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Chocolate Toffees

Recipes : Chocolate Toffees
Recipe for about 20 chocolate toffees: 60g dark cooking chocolate, at least 50% cocoa. 60g unsalted butter 60g caste...
Lamb and eggplant charlotte

Recipes : Lamb and eggplant charlotte
Lamb charlotte (6 servings) : 3 'reasonably potbellied' eggplants 2 big onions, thinly sliced 1 pinch of thyme flower...
Balkanese Sauce

Recipes : Balkanese Sauce
For 6 servings : 2 egg yolks : 1 raw (uncooked) and 1 cooked (note of the translator : taken from a boiled egg) 1 soup...
Buckwheat Pancakes

Recipes : Buckwheat Pancakes
For 12 buckwheat pancakes : 250g of Buckwheat flour 1 Egg 1 Teaspoon of salt 5 dl of water 2 Table spoon of vegetab...
Hazelnut soft Cake

Recipes : Hazelnut soft Cake
Hazelnut soft Cake, serves 6 to 8 people 200 grams (7 ounces) of roasted hazelnuts (turn the nuts into powder in a mixe...
Creole sented Caramelized Pineapple

Recipes : Creole sented Caramelized Pineapple
Caramelized Pineapple for 6 : 1 medium size tin of sliced pineapple 300 g of sugar 6 eggs 50 g of brown sugar Juic...
Roast Turkey with Chestnuts

Recipes : Roast Turkey with Chestnuts
This roast turkey with chestnut recipe is still a very traditional one but will also guaranteer you a nice moist meat at...
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 ...
Orange Marmalade Swiss Roll

Recipes : Orange Marmalade Swiss Roll
For the Swiss roll: 120g stronghold flour 5 eggs (whites and yolks separated) 150g caster sugar 1 packet vanilla sug...
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...
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...
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...
Caneles

Recipes : Caneles
For a dozen canelés : 1 tablespoon of brown rum 1 egg + 2 egg yolks 1/2 liter of milk 1 vanilla bean 220 g of ...
Reblochon

French specialties : Reblochon
Reblochon was first produced in XIIIth century, in Haute Savoie (Upper Savoy), in the valley of Thônes. It is a result o...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...


Fresh spaghetti with green olives
No 'real' sauce for this recipe but a very tasty stuff as described in the recipe (+ the basil). Numerous pasta recipe,...

Veal Stock
Comment on recipe : [url]http://www.aftouch-cuisine.com/recipe/veal-stock-176.htm[/url] Although this seems to be an ac...

answer to BernayG
Dear BernayG No difficulty and no risk to prepare it badly. The only real care you need to take (in addition to stick t...

gastronomy
Hello Gastronomy is the highest degree of the way to appreciate and develop the sense of taste. Being a ‘gastronom’ i...








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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