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white win poached pear Recipes :
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...
Hollandaise Sauce

Recipes : Hollandaise Sauce
Hollandaise (sauce) : for asparagus, poached fish, artichoke hearts,... Ingredients for this sauce : 3 eggyolks 8 c...
Basquaise Mussels

Recipes : Basquaise Mussels
Basquaise Mussels for 4 persons: 2 kg of perfectly washed and scratched mussels, 6 skinned tomatoes and épépinées, ...
Chocolate Fondue

Recipes : Chocolate Fondue
This recipe was added onto the list of our restaurant "La Campagne Lotoise" in 1994. We were serving it with "madeleines...
Cheese Fondue

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

Recipes : Peaches Melba
4 fresh peaches, well ripe 1/2 lb fresh (or frozen) raspberries 4 oz caster sugar 1 pint creamy vanilla ice cream 2 ...
Fish Soup Royale

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 ...
Beef Kebab

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...
Duck Terrine Forestiere

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...
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...
Browned shells Saint-Jaques

Recipes : Browned shells Saint-Jaques
Browned shells Saint-Jacques For 4 persons : 150 g of small mushrooms 8 whole walnuts (St-Jacques) 1/2 liter of dr...
Andouillette

Recipes : Andouillette
The andouillette is spicy sausage from the Troyes region, just 150 Km southeast of Paris, in the Champagne Region. It is...
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 ...
Poiré

French specialties : Poiré
If the Cider is the traditional drink Haute like Basse-Normandie, Poiré is a less known and more contemporary drink. Fro...
Bourgogne Aligoté

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...
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...
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...
Asparagus

News : Asparagus
Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ...
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...
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...
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...


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 David, If you want to get a flour similar to the french T45 use plain flour. But personally I would use strong flour...

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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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