Julia Child's Tomatoes à la Provençale — Cooks Without Borders
This classic vegan recipe is adapted from Julia Child
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This recipe, adapted from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, is one I’ve been making since I was a teenager, looking for something to go with the leg of lamb my mom was making from the same volume. We wrote about them in an August 2020 story about tomatoes, part of our Summer Produce Special series. I’ve tweaked Julia’s recipe slightly, allowing a substitution of panko for fine bread crumbs if you are in the mood for a more crunchy topping, increasing the amount of thyme in the filling and increasing the proportion of filling to tomato. (On the panko note, it works well, but I’ll probably use the fine bread crumbs nine times out of ten.)
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