Flavors of sweet apple, cider, cream and chicken are brought together lovingly in this simple classic braise from the north of France. The only fancy trick is flambéing your choice of Calvados or brandy, giving the dish a toasty flavor. If you’re not the type to play with fire, a safer option is to pour…
Bread Pudding with Parmesan
Cooking Light magazine brings us this hearty casserole – a light, comforting, autumnal bread pudding. Ingredients 3 cups butternut squash (peel, dice into ½ in cubes) Cooking spray ½ teaspoon salt, divided 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 cup onion (chopped) 1 garlic clove (minced) 2 cups 1% low-fat milk 1 cup (4 ounces) Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese…
Chicken Salad with Grilled Eggplant
French by design, Chinese by flavor, this salad is a unique dish. Putting the sesame and ginger to the side, this is otherwise very much akin to a “composed salad” (salade compose) where you arrange the ingredients, dress, but don’t toss, along with grilled chicken breast and a vinaigrette on the zesty side. Heat can…
Martha Rose Shulman’s Gazpacho
The last of the tomato crop, and that last bit of hardened baguette is exactly what this recipe was designed for. The bread is what gives this gazpacho its wonderful texture. If you keep a pitcher of this ready in the refrigerator, you’ll never be short of a refreshing snack, or a quick & healthy…
Butter-Fried Oysters
There are definitely easier and faster ways to fry oysters, but we think that if you’ve bothered to make them at home, you may as well do it the best way. Definitely a little bit of a project, there’s no lying about that. Bread crumbs need to be made from a day-old French loaf. These…
Raspberry Tart with Hazelnut
When not developing Recipes for Health, Martha Rose Shulman can be found ghost writing cookbooks on pastry. If you’re already familiar with Shulman and her cookbooks on healthy eating, you may find this an intriguing yet confusing discovery. As she wrote back in 2013, Martha believes in a balanced diet, and even sweets & chocolate…
Apple Compote
The perfect accompaniment to French potato pancakes, this vanilla apple compote is sinfully delicious. Ingredients 1 tablespoon butter (unsalted) 4-6 Honeycrisp or Granny Smith apples (peel, core, cut into ½ in pieces) (Should get 6 cups from roughly 2 pounds) ¼ cup sugar (granulated) 1 vanilla pod (split in half lengthwise, and scrape out seeds)…
French Lasagne
Nigella Lawson’s French Lasagne (savory baked croissant pudding) uses up stale croissants by splitting & stuffing them with ham & cheese, before sprinkling them with more cheese, dousing them in garlic-milk infused beaten eggs. The croissants don’t need to be stale to achieve this delicious eggy, cheesy wonder. If they are fresh though, you can…
Peppers with Feta
Due to the heft of these peppers, this dish is sufficient enough to be served as a main. Extra small bell peppers are stuffed with a mild feta, and baked with a lavish handful of herbaceous bread crumbs. Although a simple dish, these peppers come with an amazingly complex taste – perfect at both room…
French 75
Popping a bottle of Champagne on New Year’s Eve & enjoying a glass is no odd occurrence, but few will take the extra step and use the wine as the foundation of this delectable cocktail. According to Raines Law Room bartender Meaghan Dorman, French 75s are bright, crisp, delicious, and ideal for New Year’s Eve….