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Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Classic Julia Child Recipe Ina Garten Idolizes
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Every once in a while, you'll have a meal that sticks with you, for more than just wistful nostalgia. It's food that reinvigorates, inspires, and has you wanting to share it with everyone. For Ina Garten, one such meal was the coq au vin she once had decades ago in a campsite in France, which in turn led to her learning Julia Child's recipe for the dish. When Garten was a guest on the Your Mama's Kitchen podcast with Michelle Norris, she recounted a trip to Europe she and her husband once took when they were both young and relatively broke. During a stop in France, they drove up to the two-star campsite they'd be staying at and were offered a fresh serving of coq au vin by the woman who ran the campsite. Garten brought it back to their tent, heated it up for dinner, and fell in love. "I just thought, 'I need to know how to make this. This is amazing,'" she shared on the podcast. Since then, coq au vin has been a fixture in Garten's repertoire. She first learned how to make it by following Child's recipe, and has since adapted it to add her personal touch. Her dish today is the product of three great inspirations: the rustic campsite coq au vin, the legendary Julia Child, and her own personal tastes. It's a recipe worth learning, especially if you're a fan of Ina Garten's genius 10-recipe rule. Read more: 13 Meats People Used To Eat, But Are Now Illegal In The US The Julia Child Recipe That Inspired Ina Garten's Coq Au Vin If you want to follow in Ina Garten's footsteps and learn how to make Julia Child's coq au vin first, you can find it in "The French Chef Cookbook." Child was, for decades, America's most famous advocate for French cuisine -- and also, rather surprisingly, a spy for the early CIA -- and happily shared her recipes both on television and in writing. Child's coq au vin is hearty stew bearing the rich flavors of browned chicken, bacon, mushrooms, and onions, simmered in a broth of beef and tomato paste, and fortified by a healthy amount of red wine. The liquid is then reduced and further thickened with butter and flour, resulting in a dish that warms your bones and fills your belly. It's easy to see why the iconic French staple was Julia Child's favorite chicken dish, and why it left such a strong impression on Garten. Garten's recipe for coq au vin changes up a handful of things from Child's, but the inspiration behind her version still shines through. How Ina Garten Gave Julia Child's Coq Au Vin Her Own Spin Cooking can be a deeply personal matter, which is why you'll often see two chefs have wildly different takes on the same dish. In fact, there's a significant difference between Julia Child's and Ina Garten's beef bourguignon recipes, despite both being fans of French cuisine. While Child's recipe may have provided the foundation for it, Garten's coq au vin is distinctly her own. Based on the recipe she included in her cookbook "Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics," Garten uses chicken stock as the base of her broth instead of beef stock, while also forgoing the tomato paste. This strengthens the flavor of the chicken itself, but trades off some of the depth that the beef and tomato can provide. The addition of cognac to Garten's recipe accentuates both the sweet and savory flavors in the dish through its complex layers. While this likely isn't the same recipe that inspired Garten at the campsite all those years ago, it's nice to know where the story of her version of coq au vin came from: a life-changing trip with her husband, the kindness of a stranger, and the wisdom of a food icon. Every recipe, after all, comes from an experience we want to share with the people we cook for, and Garten's coq au vin is a tale we'd listen to over and over again. Read the original article on Chowhound.
Extra.ie
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Extra.ie
HAP scheme is 'driving new entries into homelessness'
A senior Housing Commission official has called for the Government to double the social housing supply and quit relying on the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme. Michelle Norris said 20% of households should be accommodated in social or cost-rental housing. 'That would be a doubling of supply and would provide more than enough social housing to accommodate all the people currently on HAP,' she said yesterday at a Focus Ireland conference with a focus on reforming HAP. A senior Housing Commission official has called for the Government to double the social housing supply and quit relying on the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme. Pic: Getty Images There are 70,000 households reliant on HAP. Ms Norris said the assistance scheme should 'be used primarily to provide short-to medium-term support for households that don't have a long-term housing need'. Conor Roe of homelessness charity Focus Ireland told of a man on disability allowances who was seeking higher HAP payments to help with arrears. The man contacted Focus Ireland after being told that he would have to be homeless for his HAP to be increased. There are approximately 70,000 households that rely on HAP. Pic: Shutterstock Mr Roe described the man as yet another person who 'is going to have to become homeless to get themselves to higher rates, to then get themselves out of homelessness'. He said the scheme is 'driving new entries into homelessness'.
Irish Examiner
10-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Rent pressure zones have 'discouraged' the supply of new homes, Dáil committee told
Rent pressure zones are 'not a good system' and have 'discouraged" the supply of new homes, an Oireachtas committee has heard. Members of the Housing Commission — whose landmark report on recommendations to fix Ireland's housing crisis was published over 12 months ago — also told the Oireachtas housing committee on Tuesday there had been a 'lack of emergency thinking and action' since its report came out. The Housing Commission was established in January 2022 as an independent body to examine Ireland's housing system and to make recommendations to shape long-term policy. This commission was made of representatives from across the housing sector, including developers and those delivering housing on the ground, and found Ireland's housing system has 'fundamentally systemic' failures. It made a slew of recommendations for a new approach to the housing sector to meet the needs of the Irish public, estimating there was an underlying undersupply of over a quarter of a million homes in the country. Since its publication, some members have been critical of what it called State inaction on taking up its recommendations. The Government has hit back at this, however, and insisted it was implementing the report. The appearance of Housing Commission members at the Oireachtas committee on Tuesday coincided with the Government publishing its controversial plans to reform the rental sector and its rent pressure zones. UCD professor of social policy Michelle Norris told the committee the commission proposed a 'comprehensive reform' of the system of rent pressure zones that had been 'introduced as an emergency measure in 2016 to regulate private rents and was never intended to be in place over the long term'. 'We propose replacing the RPZs with the reference rent system used to regulate rents in many other European countries," she said. Trinity College's Dr Ronan Lyons said, from the new Government proposals, vacancy de-control seemed to be the most important. This is where landlords would be able to set market rates for a property if a tenant moved out. Meanwhile, Michael O'Flynn, chief executive of the construction firm O'Flynn Group, said during covid-19 there was a highly coordinated approach across Government and they were similarly dealing with a housing 'emergency' now. 'Unfortunately, this approach has not been taken into the housing crisis, and the result is it's getting more and more challenging,' he said. 'The Housing Commission was a very serious attempt to provide a framework for Government to deal with the crisis in a holistic way. "It provided a strategic approach which, if adopted, would over the medium term, deal with the serious backlog of over 300,000 homes.' Read More Government yet again tinkering around the edges of the housing crisis with rent pressure zone plans
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
'Buffoon of a president': Trump exposes ignorance of U.S. farming in speech to Congress
Michelle Norris, MSNBC senior contributing editor, joins an MSNBC panel to discuss the effects of Donald Trump's trade war and tariffs on American farmers and the degree to which Donald Trump does not appear to understand the necessity of foreign markets for U.S. agriculture.
