Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. What does the word, "quenelles" bring to mind? If anyone is like me, not much, but once … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Quenelles
Cooking With the French Chef: Feasting On the Remains
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. It's the holiday season! Woo hoo! The natural question for everyone during this season of large dumb … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Feasting On the Remains
Cooking With the French Chef: Steaks And Hamburgers
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. Beef. It's what's for dinner. If that phrase brings up a certain series of commercials from the … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Steaks And Hamburgers
Cooking With the French Chef: Genoise Cake
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. Genoise Cake. It sounds like a song. It's also rather intimidating, because it's another case of everything … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Genoise Cake
Hanging Out In Julia Child’s Kitchen
"Julia Child's kitchen" is a truly magical phrase, right up there with "Aladdin's cave" or "the lost city of Atlantis." Or maybe even "Powell's City of Books," but I digress. Anyway, America has plenty of iconic chefs, and after Hannah Glass, Amelia Simmons, and Fannie Farmer, Julia Child is a towering presence in more ways … Continue reading Hanging Out In Julia Child’s Kitchen
Cooking With the French Chef: Improvisation
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. Sooner or later, as we all know, something won't go according to plan, and obviously the kitchen … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Improvisation
Cooking With the French Chef: Fish Mousselines
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. Welp. I decided after last month's misadventure that Julia owed us dinner. Problem is, my budget is … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Fish Mousselines
Tea In Wonderland
Probably the most infamous scene in Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland is the Mad Tea Party, and we all know how it happens. Alice comes upon the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Doormouse, sits down to have tea with them, and is rather put out at their rudeness. Here's an audio version of … Continue reading Tea In Wonderland
Cooking With the French Chef: Strawberry Tarts
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. Fruit tarts are both intriguing and intimidating. No matter the season, there they sit in the bakery … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Strawberry Tarts
Judy Garland, Mystery Sleuth
Cash-ins, of course, are nothing new, and in 1945 Judy Garland was able to add another item to her resume. Well, sort of. In Judy Garland and the Hoodoo Costume, the former Dorothy Gale became an unwitting mystery sleuth. The author, Kathryn Heisenfelt, is more mysterious than her books and her books are all kinds of … Continue reading Judy Garland, Mystery Sleuth
Cooking With the French Chef: Timbales
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. What does the word, "timbales" make you think of? It doesn't signal food to me. I don't … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Timbales
Cooking With the French Chef: Great Beginnings and More Great Beginnings
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. I don't know about anyone else, but appetizers aren't something I've really considered before, because a lot … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Great Beginnings and More Great Beginnings
Cooking With the French Chef: Bouillabaise a la Marsellaise
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. Bouillabaisse is almost as intimidating as paella. I don't know why. Maybe it's because so much of … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Bouillabaise a la Marsellaise
Cooking With the French Chef: The Mushroom Show
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. Who likes mushrooms? I love 'em. Portabellos, creminis, buttons, morels, oyster, shiitakes, whatever. Anything but the magic … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: The Mushroom Show
Cooking With the French Chef: 2024 Recap and Ranking
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. Since it's the beginning of 2025, I thought it would be fun to look back at the … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: 2024 Recap and Ranking
Cooking With the French Chef: French Crepes
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. We all know crepes are wonderful, whether sweet or savory. There are so many possibilities and so … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: French Crepes
Cooking With the French Chef: Chocolate Mousse
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I review episodes of Julia Child’s original show, cook out of the new edition of the French Chef Cookbook and share the results with you. Past posts can be found here. After our rather explosive time of it with the chicken and rice last month, my son suggested … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Chocolate Mousse
Taking Up Room 