french cuisine ingredient glossary Recipes :
![]() | 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 : French Beans There is the ideal way to cook French bean making sure that they keep their green and crunchy qualities: Cooking Fren... |
![]() | Recipes : Confit Lemons Confit means preserved in fat. This lemon preserve makes a great accompaniment to grilled meats or fishes and is a tradi... |
![]() | Recipes : French Fries French fries or "pomme Pont-Neuf" are probably the most popular french recipe. But, they are not always cooked properly.... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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 : Shortcrust pastry Ingredients for a shortcrust pastry for a nice tart : 250 grams wheat flour 125 grams soft butter 3 grams table sal... |
![]() | Recipes : Buckwheat Pancakes For 12 buckwheat pancakes : 250g of Buckwheat flour 1 Egg 1 Teaspoon of salt 5 dl of water 2 Table spoon of vegetab... |
![]() | 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 : Lentils In culinary terms, a dish served with lentils is referred as "...Esau". It comes from the biblical character of Esau who... |
![]() | Recipes : Shortbread pastry Here is the recipe of the 'shortbread pastry' ('pâte sablée' en French), sometimes forgotten from the pastry cook books ... |
![]() | Recipes : Parcel of Leek and Smoked Salmon Une recette du menu spécial fêtes Recipe for 8 people: 1 kg of leek (white part only) 200 g of smoked salmon 50 g ... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() French specialties : Cassoulet The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the Hundred Year Lasting war, in the XIVth century ... |
![]() French specialties : Canele The town of Bordeaux, it is before all the city of the wine, the Quay of Chartrons, where all the large wine traders wer... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language) The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue... |
![]() | 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 : 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... |
![]() | 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 omelette In the Journal of Jean Heroard (1551-1628), doctor of the young future king Louis XIII, we could read : "often, in the a... |
![]() | 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 : Asparagus Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | News : Opening oysters Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica... |
![]() | 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 : Chef Asfaux in jail ! "Listen, I know that you are very busy but couldn't you find some availability to coach a tasting workshop in the scope ... |
![]() | 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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easy French main course
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I injoyed the food
I tasted french wine and french bread and it was very nice food from nikita...
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...
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