How to slow cook meat

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By cooking meat slowly with no added fat, it will become very tender - almost melt-in-the-mouth - and can be cut with a fork.
November 6^th 2011162 K5 4 hours 45 min.

Pan-baked hash brown (Hash-brown casserole)

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This hash-brown recipe is an American version of the classic grated potato cake (like roesti), baked in a pan. In the USA hash browns are often served for breakfast.
May 24^th 2012114 K3.8 1 hour 50 min.

Cassoulet

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Cassoulet is typical, even emblematic, of southern French cuisine. It is a "slow food" casserole in which meat and vegetables, particualrly dried beans, are cooked together for a long time. Here is a simplified version of this famous dish.
September 17^th 2021207 K4.1 16 hours 9 min.

Rabbit civet

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Rabbit civet is a classic dish of French cuisine. The word "civet" comes from "cive", an old word for onion. These days, the name refers to chunks of meat, marinated then cooked slowly in red wine with bacon, mushrooms and onions. This tasty stew or casserole, with its very tender meat, is like my...
May 10^th 202392 K4 15 hours 20 min.

Summer Salmon Blanquette

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This simple blanquette is a creamy dish of pan-fried salmon chunks with fresh broad beans and mushrooms. Although it is just right for the start of summer, it can be made at any time of year.
July 3^rd 202466 K3.7 60 min.

How to seal a terrine or casserole dish

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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...
January 11^th 2017169 K3.8 35 min.

Melt-in-the mouth meat and vegetables in a sealed casserole

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In this recipe a good joint of beef is slow-cooked, surrounded by an assortment of vegetables in small chunks. To concentrate the flavours, the cooking time should be long at a moderate temperature and, most important of all, the dish should be sealed. By the end of cooking, the vegetables will be...
December 30^th 201970 K4.1 5 hours 30 min.

Sausage and lentils "en cocotte"

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This is a casserole-style version of the traditional French sausage-and-lentils recipe with a special feature: the lentils are cooked in just the right amount of water. The other ingredients add flavour as does, most importantly, the sausage (preferably smoked). When pricked, this will release its...
February 5^th 2017137 K4.5 1 hour 5 min.

Winegrowers' sausage casserole

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This sausage casserole is a simple mix of vegetables with smoked sausage, but the cooking liquid in this case is dry white wine (and hence the name). The casserole is cooked long and slow in the oven with a lid. This allows all the flavours of the vegetables, wine and sausage to mingle harmoniously.
March 19^th 201857 K 2 hours 40 min.

Potatoes with bacon and herbs

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The potatoes in this recipe are rolled in a slice of lightly cooked bacon with sage and bay leaves slipped in between. They are then baked in the oven.
November 14^th 201840 K5 1 hour

Spinach Mornay

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This gratin is made with a layer of pre-cooked spinach, then sliced hard-boiled eggs and a Mornay sauce (an enriched bechamel with cheese).
June 13^th 202461 K4 40 min.

Smoky potato and potimarron gratin

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This gratin has an unusual twist: it not only combines potatoes with potimarron, the potatoes are boiled in the water left after cooking a Morteau sausage, to give a lovely smoky flavour. Guaranteed to transport your tastebuds to eastern France!
March 13^th 201942 K 2 hours 10 min.

Gratin Parmentier

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Here, a potato gratin meets hachis Parmentier (minced beef topped with mashed potato): 2 layers of potato around a layer of pre-cooked minced meat.
May 1^st 201969 K3.8 1 hour 25 min.

Stuffed mushrooms au gratin

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For this fairly sophisitcated recipe, the mushrooms caps are marinated and pre-cooked in the oven. They are then filled with a delicious mix of potatoes, sausage and cheese before being baked gratin-style.
May 10^th 202341 K 1 hour 10 min.

Chard and potato gratin

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All of the chard leaves (greens and stalk) will be used in this recipe. They are first boiled, then layered with sliced potatoes and topped with a bechamel sauce.
June 10^th 202044 K 1 hour 6 min.

Hay-baked poultry

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Cooking poultry in hay may seem strange, but it is a very simple method. The bird is just seasoned and cooked slowly for a long time with a large bunch of hay. During the slow cooking the poultry takes on the flavour of the hay, with its mix of grassy herbal and floral notes. This recipe is inspired...
October 13^th 202121 K 4 hours 25 min.

Taos hotpot

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This hotpot inspired by a stay in Taos (New Mexico) is a mix of different meat and vegetables cooked long and slow, served with polenta. The preparation is rather long, as is the cooking time, but it reheats very well.
January 10^th 201841 K 3 hours 15 min.

Confit of carrots with bacon

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As with any confit, these carrots are cooked long and slow. This is done in the oven in chicken stock, with the carrots rolled in a strip of bacon or cured ham that has been lightly fried.
April 16^th 201746 K4.8 2 hours 35 min.

Beef braised in reduced red wine

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In classic recipes of this kind, the meat is simply cooked in the wine as it comes. This version is different: the red wine is reduced first separately on low heat with herbs, onion and carrot, then the meat is cooked long and slow in this. This method gives the meat a richer, more intense flavour.
March 12^th 201751 K3.8 3 hours 55 min.

Endives "bonne femme"

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A one-pot endive dish with potatoes, onion and bacon. [Translator's note: the French "bonne femme" style is good, straightforward home cooking (whether the cook is a man or a woman!).
May 12^th 2013113 K4.3 1 hour 25 min.

Roasting spices

If you like your food a little, or a lot, spicy, you'll no doubt have a jar or sachets of mixed spices in your cupboards from which to draw when preparing a dish. I'm thinking, for example, of curries, chili and couscous, all of which fill the kitchen, and sometimes far beyond...
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