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Recipes: 24 results
Confectioner's custard (Crème pâtissière, or French pastry cream)
(Found inTexts)Quite similar to crème anglaise but much thicker. It is used in many pastries like choux pastry (pâte à choux) or millefeuille.
January 27th 2017773 K 313.8 40 min.
How to cook hard-boiled eggs properly
(Found inTextsStages)A hard-boiled egg is properly cooked when: shell is not broken, white and yolk are firm, yolk is only yellow with no traces of green around it. Here are some tips to make this easy.
November 4th 20131.39 M 65 1 hour 30 min.
How to break a chocolate bar into small pieces
(Found inTexts)Most of the time chocolate needs to be broken into small pieces before use, because it melts faster and more evenly. Here is a way to do it quickly.
February 21th 2011165 K3 1 min.
Small ratatouille with
(Found inTexts)It's a hotch-potch of vegetables, cooked in two stages, onto which eggs are broken and cooked until the white only is just firm.
June 12th 2011276 K5 1 hour 3 min.
Lemon Meringue Pie Verrines
(Found inTexts)This is a new twist on the classic lemon meringue pie. All the elements are there: sweet crunchy bits, meringue and lemon custard, but presented in layers in a glass.
July 12th 201570 K5 25 min.
Eggs with tomatoes and courgettes
(Found inTexts)Melting courgettes with tomatoes and onions into which the eggs are slid carefully, without breaking the yolk, and cooked gently. The secret of success in this recipe is to combine the tomatoes and courgettes when they are really soft, and cook the egg white, leaving the yolk still runny.
September 27th 201591 K3.8 55 min.
Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes
(Found inTexts)This recipe allows you to enjoy a delicious brownie-style combination of melting fudgy texture and cake, with the distinct flavours of chocolate and chestnut purée.
January 31th 201679 K5 55 min.
Mushroom and artichoke omelette
(Found inTexts)This French "broken" omelette is not neatly folded like a classic omelette. There is more filling than egg: mushrooms and artichokes here, pan-fried with spring onions. It can be served flat, like a Spanish omelette, but I prefer the more original broken look.
May 10th 202365 K3.9 55 min.
Dipping bread with cheese
(Found inTexts)In France, "pain trempette" (dipping bread) is a loaf made to be broken easily into bite-sized morsels, perfect for serving with any dip. The dough is fairly soft and I have added shallots and fried bacon bits. The dip shown here is a hot box Mont d'Or, but there are plenty of other possibilities.
October 24th 201764 K4.1 2 hours 50 min.
How to seal a terrine or casserole dish
(Found inTexts)The French have a term for it: "luter", which means to seal around the lid of a cooking dish with dough. The dough forms a crust and hermetically seals in all the steam and flavours while the dish is cooking in the oven. This is a good way to concentrate flavours. The dish is brought to the table sealed and the crust broken open in front of diners so that everyone can share the delicious smells as they are released at that fleeting moment. It is possible to use ordinary
Peach and blackcurrant sundae
(Found inTexts)Peach and blackcurrant flavours work well together. Here is an indulgent sundae that makes the most of this: poached peaches with blackcurrant sorbet and Chantilly cream. Delicious!
August 18th 202136 K 1 hour 2 min.
Lambé salad
(Found inTexts)Lambé's salad is a rather original salad with chickpeas, mimosa eggs, cheese and, above all, a crunchy buckwheat pancake, broken into small pieces and added at the last moment.
September 22th 202417 K 30 min.
Broken eggs with mushrooms
(Found inTexts)For this quick and easy recipe, we pour beaten eggs over sautéed mushrooms and bacon.
November 3rd 202416 K5 50 min.
How to prepare cockles
(Found inStages)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.
March 13th 2013559 K 13.7 1 hour 55 min.
Warm broccoli and Tuna Salad
(Found inStages)In this recipe, the broccoli is served only just cooked and still warm with tuna, chopped shallot and cherry tomatoes in a good vinaigrette dressing.
March 3rd 201672 K4 25 min.
Chocolate eclairs
(Found inStages)This might appear to be a straightforward recipe: choux pastry, chocolate confectioner's custard and fondant icing, but in practice it is quite technically tricky and all three stages need care to produce a perfect result. But don't let that discourage you; there are demonstration videos and I will take you through the whole process, paying particular attention to the most difficult stages.
February 6th 2011314 K 34.5 3 hours 55 min.
Quail egg canapés
(Found inStages)This starter is a small canapé consiting of a toasted and buttered bread slice covered with a slice of smoked ham topped with a fried quail egg.
February 21th 2011342 K5 55 min.
Chocolate madeleines
(Found inStages)Simple and delicious, goes very well with tea or coffee.
March 10th 2019315 K3.8 1 hour 15 min.
How to dust
(Found inStages)"Dusting" in cooking is sprinkling a very fine layer of something in powder form. Icing sugar or cocoa powder on cakes for example. As this is not very easy to do evenly, here is a way to do it.
October 13th 2010156 K5 2 min.
Bounty-style tart for Alison
(Found inStages)This Bounty-style tart combines, as you might expect, chocolate and coconut in a sweetcrust pastry case.
June 2nd 2015142 K 14 1 hour 35 min.
