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Emmental Cheese Tarte with Apricots and Fennel

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...
Wafers

Recipes : Wafers
There are many other wafer recipes, but this one is the simplest around! Wafers for 4 to 6 people : 250g strong flou...
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...
Caramel sauce

Recipes : Caramel sauce
Here, you will find my advices and tips to make your caramel sauce a "reussite" every time. there is what you need to...
Braised Chicory with Emmental Cheese

Recipes : Braised Chicory with Emmental Cheese
WITH CUMINSEED HONEY... Recipe for 4 guests Preparation time: 20 minutes Ingredients: 100 g of French Emmental ...
French Fries

Recipes : French Fries
French fries or "pomme Pont-Neuf" are probably the most popular french recipe. But, they are not always cooked properly....
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...
Tomates confites

Recipes : Tomates confites
Slow-roasted tomatoes with olive oil and dried thyme flowers It is always a good idea to have this garnish because it...
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 ...
Hazelnut Yoghurt Cake

Recipes : Hazelnut Yoghurt Cake
There many yoghurt cake recipes but this one is my favourite: Hazelnut and yoghurt cake recipe for 6 people: Round ...
Tarte Tatin

Recipes : Tarte Tatin
This recipe, created by the Tatin sisters, at the beginning of the 20th century in their restaurant of La Motte Beuvron ...
Blanquette de veau

Recipes : Blanquette de veau
served with Pilau Rice. An all time favorite. For 6 guests : 1,5 kg of veal shoulder (divided into approximately 18 ...
Greek style mushrooms

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...
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 ...
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...
2009 End of the Year Festive Menu

News : 2009 End of the Year Festive Menu
It has, now, become an annual berth, our chef Patrick Asfaux offers you his new festive menu for the Holiday season. Thi...
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...
Without gluten recipes

News : Without gluten recipes
Today we will deal with this harmful decease that is intolerance to gluten (or so called coeliac decease). In fact, this...
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...
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...
Recipes for persons suffering from type 2 -diabetes

News : Recipes for persons suffering from type 2 -diabetes
Yes, we can prepare and eat good food and suffer somewhat from type 2-diabetes (this is my personal case). I react by av...
Festive Menu 2008

News : Festive Menu 2008
Two years after our first "festive menu", we renew it by providing you with 14 new exclusive recipes for Christmas and/o...
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...
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...
Queen Tomato's paradise

News : Queen Tomato's paradise
Most people believe that tomato is a vegetable but it is actually a fruit of an herbal american plant (solanum genus) ; ...
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...
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...
Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne.

News : Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne.
"Hello, for all those which are not likely yet to know Floc de Gascogne, could you explain us what is this breuvage and...
Kir

News : Kir
Mr Félix Kir (born in 1876 in Côte d'Or, in the heart of Burgundy) was a canon, ordained as a catholic priest in 1901. ...
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...
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 ...
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...


answer to alex
Alex, You are absolutely right : this is one of the very first "recipes" on the English side of this site and it had be...

picture
Charlotte, I assume "pic" stands for "picture" ? The chef inputs a picture of the recipe when available : it happens f...

answer to charlie
Hello Charlie Where are you from ?(it is not so common that non French persons love andouillette : even many French do ...

fionaa
Fionna This site is full of French recipes : just click onto " RECIPES " on top lef of this page...

answer to Pravesh
Hello Go to the "recipes" title on top left of this page and you will find French recipes in English. Of course you can...








2009 End of the Year Festive Menu2009 End of the Year Festive Menu
It has, now, become an annual berth, our chef Patr More...


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Mr Auguste
This is a short tribute to Auguste Escoffier, the so famous French cook . Mr Auguste
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'armoricaine" one.read more