FFwD: Roast Chicken for Les Paresseux

This week, for French Fridays with Dorie, I made the Roast Chicken for Les Paresseux. (Les Paresseux means "lazy people".)

In keeping with the theme, I think I will be one of those "les paresseux" and make this a short and sweet post. In a word, the chicken was delicious. It was also moist and full of taste from the variety of spices, garlic, and of course, salt and pepper. Dorie definitely has the roasting of chickens down to a "T".

If you'd like to see the recipe, you won't find it posted (sorry, them's the rules) but you can turn to Dorie Greenspan's book "Around my French Table".

Later, alligator!

FFWD: Vietnamese Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup

Up this week for French Fridays with Dorie is Vietnamese Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup.

I know it doesn't look like much, does it?

Don't let the simple look of this soup fool you, though. It was packed with flavor galore. Coconut milk, onion, garlic, cilantro, coriander, peppercorn, and lime - they're all in there.

And it was fantastic!

I followed the recipe except for a few minor deviations. First were the noodles... I couldn't find either rice vermicelli or Chinese egg noodles, so I used what I had on hand. My Thai friend calls these bean threads or cellophane noodles.


Aren't they cool? They're almost see through. Never mind that they have no taste whatsoever, but they have a fun, chewy texture.


The only other change, besides leaving out the chilies, was that I whizzed the broth with my immersion blender. Why? I don't know... just felt like it.

OK, that's it for this week. If you'd like to see the recipe, for this month only, you can find it on the FFwD site, or Dorie Greenspan's book "Around My French Table".