paris famous dishes Recipes :
![]() | Recipes : Chantilly cream We call "Chantilly cream" a fresh sugared whipped cream. Number of people have taken for granted that it has been inven... |
![]() | Recipes : Fresh cod filets with hazelnuts Fresh cod steaks/filets breaded with hazelnut powder (6 servings) : 6 fresh cod steaks/filets (1/3 to 1/2 of a pound ... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Recipes : Provence style Tomatoes Here is the mythical recipe of the tomatoes 'à la Provençale' (Provence style tomatoes - note of the translator : Proven... |
![]() | Recipes : Tarte Tatin This recipe, created by the Tatin sisters, at the beginning of the 20th century in their restaurant of La Motte Beuvron ... |
![]() | Recipes : Broccoli This beautiful and versatile vegetable is very easy to prepare.... |
![]() | Recipes : Tapenade Ingredients for a bowl of 'tapenade' : 250 grams of stoned (pitted) black olives (from Nyons if you can find them - N... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Recipes : Crayfish blanc-mange Little blanc-mange, or flan, of crayfish tails, curry cream sauce and cucumber brunoise. This recipe is ideal, for th... |
![]() | Recipes : bearnaise Sauce Bearnaise Sauce for 6 guests : 2 dl of vinegar 1 shallot, very finely chopped 2 tsp of fresh tarragon 2 tsp of fre... |
![]() | Recipes : Glazed Loin of Lamb Loin of lamb, glazed with red Martini. Recipe for 8 people: 8 pieces of loin of lamb of about 120g each (about 4.5 Oz... |
![]() | Recipes : Lentils In culinary terms, a dish served with lentils is referred as "...Esau". It comes from the biblical character of Esau who... |
![]() | Recipes : Andouillette The andouillette is spicy sausage from the Troyes region, just 150 Km southeast of Paris, in the Champagne Region. It is... |
![]() 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... |
![]() French specialties : Meaux Mustard The Meaux Mustard, cousin of the one of Dijon, differs from it by the use of the vinegar in its manufacture. Rustic and ... |
![]() | 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 ... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | News : Asparagus Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | News : Opening oysters Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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... |
easy French main course
Hi Kate, Go up to the left side of this page ; under "French recipes", you find several icons : when you point on them,...
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...
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