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Friday, March 29, 2019

Dorie Days in March 2019

Well, no one is reading this blog anyway, lol, since the group long since finished the Around My French Table with Dorie Greenspan.

I am here to play catch-up.....I have 3 pics for the last 3 weeks of March (first recipe I posted separately).

Beggars Linguine - a surprisingly good pasta dish as Dorie promised.  This was a girls night dinner, wine, and a movie!
Salt and Butter Break-ups - I'd call that one a huge shortbread cookie, pretty good.  I burned it terribly because I was cooking food at the same time.  I should have used my airbake and kept a better eye on it.  I cut the burnt part off and hubby snacked on this over the week with his coffee. 
Orange Caramel Scallops and Ginger Carrots - Just loved this scallop dish, I used local fresh sea scallops, I think it's my favorite shell fish.  Dorie suggested that the gingered carrots were a perfect accompaniment to the scallops and I hadn't made them yet so I did! This was our Friday night dinner.




Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Back to Dorie.......8 years later! Savory Cheese & Chive Bread (originally scheduled for 3/2011)

Hello, out there!  My fellow 'Dorians' have long finished the cookbook and have moved on but not me!  I took a break, several years in fact, but decided that I wanted to continue cooking my way through 'Around My French Table' by Dorie Greenspan.

So it's March!  It's been cold this week!  Good time for warm, freshly baked bread so I was happy when I looked at the list of recipes that I hadn't done yet and bread was at the top.  This one was from March 2011!

Savory Cheese & Chive Bread
Page 35

Not the best angle, I admit (forgot how to rotate pics in the blog).
I used a goat's milk hard cheese and freeze-dried chives.  It's a dense, cheesy, chivy, savory bread that reminds me of cornbread.  I like it as a snack.  Good with a cup of tea or coffee or milk!

So starts my lonely blogging journey as I resume my cooking adventures with Dorie.  
Full disclosure:  I got to missing it and the other bloggers that I went online to try to find the group but no such luck.  So I googled for other cookbook blogger groups.  I found just one-it's a Wok Wednesday blogger group based on the 'Breath of a Wok' cookbook.  So even though I bought the cookbook and have the not-recommended nonstick wok (it's by a well-known cook though I can't recall his name at the moment) I still was feeling nostalgic about my Dorie group and book.

So here I am!