French Fridays: Coconut Friands

Coconut friands, you were pretty delicious. I love all that coconut taste. And you were so small that I ate a lot of you. I'm not sure that I think of you as more that a mini muffin, but we can call you "friand" to make us both feel elevated.

French Fridays: Cocoa Sables

I hadn't ever made slice and bake cookies until the rugelach. I guess I'm fully on the bandwagon now and I'm totally cool with that.

The dough is buttery and crumbly. It's actually a really fun dough to play with. 

And turn into a giant chocolate tube.

And then wait for 3 hours (I waited until the next day, which is hard for me).

Very cute, very delicious cookies. Mine didn't spread too much. Perfect little tea party treats, if you're into that. I made half the recipe and brought a bunch into work today so that I don't eat them all myself. Because seriously, I could.

French Fridays: Cheese souffle

These were the fussiest scrambled eggs I've ever made.

French Fridays: saint-germain-des-pres onion biscuits

"Are these from a can or did you make them?"

"I made them."

"They taste like biscuits."

I halved the recipe and had just enough to serve with baked potato soup and leftovers. I used a canning funnel to cut and loved the mini size. These were winners!

French Fridays: Roasted Salmon with Lentils

Talk about success.

1.) I am not the best fish-cooker. I get nervous and tend to overdo it. This salmon was simple and awesome and turned out beautifully.

2.) I got G to eat lentils and ask for more. That feels like a feat.

This was delicious. I drizzled a little bit of truffle oil on top. It felt decadent, but not heavy. I'd say it was a keeper!

French Fridays: Cheese-Topped Onion Soup

This took forever to make.

The recipe said to cook the onions on low and to get them to a deep caramel brown. 2 hours later, I was turning the heat up and getting them to a caramelish hue. 

This was good, but I know that we won't finish the leftovers and for me that's the telltale sign that I shouldn't make it again.