traditional french food 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 : Veal Chops "Normande" This old traditional French recipe has become out of fashion in French restaurant or at family dinner. I do not understa... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Recipes : Bäckeofe Short introduction : this typical Alsacian recipe (note of the translator : Alsace is a French province along the French... |
![]() | 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 : Seafood Parillada Ingredients for 4 guests: 4 sardines, 2 salmon steaks, 8 shrimp, 4 prawns, 4 mullets, 4 tomatoes, 4 mild green ... |
![]() | Recipes : Navarin d'agneau (Lamb stew) Lamb stew with potatoes Origin of this dish: the victory of the French fleet in 1827 fighting for Greece's independen... |
![]() | Recipes : Shortbread pastry Here is the recipe of the 'shortbread pastry' ('pâte sablée' en French), sometimes forgotten from the pastry cook books ... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Recipes : Pork steak Alsatian Style It is unfortunate, that this remarkable cut of pork "rouelle"(French for small wheel) is hardly served any more. The "ro... |
![]() | Recipes : Confit Lemons Confit means preserved in fat. This lemon preserve makes a great accompaniment to grilled meats or fishes and is a tradi... |
![]() | Recipes : Aligot Comming from the cooperative of Laguiole Serves 6 : 1 kg of floury potatoes 100 g of butter 250 g of creme frai... |
![]() French specialties : Dry Auvergne sausage The dry sausage is one of the florets of the French traditional pork-butchery. Its development thus requires many care ... |
![]() 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 : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language) The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : 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 : Opening oysters Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica... |
![]() | 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 : 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 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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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marquise au chocolat
Msr. Asfaux, What is the traditional way of making this? I have been told it is many thin layers of chocolate mousse an...
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