FFwD Hachis Parmentier

 This weeks recipe for French Fridays is Hachis Parmentier.  What is that you ask?  Well, I think that it can best be described as a French Shepherds Pie.  This is a very simple dish of meat (I used  cubed steak and spicy sausage) topped with creamy mashed potatoes. You can even use leftover beef.  My family loved this and I think that yours will too.

Vietnamese Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup

Welcome to my first edition of French Fridays with Dorie. I am very excited to begin cooking through Dorie Greenspan's new book, Around My French Table. I am also a little apprehensive at the same time. I love to bake, but to be honest, I'm not a very good cook. This will be an opportunity to try lots of new things and improve my cooking skills. We will see.

This weeks recipe is Vietnamese Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup and it was picked by Dorie herself. It's one of those recipes that I would have never picked, but I thought that it was very tasty. The list of ingredients is rather long but the soup comes together very easily and is ready to eat in less than a hour. The soup is very flavorful but I didn't think that it was all that spicy. Overall I was very pleased with the results.