Scallops and Vanilla?

Yes. It’s a combination made somewhere near heaven. It came about through serendipity. A friend stopped to visit, and brought with him a large, heavy bag of scallops in the shell. (He’s a fishmonger).  I had lightly salted butter in my fridge along with (unusually I admit), the seeds from half a vanilla bean that I […]

Cooking Among the Stars

Cooking and teaching French cuisine in Los Angeles is more fun than I could have imagined! For one thing, I’m in the home of Cathy and Steve Arkle high on the hill in Studio City, and the view from the kitchen over San Fernando Valley stretches to heaven.  The mornings are overcast and cool and, […]

Vanilla Sugar

A house without a cookie is a sad place indeed, I thought as I pulled the vanilla sugar from its drawer, got the hunk of unsalted butter from the fridge, and began to measure flour and salt. I had a hankering for a sablé, a tender butter cookie ideal to offer to the unexpected guest, […]

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