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The website
Information
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.
August 29th 2023208 K 44.2On this site you can...
Cooking-ez.com is a site that offers you many possibilities. Here are the main functions and information available to you. .
August 29th 2023194 K 23.7Website technical evolution
This page lists all the improvements/modifications that have been made to the site, in chronological order. .
August 29th 2023204 K3.8The protection of your data
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.
August 29th 202334 K4.3Site legal notices
All French websites, whether professionally edited or not, must display mandatory information for the information of the public. Here are those of the cooking-ez.com site. .
August 29th 202315 K5Content
Random menu...
This page presents you with a random 3-course menu: a starter, a main course and a dessert, based on the recipes on the site. You can change each dish individually, or all 3 at once, or request a menu that does not contain certain ingredients of your choice.
August 22th 2024876 K3.9My best addresses...
Quite a few of you often ask me where I can find this or that? or is such and such a thing a good buy? or which brand is best for this or that? On this page, I'm going to group together my good addresses for suppliers of this or that product or utensil, and good books on the subjects that interest...
August 29th 2023299 K3.9Webmaster tools
This page gathers in one place all the free widgets available for webmasters or bloggers to incorporate (automatically) news from the cooking-ez.com site.
August 29th 2023233 K3.5My EZ Cooking
My menus
To make my personal menus, with recipes from the site, add comment and title.
July 1st 20219,9524.5News list and "My cooking EZ"
Are you interested in what is published on this website, and do you want to keep up with news? If so, you can subscribe for free to the news list, the automatic e-mail service of cooking-ez.com. This way, whenever a new recipe is published on the site, you will be informed immediately by an...
August 29th 2023113 K3.8Subscriber'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...
August 29th 2023171 K3.7Advices for writing your recipes
If you choose to submit one of your recipes, you'll need to do so via a form (accessible when you're logged in), in which you'll need to enter all the information about the recipe. Please note that in order to log in, you must first create an account. Here are some tips on how to fill in the various...
August 29th 202357 K4.4Navigation
Submitting a comment or image
You can, if you wish, add a comment on the pages, articles and recipes of the site. This comment, or question, will be immediately put on line and available for consultation. Here are a few tips for your writing. .
August 29th 202379 K 23.9All the videos on the site
Here you'll find all the recipes that include a video in each step.
August 29th 2023230 K 23.7List of all posts of the blog
On this page you will find a list of all the articles published on the blog, sorted by year and date of publication.
August 29th 2023212 K3.7All the RSS feeds of cooking-ez.com
Cooking-ez.com offers you a number of RSS feeds that you can use as you wish. These feeds are updated automatically, according to their content.
August 29th 2023195 K3.9This site without commercials?
Cooking-ez is a free non-commercial, but it still needs a little sub to pay its own expenses (web hosting, domain name, etc.). And that's why banners advertisements are displayed on the pages of the site. This is not pleasant, we are well aware of that, but there is another solution: you can...
August 29th 2023100 K3.7The most viewed...
Here you'll find all the 10 most successful recipes on the site, the "pluses" (viewed, sent, rated, commented etc.).
August 29th 2023124 K4.7Cooking
Technicals
Films and papers in the kitchen
It's now fairly easy to find a range of papers and plastic films that are invaluable, and sometimes indispensable, kitchen aids. Here's a quick overview of the main products available, and what you can and can't do with them.
August 29th 2023573 K 93.6Ice-cream and sorbets
Making homemade ice cream may seem complex, but with the right methods and a few tricks, you can achieve a creamy texture and incomparable flavors. On this page, we'll be revealing the secrets of successful homemade ice cream, guiding you step by step through the various stages of preparation. ...
August 12th 2024430 K4.0A little molecular gastronomy
Long-cooked meat becomes meltingly soft. What happens to achieve this result?
August 29th 202339 K4.4Foie gras proportions calculator
Small foie gras calculator, to find the right proportions of spices and alcohol needed according to weight.
December 25th 2023820 K5Products
Information
Start off well to cook well
What do I need to get started in the kitchen? First of all, a good website! That's it, you're there ;-), then a minimum of equipment, and the few products you should always have in your cupboards or fridge. Here are a few things to help you make your choices.
