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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...
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 ...
Batter for Fritters

Recipes : Batter for Fritters
There is a basic recipe to make fritters (recipe for 6-8 people) 250g (1/2 lb) strong flour, sifted. 5g (1/5 oz) tab...
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...
Caramel sauce

Recipes : Caramel sauce
Here, you will find my advices and tips to make your caramel sauce a "reussite" every time. there is what you need to...
Browned shells Saint-Jaques

Recipes : Browned shells Saint-Jaques
Browned shells Saint-Jacques For 4 persons : 150 g of small mushrooms 8 whole walnuts (St-Jacques) 1/2 liter of dr...
Lamb Kebabs

Recipes : Lamb Kebabs
To make lamb kebabs it is best to make small cubes, about 1/2 an inch thick, using lamb's shoulder or leg of lamb meat. ...
Chicken Kebabs

Recipes : Chicken Kebabs
Procedure to make chicken kebabs The best way to make chicken kebabs is to cut some chicken breasts into cubes 3/4 of...
Hare 'à la Royale'

Recipes : Hare 'à la Royale'
the Sousceyrac recipe... This is the original LIEVRE A LA ROYALE recipe, the most mythical dish in French cuisine. ...
Veal Stock

Recipes : Veal Stock
There is the original veal stock recipe. Despite the fact that nowadays powdered veal stock has become widely available,...
Fish Kebabs

Recipes : Fish Kebabs
There are an infinity of possibilities when making fish kebabs.There are few examples. We advise you to marinade the fis...
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 ...
Hollandaise Sauce

Recipes : Hollandaise Sauce
Hollandaise (sauce) : for asparagus, poached fish, artichoke hearts,... Ingredients for this sauce : 3 eggyolks 8 c...
Colza oil

French specialties : Colza oil
With oils the choice is wide, but there is one that we would be wrong to ignore, it is the colza oil. Indeed its) applic...
Chicken from Bresse

French specialties : Chicken from Bresse
It's impossible to evoke Burgundy and more particularly the Bresse, without evoking one of the products which make the c...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne.

News : Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne.
"Hello, for all those which are not likely yet to know Floc de Gascogne, could you explain us what is this breuvage and...
Asparagus

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


in need of a easy french main course
hi, i need to make an easy french main course for dinner. can you please give me a few suggestions that i could make....

Emmental Cheese Tarte with Apricots and Fennel
it looks delicous cant wait to make it...

Dumpling Dough?
Hi! I want to make Chinese filled dumplings, but I need some advice for making the dough strong, so that it won't tea...

chocolate fondante
I finally tried this recipe for my family and they really loved it. I am going to make it for my felow classmates this w...

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...







The Lobster à l'américaine StoryThe Lobster à l'américaine Story
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cassoulet
The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the 100 year read more