Tagged with bon appetit …

March Best Bites

March Best Bites

March Best Bites March was cooler than usual, which meant I could still enjoy my favorite wintry dishes. I started the month with the eye round roast pictured below, a recipe I used in my March In The Kitchen column in the Packet (recipe in link). It was a smashing success, and I enjoyed the roast … Continue reading →

Recipe of the Month – Tartiflette

Recipe of the Month – Tartiflette

Recipe of the Month – Tartiflette I read about this dish, which was new to me, in a memoir by a transplanted American living in France. (Samantha Vérant’s book, How To Make a French Family, is coming out in April.) Rather than try to save the recipe in the eBook, I clipped two other recipes from the … Continue reading →

Pie Mania!

I had a blast judging pie at last weekend’s Pi Day festivities in Princeton.   We gathered at the Nassau Inn, a few of us “pros,” and a few (very!) knowledgeble food folks from the local community.  We pros judged the five pies that the restaurants and markets created, while the others judged the ten (!) pies … Continue reading →

Pi[e] Day Rules! (or measures…)

Got Pie?  As part of the 2011 Princeton Pi Day festivities, there is a pie-judging contest.  That takes place at the Nassau Inn on March 13, and your’s truly will be judging along with several other local culinary “luminaries”!  Home bakers should submit their family favorite pie recipe by March 1 to lillipies@yahoo.com.  Selected pies will be … Continue reading →

Vive la France!

You gotta love the French.  Their idea of convenience food is pretty great.  I found these pre-made chocolate filled crepes at Bon Appetit in the Princeton Shopping Center.  They had an apple version, too. The ingredients aren’t too bad – white flour, buckwheat flour, butter, oil (non-hydrogenated), chocolate, sugar, and hazelnut paste, basically.  No preservatives. The package … Continue reading →