August 29th 2023307 K 13.6Calendar of seasons
A disadvantage of supermarkets is that we are no longer accustomed to taking account of seasons. We find it normal buy strawberries in December or pumpkins in July. Of course it's sometimes fun, but the problem is that this produce comes from very far away, possibly grown under glass without any...
August 29th 2023183 K3.8Baking
Flours
At the most basic level, wheat grain is put through a mill, which produces a white-ish powder flour... Well, actually it's not quite that simple. First of all we need to distinguish between the different grains that can be made into flour: wheat of course, but also rye, barley, buckwheat, etc. So we...
June 3rd 2024726 K 413.6The amateur baker
You may have noticed over the pages of this site, I am passionate about everything that is related to the bakery: I love making bread, pastries, maintain my leaven, etc.. This page contains links to all the different parts of the site where we talk about bread: recipes, special pages, etc.
August 29th 2023169 K 44.1Making your own bread
You'll find a whole range of bread and pastry recipes on this site, but before you get started, perhaps you'd like to know more about the subject, get some tips and tricks, and find out what the main mistakes beginners make? If so, this page is for you.
August 22th 2024565 K 63.9Slashing loaves
When it's time to put them in the oven, the dough pieces for future breads or viennoiseries need to be "lamés", i.e. made with a very sharp blade, by making quick incisions at the top, known as "grignes". Let's see how it's done.
August 29th 2023281 K 43.6Leaven bread calculator
This short form will enable you to instantly calculate the weight of the other ingredients in your sourdough bread recipe, according to the weight you require. For example, you can recalculate the weight of flour, salt, sourdough and yeast, according to the weight of water you've decided on.
August 29th 2023277 K4.1Basic temperature in bread-making
When making bread, it's very important to keep to the correct temperature, as yeast and sourdough are very sensitive to temperature. The dough must be warm enough for the yeast to develop and make it rise, but not too warm, which would have the opposite effect. To express this ideal dough...
August 22th 2024226 K3.7Soured dough
Underneath this strange name lies a baking secret: when you want to give a bread or pastry dough (without leaven, but with yeast) a certain percentage of fermented dough must be added, i.e. the same dough made the day before, and left to ferment overnight in the refrigerator.
August 25th 2024145 K 24.1Calculator 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.
August 29th 202377 K4.4Recipes
Information
Food allergy: definition and symptoms
Food allergy is a set of abnormal immune reactions that occur after the ingestion of a particular food. This one, normally harmless for the body, is then called "allergen".
August 29th 20230Recipes
A recipe is really quite a simple thing (or should be): a list of ingredients, a method, and that's all there is to it. Unfortunately its not always the case. Sometimes you might get the impression that a recipe, found in a magazine or on a web site, has been concocted especially to make you fail:...
June 3rd 2024169 K3.6Information on weights and measures in the kitchen
The way ingredients are described in a recipe varies from country to country. This difference, which is quite profound, relates not only to units of measurement, but also to the way in which they are measured: weight or volume. Let's take a look.
August 22th 2024821 K3.7Nutritional information and ingredients
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...
August 29th 2023518 K3.5Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI
The various agencies and organisations in the field of nutrition have defined a standard measure for the necessary daily nutritional requirements; these are the RDI or "Recommended Dietary Intake".The RDI represents the required energy, expressed in kilo-calories or kilo-joules, which our food needs...
August 24th 202459 K4.1Cost calculations
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.
August 29th 202397 K3.9Content
Buy cooking-ez cookbook
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 cooking-ez.com recipe book, with the recipes of your choice at a very low price.
August 24th 202496 K3.6Miscellanous
The bread oven
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...
August 24th 20241.16 M3.6Foundations
A bread oven is very heavy (over a ton), so you should start by preparing a solid base on which it can be built.
August 24th 2024118 K4.1The oven itself (hearth)
The main part of the oven (the hearth) as sold by the producer ("Fayol" company) consists of 9 slabs (to form the sole) and the curved sections which make up the domed oven, plus a keystone which fits in the top.
August 30th 2024124 K3.8Oven housing
Once the domed oven is finished and dry, we can start to construct the housing around it.
August 30th 2024114 K3.9Roof
Once oven housing is built, it needs protecting from the elements with a roof.
