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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....
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...
Shortbread pastry

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

Recipes : Meuniere style Sole Fillets
and its Chicory Tatin Meunière Style Sole Fillets For 6 guests : 12 large sole fillets 600 gr of chicories 100 g...
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 ...
Fresh cod filets with hazelnuts

Recipes : Fresh cod filets with hazelnuts
Fresh cod steaks/filets breaded with hazelnut powder (6 servings) : 6 fresh cod steaks/filets (1/3 to 1/2 of a pound ...
Garlic butter for snails

Recipes : Garlic butter for snails
250g butter 12g salt 3g ground white pepper 2 cloves of garlic, cored, crushed and finely chopped 1 shallot finely c...
Emmental Cheese Tarte with Apricots and Fennel

Recipes : Emmental Cheese Tarte with Apricots and Fennel
Recipe for 4 guests Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 35 à 40 minutes Ingredients: For the shortcut pastry...
Parmentier with duck, foie gras and truffles

Recipes : Parmentier with duck, foie gras and truffles
A recipe of our menu 'special end of the year celebrations'. Cottage pie 'parmentier' (*) with duck, foie gras and bl...
Bechamel Sauce

Recipes : Bechamel Sauce
Recipe for a litre of finished sauce: 80g butter 80g plain flour 1 litre full fat milk salt, pepper and a pinch of...
Kouign-Amann

French specialties : Kouign-Amann
Kouign-Amann is a typically regional dessert in the dubious beginning. The first version concerning its origins would b...
Burgundy Snails

French specialties : Burgundy Snails
If Burgundy is known for its vineyards, the Burgundy Snails is without any doubt one of the best ambassadors of the Burg...
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...
Asparagus

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


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

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 ...

answer to dakshina
The disclosed recipe is just a standard very simple asparagus soup recipe ; I do not think this is a "French" soup ; thi...

I LOVE FRENCH FOOD!
i absolutly adore french food my favourite so far is ratatoille...

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...







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