French vegetarian recipes

Potatoes With Parsley and Garlic - Pommes Parsillade

These are the fantastic potatoes you've probably had in a french bistro...the ones that weren't pommes frites…

Perfect French Side Salad

This is a simple tasting but wonderful side salad. The ingredients listed are not that easy to find, but you should feel free to substitute other…

Potato and Sweet Potato au Gratin with Herbs

This is not the lightest recipe I've made, but it's a real treat when you are having guests and want to…

Mushrooms with Butter, Garlic and Croutons

This is a delicious and easy to make mushroom dish. It tastes as good as fancy stuffed mushrooms, but is half…

Miner's Mush

My French Canadian grandma used to make this for my dad and all his siblings. It has become a Jordan family staple. I like it with the anise, but…

Sauteed Spinach with Garlic

This is a delicious and healthy dish that takes 5 minutes to make and goes with almost anything--asian, mediterranean or american. Barefoot…

Lentil Salad with Chevre

This salad looks great presented in a butter leaf lettuce cup with a bit more chevre sprinkled on top. You can also use yellow lentils.

Baked Goat Cheese Salad

This is a delicious and easy to make salad that is adapted from Martha Stewart. We skip a few steps to make it much more convenient, but if you're…

Sweet Apple Crepes

Garlic Vinaigrette

Garlic vinaigrette is the dressing I make most often. The quantities that follow are only an approximate guide because garlics, vinegars, and oils…

Rosemary Crepes with Goat Cheese and Wilted Greens

This is a special and delicious dish. It requires some effort, but it is well worth it! You need to make the…

Potato puree

Potato puree

Bouquet garni

Bouquet garni you COULD JUST TIE THESE LEAVES AND SPRIGS INTO A BUNCH, THEN TOSS THE SEEDS INTO THE POT, BUT WE PREFER TO MAKE THEM INTO A…

My Old-Fashioned Delicious Red Velvet Cake

The colorful history of red velvet cake recipe dates back to the 1940s. It is said that the recipe was actually…

VICHYSSOISE, CLASSIC -- NOT REALLY

The last time I made vichyssoise was about 14 years ago. It was one of the (very) few dishes I made that was…