french cooking history Recipes :
 | Recipes : French Beans There is the ideal way to cook French bean making sure that they keep their green and crunchy qualities: Cooking Fren... |
 | Recipes : French Fries French fries or "pomme Pont-Neuf" are probably the most popular french recipe. But, they are not always cooked properly.... |
 | Recipes : Beret Basque Ingredients for the "Beret Basque" chocolate dessert: Chocolate mousse: 6 egg whites, 200g dark cooking chocolate, ... |
 | Recipes : Bäckeofe Short introduction : this typical Alsacian recipe (note of the translator : Alsace is a French province along the French... |
 | Recipes : Shortbread pastry Here is the recipe of the 'shortbread pastry' ('pâte sablée' en French), sometimes forgotten from the pastry cook books ... |
 | 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... |
 | 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 ... |
 | 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 ... |
 | 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... |
 | Recipes : Milk Toffee I am sure that this delicious, ancient traditional recipe will please children and grown-ups alike. To know all about... |
 | 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 : 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 ... |
 | 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... |
 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 : Branceilles Wine The history of the Wine of Branceilles is one of most astonishing that we know concerning the soils of France. This rare... |
 | 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 : 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 : Asparagus Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ... |
 | 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 : 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... |
 | 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 : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language) The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue... |
 | 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ... |
 | 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 : 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 : Festive menus The end of the year celebrations/parties are, for number of people, an opportunity to share with relatives and/or with f... |
 | 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... |
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I tasted french wine and french bread and it was very nice food from nikita...
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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...
answer to BernayG
Dear BernayG No difficulty and no risk to prepare it badly. The only real care you need to take (in addition to stick t...
I LOVE FRENCH FOOD!
i absolutly adore french food my favourite so far is ratatoille...
