Savory French Toast Tartines
It has been a busy couple of weeks since I was last able to shop for food. Good-busy, with lots of eating out and seeing friends, but bad-busy in the sense that a lot of food [...]
“Pièce de Résistance” Artichokes
An 80-year-old neighbor in Cancale introduced me to a revolutionary concept: Eating a whole, steamed artichoke as a main course, not just an appetizer. We were chatting about [...]
Soy-Sesame Marinated Asparagus
Oh…the happy discoveries a lazy cook can sometimes make! I put together this sauce to go with steamed asparagus for a radio segment I did on Saturday morning. (If you want to [...]
Asparagus Avgolemono Soup
It all started with trying to find a way to use the woody, fibrous ends of the asparagus I’ve been getting at the market in Saint-Malo this spring. The tips and stalks are in [...]
Homemade Custard
I grew up on this custard. My grandmother would serve it often: on its own or with pound cake and sometimes she’d bake it in small, glass custard cups until set, then top it [...]
Tender, Tomato-ey Braised Radish Tops
Here’s how much I love the way I’ve found to prepare radish leaves (and turnip and any other leafy-topped root vegetable): I actually bought FOUR bunches of radishes at the m [...]
Sardine Tarte Flambée!
On the last Friday of each month, my neighbors here on the Cancale harbor and I get together for our pot de l’amitié –a casual potluck cocktail party where everyone brings so [...]
Marc’s Chocolate Custard Tart
One of the bright spots during an otherwise dark time in my cooking career was working with Marc, a pastry chef from Tours. Marc had been brought into the French bakery/resta [...]
Strawberry Water
I didn’t even need to bookmark this idea from the Food 52 website to remember it this strawberry season… With 12 or so pounds of extremely ripe and slightly misshapen strawbe [...]