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![]() | 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 : Maltese Sauce Excellent just warm sauce for warm starters like asparagus Ingredients : 2 centiliters (0.7 fl oz) of orange juice +... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : 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... |
![]() | Recipes : Greek style mushrooms For once, I will give the classical recipe, as the school manuals (Planche et Sylvestre) were teaching us, such a long t... |
![]() | Recipes : Scallop and Mushroom Parmentiere For 4 guests: 8 large scallops 500 gr "traditional" mashed potatoes 1 garlic clove 2 tablespoons olive oil 200 g ... |
![]() 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 : Cassoulet The Cassoulet is a typical French dish. Its history would go up with the Hundred Year Lasting war, in the XIVth century ... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : 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 : Sauerkraut ('choucroute' in French language) The French word 'choucroute' (for 'sauerkraut') derives from the Alsacian dialect 'sûrkrût' itself from the German 'saue... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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... |
for Sarah
On top of this page, click on "recipes" then on any of the parts of the meals (starters, meat, fish, desserts ...) you w...
easy French main course
Hi Kate, Go up to the left side of this page ; under "French recipes", you find several icons : when you point on them,...
I injoyed the food
I tasted french wine and french bread and it was very nice food from nikita...
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 dakshina
The disclosed recipe is just a standard very simple asparagus soup recipe ; I do not think this is a "French" soup ; thi...







































