This is it! The everyday French cookbook you’ll truly cook from, night after night. Grounded in the wisdom of classical French cooking, yet updated for today,
Everyday French Cooking
emphasizes easy technique, simple food, and speedy preparation of French cuisine without sacrificing taste.
Too often, French cooking evokes images of fine dining at ornate restaurants where a small army of chefs hover over sauces for hours, employing precision technique, special utensils, and obscure ingredients to craft elegant dishes. But this image of French cooking bears little resemblance to the way real French families eat. The French, like their American counterparts, want
healthy and delicious food made quickly from easy-to-find ingredients
using typical, everyday utensils.
From modern takes on classic French dishes
—like fish meunière and boeuf bourguignon—
to recipes for the kind of cooking found in typical French homes today
,
goes beyond a typical cookbook to include engaging
anecdotes
local color
, and
keen insights
about French home kitchens, as well as
tips
tricks
shortcuts
to make French cooking accessible to any home cook. Dozens of beautiful finished-food photographs will further inspire you to cook fresh, vivid everyday French food any night of the week. Enjoy making, sharing, and savoring simple French recipes including:
Melty Goat Cheese Salad with Honey and Pine Nuts
Scallop Chowder with
Fines Herbes
Any-Day Chicken Sauté
Steak with Cherry and Red Wine Sauce
Pork Chops with Mustard-Caper Sauce
Simple Beef Stew from Provence
Roasted Salmon with Leeks, Wine, and Garlic
Classic French Pizzas
Strawberry-Caramel Crèpes with Mascarpone Cream
Chocolate Pot de Crème
Lemon Curd Crème Brûlée
Time-pressed cooks will especially appreciate the entire chapter of
main-dish recipes that can be made in 30 minutes or less
. Indeed, this book proves, again and again, that the joys of the French table are open to everyone. You can live modestly and cook simply, yet dine splendidly, night after night.