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what are frecnch pancakes called Recipes :
Buckwheat Pancakes

Recipes : Buckwheat Pancakes
For 12 buckwheat pancakes : 250g of Buckwheat flour 1 Egg 1 Teaspoon of salt 5 dl of water 2 Table spoon of vegetab...
Pumpkin 'surprise' pancakes

Recipes : Pumpkin 'surprise' pancakes
For approximately 40 pancakes For the pancakes mixture : 250 grams (1.1 lb) wheat flour 3 eggs (yolks and whites) b...
Veal Sweetbread

Recipes : Veal Sweetbread
This veal or lamb's offal is called thymus in anatomy. It is a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the...
Beurre Blanc

Recipes : Beurre Blanc
It is believed that the creation of the beurre blanc sauce came from a mistake made by the excellent cook of the "Marqui...
Veal Stock

Recipes : Veal Stock
There is the original veal stock recipe. Despite the fact that nowadays powdered veal stock has become widely available,...
Fresh cod filets with hazelnuts

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 ...
Cheese Fondue

Recipes : Cheese Fondue
The recipe is originally Swiss and is called Fondue moitié-moitié (half-half). Cheese Fondue pour 6 personnes : 600 ...
Chantilly cream

Recipes : Chantilly cream
We call "Chantilly cream" a fresh sugared whipped cream. Number of people have taken for granted that it has been inven...
Petits Suisses Tart

Recipes : Petits Suisses Tart
Sprinkled with bitter chocolate Makes 1 tart for 6 guests 1 shortcut pastry shell (made with butter, fresh or froz...
Hazelnut and Chocolate Pastilla

Recipes : Hazelnut and Chocolate Pastilla
The "pastilla" recipe was originally a recipe from North Africa, mainly from Morroco, made with pigeons. I have made a ...
Potee Lorraine

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 ...
Lamb and eggplant charlotte

Recipes : Lamb and eggplant charlotte
Lamb charlotte (6 servings) : 3 'reasonably potbellied' eggplants 2 big onions, thinly sliced 1 pinch of thyme flower...
Lobster à l'américaine

Recipes : Lobster à l'américaine
Lobster "à l'américaine" for 8 persons : 2 lobsters (alive) 15 centiliters (1/3 pint) olive oil 2 onions thinly slice...
Black Truffle

French specialties : Black Truffle
The black truffle, also called "black diamond" is an underground mushroom called scientifically Tuber melanosporum, of w...
Bouchot Mussel

French specialties : Bouchot Mussel
The Bouchot Mussel is another of these productions so invaluable of our splendid areas. The history retains the name of ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...








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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