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classic french service Recipes :

classic french service Recipes :
French Beans

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 Fries

Recipes : French Fries
French fries or "pomme Pont-Neuf" are probably the most popular french recipe. But, they are not always cooked properly....
Fruit Kebabs

Recipes : Fruit Kebabs
Fruit kebabs There are few delicious and surprising fruit kebabs ideas. These are a great way to end a barbeque party...
Roasted scallops coated with hazelnut crumbs

Recipes : Roasted scallops coated with hazelnut crumbs
One recipe of our menu 'special end of the year celebrations'. (for 8 servings if part of a sampling menu or for 4 if...
Parmentier with duck, foie gras and truffles

Recipes : Parmentier with duck, foie gras and truffles
A recipe of our menu 'special end of the year celebrations'. Cottage pie 'parmentier' (*) with duck, foie gras and bl...
French cut Rib of Beef

Recipes : French cut Rib of Beef
First of all a little reminder. First a calf is born, it is either male or female. Female: it becomes a heifer, then a...
Aligot

Recipes : Aligot
Comming from the cooperative of Laguiole Serves 6 : 1 kg of floury potatoes 100 g of butter 250 g of creme frai...
Shortbread pastry

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

Recipes : Peaches Melba
4 fresh peaches, well ripe 1/2 lb fresh (or frozen) raspberries 4 oz caster sugar 1 pint creamy vanilla ice cream 2 ...
Greek style mushrooms

Recipes : Greek style mushrooms
For once, I will give the classical recipe, as the school manuals (Planche et Sylvestre) were teaching us, such a long t...
Hachis Parmentier

Recipes : Hachis Parmentier
Hachis Parmentier for 8 guests : 1 kg 200 of cooked pot-au-feu meat 50 gr of parsley 2 sweet onions (Roscoff variet...
Beurre Blanc

Recipes : Beurre Blanc
It is believed that the creation of the beurre blanc sauce came from a mistake made by the excellent cook of the "Marqui...
Madeleine de Commercy

French specialties : Madeleine de Commercy
The village of Commercy saw the birth at the XVIIIth century of a small girl who was going to make the fame of this smal...
Currant Jam

French specialties : Currant Jam
Bar-le-Duc is the town of origin of a rare and ignored Lorraine speciality, the currant Jam épépinée with the goose feat...
The Arpajon bean fair

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...
mixed flavoured butters

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...
Maghreb cooking

News : Maghreb cooking
After having paid a visit to our Canadian friends, we continue our gastronomic trips outside of France a little more sou...
The Lobster à l'américaine Story

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...
Miss Nellie and Mr Auguste

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...
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...
Asparagus

News : Asparagus
Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ...
Sauerkraut  ('choucroute' in French language)

News : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language)
The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue...
Towards the discovery of  the Yoghurts

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...
AVPA  2008 contest : oil, honey and dry fruit

News : AVPA 2008 contest : oil, honey and dry fruit
Like in 2007, Patrick Asfaux was part of the trial jury of the AVPA (Agence pour la Valorisation des Produits Agricoles ...
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 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...
Festive menus

News : Festive menus
The end of the year celebrations/parties are, for number of people, an opportunity to share with relatives and/or with f...
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...


I injoyed the food
I tasted french wine and french bread and it was very nice food from nikita...

Help me
Of course you can help you but please make your request more specific : do you need some examples of recipes (if so, in ...

answer to dakshina
The disclosed recipe is just a standard very simple asparagus soup recipe ; I do not think this is a "French" soup ; thi...

answer to charlie
Hello Charlie Where are you from ?(it is not so common that non French persons love andouillette : even many French do ...

madelaine
:-))Madeleine are lovely yum yum its just like the ones in France cos i am French...








The Lobster à l'américaine StoryThe Lobster à l'américaine Story
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festive menu
The end of the year celebrations/parties are, for number of people, an opportunity to share with relatives and/or with friends. festive menu
cassoulet
The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the 100 year read more