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Duck Breast with Asparagus

Recipes : Duck Breast with Asparagus
Duck Breast with Asparagus for two persons: 1 filet of Duck breast, Asparagus tips, cut from one bunch of peeled as...
Smoked duck breast salad

Recipes : Smoked duck breast salad
Smoked duck breast salad for 6 guests: A variety of seasonal greens, washed and dried 8 thin cuts of roasted duck br...
Duck confit in small dish

Recipes : Duck confit in small dish
For 6 persons: Ingredients 6 thighs of duck confit, 8 beautiful potatoes, peeled, washed, wiped and sliced 3 cloves...
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....
Roasted Duck with Peas

Recipes : Roasted Duck with Peas
A Roasted Duck with Peas recipe for 6 guests : 1 large duck (from Nantes if possible), weighing 1,6 to 1,8kg 80 gr of ...
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...
Cream of  Cep mushroom Soup

Recipes : Cream of Cep mushroom Soup
Cream of Cep mushroom soup "a la Lotoise" for 6 people: 1 lt of mushroom coulis 20 g of Goose fat 300 g of Small ce...
Kebabs of Oysters and Cured Duck Magret

Recipes : Kebabs of Oysters and Cured Duck Magret
This is a very simple recipe which will put your taste buds in extasy. Oyster kebabs for 6 people: 48 Oysters 48 Pa...
Duck Gizzards Salad

Recipes : Duck Gizzards Salad
Salad for 6 people: 300g Confit duck gizzard 18 Slices of baguette 100g Crushed walnuts 1 Clove of garlic 3 Baby g...
Roasted strips of duck magret with mirabelle plums

Recipes : Roasted strips of duck magret with mirabelle plums
A recipe of our menu 'special end of the year celebrations Roast strips of magret of duck, sweet and sour mirabelles ...
Duck Terrine Forestiere

Recipes : Duck Terrine Forestiere
Makes one terrine for 6 guests: 2 duck fillets 300 gr of veal stuffing 300 gr of lean pork stuffing (ask your butch...
Barbarie Duck Stew with Blackcurrants

Recipes : Barbarie Duck Stew with Blackcurrants
Barbarie Duck stew with Blackcurrant and Tagliatelli with walnut butter. The great thing about this recipe is that it ...
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 ...
Potted duck

French specialties : Potted duck
When South-west is evoked in gastronomy, we cannot forget foie gras and confit, whether they are of duck or goose. The c...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...


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Help me
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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...

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