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what vegetables the french eat Recipes :

what vegetables the french eat Recipes :
French Beans

Recipes : French Beans
There is the ideal way to cook French bean making sure that they keep their green and crunchy qualities: Cooking Fren...
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....
French cut Rib of Beef

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...
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 ...
Poule au pot

Recipes : Poule au pot
For 4 guests: Ingredients 200 g of minced meat, 3 egg yolks, 150 g of chopped chicken livers, 1 bouquet garni, 2...
Stuffed cabbage

Recipes : Stuffed cabbage
One stuffed cabbage for six people: 1 nice green cabbage 3 carrots 3 onions 3 cloves of garlic 1 kg potatoes 200 g...
Nice style ratatouille

Recipes : Nice style ratatouille
This recipe of 'ratatouille' (Nice style) is a condensed version of several ones that were given to me by several chefs ...
Soupe des Hortillonnages

Recipes : Soupe des Hortillonnages
Soupe des Hortillonnages for 6 guests: 1 green cabbage 300 gr of fresh peas (or frozen) 250 gr of large ratte potato...
Navarin d'agneau (Lamb stew)

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...
Shortbread pastry

Recipes : Shortbread pastry
Here is the recipe of the 'shortbread pastry' ('pâte sablée' en French), sometimes forgotten from the pastry cook books ...
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...
Pot-au-Feu

Recipes : Pot-au-Feu
Pot-au-Feu recipe for 8 guests: Meat: 1 kg of spare ribs, cut in 4 1,5 kg of beef shoulder palette 1,5 kg of bee...
Piperade

Recipes : Piperade
Piperade for 4 persons: 2 med. onions, finely chopped 6 ripe tomatoes, peeled, coarsely chopped épépinées 3 green pe...
Mojhette

French specialties : Mojhette
The Poitevin Marsh from time immemorial produced excellent vegetables and Mojhette, generic term indicating several vari...
Currant Jam

French specialties : Currant Jam
Bar-le-Duc is the town of origin of a rare and ignored Lorraine speciality, the currant Jam épépinée with the goose feat...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Asparagus

News : Asparagus
Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ...
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...
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...
AVPA  2008 contest : oil, honey and dry fruit

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 ...
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...
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...
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...


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...

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

answer to Bernard
Hello Bernard We have posted over 15 new recipes (in English) in the course of last month in view of the Christmas and ...








The Lobster à l'américaine StoryThe Lobster à l'américaine Story
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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