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traditional food recipe Recipes :
Roast Turkey with Chestnuts

Recipes : Roast Turkey with Chestnuts
This roast turkey with chestnut recipe is still a very traditional one but will also guaranteer you a nice moist meat at...
Seafood Parillada

Recipes : Seafood Parillada
Ingredients for 4 guests: 4 sardines, 2 salmon steaks, 8 shrimp, 4 prawns, 4 mullets, 4 tomatoes, 4 mild green ...
Redberries Syllabub

Recipes : Redberries Syllabub
Recipe for 6 people : 4 Greek style, natural yoghurt 100g strawberries 100g raspberries 50g blackcurrants 100g blac...
Andouillette

Recipes : Andouillette
The andouillette is spicy sausage from the Troyes region, just 150 Km southeast of Paris, in the Champagne Region. It is...
Confit Lemons

Recipes : Confit Lemons
Confit means preserved in fat. This lemon preserve makes a great accompaniment to grilled meats or fishes and is a tradi...
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...
Black Truffle Coulis

Recipes : Black Truffle Coulis
Recipe for 1/2 (1 pt) of black truffle coulis: 1/2 veal stock 20 cl white port 100g black truffle (tuber melanospor...
Pork Chops with Apples and Maple Syrup

Recipes : Pork Chops with Apples and Maple Syrup
This is a traditional Canadian recipe. Recipe for 6 people: 6 thick cut pork chops 3 golden apples 3 table spoon...
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...
Almond Milk Custard Tart

Recipes : Almond Milk Custard Tart
Almond Milk flan is an ancient traditional recipe that I digged up from my old cookery books to bring it to you today. ...
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...
Provence style Tomatoes

Recipes : Provence style Tomatoes
Here is the mythical recipe of the tomatoes 'à la Provençale' (Provence style tomatoes - note of the translator : Proven...
Milk Toffee

Recipes : Milk Toffee
I am sure that this delicious, ancient traditional recipe will please children and grown-ups alike. To know all about...
Cassoulet

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 ...
Canele

French specialties : Canele
The town of Bordeaux, it is before all the city of the wine, the Quay of Chartrons, where all the large wine traders wer...
The round cake for the Twelfth Night

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...
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...
The Lobster à l'américaine Story

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...
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...
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 'Madeleine' story

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...
Opening oysters

News : Opening oysters
Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica...
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...
Sauerkraut  ('choucroute' in French language)

News : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language)
The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue...
A nice week-end in Lyon

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...
Chef Asfaux in jail !

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 ...
A few days in Burgundy

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...


Emmental Cheese Tarte with Apricots and Fennel
Comment on recipe : [url]http://www.aftouch-cuisine.com/recipe/emmental-cheese-tarte-with-apricots-and-fennel-139.htm[/u...

Orange Marmalade Swiss Roll
Comment on recipe : [url]http://www.aftouch-cuisine.com/recipe/orange-marmalade-swiss-roll-333.htm[/url] Good Day,well ...

chocolate marquise
Hi Douglas You are right : some traditional chocolate marquise recipes include layers of chocolate stuffing and of bisc...

Watermelon jam
Comment on recipe : [url]http://www.aftouch-cuisine.com/recipe/watermelon-jam-760.htm[/url] i tried this recipe and i l...

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,...
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festive menu
The end of the year celebrations/parties are, for number of people, an opportunity to share with relatives and/or with friends. festive menu
cassoulet
The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the 100 year read more