Any way you slice, dice or serve ’em, potatoes the quintessential side dish for any good meal. Scalloped potatoes are quite popular in the south for their amazing taste yet, ease in prep. However, this dish, commonly know by cultured chef’s as “Gratin dauphinois” traces it’s roots to French cuisine, a specialty attributed to the former Dauphiné province in Southeastern France.
Thanks to our friends at DreamWorks Pictures, we’re able to share a fabulous recipe for Gratin dauphinois from the book “Le Cordon Bleu Cuisine Foundations” on Foodie Friday to keep you well fed until the opening day of our favorite cuisine-friendly flick, The Hundred Foot Journey.
If you missed our last #FoodieFriday recipe shares, you’ll find them here:
Quiche Lorraine https://ruralmom.com/2014/06/quiche-lorraine-recipe-100footjourney.html
Omelette Aux Fine Herbes https://ruralmom.com/2014/06/omelette-aux-fine-herbes-recipe.html
Beef Bourguinon a la Hassan https://ruralmom.com/2014/05/beef-bourguinon-a-la-Hassan-Recipe.html
About the Film:
In “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, the Kadam family, led by Papa (Om Puri), settles in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. Filled with charm, it is both picturesque and elegant – the ideal place to settle down and open an Indian restaurant, the Maison Mumbai. That is, until the chilly chef proprietress of Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin starred, classical French restaurant run by Madame Mallory (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren), gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant a hundred feet from her own escalate to all out war between the two establishments – until Hassan’s passion for French haute cuisine and for Mme. Mallory’s enchanting sous chef, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), combine with his mysteriously delicious talent to weave magic between their two cultures and imbue Saint-Antonin with the flavors of life that even Mme. Mallory cannot ignore. At first Mme. Mallory’s culinary rival, she eventually recognizes Hassan’s gift as a chef and takes him under her wing.
Directed by Lasse Hallström, and starring Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren, “The Hundred-Foot Journey” is produced by Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Juliet Blake. The executive producers are Caroline Hewitt and Carla Gardini. The screenplay is written by Steven Knight, based on the novel “The Hundred-Foot Journey” by Richard C. Morais.
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THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY arrives in theaters everywhere on August 8th!
