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Granita

Recipes : Granita
Very simple to make and inexpensive, they do not require an ice-cream maker and they are kept in the freezer compartment...
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 ...
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...
Kebabs of Oysters and Cured Duck Magret

Recipes : Kebabs of Oysters and Cured Duck Magret
This is a very simple recipe which will put your taste buds in extasy. Oyster kebabs for 6 people: 48 Oysters 48 Pa...
Ratatouille small toasts at the 'Nice' style

Recipes : Ratatouille small toasts at the 'Nice' style
Cooking also being the art of using foodstuff left from the previous meal, this is a idea for a light dinner : a few pot...
Home-made Yoghurts

Recipes : Home-made Yoghurts
A very simple recipe for home-made yoghurts For 6 pots : 1 liter whole milk (whole milk is recommended to get unctuo...
Macaroons

Recipes : Macaroons
There is one of my oldest recipe. It is a very simple recipe that will assure you of a perfect result every time. For...
Veal kebabs

Recipes : Veal kebabs
To prepare you veal kebabs, first cut small cubes of veal meat taken from the shoulder. Let let marinade during 24 hour...
Hazelnut Yogurt Cake

Recipes : Hazelnut Yogurt Cake
There many yogurt cake recipes but this one is my favourite: Hazelnut and yogurt cake recipe for 6 people: Round no...
Veal Chops

Recipes : Veal Chops "Normande"
This old traditional French recipe has become out of fashion in French restaurant or at family dinner. I do not understa...
Chocolate Fondant

Recipes : Chocolate Fondant
Makes 8 individual cakes 200 g of dark chocolaet, 60% 8 squares of the same chocolate 220 g of butter 160 g of cast...
Creole sented Caramelized Pineapple

Recipes : Creole sented Caramelized Pineapple
Caramelized Pineapple for 6 : 1 medium size tin of sliced pineapple 300 g of sugar 6 eggs 50 g of brown sugar Juic...
French cut Rib of Beef

Recipes : French cut Rib of Beef
First of all a little reminder. First a calf is born, it is either male or female. Female: it becomes a heifer, then a...
Armagnac

French specialties : Armagnac
The story of Armagnac known as the most ancient eaux-de-vie in France,began at the beginning of the 15th Century in Gasc...
Nancy Macaroon

French specialties : Nancy Macaroon
If there is a city in Lorraine which deserves a little break, it is indeed Nancy and its splendid architectural sets. Na...
Maghreb cooking

News : Maghreb cooking
After having paid a visit to our Canadian friends, we continue our gastronomic trips outside of France a little more sou...
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...
Miss Nellie and Mr Auguste

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...
the omelette

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...
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...
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...


good meal
Tootsie I understand that the list of recipes already translated in English does not cover your needs : is that because...

madeleine
Hi Trilby We try, from some time now (the translation of madeleines is quite old), into the English translations of rec...

Answer to Karroll
Hi Karroll Many thanks for your message. You can now and you will find more and more translations of our Chef's exclusi...

Help me
Of course you can help you but please make your request more specific : do you need some examples of recipes (if so, in ...

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 ...




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cassoulet
The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the 100 year read more