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french custard tarts Recipes :

french custard tarts Recipes :
Shortcrust pastry

Recipes : Shortcrust pastry
Ingredients for a shortcrust pastry for a nice tart : 250 grams wheat flour 125 grams soft butter 3 grams table sal...
Confectioner's custard

Recipes : Confectioner's custard
This custard is a basis for numerous desserts like cakes, tarts, soufflés etc... Serving for a large bowl of confecti...
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 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....
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 ...
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 ...
Strawberry Pie

Recipes : Strawberry Pie
This strawberry pie with its light cream and redcurrant and cardamom "mirror" jelly requires some organisation planning ...
Huckleberry Pie

Recipes : Huckleberry Pie
Huckleberry Pie for 4/6 persons : 2/3 lb fresh or frozen huckleberries 2 tablespoonfuls huckleberry jam 1 circle (siz...
Pastis landais

Recipes : Pastis landais
Pastis landais serve 6 : Ingredients 450 g of flour, 125 g of butter, 20 g of butter for the mould, 150 g of pru...
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...
Hazelnut soft Cake

Recipes : Hazelnut soft Cake
Hazelnut soft Cake, serves 6 to 8 people 200 grams (7 ounces) of roasted hazelnuts (turn the nuts into powder in a mixe...
Petits Suisses Tart

Recipes : Petits Suisses Tart
Sprinkled with bitter chocolate Makes 1 tart for 6 guests 1 shortcut pastry shell (made with butter, fresh or froz...
Currant Jam

French specialties : Currant Jam
Bar-le-Duc is the town of origin of a rare and ignored Lorraine speciality, the currant Jam épépinée with the goose feat...
Cassoulet

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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...


answer to Daphne
Hello Daphne In France, such bags of "sucre vanillé" contains approximately 10 grams (1/3 oz) : precisely 7.5 grams. If...

I injoyed the food
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...

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







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