The French Laundry Cookbook, One Recipe at a Time
Unable to get a reservation at Thomas Keller's French Laundry, Carol decided to make her way through his French Laundry Cookbook instead, one recipe at a time. She's blogging it, of course—complete with photos of the process from mise en place to finished product—so you can follow her escapades at French Laundry at Home.
The project is a lovely idea, but the thing that really makes it work is that Carol is a fantastic writer with a great sense of humor and is unafraid of sharing her frustrations when things go awry. Last week she made the candied apple dessert from the book, which turned out to be a success taste-wise, but found the experience of making it so tedious that she warns, "Do NOT try this dish if you are busy. Or not busy. Or have a life. Oh yes, you may look at the recipe, scrutinize the three pages it takes up in the book, and think, "Well of course I can do this over three days, with just doing a little bit here and there like the book suggests." Yeah, I dare you. Call me if you can do it and not be annoyed." [via The Grinder]
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3 Comments:
Not that I count for anything, but I recommend this site as a fun read. It's one of my every-few-days check-ins. It's a very cool idea, and being executed nicely. I'm pretty sure Ruhlman mentioned it a ways back on his site as well.
Nice to see Carol getting some SE love now. Keep it up y'all!
corycm at 1:14PM on 05/10/07
Thanks for the post on this site, had never heard of it before today, and have sadly since I saw it on here, been catching up on what she has done. There you go a whole morning spent reading it, not that it is a bad thing, I just haven't actually done any work since I came in!!!
Great blog and highly recommend it to anyone :)
Sarahrm at 3:03PM on 05/10/07
Thanks for the shout-out!
French Laundry at Home at 3:38PM on 05/10/07