Easy French Hot Chocolate
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by clotilde
1M ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! If you’re one of the millions of lovebirds who embrace Valentine’s Day, you are no doubt in the throes of trying to decide just what to do this year that will be fun and unusual and romantic. May I put in a vote? Don’t go out. It’s Restaurant Goer 101 that Valentine’s Day is among the worst days of the year to eat out, and I have a much, much better idea for you: stay cooped up at home, and cook something simple but delicious. My menu suggestion would be: Start with beet hummus: it’s super easy, it’s pink, and you can spread it on littl ..read more
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Chipotle Cumin Roasted Almonds Recipe
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by clotilde
1M ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! I am ordinarily immune to the pre-holiday rush everyone talks about. I am not in charge of cooking an elaborate Christmas meal (I contribute but don’t host), I don’t attend a trillion holiday functions, and we don’t go crazy with the presents in my family, so the lead-up to the holidays isn’t significantly busier than other times of the year. For some reason though, the end of this year has felt particularly intense. Not with holiday-related stuff, but with various work projects I was striving to complete before taking a little time off ..read more
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Swedish Chocolate Balls (Chokladbollar) No-Bake, Vegan Recipe
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by clotilde
4M ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! I discovered chokladbollar, or Swedish chocolate balls, during my blissful trip to Stockholm last month. The city is peppered with cosy coffee shops that sell coffee, yes, but also pretty little sandwiches, and the kind of wholesome home-style sweets that go so well with a steaming cup of something. And though each place had a selection all its own, I soon identified a few classics you could count on finding pretty much everywhere: kardemummabullar, the Swedish cardamom rolls (also available in a cinnamon version, and sometimes chocolate ..read more
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Stuffed Lumaconi with Butternut Squash and Chestnuts Recipe
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by clotilde
4M ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! I will own up to it right then and there: I am an inveterate collector of pasta. Guilty as charged. In fine food shops and Italian markets, I love to study the different shapes and imagine which will lend themselves to smooth sauces or chunky ones. I love their names (rooster’s crests, radiators, little ears, thimbles), the traditional packaging, and the fact that, for just a few euros, I can treat myself to a package of something novel — not to mention the promise of an easy meal. Before I had children, I had to rein in my purchases, as ..read more
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Black Sesame Sablés (Shortbread) Recipe
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by clotilde
4M ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! After last week’s events in Paris, it’s not so easy to break the silence here. Writing about news and politics isn’t what I do, and I suspect it’s not what brings you here either, yet I can’t not acknowledge what has happened. In the wake of these senseless, horrifying acts, which only reinforce the great concerns I have about the world we’re building and the society I live in, I choose to see the silver lining: how French men and women came together in historic numbers in the immediate aftermath, and how much international support has p ..read more
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Yogurt Cake Recipe
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by clotilde
3y ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! Gâteau au yaourt Maxence is a big advocate of the adage “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. In other words, when a classic recipe is fabulous, don’t meddle with it, and just do what you’re told. Obviously I have trouble following that piece of advice, and more often than not I’ll surrender to the urge and tweak a little something here and a little something there — substitution is my middle name. Photography by Céline de Cérou. But Maxence had been craving the glorious simplicity of a French yogurt cake for a while (his grandmother’s gât ..read more
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Lentil Kohlrabi Salad Recipe
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by clotilde
4y ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! This is the salad I made for lunch the day I moved out of my apartment and into my next-door neighbor’s. It’s not what you think. Maxence and I have decided that our kitchen and living room — which are, in fact, in the same room — needed a facelift, and after months of imagining, planning, and gathering our strength, it looks like it is finally happening. It’s anybody’s guess how long it’s all going to take — you know how it is — but at this point we have just come out of the phase that consisted in us boxing up our stuff and cramming it ..read more
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Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
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by clotilde
4y ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! If I can share this recipe for perfect chocolate chip cookies today, it’s because I’ve always enjoyed the food sections of American newspapers, these pull-out pages that appear in the regular edition on a given day of the week (usually Wednesday) to cover local food and drink news, with recipes. Not all of them have the same standards or budget, and I am told the good ones are an endangered species, but between the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Oregonian, the ..read more
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Chocolate Buckwheat Pound Cake Recipe
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by clotilde
4y ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! I love pound cakes, or quatre-quarts* in French. As a child, I went through a phase of eating Breton pound cake for breakfast day in, day out. I’m talking about supermarket pound cake, baked in long yellow logs and wrapped in soft paper. I liked it on the stale side, so I sliced it in advance, and let it age three to four days. I was an affineur of pound cake if you will. I only recently discovered the beauty of homemade pound cake, and it has become one of my could-make-it-blindfolded cakes, in rotation with my French yogurt cake. You k ..read more
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Green Quiche with Walnuts Recipe
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by clotilde
4y ago
Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! For the past couple of months, my weekly vegetable allotment has included big bags of salad greens, oftentimes the scratchy and flavorful kind such as frilly mustard leaves or peppery mizuna or a mix of both. We love to eat those dressed in a classic vinaigrette or a cooked shallot vinaigrette. But there’s only so much salad even I can eat before green tendrils start growing out of my ears — and only so many days these greens can spend in the crisper before they lose their pert. So I devised this green quiche recipe with walnuts to use u ..read more
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