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What happens when the Dad next door meets Julia Child

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Things were a bit dicey.

I wanted a starchy side dish to go with the entree I'd made but wanted something fairly easy since I'd be spending a fair amount of time...

Mmmmmmmm...

The other day we bought a bag of onions that had the absolute largest onions I've ever seen! Not exaggerating, these things were...

Popeye approved.

If you want to be "strong to the finich" because you eat your spinach, this recipe will do the trick. Epinards a la Mornay, Gratines...

Turning the world updside down!

It was time to conquer my fear of pastry shells. Months ago I made a quiche and didn't have a lot of fun making the pastry shell for it...

Rolling past the century mark...

I had a day off, and it coincided with an historic event in culinary history, so I decided to tackle a recipe that was a bit more epic. ...

Simple, yet elegant...

Have you ever watched the TV show "Nailed It?" The idea is, amateur cooks compete to tr and replicate a dish that a professional chef...

Never bean better!

I took lots of pictures this time to make this look like it was a lot of work, which it wasn't. Haricots Verts a la Creme ("Creamed...

Where's the beef?

A French hamburger? Did you think hamburgers are German? That would only be if you are a person living in Hamburg, Germany. The...

Healthy French Food?

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus! Along with Santa Claus there is also a healthy French dish. Hard to believe since it seems that...

Whose calling me chicken?

This recipe seemed pretty straightforward...Supremes De Volaille A Brun (Chicken Breasts Sauteed in Butter with Brown Deglazing Sauce)...

These are sprouting up everywhere!

Looking for a quick and simple vegetable side dish? Here ya go! I took a lot of photos (below) just to make it look complicated but...

A quick, easy...and boring...sauce.

Let's say you're having friend over for breakfast, or having a simple vegetable for lunch, and you want to impress them by making...

These aren't your mother's pancakes.

I've been trying to come up with the correct adjective to describe these and I'm really having trouble. Wow! Outstanding! Yummmmm! ...

Easy cheesy.

Did you ever feel like cooking something you've never made before, like chicken fricassee, and then discover while reading the recipe...

Souffle - The easy way!

Chef Jacques Pepin was a good friend of Julia Childs and, as it turns out, he's got some cooking videos out on YouTube. Oh, wait,...

Foundue - Not just a dipping sauce.

If you're one of those people who, like me, thought foundue was a pot of warm cheese sitting at your table waiting for you to dip in...

Kimchi Fried Rice - Definitely not French...

I'm pretty sure you won't find this in any French cookbook but it is something I know how to make and thought I'd share it with you now...

Sylvie joined us for dinner.

I'm trying to find the right words to describe this one...delicious isn't the right word. Perhaps scrumptious would be closer. This was...

An Instant Success!

This certainly isn't a recipe in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" but I have to think she would have approved. After...

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