Recipes: 821 results
Epiphany galette
(Found inTexts)Here is the recipe for the very classic but delicious "galette des rois" (Epiphany galette) in puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) with almond cream or frangipane . You will also see some professional tips to easily handle the dough, and obtain a nice and regular galette.
275K 24.5 3 hours 8 min. January 6th 2021
Caramelised apple pie
(Found inTexts)Apple pie made with caramelised apples.
249K4.3 1 hour 55 min. September 11th 2018
Toasted almond cake
(Found inTexts)A layer cake, with toasted almonds in the chocolate part.
232K4.4 2 hours 2 min. July 5th 2016
Gingerbread
(Found inTexts)Maybe this recipe will bring back memories.
274K4.2 1 hour 4 min. February 21th 2011
Chocolate tart
(Found inTexts)As you can see, there's very little added sugar in this recipe, so it's a very chocolatey and bitter-sweet tart.
283K 15 2 hours 26 min. November 16th 2013
Exotic fruit tart
(Found inTexts)An exotic fruit tart (bananas, kiwi and pineapple), with crisp pastry and almond cream which are cooked beforehand. It's a rather simple recipe, but the final result will impress your guests.
307K5 2 hours 23 min. May 27th 2020
Pear tart with almond cream
(Found inTexts)This is a very quick and easy tart to make, as everything (or almost) can be done in advance. A piece of sweetcrust pastry, some almond cream and pears? You have "everything you need".
354K4.3 1 hour 14 min. March 17th 2011
Flambéd bananas
(Found inTextsStagesComments)The trick of this recipe is to end up with bananas caramelised on the outside, still firm on the inside, coated with a tasty syrup which is not 95% butter.
314K 14 40 min. February 21th 2011
Crème brulée
(Found inTextsComments)Crème brûlée (burned cream) is quite easy to prepare: it's a simple egg-cream dessert. The only difficulty is in making the delicious crunchy caramel layer on top. The perfect crème brulée (for me) is a cold and soft cream, with on top a nice hot caramel crust. This is a completely new version...
1.6M 74.3 4 hours 38 min. December 31th 2011
Warm apple feuillantines
(Found inTexts)It's a rather long recipe but which never fails to impress, perfect for a special dinner party. It's made up of 3 circles: one almond "tuile", 2 of caramelized brik sheets, with a caramelized apple layer between each, whipped cream on top, and custard all around. Everything, except whipped cream,...
315K5 3 hours 9 min. May 28th 2012
Passion fruit jellies
(Found inTexts)Usually to make fruit jellies or (fruit "paste"), it's like jam but you need to cook fruit pulp and sugar much longer. Unfortunately, this long cooking is bad for both vitamins and flavour. In this recipe we use a special jam gelling agent, to reduce cooking time as much as possible .
321K4 2 hours 30 min. July 4th 2018
Soft fruits in sabayon
(Found inTexts)This recipe is made by briefly cooking an assortment of soft fruits (raspberries, blackcurrants, blackberries, blueberries, currants...) with a little sugar to glaze them. They are served in a small dish, covered with a delicious sabayon which can be lightly "burned" on surface.
257K3.9 46 min. February 21th 2011
Baked apples from St Aubin le Vertueux
(Found inTextsComments)Under this pretty name, my personal version of "Les pommes au four" (baked apples).
240K 24.2 1 hour 7 min. February 21th 2011
Rice pudding (riz au lait)
(Found inTexts)My personal version of this classic family recipe.
385K5 38 min. December 18th 2018
4 pears salad with vanilla
(Found inTexts)It's a very easy recipe, everything depends on the choice of differents kinds of pears all fully ripe, to give a delicious contrast in the mouth.
217K4.2 37 min. February 21th 2011
Belle-helene in a glass
(Found inTexts)It's a recipe where you make 4 layers of different creams in a small glass: vanilla cream, small dice of pear cooked in maple syrup, chocolate mousse and whipped cream. It should be served to your guests cool but not too cold .
248K3.8 1 hour 47 min. February 21th 2011
Fresh mint ice-cream
(Found inTexts)This well-flavoured ice-cream is excellent on its own, or in profiteroles with a chocolate sauce for example.
