Add heat and some sweet and bingo! Bitter leaves become irresistible

Have fun riffing on this rediscovered French recipe

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Have you ever rummaged through a closet and come upon something — for me, it’s usually a sweater — that you haven’t worn in a while? Maybe a very long while? Maybe you’d even forgotten you owned it? Pulling it out and taking a spin in it is like getting something new. For free! At least that’s the way I always feel about it. And because I love new things (hooray for surprises and gifts from out of the blue), I’m apt to wear whatever I’ve found a few times in a row. It’s the same for me with recipes. When I re-find a recipe — i.e., when I remember that I had the recipe — I fall in love with it all over again and I’ll serve it over and over again. It’s what happened when I rediscovered the recipe for Endives, Apples and Grapes in Around My French Table, which was published in 2010 (and so that means that I first made the recipe sometime before 2008 — yikes!)

Endives, Apples, and Grapes photographed by Alan Richardson for Around My French Table

I remember that I loved the reci…