Parisisan-themed Good Friday dinner

Most of the recipes that we used for this year's Good Friday dinner came from The Paris Cookbook, by Patricia Wells. Wonderful book, lovely and simple recipes.
The menu for 8 was as follows:

Olives, with chili / lemon / garlic / pickled onions
Brasserie Balzac's midnight French onion soup
Sourdough baguette (from the Flour Shop at Morningside)
Roast salmon
Kipfler potatoes
Green beans with lemon
Almond friands with sour cherry or glazed pear

The salmon was done in a medium oven with a little olive oil for about twenty minutes. The kipflers (they were enormous! From Feast on Fruit) were done in the big enamel crockpot: put washed kipflers into dry pot with a little olive oil, salt and some garlic cloves still in their skins. Cook with lid on, on top of stove, over fairly low heat for half an hour or so or until tender. These were incredibly flavoursome and delicious.

I recreated Mum's kipfler recipe a couple of days later using normal-sized (miniature in comparison...) kipflers from the James St Markets in my Le Creuset, and they were just as successful. They would be lovely with some rosemary thrown in there as well.

The recipe for the beans is here.

The friands were bought from French Twist at the James St Markets: we sliced each one into four and served them with cream and coffee.