515K4.6 1 hour 34 min. February 21th 2011
Finger biscuits
(Found inTexts)These small biscuits, that look a bit like savoy biscuits, are delicious alone or with Champagne, but are also the base for charlottes or Tiramisu.
330K5 50 min. July 30th 2021
Fillings for macaroons
(Found inTextsComments)The macaroons recipe shows how to make these small cakes, and gives the example of a raspberry filling. Here are several other possibilities: Apricot macaroons, Chocolate macaroons, Mint macaroons, Blackcurrant macaroons.
287K 24.3 2 hours 1 min. May 30th 2020
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Advices for writing your recipes
On-line document for writing a personal recipe.55K4.4 August 29th 2023
Subscriber's recipes
This list includes the recipes which were submitted by subscribers of ez-cooking.com. Those recipes, under the responsibility of their author, are not always in the same format of the site, one photo by each step, but they are the result of the work of passionate womens and mens, thank you to them...167K3.7 August 29th 2023
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At cooking-ez.com we are always concerned about your data, both those that you have entrusted to us by registering, that those you generate by consulting the various pages and recipes of the site. This page presents our commitments, and the various measures we put in place to ensure this protection.30K4.3 August 29th 2023
A bread oven
Building a bread oven was until a few years ago a job for the professionals. But now you can buy a kind of kit which allows you to build your own bred oven without professional masonry know-how. You should know that the kits only provide the main part of oven, the hearth, where you light the fire...1.1M3.5 August 29th 2023
Information on weights and measures in the kitchen
Weights, measures and volumes in a recipe.819K3.7 December 10th 2023
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For each recipe you will find on this site, dietary information is calculated. It is thus presented to you: Protein weight in grams (gr)Weight of carbohydrates in grams (gr)The weight of lipids in grams (gr)And finally the energy value, expressed in kilo-calories (1 kilo-calorie = 1000 calories) and...509K3.5 August 29th 2023
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For each recipe presented, cooking-ez.com calculates the price of the recipe, by person, by parts or pieces, here is some information on how this calculation is made.96K3.9 August 29th 2023
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Would you like to be able to consult the recipes on this site offline, or print them out? If so, don't hesitate: treat yourself to the cuisine-facile.com recipe book, with the recipes of your choice at a very low price.92K3.6 August 29th 2023
Calculator for water temperature in bread-making
The temperature of the water, known as "process water" ("eau de coulage" in French), in a bakery recipe is very important, here is a small calculator allowing you to determine it quickly and simply.74K4.4 August 29th 2023
What is this site, and who am I?
The important thing is the content of the site, the recipes and information you can find, but some of you want to know who is behind it all.202K 44.2 August 29th 2023
Films and papers in the kitchen
Various papers and plastic films used in cooking .569K 93.6 August 29th 2023
Ice-cream and sorbets
All about ice-creams and sorbets, their differences and how to make the most of them .422K4.0 August 29th 2023
A little molecular gastronomy
A little molecular gastronomy ot understand how slow cooking makes meat tender.38K4.4 August 29th 2023
Blog articles: 71 results
Devising a recipe
A question I'm often asked is: how do you come up with your recipes? How do you perfect them? This is something I've already mentioned on this page, but I'll take this opportunity to go into a bit more detail.14K4.4 October 15th 2012
Lemon in recipes
Let's take a look at the lemon, yellow or green, which is used in a whole host of recipes, both sweet and savoury. It brings both its taste, and the small acidity that makes its charm. Mind you, I'm not talking about lemon used as an anti-oxidant that prevents it from turning black, or to just spice...12K5 October 23th 2017
Rosemary in recipes
Rosemary, as I’m sure you know, is a culinary herb, one of the famous French "herbes de Provence", and is very effective in bringing a real taste of the Mediterranean to any dish. The classic way to use it in a recipe is to add a sprig or two and leave it in during cooking as a way of...19K4.7 April 18th 2018
Brioche for a savoury recipe
When we make brioche, it is generally sweet, that is to say that in the dough there is sugar or honey or dried or candied fruits, or even sometimes the 3 together. It's normal, it's very good, it's a pastry. But you may also need brioche for a savoury dish, like a sausage or a sausage in brioche...8,3324.9 June 30th 2019
From website to blog
Hello everyone, Today I'm inaugurating the cooking-ez.com "blog". The idea is to have a space for discussion open to everone, but not necessarily linked to a particular recipe or page. I hope the posts will be sufficiently interesting that you'll enjoy reading and discussing them. The...15K3.9 January 1st 2011
The power of sayings and beliefs in the kitchen
One day, in the comments on the recipe for beaten egg whites, a young woman asked if you could beat egg whites stiff while having a period, as a friend had told her it wasn't possible. Sometime later another person commented that for mayonnaise it had been (get this!) scientifically proven that a...47K4.4 February 6th 2011
Fried potatoes or fried mash?
