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paris centre Recipes :
Stuffed cabbage

Recipes : Stuffed cabbage
One stuffed cabbage for six people: 1 nice green cabbage 3 carrots 3 onions 3 cloves of garlic 1 kg potatoes 200 g...
Chantilly cream

Recipes : Chantilly cream
We call "Chantilly cream" a fresh sugared whipped cream. Number of people have taken for granted that it has been inven...
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...
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 ...
Andouillette

Recipes : Andouillette
The andouillette is spicy sausage from the Troyes region, just 150 Km southeast of Paris, in the Champagne Region. It is...
Herring Papillotes

Recipes : Herring Papillotes
“A la boulonnaise” Herring Papillotes for 6 guests : 6 fresh herrings, with their eggs 200 gr of mushrooms (champ...
Pan Fried Foie Gras

Recipes : Pan Fried Foie Gras
Pan fried foie gras recipe for 4 people: 4 Slices of foie gras of 90g (3oz) each 4 thick slices of slicepan bread 4 a...
Crécy soup

Recipes : Crécy soup
A beautiful soup ; its name comes from a village close to Meaux (40 miles east of Paris) where the best carrots used to ...
 Chicken liver Parfait with mushroom coulis

Recipes : Chicken liver Parfait with mushroom coulis
Chicken liver parfait's recipe for 8 small individual molds: 400g chicken livers, trimed and cleaned 20 cc double crea...
Hazelnut and Chocolate Pastilla

Recipes : Hazelnut and Chocolate Pastilla
The "pastilla" recipe was originally a recipe from North Africa, mainly from Morroco, made with pigeons. I have made a ...
Beurre Blanc

Recipes : Beurre Blanc
It is believed that the creation of the beurre blanc sauce came from a mistake made by the excellent cook of the "Marqui...
Orange Marmalade Swiss Roll

Recipes : Orange Marmalade Swiss Roll
For the Swiss roll: 120g stronghold flour 5 eggs (whites and yolks separated) 150g caster sugar 1 packet vanilla sug...
Plougastel Strawberries in a vanilla shell

Recipes : Plougastel Strawberries in a vanilla shell
and its lime tree and mint cream. Plougastel Strawberries in a vanilla shell and its lime tree and mint cream recipe ...
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...
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...
Asparagus

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


Reponce
She is probably refering to "centre liquide" of chocolate. (when you put a ball of ganache in the center of a chocolate ...

blushing
Daphne I am blushing ... fortunately, I am (also) sitting alone in front of my computer in Paris (it is lunchtime and I...

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...



Le Centre Poitou

Restaurants :Le Centre Poitou -COULOMBIERS
86600 rue Nationale tél :05 49 60 90 15
Mercure Centre

Restaurants :Mercure Centre -BLOIS
41000 28 quai St tél :02 54 56 66 66
Novotel Centre

Restaurants :Novotel Centre -METZ
57000 place Paraiges tél :03 87 37 38 39
Centre

Restaurants :Centre -RUPT-SUR-MOSELLE
88360 rue de l'Eglise tél :03 29 24 34 73
Mercure Centre

Restaurants :Mercure Centre -GRENOBLE
38000 12 boulevard Maréchal Joffre tél :04 76 87 88 41
Novotel Centre

Restaurants :Novotel Centre -GRENOBLE
38000 place Robert Schuman tél :04 76 70 84 84
Novotel Centre

Restaurants :Novotel Centre -TOULOUSE
31000 5 place Alfonse Jourdain tél :05 61 21 74 74
Mercure Centre

Restaurants :Mercure Centre -MONTPELLIER
34000 218 rue Bastien Ventadour tél :04 67 99 89 89
Mercure Centre

Restaurants :Mercure Centre -CLERMONT-FERRAND
63000 82 bd François Mitterrand tél :04 73 34 46 46
Mercure Centre St-Thiébault

Restaurants :Mercure Centre St-Thiébault -METZ
57000 29 place St tél :03 87 38 50 50





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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