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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....
Flan

Recipes : Flan
This is one of the oldest French dessert recipe. The recipe that I am giving you, here, is a basic recipe, feel free to...
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...
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 ...
Emmental Cheese Tarte with Apricots and Fennel

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...
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...
String/French bean salad

Recipes : String/French bean salad
This is a recipe adequate for persons suffering from type 2-diabetes String/French bean salad for 4 to 6 persons : 5...
Nice style ratatouille

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 ...
Green lentils and chanterelle terrine

Recipes : Green lentils and chanterelle terrine
Green lentils and chanterelle terrine (for 6 persons) : 200 grams (nearly ½ lb) green lentils (only washed) 1 onion...
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...
Flaky pastry

Recipes : Flaky pastry
Ingredients : 250 g (8 to 9 oz) wheat flour 200 g (7 oz) butter 1/10 liter (3 to 4 fl oz) water 5 g (1 small traspoo...
Blackcurrant Cream from Dijon

French specialties : Blackcurrant Cream from Dijon
Burgundy is one of the French areas where, as soon as we speak about a product, we can speak about one of the "ambassado...
Banyuls

French specialties : Banyuls
French cousin of Porto, Banyuls is a wine of the Languedoc-Roussillon area whose apellation extends on 1300 hectares bet...
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...
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 'Madeleine' story

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Kir

News : Kir
Mr Félix Kir (born in 1876 in Côte d'Or, in the heart of Burgundy) was a canon, ordained as a catholic priest in 1901. ...
A so nice journey

News : A so nice journey
It is true that my children and friends have had a real great idea in offring me, for my birthday anniversary, a fixed r...
Recipes for persons suffering from type 2 -diabetes

News : Recipes for persons suffering from type 2 -diabetes
Yes, we can prepare and eat good food and suffer somewhat from type 2-diabetes (this is my personal case). I react by av...
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 ...
Queen Tomato's paradise

News : Queen Tomato's paradise
Most people believe that tomato is a vegetable but it is actually a fruit of an herbal american plant (solanum genus) ; ...
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...
Coffee, how to choose it and make it

News : Coffee, how to choose it and make it
The 2009 Paris Agricultural Fair recently closed after having received over 700,000 visitors. This year, I was invited ...


answer to Jay
Hi Jay This recipe is the one of the pastry AS A BASE for some desserts. Of course, it is not intented to be eaten by i...

Homework.
Hey. If Anyone Knows Any Original French Food Can You Get In Touch Please. Got A Essay To Write And Need To Know A Bit A...

Chef Giovanni
You want be French cook, but you are not French. I have a chance my mothet was French ans my father was Italian. My Fren...

show cheese
please do an article on french cheese. not just recipes as they are not very helpful in understanding french cheese and ...

translation issues
Emmanuelle, Where are you from ? Your name sounds French and obviously you read French. You are totally right. Unfortun...








2009 End of the Year Festive Menu2009 End of the Year Festive Menu
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Mr Auguste
This is a short tribute to Auguste Escoffier, the so famous French cook . Mr Auguste
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'armoricaine" one.read more