into my new California digs. Living in the Colorado Rockies is a privilege, my idea of paradise. But it’s that 4-month window of snow, cold temps and icy footpaths… 

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Filed Under: LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Main Dishes, Seafood & Fish Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Cambria, Dorie Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie, Halter Ranch, Moules Marinere, Pasa Robles

PAINT FRENCH FRIDAYS RED with BELL PEPPER SOUP

January 16, 2014 by Mary 24 Comments

Red Bell Pepper Raspberry Soup

Guilty as charged. So guilty as charged. According to the National Resources Defense Council, an amazing 40% of our country’s food is thrown out every year. Now that you’ve digested that number, here’s another. The cost of that wastage translates to a whopping $165 billion. Seems crazy, doesn’t it, that almost fifty million Americans do not… 

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Filed Under: LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Soups Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Christine's Simple Party Soups, Dorie Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie

FRENCH FRIDAYS with DORIE: POMMES au FOUR

January 10, 2014 by Mary 25 Comments

Translation:  apples in the oven. This week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe choice is Pommes au Four, baked apples filled with fruits and nuts. My first thought? Who can’t bake an apple? In Iowa, when I was a kid, we picked apples at the local orchard, hauled them home and helped Mom turn them into… 

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Filed Under: Desserts, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Dorie Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie, Pommes au Four

GRAVLAX: A How-To in Pictures

December 27, 2013 by Mary 20 Comments

For the past three years, if it’s Friday, I’ve been posting a recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Around my French Table.  Cooking-the-book with colleagues from around the world, I’ve had hits, fails, wows and  never agains. This week’s effort, Dilled Gravlax with Mustard Sauce, sugar-and-spice cured-salmon,  may be a personal best.     Gravlax is… 

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Breakfasts, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Dilled Gravlax with Mustard Sauce, Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook

ARE U A CHOPPED LIVER AFICIONADO? (It’s French Fridays)

December 16, 2013 by Mary 16 Comments

ARE U A CHOPPED LIVER AFICIONADO?

In our family we’re a mixed bag as far as religion is concerned. My husband, Michael, was Jewish. I am Episcopalian. My son-in-law’s father was a Lutheran minister. My daughter finds truth and power in Buddhist principals. My granddaughters  attend a Seven Day Adventist school. And just recently, I’ve found hope in the writings of… 

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Filed Under: Appetizers, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Snacks Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Dorie Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie, Mme. Maman's Chopped Liver, Vegetarian Chopped Liver

IT’S FRENCH FRIDAYS: TUILES-LA-LA

December 6, 2013 by Mary 18 Comments

  This week, I must admit, has been humbling. During the past few days I’ve found myself on-the-hunt for my sense of humor and good will. This is not a week when I’ve felt the love from either our Dorie or Mother Nature. Today the French Fridays with Dorie recipe choice is Almond-Orange Tuiles (pronounced tweel),… 

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Filed Under: Desserts, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Snacks Tagged With: Almond-Orange Tuiles, AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Aspen, Dorie Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie

PAIN PERDU: SUGAR-CRUSTED FRENCH TOAST

November 28, 2013 by Mary 20 Comments

PAIN PERDU: SUGAR-CRUSTED FRENCH TOAST

  It’s early Thanksgiving morning. I suspect many respectable cooks are already in the kitchen pouring over the plan, adding to the list and organizing the day. The result, of course, will be the tasty holiday meal expected by all the lucky guests at your table. I am enjoying a quiet moment and my first… 

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Filed Under: Breads, Breakfasts, LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Dorie Greenspan, French Fridays with Dorie, PAIN PERDU.

A Surprise: CHESTNUT-PEAR Soup

November 15, 2013 by Mary 20 Comments

A Surprise: CHESTNUT-PEAR Soup

From the get-go, when Chestnut-Pear Soup was chosen to be the November 15th French Fridays with Dorie recipe, I put myself in the not-going-to-happen column. This soup, to my thinking, was a bubble off. But having taken the pledge to not be a doubting Dorista, I finally sourced a 16-ounce jar of chestnuts ($26.31 at… 

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Filed Under: LIGHTS ON BRIGHT NO BRAKES, Soups Tagged With: AROUND MY FRENCH TABLE, Chestnut-Pear Soup, Compote de Pommes Two Ways, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Dorie Greenspan, Eisenhower Presidential Library, French Fridays with Dorie, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Museum and Boyhood Home, William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park

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