Jura bread

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This speciality bread is full of all the character of the Jura: dry white wine (made with Savagnin grapes, of course), diced Comté cheese and toasted walnuts. "Jurassic bread" was is first name... The loaves can be made long, as shown here, or as small rolls. This is ideal as an aperitif snack,...
October 24^th 201759 K4.4 6 hours 9 min.

Moist Lemon Cake

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This is similar to the basic "four quarters" cake, but with the delicious double lemon flavour that comes from using both zest and juice.
March 9^th 201660 K5 50 min.

Eggs with tomatoes and courgettes

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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 27^th 201578 K3.8 55 min.

Chicken with spinach in a cream sauce

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This recipe combines morsels of cooked chicken, spinach and potatoes with cream for a simple and tasty dish.
July 3^rd 201951 K 40 min.

Steamed leeks with morel sabayon

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For this very simple recipe, steamed leeks (cooked in 2 stages) are served with a sabayon made with mushroom "jus", preferably from morels. The sabayon is the major taste element in this dish, and adds a delicious woodland-mushroom flavour.
June 11^th 201741 K4.1 40 min.

Crispy rolls with chicken and leek

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Finely sliced leeks are cooked with a shallot, to which is added leftover chicken with a little cream and parmesan. This mixture is rolled up in filo pastry, and cooked in the oven.
February 21^th 2011230 K5 50 min.

Fisherman's Ragout

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This ragout combines vegetables (cut small and cooked until just tender in vegetable stock) with a mix of cockles and chunks of fish, all simmered together with cream and saffron.
December 30^th 201998 K4.1 2 hours 20 min.

Lebanese-style chickpea salad

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This salad combines chickpeas with cauliflower in a light yoghurt dressing, flavoured with lemon juice and sesame paste.
February 9^th 202036 K5 25 min.

Brownies

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Brownies are traditional North-American tray-baked cakes: always moist in texture, usually with chocolate and pecan nuts. Brownies should still be soft in the middle, so need to be slightly undercooked.
March 8^th 2020106 K4.1 35 min.

Pesto

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Pesto is an Italian sauce made from pine nuts, Parmesan and basil. It's very simple but quite delicious, and goes particularly well with pasta.
July 25^th 2020267 K 25 15 min.

Finger biscuits

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These small biscuits, that look a bit like savoy biscuits, are delicious alone or with Champagne, but are also the base for charlottes or Tiramisu.
July 30^th 2021337 K5 50 min.

Celeriac and sesame soup

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Celeriac soup with a double dose of sesame flavour: tahini (sesame paste) in the smooth, creamy soup and a crunchy sesame-seed crumble scattered on top.
April 3^rd 202218 K 60 min.

Quiche Bretonne

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This quiche from Brittany has a puff-pastry base topped with an assortment of fish and shellfish with a classic quiche filling. After baking in a hot oven, the crusty pastry is a great foil for the moist filling with all its seafood flavours.
April 17^th 202259 K 1 hour 40 min.

Mushrooms à la grecque

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Mushrooms "à la grecque" (Greek-style) is a simple way to enhance sautéed mushrooms with the flavours of olive oil, herbs and lemon. A common variation is to add tomatoes – just one of many possibilities.
May 10^th 202330 K 20 min.

Home-made terrine of foie gras

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Preparing your own home-made foie gras from raw is immensively satisfying: good quality liver and a simply amazing flavour – much better than anything you can buy. This recipe is a bit tricky, but quite within everyone's grasp, as long as you follow the 3 most delicate stages carefully. These are,...
December 17^th 20235.23 M 64.2 4 days 15 hours 50 min.

Grapefruit cake

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A moist, triple grapefruit cake: zest, juice and syrup.
March 24^th 202411 K 2 1 hour 20 min.

Tender roasted carrots with avocado mayonnaise

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Roasted new carrots with Provencal flavors, served with toasted bread and a delicious avocado mayonnaise.
July 21^th 20246,207 50 min.

Tabbouleh

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Tabbouleh is a Middle Eastern couscous salad., moistened with olive oil and lemon juice. Its flavour comes from plenty of fresh herbs (mint and parsley at the very least), onion and tomatoes. This refreshing dish is ideal for warm summer or autumn days.
July 6^th 202262 K 3 hours 25 min.

Mornay onion tart

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In a shortcrust pastry base, a rather thick onion tart, where onions and lardons are deliciously bound with a Mornay sauce.
June 23^th 20247,056 2 hours 15 min.

Potato and cheese pie

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For this very simple recipe, a layer of cheese is placed in a shortcrust pastry base, followed by potato slices and a little cream before browning in the oven.
September 20^th 202310 K 55 min.

Electronic 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 29^th 2023171 K4.4

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 3^rd 2024728 K 413.6

All the videos on the site

Here you'll find all the recipes that include a video in each step.
August 29^th 2023232 K 23.7

A memo of utensil weights

You will no doubt have come across this problem while cooking: after starting a recipe, when you already have some ingredients in a pan and have maybe cooked them, you need to know the weight of the pan's contents so that you can take half out, or add the same weight of sugar, for example.
May 9^th 201124 K4.6