In cooking there are a lot of dishes that appear to be extremely simple but which can actually prove to be very tricky. Amongst those that I'm aware of having this reputation are omelette and fried potatoes. Take fried potatoes; it's very simple because it's all there in the name of the dish: you...20K4.5 February 6th 2011
Properly cooked! (the taste)
Going out to a restaurant is getting harder at the moment. In France, at least, you have to try and find one that has agreed to pass on the new lower rate of VAT at anything other than a symbolic level, and there aren't many. And then, most importantly, you have to find a good one: one where you...13K 14.6 February 6th 2011
In praise of slow cooking
You will no doubt have noticed that in cookery, it's often the actual cooking process that gets neglected. This is understandable; it comes at the end of the recipe and getting the dish in the oven is something of a relief (ah, that's done!), which frees us to cope with what's left: tidying the...37K4.2 February 9th 2011
Cream and sauces
Have you ever wondered why making beautiful tasty sauces is so easy when you use cream? First of all, we need to be aware that some flavours only dissolve in water, while others only dissolve in fats. This phenomenon leads to this kind of accident: If you put a chocolate mousse uncovered...17K4.4 October 15th 2012
Should I believe my oven?
Can you really trust your oven? This is an important question as we are always tempted to take the temperature indicated as gospel truth and, unfortunately, this is rarely very precise. .27K4.6 July 4th 2011
Butter doesn't make you fat, unless you eat too much of it.
Whenever I'm discussing cooking and recipes, there is one idea which comes up frequently, like this: "Oh no! But that's got butter in it" (I should add, for the sake of accuracy, that this is something I hear more frequently from women, who are almost all concerned with keeping their figure). ...38K4.5 March 26th 2012
Markers in cooking
When it comes to cooking, there is only one real rule, and that is that there are no rules! By that I mean that everything is possible, everything can be combined, everything or almost everything can go with everything, but you have to like it, you have to find it good. I have friends who...7,1395 July 3rd 2021
Different kinds of pastry and dough
When cooking in general, and particularly in baking, we can make and use many different kinds of pastry and dough. All built on the same "base": flour - a powder to which we add fat, liquid or both to produce the dough which is then cooked. .105K 14.0 November 6th 2012
The 3 kinds of meringue
Meringue – what could be simpler? Just beaten egg whites with sugar added. This makes a fairly stiff mixture which can then be cooked in a cool oven to create those lovely, light confections. But in the world of professional patisserie, meringue comes in three different kinds. Even if the...54K4.5 June 14th 2013
5 really useful cooking tips
Cooking is about recipes, of course, but it is also an impressive collection of small gestures, ways of doing things, knowing what to do and what not to do. All these little tips and tricks can be very important: they can affect the way a recipe turns out, simply because you did just the right...19K4.9 March 29th 2016
What is the difference between bakery and patisserie?
This is a question that you may well have asked yourself and which I will attempt to answer. In France the two trades of "boulangerie" (bakery) and "pâtisserie" (patisserie and confectionery) have always been quite distinct, but where exactly do the boundaries lie? .119K 14.1 February 7th 2017
The right way to use a blender
You may well have a blender in your own kitchen. You know, that useful gadget that allows you to liquidize stuff at high speed into a smooth liquid. Of course, the most obvious use that comes to mind is for soups: if you have boiled some vegetables in water, with just a quick blast of the blender,...19K5 May 31th 2017
Candied fruits: don't get ripped off
Do you like candied fruit? You might like to nibble a handful or add it to a recipe, like a classic fruit cake or delicious Italian specialities like panettone or sicilian epiphany pie.53K 24.2 June 21th 2017
A few tips for effective kneading at home
When you have to knead dough for bread or some other recipe, you may well use a food processor or the type of machine known as a stand mixer. The best-known brands are Kenwood and KitchenAid. They are useful tools, but here are a few tips to help you get the best out of them.267K 23.7 June 23th 2021
Utensil: 4 results
Electronic thermometer
(Found inTexts)When cooking it is frequently necessary to know the temperature of a preparation. Sometimes it's indispensable, like for recipes using cooked sugar or foie gras.
