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Despite the Grand Dorista Powers That Be trying to be kind with their choices of assignments from "Around My French Table" by Dorie Greenspan due to the holiday season, I have been too lazy or just unable to participate much. I managed recently to cook up these three dishes as my time allowed and so I can share them with you in this catch up post, haiku style of course.
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Cheez-it-sh Crackers
Recipe found HERE - Other FFwD posts can be found HERE.
Sublime cheese crackers
Appear to be guileless, but
clearly addictive
Pimente d'Espelettete
Seemed quite appropriate here
It IS Dorie, natch.
Creamy Cauliflower Soup Sans Cream
Recipe found HERE - Other FFwD posts can be found HERE.
Topped here with walnuts
Gruyere cheese and chili oil
No one misses cream
My favorite vegetable
Some might have a problem though.
Does it make you fart?
Chicken Apples and Cream á la Normande
Recipe found HERE - Other FFwD posts can be found HERE.
Apples? Calvados?
Those creamy sauces and such
Did not want to like!
Could not help it though
I will eat this sparingly
(Normans must be fat)
These dishes were assignments for French Friday's with Dorie, a cooking group working its way through Dorie Greenspan'sculinary tome "Around My French Table". Generally we are discouraged from including the recipes in our posts. Wherever there has been significant adaptation by me or where the recipe has already been publicly posted by Ms. Greenspan or her publishers I will either include it here or provide a direct link. Please also feel free to contact me via the link provided on my page if you need any assistance finding French Friday with Dorie Recipes.
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Spaetzle best skipped, though.
Spaetzle not my thing
Deletecarby-er than I would like
Way too much white food.
Hi Trevor! I hope you had a wonderful time during the holidays! I have also been AWol from FFwD but I'll be back soon :) WoW your dishes look sublime and the haikus....as always are inspired..(especially that for the collie-soup ;) Happy New Year! !!
ReplyDeleteHi Trevor! I hope you had a wonderful time during the holidays! I have also been AWol from FFwD but I'll be back soon :) WoW your dishes look sublime and the haikus....as always are inspired..(especially that for the collie-soup ;) Happy New Year! !!
ReplyDeleteThe soup would be a good one to return to as it is so easy. I'll certainly be making it again soon. Get back to the group Maria!
DeleteCrackers are a fave
ReplyDeleteBlue cheese, cheddar, parmesan...
Made them countless times.
(Um, flatulence is
a very small price to pay
for health and flavor)
And yeah, Normans must be fat. Still have to catch up with that one, and this week's spaetzle, which is a very foreign concept for yours truly.
I found a spaetzle press in my box of gadgets. I thought it was a potato ricer. So now I have to try it but I'm not really all that excited. It just seems too odd to me but I'll give it a go because it is January and I won't be at any beaches soon.
DeleteBeautifully done x3! And entertaining x3!
ReplyDeleteThank you dear friend, x3.
DeleteI gotta make these crackers. Cheez-Its are my favorite. Sometimes, it's all I want to do: eat cheez eats and drink wine.
ReplyDeleteNot much can compare to that my friend. Make these... and then mix it up Banana Wonder style. I can't wait to make these and use up all the unused cheese bits in my fridge.
DeleteEverything looks beautiful Trevor! There is a German restaurant around here that we visit once a year with a big group and I always think "okay, ready for some brown and white food?" when we go! :) I'm gonna give the spaetzle a try but I skipped the cauliflower soup, the celery root puree, and the herbed olives cause I'm just a baby like that. I especially love the first pic of the crackers where it's all misty on the sides - lovely!
ReplyDeleteThank you Maggie. Lately I've been challenged on the photography of this gloppy food but then that is the point as well for me. Not just making the dish itself.
DeleteNo spaetzle for you?
ReplyDeleteMy husband is Austrian
This does not compute
For that soup question ...
All vegetables make me fart
I think it's worth it!
Farting can be fun
DeleteWe don't like to admit it
But we all do it.
lol!! yay for catch ups! I like your idea of cutting the mushrooms much thicker for the normande dish :)
ReplyDeleteHave a great Friday!!
oooph. I think that was the idea of the people who cut those mushrooms for me and put them into ready to eat packages at the supermarket. Its just what I had on hand...
DeleteI come for the haiku's and the cheesy crackers. Happy new year!
ReplyDeleteGreat catch up, Trevor! Your photos are gorgeous! Fun post!! Happy New Year!!
ReplyDeleteWow...3 catch-ups...I need to make those crackers which look fabulous. I've decided the French who seem to be thinner than Americans even though they eat butter and cream by the tubs really do not eat it by the tubs...they have the kind of genes that cause their hunger to be satisfied by 1 bite...that includes Dorie. Enjoyed your totally fun post!
ReplyDeleteI wan't to be like that too, don't you? Will hypnosis work for this?
DeleteI'm impressed! I've been delinquent, too.
ReplyDeleteI really can't believe you linked to a question about cauliflower & farts! My brother would be so proud!
Great post. I hope your new year is off to a wonderful start!
To cheesy crackers
ReplyDeleteI'm hopelessly addicted.
Oh so good to eat!
Nice catch up! Happy New Year!
These haiku comments
Deletenever fail in pleasing me
and bringing a smile
Crackers are gorgeous
ReplyDeleteSoup looks good, too
Me want to eat
Haiku has rules
Deletethe syllables are what's key
so then what is this?
:)
Nice catchup Trevor - I STILL can't write a Haiku to save my life - maybe a challenge for 2013? ;)
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
I shall challenge you
DeleteWe shall see your haiku soon?
I truly hope so.
Haiku here en masse
ReplyDeleteTrevor's returned with a blast.
What more could we ask?
Lovely round up. I think the spaetzle were worthy of their carb sucking allotment. Pair them with a salad and the world is balanced again.
Here is a two 'fer
DeleteHaiku and some rhyming verse
A sis boom blog first!
Awesome combined post
ReplyDeleteModeration is the key
To staying skinny.
I agree spaetzle
Is carb overload, but it's
Also most tasty.
But it tastes so good!
DeleteWho should want to moderate?
I need to learn how...
Love the crackers, not overly fond of spaetzle but I've always said that it was because I never ate any good spaetzle. Somewhere out there is a dish of it that's wonderful and I'll keep trying to like it until I get there.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Spaetzle was a disaster!
ReplyDeleteOoh ugh; a total mess-
Your crackers-what a masterpiece....
There once was a young man from Irvine"
ReplyDeleteOops. Stupid comment box.
ReplyDeleteAnyway - I love your crackers! Where did you get the recipe? :) Please tell me that the photo accompanying the article was accepted. I am now a proud father of the "awkward angle" rejection. Perhaps someday you will covet this award as well. Thanks also for the suggestion on my soupy pots. No, they were not covered. Personally, I think it was just a bad recipe and not user error. ;) The cauliflower soup looks just as nice - although next time add some cream. It's a major food group you know. Now, where is the candied cherry cooky post?
When I was a kid
ReplyDeleteMy father had a big box
Hidden just for him.
GREG
Daddy a hoarder!
DeleteThe things I learn about you
Devilish crackers...
HA!
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