rice vegetables and beans
![]() | Recipes : Pilau Rice Pilau Rice 200 gr of long grain rice 1 onion, finely chopped 1 bouquet garni 50 gr of butter 300 gr of the veal sto... |
![]() | Recipes : French Beans There is the ideal way to cook French bean making sure that they keep their green and crunchy qualities: Cooking Fren... |
![]() | 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 : Cassoulet The recipe of the A Sousceyrac restaurant (note of the corrector : this was the restaurant of the Chef Patrick Asfaux fa... |
![]() | 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 : Pot-au-Feu Pot-au-Feu recipe for 8 guests: Meat: 1 kg of spare ribs, cut in 4 1,5 kg of beef shoulder palette 1,5 kg of bee... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | 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 : Carioca coffee baked cream pots Recipe for 4 to 6 people: 75g of good coffee beans 8dl whole milk 150g dark cooking chocolate, gratted 6 egg yolks... |
![]() | 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 : Traditional-style confit of porc Traditional-style confit of pork for 6 to 8 persons : 2 kg (4 lb) boneless pork filet 8 garlic cloves, degermed and ... |
![]() French specialties : Mojhette The Poitevin Marsh from time immemorial produced excellent vegetables and Mojhette, generic term indicating several vari... |
![]() 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 ... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : Coffee, how to choose it and make it The 2009 Paris Agricultural Fair recently closed after having received over 700,000 visitors. This year, I was invited ... |
![]() | 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 : 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 so nice journey It is true that my children and friends have had a real great idea in offring me, for my birthday anniversary, a fixed r... |
![]() | News : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language) The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue... |
![]() | 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... |
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...
answer to Bernard
Hello Bernard We have posted over 15 new recipes (in English) in the course of last month in view of the Christmas and ...
Fresh spaghetti with green olives
No 'real' sauce for this recipe but a very tasty stuff as described in the recipe (+ the basil). Numerous pasta recipe,...
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...



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