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Short-handled brush
(Found inTexts)This is a small hand brush with very fine bristles, used for gently brushing the dough during bread making, to remove excess flour. Very useful, indispensable even, for bread recipes where the soft dough has a high water content, like French baguettes.
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Dredger or shaker
(Found inTexts)For whenever you need to flour your work surface or sprinkle flour onto dough, pastry, etc.It also allows you to add a little flour to a recipe, without having to use a sieve.
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Baking sheet
(Found inTexts)This is a metal sheet or tray, covered with a non-stick coating, similar to the lining of an oven. It can be used for cooking a wide range of things, but mainly small items to be cooked together such as rock cakes or profiteroles. .
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Ingredient, product: 15 results
salt
(Found inTexts)Salt is more than just a condiment, it plays an important role in bringing out flavours in recipes.There are two main types of salt:Sea salt: made by evaporation of sea waterRock salt: extracted from minesThese two kinds are then factory refined to produce the very fine white powder that we know as...
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yeast
(Found inTexts)Yeast (also called "brewer's yeast" or "baker's yeast") is a living product, made up of microscopic fungi which grow slowly when they are in a warm place.Baker's yeast is for use in breads and viennoiseries. It it is incorporated gently into the dough, then you need to wait for it to work.It should...
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pepper
(Found inTexts)Pepper is a spice obtained from the berries of two kinds of tree. The berries (peppercorns once dried), yield three kinds of pepper, depending of harvest period and processing:Green pepper (immature berries)Black pepper (mature)White pepper (black pepper without skin)White and black pepper are the...
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baking powder
(Found inTexts)Baking powder (also called "Alsatian yeast" or "chemical yeast" in France) is a chemical raising agent, mainly bicarbonate of soda (or sodium bicarbonate), which acts with heat to make cakes rise.It is used in most cakes, like for example chestnut cake, added to the mixture, and put in the oven...
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Comté cheese
(Found inTexts)Comté is a cow's milk cheese, made in the Jura's mountains, in eastern France. It looks a bit like Gruyère and Emmenthal (without holes), but that's just the appearence, its flavour is much stronger.You can find more information about it on Wikipédia or on the Comté official website.
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quatre-épices (four spices)
(Found inTexts)Quatre-épices (4 spices) is a mix of: black pepper, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon.Sometimes a fifth spice is added, ginger or chilli. [Translator's note: this mix is rather hotter and less sweet than British "mixed spice", and in France is often used in savoury dishes. If using British style mixed...
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chestnut flour
(Found inTexts)Made from dried chestnuts, this is a light brown flour without gluten. Not suitable for making bread (unless mixed with a proportion of wheat flour), but it's excellent for cakes, biscuits, pancakes,...
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spices for couscous
(Found inTexts)For several oriental recipes like couscous or chorba, one use a special mix of spices that can be find in supermarket or ethnic groceries. If you can't find a ready-made mix of couscous spices, you can make your own from: cumin, coriander (ground), cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cardamom and turmeric....
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instant mashed-potato powder
(Found inTexts)Instant mashed-potato powder is made of cooked potatoes which have been dried, then powdered. Though intended as a quick way of making mashed potato, it can be used as an ingredient in recipes.
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water
(Found inTexts)What could be simpler than water? It is true that for most recipes that require it, ordinary tap water is fine. The exception is for sorbets, which can sometimes be affected by the slight chlorine taste of tap water. For sorbets, it is better to use bottled water, or - a more economical solution -...
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dry white wine
(Found inTexts)There are dozens of dry white wines, and you can usually use the one you choose (except for recipe with particular white wine).
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