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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...
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....
Flan

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...
Nice style ratatouille

Recipes : Nice style ratatouille
This recipe of 'ratatouille' (Nice style) is a condensed version of several ones that were given to me by several chefs ...
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 ...
French cut Rib of Beef

Recipes : French cut Rib of Beef
First of all a little reminder. First a calf is born, it is either male or female. Female: it becomes a heifer, then a...
Aligot

Recipes : Aligot
Comming from the cooperative of Laguiole Serves 6 : 1 kg of floury potatoes 100 g of butter 250 g of creme frai...
Shortbread pastry

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

Recipes : Potee Lorraine
Potee Lorraine for 6 guests: 1 cooking sausage, weighing 450 gr 600 gr of smoked pork shoulder 300 gr of smoked pork ...
Veal Chops

Recipes : Veal Chops "Normande"
This old traditional French recipe has become out of fashion in French restaurant or at family dinner. I do not understa...
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...
Hot oysters in a Sauternes sabayon

Recipes : Hot oysters in a Sauternes sabayon
One recipe of our 'Special Celebration' menu. Specially fattened greenish oysters in a Sauternes sabayon sauce (8 se...
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 ...
Blackcurrant Cream from Dijon

French specialties : Blackcurrant Cream from Dijon
Burgundy is one of the French areas where, as soon as we speak about a product, we can speak about one of the "ambassado...
Armagnac

French specialties : Armagnac
The story of Armagnac known as the most ancient eaux-de-vie in France,began at the beginning of the 15th Century in Gasc...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...


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

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...

Help me
Of course you can help you but please make your request more specific : do you need some examples of recipes (if so, in ...

good meal
Tootsie I understand that the list of recipes already translated in English does not cover your needs : is that because...

madeleine
Hi Trilby We try, from some time now (the translation of madeleines is quite old), into the English translations of rec...








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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