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Around My French Table
Review: Around My French Table

Review: Around My French Table

Recommending this book is a no-brainer and I predict that it will become a classic. It will earn coveted real-estate in many bookshelves and will be a cookbook today's children will remember as one of the ones that was out on the countertop often during their...

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Kate | Nov 14, 2010 | 9

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Around My French Table: Pumpkin Stuffed with Everything Good

Around My French Table: Pumpkin Stuffed with Everything Good

I wanted to make this recipe anyway but then on Friday night I was driving through some inexplicably bad traffic (honestly, does no one remember 1982 when were legally granted to ability to turn RIGHT ON RED???) when suddently, I heard Michele Norris' voice on...

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Kate | Nov 11, 2010 | 5

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Around My French Table: Souffle

Around My French Table: Souffle

A true rite of passage: I made my first souffle.  And I see the world differently now.  Mostly because I measure time in terms of how much of it will elapse between souffles. Souffle needs to fire its PR agency.  It has allowed itself to be placed, in popular...

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Kate | Nov 5, 2010 | 10

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Around My French Table: A Complete Dinner

Around My French Table: A Complete Dinner

    You know a cookbook is good when you have to tell yourself to stop cooking from it and move on to another project.    But before I do, let me tell you about the entire meal I made from this book and and the friends I served it to.    First, meet Mo and...

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Kate | Nov 2, 2010 | 7

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Around My French Table: Marie-Helene’s Apple Cake

Around My French Table: Marie-Helene’s Apple Cake

  Don't you just love saying "Marie Helene" with a heavy French accent?  It's almost as good as "bouche de noel," or ""mise en place" or "recherche du temps perdue." This is such a simple, satisfying and forgiving dish.  You can use any kind of apples you...

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Kate | Oct 31, 2010 | 2

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Around My French Table: Cafe Salle Pleyel Hamburgers

Around My French Table: Cafe Salle Pleyel Hamburgers

  As you may recall, hamburgers are one of the very few things I need to be happy.  And I typically don't like "fancy" burgers. I suspect it must be powerfully tempting to mess with the basics, especially if you're a restaurateur and want your burger to get...

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Kate | Oct 28, 2010 | 7

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Around My French Table: Hachis Parmentier

Around My French Table: Hachis Parmentier

Every now and then you find a recipe that speaks to you on an entirely different level.  A recipe that you think about long after you've eaten it. A recipe that, should it transmorgify into human form, would give your spouse a serious run for his or her money. ...

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Kate | Oct 22, 2010 | 18

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Around My French Table: Spicy Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup

Around My French Table: Spicy Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup

One of the reasons I was intrigued by this book is that Dorie promises to bring us contemporary recipes from France -- what real French people are cooking today. Not surprisingly, Vietnamese food is common and she says that this soup is ubiquitous. This soup is...

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Kate | Oct 15, 2010 | 5

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Around My French Table: Beatrix’s Red Kuri Soup

Around My French Table: Beatrix’s Red Kuri Soup

The 80-degree temps seem to be over and I no longer feel foolish making things like hearty soups. I hate being seasonally out of sync so this is quite a relief. Dorie says that this is a beloved soup in France. Traditionally made with a Red Kuri squash which is...

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Kate | Oct 13, 2010 | 3

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Around My French Table: Gerard’s Mustard Tart

Around My French Table: Gerard’s Mustard Tart

I admit that the thought of a "mustard tart" did not make me drool. I like mustard but in very small doses. It seems to be a big flavor bully and makes everything you put it in taste like mustard. But I am participating in "French Fridays with Dorie, " in which we...

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Kate | Oct 7, 2010 | 11

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The Next Book: Around My French Table, by Dorie Greenspan

The Next Book: Around My French Table, by Dorie Greenspan

  If you look at the top of this page you will see one of Dorie Greenspan's books, Baking: From My Home to Yours, in the book shelf. I bought that book on the recommendation of people I trusted and it quickly became one of my favorites (try the "World Peace...

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Kate | Oct 5, 2010 | 8

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