white rice Recipes :
![]() | Recipes : Pilau Rice Pilau Rice 200 gr of long grain rice 1 onion, finely chopped 1 bouquet garni 50 gr of butter 300 gr of the veal sto... |
![]() | Recipes : Crécy soup A beautiful soup ; its name comes from a village close to Meaux (40 miles east of Paris) where the best carrots used to ... |
![]() | Recipes : Seafood Parillada Ingredients for 4 guests: 4 sardines, 2 salmon steaks, 8 shrimp, 4 prawns, 4 mullets, 4 tomatoes, 4 mild green ... |
![]() | 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 ... |
![]() | Recipes : Cod "a la Quebecoise" This Cod recipe come from the long tradition of cod fishing in Quebec. Filet of cod "a la Quebecoise" recipe for 6 pe... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Recipes : Basquaise Mussels Basquaise Mussels for 4 persons: 2 kg of perfectly washed and scratched mussels, 6 skinned tomatoes and épépinées, ... |
![]() | Recipes : Cheese Fondue The recipe is originally Swiss and is called Fondue moitié-moitié (half-half). Cheese Fondue pour 6 personnes : 600 ... |
![]() | Recipes : Fish Soup Royale Fish Soup Royale serve 6 : 3 kg of fish out of : a big gurnard, 1 rascasse, 1 Saint Pierre, 2 vives (four mediteranean ... |
![]() | Recipes : Beef Kebab To realise these kebabs, it is preferable to choose pieces of striploin. Dice them up and leave them to marinade for sev... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() | Recipes : Duck Terrine Forestiere Makes one terrine for 6 guests: 2 duck fillets 300 gr of veal stuffing 300 gr of lean pork stuffing (ask your butch... |
![]() | 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... |
![]() French specialties : Bourgogne Aligoté Bourgogne Aligoté is a dry white wine produces on the same area of naming as Bourgogne. He owes his name to a vine of Bu... |
![]() French specialties : Mont d'Or The Mont-d'Or appears for the first time in Haut-Doubs in the neighbourhoods of the XVIIIth century, even if it is proba... |
![]() | News : Asparagus Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : 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 : 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... |
![]() | 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 : 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 : 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... |
Flour
Hi David, If you want to get a flour similar to the french T45 use plain flour. But personally I would use strong flour...
my wife & her dumplings
The dumplings I refer to are the edible ones !! Mei is from Anshan and what ever flour we buy she is not happy, I notice...
flour
Hi again David For clarification, Type 45 flour is the purest one and plain flour (so the less pure) is at the opposite...
Dumpling Dough
Hi David For once, let's be lazy, pragmatic and efficient : when I intend to make Chinese (or not) dumplings, I buy alr...
dumpling for David
Hi again David You are right : I've seen your messages on the French side, which is strange actually but no worries (I ...



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