It seems fitting that I am writing about clafoutis – this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe (whole-cherry clafoutis, p 452) from Camont in Gascony, home of the fabulous Kate Hill – where I watched as she prepared the most amazing peach clafoutis exactly a year ago.
I’d never really been into clafoutis until last summer and now it’s more or less a staple (both sweet and savoury) in my kitchen. I love the versatility of the dish and especially with a sweet version, you can just add whatever fruits you like and/ or are in season. And of course, it wouldn’t be a Friday with Dorie unless there was some veering off the recipe, right? So when Dorie’s recipe called for “whole cherries”, I looked around at my fruit the day before I left for Paris and noticed that whilst I didn’t have any cherries, I did have plums and raspberries which I thought would work a treat in this dish. And they did.
There’s not really much to say about this – it’s good. It’s good warm, right after it’s baked. It’s good later on at room temperature. It’s good the next day for breakfast.
I mean, fruit, eggs, flour, sugar, milk and cream – how can you go wrong. And yes. it’s totally a breakfast food – dairy and fruit, right?
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