Step by step instructions for Julia Child’s Coq Au Vin recipe with stewed chicken in a rich buttery red wine sauce with sauteed mushrooms and pearl onions. Update: This recipe has since been updated for ease from Julia’s original recipe. A few changes have been to saute bacon instead of boiling and to combine the […]
Julia Child’s Ratatouille
Julia Child’s ratatouille recipe is a delicate and robust vegetable stew with tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant and layered with fresh herbs and garlic. Julia Child isn’t always all about butter and cream and this aromatic dish will prove it. She refers to it as an eggplant casserole, built upon Mediterranean flavors. I made this vegetable […]
Easy Peach Berry Clafoutis and Cookbook Updates
Well I am still cooking. And cooking…and all week I’ve been cooking. The recipe creating is the fun part, but now that I have over 50 recipes roughly written in a notebook, I am dreading going through my scratchy writing and deciphering what the heck I wrote. Save me, will you? If you know me, […]
Beef Bourguignon Pot Pie
Possibly my absolute favorite Julia Child recipe to date, beef bourguignon. I’ve made her traditional dish, with every single step timed stamped perfectly and read every single word of the recipe. It s a time sucker, but worth every single sweat bead. Then most recently, the angels must have been whispering into my husbands ear. […]
Vichyssoise Galette
I have to admit I had a difficult time trying to name this recipe. Do I keep it to the point and call it “potato and leek tart” or do I make it fancy and use hard to pronounce words to make my readers think I know that I’m talking about. Well obviously, you know […]