home for Valentine’s Day

January 29th, 2013

 

black and white, girl in wedding dress with artichoke bouquet

 

home for Valentine’s Day;
cooking for the important person or people in your life:

la blanquette d’amour

 

In honor of  Saint Valentine’s Day (a little early), I share something with you beyond a great recipe, the words of author Leo Tolstoy. It is Tolstoy’s “pursuit of life” which inspired this week’s simple pleasure: la blanquette de veau (veal stew in a white wine-crème fraîche sauce with mushrooms, pearl onions, and artichoke hearts served on garlic-rubbed toasted French bread). I also call it “blanquette d’amour” because cooking is all about what you put in the cocotte, namely, a little love with hand-chosen ingredients. Read on.

 

 black and white, girl in wedding dress with artichoke bouquet

  

Read the rest of this entry »