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Chinese Crosnes

Recipes : Chinese Crosnes
Recipe for a forgotten vegetable: They are often found on market stall, but no one knows how to cook them. There is a l...
Char-grilled Sirloin Steak

Recipes : Char-grilled Sirloin Steak
Take your sirloin steaks out of the fridge about 1 hour before cooking them. Then, using a brush, lightly coat them with...
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...
Boulangere potatoes

Recipes : Boulangere potatoes
Garnish for a 6 serving course : 600 grams (20 oz) peeled potatoes cut into thin slices 300 grams (10 oz) peeled and c...
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...
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 ...
Shortbread pastry

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

Recipes : Maltese Sauce
Excellent just warm sauce for warm starters like asparagus Ingredients : 2 centiliters (0.7 fl oz) of orange juice +...
Kebabs of Oysters and Cured Duck Magret

Recipes : Kebabs of Oysters and Cured Duck Magret
This is a very simple recipe which will put your taste buds in extasy. Oyster kebabs for 6 people: 48 Oysters 48 Pa...
Roasted Duck with Peas

Recipes : Roasted Duck with Peas
A Roasted Duck with Peas recipe for 6 guests : 1 large duck (from Nantes if possible), weighing 1,6 to 1,8kg 80 gr of ...
Duck Terrine Forestiere

Recipes : Duck Terrine Forestiere
Makes one terrine for 6 guests: 2 duck fillets 300 gr of veal stuffing 300 gr of lean pork stuffing (ask your butch...
Brussel's Sprouts with Pancetta

Recipes : Brussel's Sprouts with Pancetta
A tasty mix of Brussel's sprouts and crispy and smoky baked pancetta. Pancetta is a type of Italian cured and spiced ro...
Smoked duck breast salad

Recipes : Smoked duck breast salad
Smoked duck breast salad for 6 guests: A variety of seasonal greens, washed and dried 8 thin cuts of roasted duck br...
Mojhette

French specialties : Mojhette
The Poitevin Marsh from time immemorial produced excellent vegetables and Mojhette, generic term indicating several vari...
Arles Sausage

French specialties : Arles Sausage
The dry Sausage is certainly one of the typical products of the soils of France that our compatriots prefer and for this...
Asparagus

News : Asparagus
Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ...
Prepare you home-made 'foie gras'

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...
The 'Madeleine' story

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...
A so nice journey

News : A so nice journey
It is true that my children and friends have had a real great idea in offring me, for my birthday anniversary, a fixed r...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Chef Asfaux in jail !

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 ...
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...
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...
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...


Chef Giovanni
You want be French cook, but you are not French. I have a chance my mothet was French ans my father was Italian. My Fren...

Dumpling Dough
Hi David For once, let's be lazy, pragmatic and efficient : when I intend to make Chinese (or not) dumplings, I buy alr...

help me!!! please
i am making a cook book for a report for school on french recipies can you help me?...

marquise au chocolat
Msr. Asfaux, What is the traditional way of making this? I have been told it is many thin layers of chocolate mousse an...

home made andouillette
Well, my opinion is that if you are not a profesional "charcutier" (delicatessen pork butcher) having access to profesio...
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Mr Auguste
This is a short tribute to Auguste Escoffier, the so famous French cook . Mr Auguste
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'armoricaine" one.read more