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Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours
By Dorie Greenspan, Alan Richardson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2010
caramel-topped semolina cake : page 438
This is a simple, interesting and quite tasty dessert. Essentially, it's a Cream of Wheat cake, with a flavour and texture somewhat like a cross between a flan and rice pudding. It's moist and eggy. If you like either of those, I'll guarantee you'll like this.
It's quite simple to make, and fairly quick - after you make the Cream of Wheat following the package directions, you stir in sugar and vanilla, then beaten eggs and vanilla when it's cooled. Caramel in a pot quickly and then on the bottom of the cake pan with the batter on top.
It doesn't keep very well (maybe a day at most), and mine was a bit less firm and had less caramel than the picture in the book, but it was a hit, and I could easily see doing it again.
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Savory Cheese and Chive Bread : page 34
I made this for brunch this morning, taking into account aj's notes from the previous review. I made sure there were lots of chives, skipped the walnuts, measured the cheese by weight to be sure I was putting enough in, and for good measure added some left over caramelized onions (about 1/3 cup). I also mixed the cheese up a little, adding 1 ounce of gruyere and 1 of parmesan I wanted to use up from the fridge.
The result was quite cheesy, nice and savory and went very well with our brunch. Even though I used a lot of chives, it could easily have had more - without the onions it might have been missing flavor - in the recipe she suggests scallions as an alternative, and I'm sure they'd be nice too. Also I found that adding the sharper cheeses intensified the flavour. I'll definitely be making this again.
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