famous dessert from france
![]() | Recipes : Provence style Tomatoes Here is the mythical recipe of the tomatoes 'à la Provençale' (Provence style tomatoes - note of the translator : Proven... |
![]() | Recipes : Tarte Tatin This recipe, created by the Tatin sisters, at the beginning of the 20th century in their restaurant of La Motte Beuvron ... |
![]() | Recipes : Chocolate Marquise The great thnig about this recipe is that when it comes to serve your dessert course, you will just need to take it out ... |
![]() | Recipes : Baked Alaska If you were looking for a festive dessert that can be ready well in advance, no need to look any further : There is our ... |
![]() | Recipes : Chantilly cream We call "Chantilly cream" a fresh sugared whipped cream. Number of people have taken for granted that it has been inven... |
![]() | Recipes : Tapenade Ingredients for a bowl of 'tapenade' : 250 grams of stoned (pitted) black olives (from Nyons if you can find them - N... |
![]() | Recipes : Panna Cotta This dessert is very easy to realise, delicious and can be made in advance. Panna Cotta for 6 people : 60cl double c... |
![]() | 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 : Beret Basque Ingredients for the "Beret Basque" chocolate dessert: Chocolate mousse: 6 egg whites, 200g dark cooking chocolate, ... |
![]() | Recipes : Gourmet Fraisiere (strawberry dairy dessert) For 8 guests: 750 gr of strawberries (150 gr for the sauce, 8 whole strawberries for decoration and 500 gr for the frai... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Recipes : Millefeuille of caramelised pineapple and pancakes A dessert to discover. Millefeuille of caramelised pineapple and pancakes recipe for 6 peple : 7 pancakes (roughly 1... |
![]() | Recipes : Hare 'à la Royale' the Sousceyrac recipe... This is the original LIEVRE A LA ROYALE recipe, the most mythical dish in French cuisine. ... |
![]() French specialties : Champagne If there is a wine which exceeds the simple statute of regional ambassador, it is the Champagne as this wine belongs to ... |
![]() French specialties : Frontignan Muscatel The controlled label of origin Frontignan Muscatel is the first chronologically of the French Muscatels (1936). Bathed b... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : Recipes for persons suffering from type 2 -diabetes Yes, we can prepare and eat good food and suffer somewhat from type 2-diabetes (this is my personal case). I react by av... |
![]() | 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 : Opening oysters Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica... |
![]() | 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 : 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... |
![]() | News : Asparagus Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ... |
![]() | News : 2009 End of the Year Festive Menu It has, now, become an annual berth, our chef Patrick Asfaux offers you his new festive menu for the Holiday season. Thi... |
![]() | 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 : 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 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 : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language) The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : 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... |
![]() | 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 : 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... |
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...
Hi
Hi Frances food looks good.I don't live in France, I live in Washington.In school i am doing a report on France and I d...
cassoulet and merguez
Hello Hans Are you Dutch ? Thanks for your kind comments and for having found time and energy for preparing a cassoulet...
Chocolate Marquise
dear chef, how are we suppose to eat this dessert, frozen or cold from the fridge, i did not understand from the instruc...
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