Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! Yogurt Cake is a staple of French home baking: it is very easy to make and I have yet to meet someone who doesn’t like it. What’s notable about the method is that it calls for two (half-cup) tubs of yogurt, and you then use the empty tubs to measure out the rest of the ingredients. This no-scale...

Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! I am coming to you today with the beverage that will keep you cool and hydrated and energized throughout the summer. It is a sparkling honey ginger lemonade that I make with fresh ginger — infused in hot water for a few minutes — and fresh lemon juice, sweetened lightly with artisanal honey,...

Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! If you’re anything like me, you love the idea of ​​a picnic, but in practice, when someone throws the idea up in the air on a Friday night, in this beautifully spontaneous way people do, your Inner Grump awakens (“ugh, so much to organize, I have zero ideas, who’s going to do the shopping, we...

Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! Pissaladière is a specialty from Nice, in the South of France. It’s a thin-crust onion tart topped with black olives and anchovies, baked on a pizza-style dough. The name comes from pissalat (pee-sah-lah), a Provençal condiment of puréed anchovies, cloves, thyme and bay leaves that used to...

Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! In addition to planning my menus, I have been doing more and more batch cooking these past few months. The idea of batch cooking is to block out time one day of the week to prep or cook a bunch of ingredients in advance, which you can draw from and combine for low-effort homemade meals the...

Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! I attended the Omnivore festival in Paris last week, a fabulous three-day event during which inspiring chefs climb up on stage to demo dishes and talk about their cuisine, and the sentiment that was expressed by several of them mirrors my own: we are currently going through the toughest time...