Author Description

French Food for Everyone is a follow-up to the best-selling In the French kitchen with kids and was inspired by the students in Mardi's online cooking classes in 2020 and 2021 when cooking classes pivoted to online platforms. Mardi's first book proved that French food is much simpler to make than many people believe (so easy even kids can make "fancy" French dishes!), and over the course of a year's worth of online classes, she noticed that it was not just kids but whole families enjoying great success with her recipes. After a few months, one of her students remarked on the "recipe book" they had created from the online class recipes and Mardi realised she had enough recipes for a whole new cookbook - French Food for Everyone was born! The book will be released a chapter at a time to enable people to get baking and cooking sooner! This second chapter showcases twelve recipes to make and enjoy for dinner. Often, when people hear "French food" they assume the recipe will be too complicated, the ingredients too hard to find, the techniques too fussy for them to attempt at home. In Mardi's first book, In the French kitchen with kids, she proved otherwise. Children and adults alike all over the world discovered that French food was easy to make at home. That good quality ingredients can be transformed with simple techniques to make delicious dishes. Ok, but what about le dîner - the main meal of the day - isn't that going to require some more complex skills? Not necessarily, even though some of them have reputations for being hard to make - (French) Onion Soup, for example. But when you look at the recipes themselves, there's nothing too complicated for a home cook. Some of the recipes (i.e. the aforementioned soup) do take time - the Daube de Boeuf is one you'll want to plan for (it's an "all afternoon to cook" meal but with very little hands-on time) but many of these recipes are simple enough to make even on a weeknigh