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I missed last week's Whisk Wednesday assignment for a lot of reasons I gave Shari -- all of which were true, Fearless Leader! So don...

I stood alone in the rain on a corner, holding out my hands beseechingly and saying, "Sorrel. Sorrel. Won't someone give me some so...

The first time I had French onion soup, it was made by my grandmother, who was known as Ma. She was crazy about Julia Child, so it may well ...

I want to be totally frank with you and just say right up front that if you intend to prepare and eat the Clear Soup of Madrid, be prepared ...

[ I added this post to the Whisk Wednesdays section because of the Chive Cream Sauce. -SM ] I bought some salmon filets a couple weeks ago, ...

Okay, I cheated. But I cheated with a purpose, and the purpose was to keep my husband from shouting at me with a crazy look in his eyes and ...

I've always been the type of cook who liked a plate to look nice. My mother was always a wonderful cook when I was growing up and she ta...

Back in my undergrad days at Ball State, one of my favorite things the food service came up with was known as Chicken Velvet Soup. Everybody...

The Julienne Darblay was a wonderfully easy soup to make. It made the whole house smell deliciously of promises of dinner to come, which wa...

This week's lesson was by far the hardest and our results were mixed, but not because the recipes were bad. The recipes were just fine a...

This week's assignment turned out to be very tricksy and somewhat inscrutable. Like, there is supposed to be something inside an artic...

I posted on Sunday about this assignment and the dinner that was going to go along with it, but events have transpired so that there were no...

This week, Shari, Kayte and I are working on another emulsified sauce, the famous Béarnaise. Le Cordon Bleu at Home says (on page 250) that...

I am more of a foodie-wannabe than an actual foodie, so when I relate that the Hollandaise and Sauce Moutard the girls and I made turned out...

Tomorrow will be my first Whisk Wednesday here at InsomniMom. The girls and I will be stirring up Sauce Hollandaise and Sauce Moutard. You m...