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burgundy apple tart Recipes :

burgundy apple tart Recipes :
Tarte Tatin

Recipes : Tarte Tatin
This recipe, created by the Tatin sisters, at the beginning of the 20th century in their restaurant of La Motte Beuvron ...
Almond Milk Custard Tart

Recipes : Almond Milk Custard Tart
Almond Milk flan is an ancient traditional recipe that I digged up from my old cookery books to bring it to you today. ...
Petits Suisses Tart

Recipes : Petits Suisses Tart
Sprinkled with bitter chocolate Makes 1 tart for 6 guests 1 shortcut pastry shell (made with butter, fresh or froz...
Seared Scallops

Recipes : Seared Scallops
Seared scallops for 4 people: 12 Large scallops 1 beetroot, cooked and cut into small dices 250g of small curly endi...
Normandy style apple doughnuts

Recipes : Normandy style apple doughnuts
for 6 servings : For the batter : 250 grams wheat flour (half a pound) 1 pinch of table salt 1/4 liter of lager 3 e...
Apple Pie

Recipes : Apple Pie
Recipe for 6 people: 250g Stronghold flour, 125g Butter, 1 soup spoon of orange blossom water 1kg Cooking apple, p...
Roasted strips of duck magret with mirabelle plums

Recipes : Roasted strips of duck magret with mirabelle plums
A recipe of our menu 'special end of the year celebrations Roast strips of magret of duck, sweet and sour mirabelles ...
Veal Chops

Recipes : Veal Chops "Normande"
This old traditional French recipe has become out of fashion in French restaurant or at family dinner. I do not understa...
Shortcrust pastry

Recipes : Shortcrust pastry
Ingredients for a shortcrust pastry for a nice tart : 250 grams wheat flour 125 grams soft butter 3 grams table sal...
Oysters in Chablis jelly

Recipes : Oysters in Chablis jelly
Oysters in Chablis jelly (4 servings): 24 specially fattened greenish oysters (size N°3) 3/10 liter (a large cup or ...
Pork steak Alsatian Style

Recipes : Pork steak Alsatian Style
It is unfortunate, that this remarkable cut of pork "rouelle"(French for small wheel) is hardly served any more. The "ro...
Flan

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...
Shortbread pastry

Recipes : Shortbread pastry
Here is the recipe of the 'shortbread pastry' ('pâte sablée' en French), sometimes forgotten from the pastry cook books ...
Bourgogne Aligoté

French specialties : Bourgogne Aligoté
Bourgogne Aligoté is a dry white wine produces on the same area of naming as Bourgogne. He owes his name to a vine of Bu...
Burgundy Snails

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...
the omelette

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...
The round cake for the Twelfth Night

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...
A few days in Burgundy

News : A few days in Burgundy
As usual during this calamitous August, we leave Paris under the rain to Val de Mercy. I know pretty well this region be...
Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne.

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...
A nice week-end in Lyon

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...








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festive menu
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cassoulet
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