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french food in the early 1900 s Recipes :

french food in the early 1900 s Recipes :
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....
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...
Seafood Parillada

Recipes : Seafood Parillada
Ingredients for 4 guests: 4 sardines, 2 salmon steaks, 8 shrimp, 4 prawns, 4 mullets, 4 tomatoes, 4 mild green ...
Shortbread pastry

Recipes : Shortbread pastry
Here is the recipe of the 'shortbread pastry' ('pâte sablée' en French), sometimes forgotten from the pastry cook books ...
Black Truffle Coulis

Recipes : Black Truffle Coulis
Recipe for 1/2 (1 pt) of black truffle coulis: 1/2 veal stock 20 cl white port 100g black truffle (tuber melanospor...
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...
Redberries Syllabub

Recipes : Redberries Syllabub
Recipe for 6 people : 4 Greek style, natural yoghurt 100g strawberries 100g raspberries 50g blackcurrants 100g blac...
Chocolate and hazelnut brownies

Recipes : Chocolate and hazelnut brownies
Chocolate and hazelnut brownies for a nice family who loves good food: 70 gr of dark chocolate (more than 50% cocoa) ...
Greek style mushrooms

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...
Banana cake

Recipes : Banana cake
For 6 guests : 200 g ripe bananas 200 g of flour, sieved 200 g of caster sugar 70 g of butter 2 eggs the juice of ...
Chocolate Fondant

Recipes : Chocolate Fondant
Makes 8 individual cakes 200 g of dark chocolaet, 60% 8 squares of the same chocolate 220 g of butter 160 g of cast...
Anchoïade - anchovy paste

Recipes : Anchoïade - anchovy paste
Recipe for the anchovy paste (anchoiade)for 6 : 600 g filets of anchovy in olive oil 3 cloves of garlic, cored and fin...
Smoked herring

French specialties : Smoked herring
The herring has a considerable economic importance since the Middle Ages. It was called the "fish king" or, sometimes, m...
Chocolate

French specialties : Chocolate
The Cocoa broad bean comes us from South America. The cacoayer produced a fruit indeed that the old Aztec crushed to con...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Asparagus

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

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


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

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

gastronomy
Hello Gastronomy is the highest degree of the way to appreciate and develop the sense of taste. Being a ‘gastronom’ i...

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