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Cherry tomato and green bean salad

Here is a quick recipe for a very simple but delicious summer or late summer salad.
0 32 30^th 2022

French bean salad with vinaigrette

A very simple recipe for a salad of green (or yellow) French beans: The beans are boiled first, then thoroughly drained and served mixed with herbs, chopped shallot and a good vinaigrette (french dressing).
04.6 9 27^th 2016

Grandma's salad

This salad harks back to the ones French grandmas used to make: green beans and potatoes (preferably still warm) mixed with diced cheese, parsley and chopped onion in a good vinaigrette dressing.
0 54 29^th 2021

Green bean and potato salad with paprika

A warm salad featuring green beans, grilled potatoes and diced Comté cheese, all tossed in a paprika mayonnaise.
0 57 1^st 2023

Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie

This recipe is made from vegetables cut small and blanched, mixed with pieces of salt-cod and cream, then baked in small soup dishes with a puff pastry lid.
03.9 4 35 7^th 2018

Salmon "en papillote" with small vegetables

A fresh salmon escalope just salt and pepper with small dices of small vegetables.
05 1 28 22^th 2011

Green beans "Napoléon"

Apparently, Napoléon Bonaparte had a delicate stomach, so his cook made his cream sauces a little gentler with tomato. Here is a version for green beans, cooked in two stages, with a cream and tomato sauce.
0 18 11^th 2023

Green beans with tomato cream sauce

Green beans, cooked separately, are added to a tomato cream made with pan-fried cherry tomatoes with herbs.
0 1 7 27^th 2023

Green bean purée

Green (or French) beans are usually served whole, for instance as an accompanying vegetable or in a salad, but they make a good purée, too. This is tasty on its own, but also goes very well with meats, and children usually prefer it to "normal" beans.
0 23 11^th 2023

Macédoine of vegetables

A macédoine is simply vegetables diced small (carrots and turnips) or cut small (green beans) with peas. The different vegetables are cooked separately "à l'anglaise", then thoroughly drained. They are only combined at the end in a mayonnaise dressing.
04 1 24 3^rd 2014

How to prepare green beans

Here's how to turn freshly bought (or picked) green beans into ready-to-use vegetables.
0 22 11^th 2023

Minestrone

Minestrone is a traditional Italian soup. It is made with a mix of vegetables and a poultry stock. It is quite simple to make, but preparing all the vegetables takes time. There are doubtless as many minestrone recipes as there are Italian cooks, but here is my version.
04.3 3 30 29^th 2011