Caramelized Fennel and Carrot Soup
Fennel is a vegetable I find hard to describe to those not familiar with it. The term ‘anise-flavored’ is often used, but I think that sounds like more of a turn-off to most [...]
Sloe Gin Kir Royal
This one falls in the category of ‘Why didn’t I think of it before?’ I love the idea of sloe gin, a liqueur made by macerating sloes (small, sour, wild plums that grow on bla [...]
Sweet Potato Soup with Amchoor
Like kale, sweet potatoes have now made it in France. Not all that long ago, I used to have to hunt for the tubers at Thanksgiving, cruising the ‘exotic’ sections at large su [...]
Quince Cordial (Quince Brandy)
Quince can be a tough sell. Peeling quince (a very firm, sweet-smelling fruit that looks like a cross between an apple and a pear) is wrist-aching work, cutting it open is ak [...]
Just-Sweet-Enough Granola
Most granolas are really just dessert disguised as breakfast food—something I learned when I made granola for the first time in a hipster New York City bakery and saw how muc [...]
Basic French Potage
If there is one French recipe that everyone in the whole wide world should learn to make, it is potage, the blended vegetable soup that was once the start to every supper in [...]
Elodie’s (Easy) Tian
The tians (pronounced tee-ahn) I’ve tasted in France have all been simple, meltingly tender swirls, rows, or stacks of summer vegetables cooked with some garlic, a few herbs [...]
3-Ingredient Potato and Caramelized Onion Soup
2 weeks away from Cancale and I come home to a bare fridge on a national holiday (May Day). Meaning: any attempt to shop is pretty pointless. There may be a small grocery ope [...]
Homemade Ginger Beer
Two ginger beer bottles. On the right, a heavy, well-worn, barnacled specimen dredged from the deep off Saint-Malo... a little research showed to be a ginger beer bottle from [...]