tradional french cooking Recipes :
![]() | 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 : French Fries French fries or "pomme Pont-Neuf" are probably the most popular french recipe. But, they are not always cooked properly.... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Recipes : Bäckeofe Short introduction : this typical Alsacian recipe (note of the translator : Alsace is a French province along the French... |
![]() | Recipes : Beret Basque Ingredients for the "Beret Basque" chocolate dessert: Chocolate mousse: 6 egg whites, 200g dark cooking chocolate, ... |
![]() | Recipes : Shortbread pastry Here is the recipe of the 'shortbread pastry' ('pâte sablée' en French), sometimes forgotten from the pastry cook books ... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : Nice style ratatouille This recipe of 'ratatouille' (Nice style) is a condensed version of several ones that were given to me by several chefs ... |
![]() | Recipes : Chocolate Marquise The great thnig about this recipe is that when it comes to serve your dessert course, you will just need to take it out ... |
![]() | Recipes : Milk Toffee I am sure that this delicious, ancient traditional recipe will please children and grown-ups alike. To know all about... |
![]() | 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 : Emmental Cheese Tarte with Apricots and Fennel Recipe for 4 guests Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 35 à 40 minutes Ingredients: For the shortcut pastry... |
![]() French specialties : Andouillette in Vouvray wine When we speaks about Andouillette, we cannot prevent ourselves from thinking of famous Andouillette of Troyes. Neverthel... |
![]() French specialties : Smoked herring The herring has a considerable economic importance since the Middle Ages. It was called the "fish king" or, sometimes, m... |
![]() | News : Maghreb cooking After having paid a visit to our Canadian friends, we continue our gastronomic trips outside of France a little more sou... |
![]() | 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 : 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... |
![]() | 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 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : AVPA 2008 contest : oil, honey and dry fruit Like in 2007, Patrick Asfaux was part of the trial jury of the AVPA (Agence pour la Valorisation des Produits Agricoles ... |
![]() | 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 : 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 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 : 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 : 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 dakshina
The disclosed recipe is just a standard very simple asparagus soup recipe ; I do not think this is a "French" soup ; thi...
answer to charlie
Hello Charlie Where are you from ?(it is not so common that non French persons love andouillette : even many French do ...
answer to BernayG
Dear BernayG No difficulty and no risk to prepare it badly. The only real care you need to take (in addition to stick t...








































