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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...
Round cake for the Twelfth Night

Recipes : Round cake for the Twelfth Night
As you can see, you have several opportunities : a "dry" cake (without any stuffing)or a cake stuffed with almond cream ...
Spices for poultry

Recipes : Spices for poultry
In the kitchen of every good restaurant, one prepares in advance a seasoning that is used for roasted meat and/or for te...
Maltese Sauce

Recipes : Maltese Sauce
Excellent just warm sauce for warm starters like asparagus Ingredients : 2 centiliters (0.7 fl oz) of orange juice +...
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...
Date nougat

Recipes : Date nougat
This date (the fruit) nougat (a kind of a candy) is a recipe of my friend Maloub who worked for numerous years for me ; ...
Tapenade

Recipes : Tapenade
Ingredients for a bowl of 'tapenade' : 250 grams of stoned (pitted) black olives (from Nyons if you can find them - N...
Boulangere potatoes

Recipes : Boulangere potatoes
Garnish for a 6 serving course : 600 grams (20 oz) peeled potatoes cut into thin slices 300 grams (10 oz) peeled and c...
Glasses of yoghurt and coconut

Recipes : Glasses of yoghurt and coconut
For 4 glasses : 4 plain (unsugared) yoghurts 8 halfes of apricots in syrup 30 grams (1 oz) caster sugar 50 grams (1....
King size curved tiles cookies

Recipes : King size curved tiles cookies
A recipe of our menu 'special end of the year celebrations'. To taste with the after lunch coffee ... For 8 large ...
Shortbread pastry

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

Recipes : Smoked salmon cake
6 servings : 3 eggs 150 grams (1/3 pound) wheat flour 1 small bag of baking powder 1/10 liter (1/2 cup) colza oil 1...
Pumpkin 'surprise' pancakes

Recipes : Pumpkin 'surprise' pancakes
For approximately 40 pancakes For the pancakes mixture : 250 grams (1.1 lb) wheat flour 3 eggs (yolks and whites) b...
Beaten Cake

French specialties : Beaten Cake
A speciality of maritime Picardie, the Beaten Cake is a brioche cake very rich in the shape of a hat. It is cooked in a ...
Pelardon des Cevennes

French specialties : Pelardon des Cevennes
The "Pelardon des Cevennes" is one of oldest goat's milk cheeses of Europe. It is manufactured since many centuries in t...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...


madeleine
Hi Trilby We try, from some time now (the translation of madeleines is quite old), into the English translations of rec...

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

Dumpling Dough?
[b]Where are you located?[/b] I live in a small town about an hour to the West of Jerusalem. I don't believe that anyo...

answer to Linda
Please read again the list of ingredients : you will find the answer (80 grams i.e. 2.5 oz) to your questions. I believe...

Dumpling Dough
Hi David For once, let's be lazy, pragmatic and efficient : when I intend to make Chinese (or not) dumplings, I buy alr...








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festive menu
The end of the year celebrations/parties are, for number of people, an opportunity to share with relatives and/or with friends. festive menu
cassoulet
The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the 100 year read more