Bastille Day!

[Marlingardener]

To honor Bastille Day, we are having quiche for lunch, and salad nicoise for dinner.
What is your favorite French dish?

 

[blissful]

Lentil Mushroom Pate
https://www.davidlebovitz.com/faux-gras-foie-gras-vegetarian-lentil-mushroom-pate-recipe/

• 12 medium-sized (100g, about 1 cup) button mushrooms
• 2 tablespoons olive oil (I won't use it)
• 2 tablespoons butter, salted or unsalted (I won't use it)
• 1 small onion, peeled and diced
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
• 2 cups (400g) cooked green lentils
• 1 cup (140g) toasted walnuts or pecans (I'll cut back on this)
• 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce or tamari
• 2 teaspoons minced fresh rosemary
• 2 teaspoons fresh thyme, minced
• 2 tablespoons fresh sage or flat leaf parsley
• optional: 2 teaspoons Cognac or brandy (none in the house)
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• salt and freshly ground black pepper

Happy Bastille Day!

 

[pepperhead212]

To go with Bastille day, it is also National Grand Marnier Day! What could be a better pairing?

 

[Chief Longwind Of The North]

A famos lady (Marie Antoinette) said these famous words "Let them eat cake!). She was then confined to the Bastile until she lost her head, literally. It seems appropriate that a cake be made on Bastille day, maybe something decadent, like a devil's food cake/yellow cake marbled together, with a strawberry mirror glaze icing.

Sounds good to me.

Seeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North

 

[Whiskadoodle]

Quiche

Also croissants with plenty of butter, and for some reason I really prefer strawberry jam.

 

[blissful]

I did make the Lentil Mushroom Pate.
It is delicious on whole wheat toast. Especially good with pickles.

The next time I make a pizza, I'm going to use this on it too.

 

[taxlady]

Bliss, that "faux gras" sounds yummy. I have saved the recipe to CMT.

 

[Silversage]

Croissants. A week from Monday, I am taking a class in croissant making - in Paris!

 

[pepperhead212]

I like the idea of the lentils, to extend the paté. There is a recipe from many years ago, that I made many times, and was relatively simple, since I almost always had duxelles in the freezer.

Chicken Liver Paté

3/4 lb cleaned chicken livers
3 tb butter or chicken fat
1/3 c minced onions
1/8 tsp thyme
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp épices fines (or a generous pinch each of alspice, mace, and white pepper)
1/3 c cognac
1/3 c duxelles (optional, but I always use them)
4 oz soft butter
4 oz soft cream cheese

In a 10" sauté pan over low heat, cook onions in the butter about 10 min., or 'til soft but not brown. Add livers and seasonings, raise heat to med-high, and cook until just stiffened, about 2 min. Add cognac, heat to bubbling, and ignite. Let burn a minute, and extinguish with cover, if it burns that long. Remove from heat, and stir in the duxelles.

Cool for a while, until almost room temp, then purée in food processor (recipe was so old it said to do this in a food mill! ), then add the cream cheese, followed by the butter. Correct seasoning, and chill.

 

[Marlingardener]

Silversage, I'm having a large serving of envy for lunch. Croissant making class in Paris? We who only dream really envy you!

 

[Cooking Goddess]

Croissants. A week from Monday, I am taking a class in croissant making - in Paris!

Are you still in France? How was your croissants class? I cannot even imagine how wonderful of an experience that was.

 

[dragnlaw]

I have officially joined the drool club for making croissants.

 

[GotGarlic]

Silversage, I hope you had a wonderful time making croissants in France! [emoji632]

I have officially joined the drool club for making croissants.

I made croissants. Once. Once in a lifetime is more than enough [emoji16] although I might break that rule if I had the opportunity to make them in a baking class in Paris.

My tip: Turn the a/c *way down*, like to 65F. Warm croissant dough is your enemy.

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

I celebrate the same way Alice's Queen of Hearts did.