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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 ...
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...
Wafers

Recipes : Wafers
There are many other wafer recipes, but this one is the simplest around! Wafers for 4 to 6 people : 250g strong flou...
Granita

Recipes : Granita
Very simple to make and inexpensive, they do not require an ice-cream maker and they are kept in the freezer compartment...
Tapenade

Recipes : Tapenade
Ingredients for a bowl of 'tapenade' : 250 grams of stoned (pitted) black olives (from Nyons if you can find them - N...
Tomates confites

Recipes : Tomates confites
Slow-roasted tomatoes with olive oil and dried thyme flowers It is always a good idea to have this garnish because it...
Anglaise sauce or French Custard

Recipes : Anglaise sauce or French Custard
This custard recipe is the base of several recipes,from desserts accompaniments sauces to ice-cream mixes for chocolate ...
Hazelnut Yoghurt Cake

Recipes : Hazelnut Yoghurt Cake
There many yoghurt cake recipes but this one is my favourite: Hazelnut and yoghurt cake recipe for 6 people: Round ...
Provence style Tomatoes

Recipes : Provence style Tomatoes
Here is the mythical recipe of the tomatoes 'à la Provençale' (Provence style tomatoes - note of the translator : Proven...
Veal kebabs

Recipes : Veal kebabs
To prepare you veal kebabs, first cut small cubes of veal meat taken from the shoulder. Let let marinade during 24 hour...
Veal chops Pojarski

Recipes : Veal chops Pojarski
There is a cult recipe from the French gastronomy : veal chops Pojarski.This recipe comes in direct line from Russian cu...
Chantilly cream

Recipes : Chantilly cream
We call "Chantilly cream" a fresh sugared whipped cream. Number of people have taken for granted that it has been inven...
Mushroom coulis

Recipes : Mushroom coulis
Keep this "basic recipe" at hand as it will be useful in elaborating numerous other recipes. MY ADVICE: Make this recip...
Camembert from Normandy

French specialties : Camembert from Normandy
The Camembert cheese is without without any doubt the most known cheese in France as well as abroad. The history retains...
Cider

French specialties : Cider
High-Normandy is an area of contrast. Contrast between Seine-Maritime turned towards industry and Eure turned towards a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2009 End of the Year Festive Menu

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...
Recipes for persons suffering from type 2 -diabetes

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...
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...
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...
Queen Tomato's paradise

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) ; ...
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...
Opening oysters

News : Opening oysters
Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica...
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...
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...
Without gluten recipes

News : Without gluten recipes
Today we will deal with this harmful decease that is intolerance to gluten (or so called coeliac decease). In fact, this...
Asparagus

News : Asparagus
Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ...
Festive Menu 2008

News : Festive Menu 2008
Two years after our first "festive menu", we renew it by providing you with 14 new exclusive recipes for Christmas and/o...
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...


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

answer to foodfanatic
Hello, What a strange idea to ask about cheese in a comment to strawberry sorbet ! You are right that cheese is import...

fionaa
Fionna This site is full of French recipes : just click onto " RECIPES " on top lef of this page...

answer to Pravesh
Hello Go to the "recipes" title on top left of this page and you will find French recipes in English. Of course you can...

for Sarah
On top of this page, click on "recipes" then on any of the parts of the meals (starters, meat, fish, desserts ...) you w...








2009 End of the Year Festive Menu2009 End of the Year Festive Menu
It has, now, become an annual berth, our chef Patr More...


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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