Loads of alluring plates of meals for chilly months are what the cooking instructor Susan Herrmann Loomis, who is predicated in France, supplies in her new ebook, “Plat du Jour.” The seasonally centered recipes are principally center-of-the-plate fare, together with rooster braised in wine with leeks and cream, scallops with celery root purée, basic beef bourguignon, Basque lamb and candy pepper stew, and even some vegetable showstoppers like potato and chive soufflé, and endive and leek gratin. A beautiful salad relying on flat parsley for greens, with olives and almonds, is one in all a number of fitted to winter. The eggplant and tomato tart waits for an additional season. Easy, particular person apple tarts are among the many desserts to encourage the baker year-round. The recipes are accompanied by intelligent ideas, in French “astuces.” The carbonnade of beef recipe may use this one, inform the cook dinner to return the seared meat to the casserole as soon as the pot is prepared for the oven, which, in an enhancing slip-up, it neglects to do.
“Plat du Jour: French Dinners Made Straightforward” by Susan Herrmann Loomis (Countryman Press, $30).
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