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 a little funny to see paella in what is supposedly a French cookbook, since paella is … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Paella Americaine
Cooking With the French Chef: French Onion Soup
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. Yep, this time we're making one of the Quintessential French recipes, French Onion Soup! Who doesn't love … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: French Onion Soup
Cooking With the French Chef: Brains, Aspic, and Other Gross Stuff
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 like to wax lyrical about Julia Child, but there are some recipes of hers I … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Brains, Aspic, and Other Gross Stuff
Cooking With the French Chef: Reine de Saba 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. Next to Beouf Borguignon, Julia's Queen of Sheba cake seems to be one of her most famous … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Reine de Saba Cake
Cooking With the French Chef: Coquilles Saint-Jacques
Welcome back to Cooking With the French Chef, in which I make recipes from the new edition of Julia Child's French Chef Cookbook and review episodes of Julia's original TV series, The French Chef. Past installments can be found here. Coquilles Saint-Jacques is a dish I've been wanting to make for a long time but never … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Coquilles Saint-Jacques
Cooking With the French Chef: Boeuf Bourguignon
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. Our first official installment! This month's recipe is a no-brainer: Since Julia made Boeuf Bourguignon … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Boeuf Bourguignon
Cooking With the French Chef: Introduction
Et voilá, here's a new series! As of today, it's sixty-one years since Julia Child's peerless first show, The French Chef premiered, and a few months ago a fancy new edition of The French Chef cookbook became available. Naturally, I want to review it, but instead of publishing one post with the results of a … Continue reading Cooking With the French Chef: Introduction
Page To Screen: Julie & Julia
It's been ten years since Nora Ephron's swan song, Julie and Julia. It was an ambitious film for her and it also wasn't, because it features expected and loved Ephron trademarks of witty dialogue and deft character development. What's unusual for the Ephron canon is that Julie and Julia juxtaposes the lives of two unique … Continue reading Page To Screen: Julie & Julia
Taking Up Room 