basic preparation and cooking methods in france
![]() | Recipes : Emmental Cheese Tarte with Apricots and Fennel Recipe for 4 guests Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 35 à 40 minutes Ingredients: For the shortcut pastry... |
![]() | Recipes : Chocolate Yule Log A basic French recipe that will please children and grown ups alike. Chocolate Yule Log for 6-8 people For the spon... |
![]() | Recipes : Braised Chicory with Emmental Cheese WITH CUMINSEED HONEY... Recipe for 4 guests Preparation time: 20 minutes Ingredients: 100 g of French Emmental ... |
![]() | Recipes : Beret Basque Ingredients for the "Beret Basque" chocolate dessert: Chocolate mousse: 6 egg whites, 200g dark cooking chocolate, ... |
![]() | Recipes : Rolled Omelette This is a basic omelette recipe, have a look at our page about omelettes to find out more on the subject... A nice om... |
![]() | Recipes : Batter for Fritters There is a basic recipe to make fritters (recipe for 6-8 people) 250g (1/2 lb) strong flour, sifted. 5g (1/5 oz) tab... |
![]() | Recipes : Granita Very simple to make and inexpensive, they do not require an ice-cream maker and they are kept in the freezer compartment... |
![]() | Recipes : Mashed Potatoes This basic recipe can become an exceptional dish when prepared carefully. Mashed potatoes recipe for 4-6 people : 1k... |
![]() | Recipes : Bäeckeofe Short introduction : this typical Alsatian recipe (note of the translator : Alsace is a French province along the French... |
![]() | Recipes : Flan This is one of the oldest French dessert recipe. The recipe that I am giving you, here, is a basic recipe, feel free to... |
![]() | Recipes : Provence style Tomatoes Here is the mythical recipe of the tomatoes 'à la Provençale' (Provence style tomatoes - note of the translator : Proven... |
![]() | Recipes : Carioca coffee baked cream pots Recipe for 4 to 6 people: 75g of good coffee beans 8dl whole milk 150g dark cooking chocolate, gratted 6 egg yolks... |
![]() | Recipes : French Beans There is the ideal way to cook French bean making sure that they keep their green and crunchy qualities: Cooking Fren... |
![]() French specialties : Sauerkraut Like all the areas of France, Alsace has its specialities and the Sauerkraut, in the world, is always associated its are... |
![]() French specialties : Burgundy Snails If Burgundy is known for its vineyards, the Burgundy Snails is without any doubt one of the best ambassadors of the Burg... |
![]() | News : Maghreb cooking After having paid a visit to our Canadian friends, we continue our gastronomic trips outside of France a little more sou... |
![]() | News : Coffee tasting Second and last part of our report on coffee and still based upon documents forwarded by Mr Rocher, we now focus on arom... |
![]() | News : The Arpajon bean fair My arrival into this fair sent me back in the years when I participated to those contests. The age coming, I was invited... |
![]() | News : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language) The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue... |
![]() | News : Prepare you home-made 'foie gras' If you have visited our site for some time, I bet you have, one day, desired to prepare your home-made 'foie gras'. May... |
![]() | News : Asparagus Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ... |
![]() | News : mixed flavoured butters The basic principle is the same in all cases : you must soften the butter and incorporate into it one or several flavour... |
![]() | News : Queen Tomato's paradise Most people believe that tomato is a vegetable but it is actually a fruit of an herbal american plant (solanum genus) ; ... |
![]() | News : The 'Madeleine' story Stanislas, king of Poland used to have, as a second home, the castle of Commercy, in a small town of the Lorraine region... |
![]() | News : The Lobster à l'américaine Story We are now nearly fully sure of the validity of the "à l'américaine" name of this recipe, to the contrary of the "à l'ar... |
![]() | News : Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne. "Hello, for all those which are not likely yet to know Floc de Gascogne, could you explain us what is this breuvage and... |
![]() | News : Towards the discovery of the Yoghurts It happened in very ancient times, at the fringes of the Balkanic peninsula and of Turkey that one started to find the f... |
![]() | News : Chef Asfaux in jail ! "Listen, I know that you are very busy but couldn't you find some availability to coach a tasting workshop in the scope ... |
![]() | News : A nice week-end in Lyon As we do from time to time during the year, direction Lyon to pay a visit to some beloved friends. Her,'Speedy' Brigitt... |
![]() | News : Miss Nellie and Mr Auguste This is a short tribute to Auguste Escoffier, the so famous French cook who was active mainly at the turn of the XIXth c... |
![]() | News : Without gluten recipes Today we will deal with this harmful decease that is intolerance to gluten (or so called coeliac decease). In fact, this... |
![]() | News : The round cake for the Twelfth Night This is the oldest cake in history ; we now know that the first ones were made during the neolithic age. They were prepa... |
![]() | News : Opening oysters Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica... |
![]() | News : Kir Mr Félix Kir (born in 1876 in Côte d'Or, in the heart of Burgundy) was a canon, ordained as a catholic priest in 1901. ... |
![]() | News : the omelette In the Journal of Jean Heroard (1551-1628), doctor of the young future king Louis XIII, we could read : "often, in the a... |
answer to Kim
Hello Kim the right spelling is "crique" (however, it has nothing to do with pizza, except the general shape !...). It ...
Thanks Hans
Hello Hans Many many thanks for your feedback and for sharing your experience with us : we all are very proud when we h...
answer to Jay
Hi Jay This recipe is the one of the pastry AS A BASE for some desserts. Of course, it is not intented to be eaten by i...
ortolan
Hi James Your are right : Patrick obviously refers to "ortolans" ("bunting" in English, a kind of a sparrow). This is a...
mrs
I have recently returned to UK after many years in France. I find UK bread of all sorts disgusting, simply turning to p...
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