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famous regional french chocolate icecreams Recipes :

famous regional french chocolate icecreams Recipes :
Beret Basque

Recipes : Beret Basque
Ingredients for the "Beret Basque" chocolate dessert: Chocolate mousse: 6 egg whites, 200g dark cooking chocolate, ...
Chocolate marble cake

Recipes : Chocolate marble cake
Chocolate marble cake serve 6 : 4 eggs 150 g caster sugar 150 soft butter 150 g plain chocolate (60%) 230 g flour ...
Chocolate Toffees

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

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 ...
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...
Chocolate Chip Mousse

Recipes : Chocolate Chip Mousse
Chocolate Chip Mousse recipe makes 6 small bowls: 200 g of dark chocolate (60% minimum) + 30 g of choolate for decorat...
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....
Chocolate Fondant

Recipes : Chocolate Fondant
Makes 8 individual cakes 200 g of dark chocolaet, 60% 8 squares of the same chocolate 220 g of butter 160 g of cast...
Chocolate and hazelnut brownies

Recipes : Chocolate and hazelnut brownies
Chocolate and hazelnut brownies for a nice family who loves good food: 70 gr of dark chocolate (more than 50% cocoa) ...
Frozen Chocolate Mousseline

Recipes : Frozen Chocolate Mousseline
Frozen Chocolate Mousseline for 6 guests : 250 g of dark chocolate (55% minimum) 150 g of butter 20 cl of whipping cr...
Chocolate Fondue

Recipes : Chocolate Fondue
This recipe was added onto the list of our restaurant "La Campagne Lotoise" in 1994. We were serving it with "madeleines...
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...
Carioca coffee baked cream pots

Recipes : Carioca coffee baked cream pots
Recipe for 4 to 6 people: 75g of good coffee beans 8dl whole milk 150g dark cooking chocolate, gratted 6 egg yolks...
Chocolate

French specialties : Chocolate
The Cocoa broad bean comes us from South America. The cacoayer produced a fruit indeed that the old Aztec crushed to con...
Champagne

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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Opening oysters

News : Opening oysters
Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica...
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...
Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne.

News : Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne.
"Hello, for all those which are not likely yet to know Floc de Gascogne, could you explain us what is this breuvage and...


origin?!
I'm doing a french project on chocolate lava cakes, but can't seem to find the origin?? Can anyone help me out here?! th...

Reponce
She is probably refering to "centre liquide" of chocolate. (when you put a ball of ganache in the center of a chocolate ...

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...

chocolate marquise
Hi Douglas You are right : some traditional chocolate marquise recipes include layers of chocolate stuffing and of bisc...

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




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cassoulet
The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the 100 year read more