Cooking with Everyday Dorie Greenspan

We met Dorie Greenspan

Dorie Greenspan’s bold Summer Vegetable Tian jumped out at me from her EVERDAY DORIE book. And no wonder: Roger Vergé the brilliant Provençal chef influenced this slow roasted dish. And so Dorie inspired me: I have had his book forever, just to admire, after meeting him and eating his eating his complex dishes! 

Melissa’s provides my produce and spice inspirations. They put the polish on this rustic dish. It was a challenge because the tomatoes, onions and eggplant are the same size disc, but not the zucchini! 

Dorie is encouraging and flexible about cooking utensils and since I don’t own a tian (yet) I used a tart pan case, blind- baking it first. 

Dorie Greenspan, a columnist for the New York Times Magazine, was inducted into the James Beard Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America and has won five James Beard Awards and two Cookbook of the Year Awards from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Her thirteen cookbooks include the just-published Everyday Dorie, Dorie’s Cookies and Baking Chez Moi, both New York Times bestsellers, Around My French Table and Baking: From My Home to Yours.  You can find her at doriegreenspan.com