My Father’s Daughter: Challah French Toast
Damn, she even makes good french toast. Her value added elements: coarse sugar (I used some demerara sugar that someone — was it you Mary Jenner? — brought me from Hawaii) and real vanilla seeds scraped from a bean. The sugar adds a really nice crunch. In my…
My Father’s Daughter: Chicken & Dumplings
Ok, this is getting scary. It’s beginning to look like Gwyneth Paltrow is a very talented cook. How could this be? Even if you think she can’t act or sing she has successful careers doing both of those things, despite your opinion. To find out she knows her way…
My Father’s Daughter: White Bean Soup
Ok skeptics, haters and nay-sayers, prepare to question your reality. This is an incredibly delicious soup. One of the best soups I’ve made all year. A soup for the ages. First you should really make Gwyneth’s vegetable stock (pg. 36) because it’s easy and…
The Next Book: My Father’s Daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow
When I threw this book out as a possibility on my Facebook page I was stunned at the visceral reaction many people had. “Anybody but Gwyneth!” for example. Or “I just want to smash her face into her own vegetable paella” (ok, I made that one up but I think it…
Review: Salad as a Meal
I can’t tell you how hopeful I was when I picked up this book. I’ve always heard enthusiastic praise of Patricia Wells and feel a profound spiritual kinship for anyone who is living my dream of running away to Paris. I am also a huge advocate of salad for dinner…