Recipes: 16 results
Tomato sauce (for pizzas)
(Found inTexts)This is the sauce to put on pizza bases before the toppings.
515K4.3 1 hour 15 min. October 19th 2010
How to cook pasta properly
(Found inTexts)Here is some advice for pasta that's properly cooked and doesn't stick.
1.1M4.4 22 min. July 18th 2019
Boeuf (beef) bourguignon
(Found inTexts)Bœuf bourguignon is a traditional recipe of French cuisine (bourguignon means from Burgundy). It's chunks of meat cooked slowly with bacon, onions, carrots and mushrooms in red wine.
460K 32.5 4 hours 20 min. February 21th 2011
How to prepare cockles
(Found inTexts)Cockles are small Atlantic shellfish which can be used in many delicious dishes. However, they need to be prepared with care before cooking. Here is a simple way to do this.
524K 13.7 1 hour 52 min. March 13th 2013
Baked salmon fillet
(Found inTexts)This is a quick recipe for salmon fillet, surrounded by sliced potatoes and baked with lemon juice, olive oil and herbs.
102K4.6 33 min. March 26th 2015
How to fry eggs well
(Found inStages)You've probably heard the expression: "S/he can't even cook an egg," suggesting that the person referred is a hopeless cook. In reality, frying eggs well isn't as easy as it might appear. The two most frequent errors: the white develops a brown crust around the outside which is unpleasant in the...
493K 14.6 20 min. March 11th 2018
Crunchy little pieces of fish
(Found inStages)Small pieces of fish, dipped in beated egg then in breadcrumbs, and fried. Preferably serve with something with slightly acidic like herb salad, or Béarnaise sauce.
254K5 49 min. February 21th 2011
Fresh mint ice-cream
(Found inStages)This well-flavoured ice-cream is excellent on its own, or in profiteroles with a chocolate sauce for example.
514K4.6 1 hour 34 min. February 21th 2011
Lille style chicken
(Found inStages)Chicken breasts and mushrooms, cooked separately, then mixed with a tasty cream sauce before serving. It's a dish with a "cuisiné" taste, but which unfortunately is becoming increasingly rare in restaurants.
347K3.8 50 min. May 10th 2023
Hachis parmentier
(Found inComments)This is the French answer (meat with mashed potato and cheese) to the English cottage or shepherd's pie: a typical family recipe which is an excellent way of using up leftover meat. The proportions are vague here: you need "whatever you have left over"...
392K 24.4 1 hour 22 min. February 21th 2011
Macarons (the original French macaroons)
(Found inComments)This recipe really is "of the moment": the success of these small, highly-coloured cakes, in an infinite variety of flavours, is impressive. It's a recipe which needs some care, in order to produce a result worthy of a professional pastrychef. No problem, I will guide you through the recipe,...
1.6M 714.6 2 hours 38 min. October 3rd 2019
Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream)
(Found inComments)Quite similar to crème anglaise but much thicker. It is used in many pastries like choux pastry (pâte à choux) or millefeuille.
734K 313.7 36 min. January 27th 2017
French custard tart
(Found inComments)Custard pie is made with a shortcrust pastry base, and filled with an egg vanilla "custard" mix (prepared beforehand). Filling and pastry cook together in the oven. It's a great classic of the French bakery, found in all good shops.
430K 234.3 1 hour 10 min. July 13th 2022
How to extract passion fruit juice
(Found inComments)Passion fruit are rather strange fruit as they do not really have much flesh, but rather seeds surrounded by a fine layer of pulp. Here is a way to extract the juice.
503K 32.3 20 min. March 23th 2011
Natural leaven
(Found inComments)Leaven is a natural raising agent, a fermented mixture of water, flour and the microscopic yeasts which are present in the air. It's a delicate living substance, sensitive to the external environment. The recipe is around 4000 years old and dates back to the Egypt of the Pharaohs, via a beautiful...
1.7M 304.0 7 days 15 min. April 3rd 2020
French baguettes
(Found inComments)This classic of French baking is rather different from the recipe for leavened bread, it's a question of making a good crust and light crumb along the whole length. To succeed, you should know that there are two secrets: water first of all (much more than for normal bread), and the working of the...
1.1M 364.7 5 hours 6 min. October 24th 2017
Pages: 14 results
Advice on heating oven
Construction of a Fayol bread oven: advice on heating and preparing for baking bread.175K4.0 August 29th 2023
Advices for writing your recipes
On-line document for writing a personal recipe.55K4.4 August 29th 2023
Submitting a comment or image
Submitting comments or questions: some advice, norms, and rules .77K 23.9 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.201K 44.2 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.818K3.7 December 10th 2023
Herbs in the kitchen
Herbs: there's nothing else so small that can add so much to a recipe. They are not only for garnishing, but are a true part of the dish, sometimes one of the main ingredients. A small example of the "power" of herbs: you make a chopped carrot salad, which is very good with a vinaigrette, but if you...182K 13.9 August 29th 2023
Open fire cooking
Construction of a Fayol bread oven: open fire cooking, with the embers inside.88K3.9 August 29th 2023
A Mendeleiev periodic table in 3D
Classification of the elements in practice: a three-dimensional Periodic Table .196K 13.6 August 29th 2023
Nutritional 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...507K3.5 August 29th 2023
Start off well to cook well
How to get off to a good start in cooking; what equipment and basic ingredients you should always have to hand.302K 13.6 August 29th 2023
The 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.162K 44.1 August 29th 2023
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...720K 413.6 August 29th 2023
Home made plancha
Make you own plancha and cook the Spanish way on this scorching hot metal plate.254K 43.7 August 29th 2023
Blog articles: 3 results
20 measures to protect your privacy
As we use more and more new technology, we leave ourselves increasingly vulnerable to companies who make money out of collecting our personal data. For instance, when we use the internet, we need to be wary of what is collected about what we do, our habits, etc. Here is a list of simple...17K3.9 April 16th 2013
The mock CAP baker's certificate exam
The next instalment in my life as an apprentice baker at the French INBP professional school. I’m now halfway through training and it’s still as exciting as ever, and exhausting – but maybe I’m just getting old, or both… Anyway, a few days ago we had to go through the mock CAP exam. A sort...16K4.4 May 1st 2018
The magic of local wines
It's never easy to find the right wine to serve with the dish you've just cooked for your guests, because we're not all amateur sommeliers, and then there are so many possible choices in wines that "the perfect match" seems like a distant utopia, almost impossible to obtain. Add to that a lot of...6,9204.7 April 7th 2020