August 30th 202479 K3.9Finishing touches
Is an oven really ever finished? Well there are always ideas for improvements. Here are af few...
August 30th 202472 K4.4Advice on heating oven
For good results with a wood-fired oven, it's very important to manage the heating process well. Here is some advice to help you succeed in this delicate operation.
August 24th 2024177 K4.0Open fire cooking
In this method the fire is kept going in the oven, and we put in dishes that cook in a minute or two. It is, of course, the method for pizzas, pitta bread, etc...
August 24th 202489 K3.9Closed fire cooking
For this method, the oven is emptied of embers, cleaned, and door closed until it drops to the cooking temperature of 250°C or 482°F. It's the method used for breads, pies and tarts, cakes, etc.
August 24th 202451 K4.4The steam machine
Fogging is an essential element in a bread oven. It's not easy to see, but it's the presence of fog that makes breads golden brown. To get steam on a regular basis, you can put a ramekin full of water in the bottom of the oven, or spray the inside with a sprayer, but this solution requires you to...
August 24th 202457 K4Some hints for a pizza-party
A pizza party is always a very pleasant and convivial occasion. Good people (friends and family) get together to enjoy delicious pizzas, baked right in the oven. Here are a few tips to help you make yours a success.
August 30th 2024187 K3.7The Mendeleev table
A Mendeleiev periodic table in 3D
It's an old idea that was in my mind for years: making a real periodic table of Mendeleiev (who always fascinate me) in 3D, where in each element box, there is some atoms (at least) of this element.
August 24th 2024200 K 13.6Elements in the table
It's not always easy to represent an element. Some are obvious because they're used as such (iron, copper, lead...), but for others it's much trickier. In this list, you'll find the objects/materials that have been chosen to fill in the boxes in the table.
August 24th 202436 K3.9The name of the elements
The names of the elements in Mendeleyev's table are generally derived from Latin, Greek or German, and refer to properties such as color, brilliance or geographical origin. Here's the origin of each element's name.
August 24th 202473 K3.6Small history of elements classification
The road to Mendeleev's table of tables has taken centuries. Here's a brief chronology.
August 24th 202441 K3.9Do-it-yourself
Miscellanous
Homemade plancha
The plancha is a cooking method that originated in Spain. It consists of a very hot metal plate on which food, usually cut in small pieces, is cooked with little fat.Contact with the hot plate means that cooking is very rapid, only a few minutes, and there is an obvious "cooked" side. Food is well...
June 3rd 2024257 K 43.7Make your own hot-wire or styrofoam cutter
A filicoupeur is a hot-cutting tool for polystyrene, which can be used to enhance any piece of polystyrene you've salvaged, and to do all kinds of things with it: model building, model making, arts and crafts, and so on. See here how to make your own.
February 20th 2024507 K 433.5Polynesian arrow
A Polynesian arrow is an arrow with a tail that is thrown by hand, using a piece of string. The result is a "slingshot" effect that propels the arrow much further than if it were simply thrown by hand.It's a craft to do with children, for example on an afternoon when they're a bit idle...
August 29th 2023189 K 14.3A mist free mirror
I don't know if you're like me, but I find it very annoying after a shower or bath to have to wipe down the bathroom mirror 36 times with a towel just so I can see myself shaving (or putting on make-up for the girls).How do you solve this tricky problem? First of all, by looking at the cause of the...
August 29th 2023218 K 13.6Home Automation and CP290 with Excel
If you're using a CP 290 interface to do a bit of home automation and, for example, regulate your heating, you must have used the "Lighthouse" software under DOS and Windows 3.1. Apart from the fact that this software is in English with AM and PM times, and that it wasn't very user-friendly, the...
August 29th 2023144 K4.2Solar lighting
As you know, every square feet of our planet receives huge amounts of energy which is sent by the sun. This energy, free, infinite, non-polluting is at our hands, but unfortunately for some sad reason we continue to use fossil fuels with all their harmful consequences to our environment.Is it...
August 29th 2023235 K4.0Electronic controlling of a pump
I needed someday a mechanism for controlling an electrical device (pump) on a water level, it was necessary that the pump is switched on when the level was reached, and works for a short time (20 seconds) and then it stops and the cycle, start again. I found nothing in shops that will make it at a...
August 29th 2023170 K4.4