Book: Go-To Dinners, page 233
Rating: 5/5
How Easy Is That: Easy
Store-Bought Is Fine: buttermilk
Pricey Ingredients: —
Hard-to-find: —
Recipe on CassandrasKitchen.com
Other options for pairing:
Beatty’s Chocolate Cake – Jane (Meryl) makes a chocolate cake for the dinner Jake (Alec Baldwin never shows up for. She also makes Roast Chicken.
Pain Au Chocolat – Jane and Adam (Steve Martin) chocolate croissants in the restaurant after getting high.
Double Chocolate Weed Brownies – Speaking of getting high – until we can adapt Ina’s Outrageous Brownies to incorporate weed, this will do!
Croque Monsieur with a side salad. The first dish Jane learned how to make in Paris and what she serves Adam for dinner.
Lavender Honey Ice Cream – while Jane bathes, Jake chows down on this outside the tub.
Very Dry Tanqueray Martini Straight Up With A Twist – Meryl’s order at the hotel bar and also my go-to order!
Three pies: Deep Dish Apple Pie, Maple Pecan Pie, Raspberry Rhubarb Crostata – Jane makes three pies for her friends when she reveals she’s having an affair.
Sour Cream Coffee Cake – Meryl bribes her therapist for a last-minute chat with a little coffee cake
The full list of Merylthon food and drink pairings is here.
