French Country Cooking: Meals and Moments from a Village in the Vineyards by Mimi Thorisson

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    • Categories: Pies, tarts & pastries; Dessert; French
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; egg yolks; vanilla beans; butter; apples
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  • Brioche

    • ChelseaP on July 08, 2022

      Have made this many times. A lovely recipe with the subtle hint of orange blossom. Not sure how traditional it is because most other recipes seem to have a lot more butter but we really love it, especially toasted with ricotta and jam.

  • Pumpkin quiche with bacon

    • Charlotte_vandenberg on December 26, 2022

      Very tasteful, I wondered to make it vegetarian, but I’m glad I didn’t leave out the pancetta.

  • Black pig pork chops

    • Rajcakes on December 30, 2023

      Cook shallots after pork chops are finished or nearly finished

  • Turbot with vin jaune sauce

    • Frogcake on September 19, 2024

      A lovely simple recipe for fish. I made this using a two pound salmon. The vin jaune sauce is delicious, worth remembering. I roasted vegetables to eat alongside the whole fish, which I served “family style”. The vegetables included potato wedges, eggplant, zucchini, red onions and leek pieces, and quartered mushrooms. (I braised everything in butter, seasoned with salt and pepper, and tarragon.) Served with baguette to capture every drop of the sauce!

  • Poulet-au-pot

    • seanwebelos on October 08, 2017

      This came out very nicely, my French husband was surprised with this "fancy" poule au pot. Definitely more of a project-cooking dish, which is what I was expecting. A few things: I had entirely too much stuffing and was upset that I had wasted so much ham and bacon. More importantly, I feel like there's a mistake with the mushroom sauce or I am doing something completely wrong: how does 6 tbsp butter, 1/3 cup of broth, and a whopping 3/4 cup of flour make a sauce!? This immediately thickened up into a pasty dough. Mimi says to add a bit more broth to thin if needed-- I needed at least 4 more cups before it would thin enough to be considered a sauce! Still ended up tasty though :)

  • Walnut cake

    • Cati on July 05, 2017

      Very good, but I need to try and get 7" bundt tin. I only had a 9" so it was not as thick as it should have been and I had to reduce cooking time because of this. Now it is indexed I will make more recipes from this book.

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  • Food52

    ...the book is as much about the home at the center of it as the recipes ensconced within.

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  • ISBN 10 0147530377
  • ISBN 13 9780147530370
  • Published Oct 25 2016
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 336
  • Language English
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Countries Canada
  • Publisher Appetite by Random House

Publishers Text

In this lavishly photographed, stunning cookbook, Mimi Thorisson--inspired by her family's move to a new home, a massive old stone building that once housed a restaurant and inn--takes readers on a captivating trip to off-the-beaten-path French wine country with 100 simple yet exquisite recipes inspired by the characters who inhabit their quaint village.


Readers everywhere fell in love with Mimi Thorisson, her family, and their band of smooth fox terriers through her blog, Manger, and debut cookbook, A Kitchen in France. In French Country Cooking, the family moves to an abandoned hôtel particulier, and--through shopping for local ingredients, cooking, and renovating their house--meets the famers and artisans who populate their new village and learns about the former owner of their house, an accomplished local cook. Here are recipes inspired by this eccentric cast of characters, including Ham and Cheese Feuilleté, Wine Harvest Pot au Feu, Asparagus Gratin, and Apricot Beignets. Featuring 150 evocative photographs taken by Mimi's husband, Oddur Thorisson, this cookbook is a charming jaunt to an untouched corner of France that has thus far eluded the spotlight.

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