red beans and rice
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 | Recipes : Smoked Duck and Beans Cake Smoked duck and beans cake recipe for 4 to 6 people : 500g kidney beans, soaked for 12h some thyme 1 bay leaf 1 carr... |
 | Recipes : Blanquette de veau served with Pilau Rice. An all time favorite. For 6 guests : 1,5 kg of veal shoulder (divided into approximately 18 ... |
 | 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 ... |
 | Recipes : Cassoulet The recipe of the A Sousceyrac restaurant (note of the corrector : this was the restaurant of the Chef Patrick Asfaux fa... |
 | Recipes : Loubia Another recipe adapted from my friend Maloub who worked with/for me during numerous years. For 6 persons : 1 veal fo... |
 | Recipes : Basque Salad Serves 4: 500 g various greens: lettuce, escarole, radicchio, oak leaves, chicory 2 yellow onions and 2 white onions, ... |
 | Recipes : Potee Lorraine Potee Lorraine for 6 guests: 1 cooking sausage, weighing 450 gr 600 gr of smoked pork shoulder 300 gr of smoked pork ... |
 | Recipes : Pork rib with red onions A recipe adequate for persons suffering from type 2-diabetes for 4 (quite heavy appetite) persons : 4 nice farm po... |
 | 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 : Beef Kebab To realise these kebabs, it is preferable to choose pieces of striploin. Dice them up and leave them to marinade for sev... |
 | Recipes : Tomates confites Slow-roasted tomatoes with olive oil and dried thyme flowers It is always a good idea to have this garnish because it... |
 French specialties : Cassoulet The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the Hundred Year Lasting war, in the XIVth century ... |
 French specialties : Mojhette The Poitevin Marsh from time immemorial produced excellent vegetables and Mojhette, generic term indicating several vari... |
 | 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 : 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... |
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 | News : Coffee tasting Second and last part of our report on coffee and still based upon documents forwarded by Mr Rocher, we now focus on arom... |
 | 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 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 : 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 : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language) The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue... |
 | 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... |
 | 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... |
 | 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... |
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answer to Daphne
Hello Daphne In France, such bags of "sucre vanillé" contains approximately 10 grams (1/3 oz) : precisely 7.5 grams. If...
Flour
Hi David, If you want to get a flour similar to the french T45 use plain flour. But personally I would use strong flour...
my wife & her dumplings
The dumplings I refer to are the edible ones !! Mei is from Anshan and what ever flour we buy she is not happy, I notice...
flour
Hi again David For clarification, Type 45 flour is the purest one and plain flour (so the less pure) is at the opposite...
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...
