Asparagus Mimosa Tartines
Asparagus Mimosa is a French vegetable classic of steamed asparagus, chopped hard boiled eggs, and a mustardy vinaigrette. It’s the perfect recipe for showcasing black garlic [...]
Single-Rise Moroccan Bread
This is the homemade bread recipe for people (like me) who don’t just *love* bread baking. It is easy. It exceeds my expectations for shape, texture, and flavor. The dusky, d [...]
Preserved Lemon Yogurt (or Labneh) Dip
When I made a big batch of preserved lemons last spring, I wondered how I’d ever use them all up. Now that I have discovered this preserved lemon labneh/yogurt dip, I worry I [...]
Goat Cheese and Olive Spread
This is one of those recipes to be filed under the ‘Why-didn’t-I-think-of-this-before?’ category. I have loved cream cheese and olive spread ever since I first tasted it in s [...]
Caprese Polenta Stacks
Caprese salad – that super-simple, utterly addictive Italian combination of tomatoes, mozzarella and basil is such a big part of the French summer food experience that it’s p [...]
Ranch Dressing Chez Moi
Living abroad for an extended period of time inevitably means missing—and craving—many foods you once took for granted. Many wouldn’t even make your top ten list of favorite [...]
Frisée Salad with Lardons
If you've had one, is there anything better than a salade frisée aux lardons – the French bistro classic that’s a tangle of frisée lettuce tossed with bacon (lardons), shallo [...]
Zucchini Ribbon Salad
For the past four summers, I’ve been doing cooking demonstrations at a local farmers’ market. The conditions are lovely—extraordinarily good produce, cheese, meats, and cider [...]
Fresh Pea and Herbed Goat Cheese Tartines
With weather so good it makes me want to spend every last minute I can outside, my meals tend to be foods I can carry to one of the benches on the boardwalk by the water. (Th [...]