Crack Open The New Cookbook!

The first recipe from 'Around My French Table' is My Go-To Beef Daube on page 244. The recipe was really easy except that I don't have a dutch oven so I substituted a large baker's crock.

I split the daube into two crocks so we could have leftovers. Here is the larger one after I took it out of the oven. It looks dry in the picture but it was very moist and the beef melted in my mouth.

I also made Gougere on the side (page 4). I followed the recipe exactly and worried that the dough was too wet. Next time I will thicken it up.

Both recipes will be keepers at our table.

By the way, there were no leftovers in either crock.