Recipes: 35 results
Flambéd bananas
(Found inTexts)The trick of this recipe is to end up with bananas caramelised on the outside, still firm on the inside, coated with a tasty syrup which is not 95% butter.
313K 14 40 min. February 21th 2011
Surprise bread
(Found inTexts)This recipe is for a large surprise bread so you can make six layers (48 small sandwiches if you divide each layer in 8), with three different flavours: smoked salmon/lime, smoked ham/butter, mayonnaise/chicken.
687K 84.5 6 hours 24 min. December 27th 2020
How to prepare spinach
(Found inTexts)For most people (and me most of all), spinach brings back bad memories of canteens... But, well prepared, it's a fine and delicate vegetable which goes remarkably well with scrambled eggs, fish, and many another things. Here are two ways of preparing it.
3.4M3.5 1 hour 9 min. June 5th 2015
Cooking sugar
(Found inTexts)Cooking sugar, which is one of the basics of patisserie and sweet-making, is a delicate operation in which sugar is heated from 100°C or 212°F to 180°C or 356°F. Here is some information on this tricky subject. [Translator's note: the terms used below correspond to the French tradition, as often...
476K4.9 43 min. April 3rd 2019
Endives
(Found inTexts)A very classic recipe, but which can easily fail due to two main errors: too much water in bottom of dish because endives give off a lot, and endives that are too bitter so that children hate it. Here is a method which avoids these two problems.
307K5 1 hour 29 min. February 14th 2012
Tomato ladybirds
(Found inTexts)Tomatoes filled with a tuna mayonnaise and rice mixture, in a fun ladybird shape that kids will love, served with a puree of fresh garden peas. A good way to encourage them to eat vegetables.
266K 14 1 hour 47 min. February 21th 2011
Sautéd broccoli with ham
(Found inTexts)Broccoli cooked until just tender, quickly sautéd in a little olive oil with shallot and ribbons of ham.
204K 14.3 49 min. February 21th 2011
Crème caramel
(Found inTextsStages)Crème caramel (upside-down caramel cream) is a classic of bistro cuisine. The vanilla cream is made with eggs, cooked in a dish with a layer of caramel in the bottom, and placed in a bain-marie. It's traditionally served turned out so that the liquid caramel runs down over the cream.
251K5 3 hours 33 min. February 21th 2011
"BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits
(Found inTexts)These are similar to the BN biscuits so well-known in France. They are a sandwich of chocolate filling between two layers of biscuit. Children adore them!
196K 24.6 5 hours 12 min. March 21th 2011
How to prepare endives
(Found inTexts)A very classic recipe, but which can easily fail due to two main errors: too much water in bottom of dish because endives give off a lot, and endives that are too bitter so that children hate it. Here is a method which avoids these two problems.
453K3.7 26 min. February 14th 2012
X-Files cookies
(Found inTexts)These cookies made with lime and almonds are a sure-fire hit with children. They enjoy the amusing shape, of course, but also the delicious flavour.
101K4.1 3 hours 35 min. May 27th 2012
Chocolate mug cake
(Found inTexts)A mug cake is fun to make and only takes a few minutes. It cooks in just one and a half minutes in the microwave.
106K5 11 min. June 4th 2014
Grated potato cakes
(Found inTexts)These grated potato cakes (similar to hash browns, but without the onion) can be deep or pan fried. They are excellent with meat, but quite delicious on their own. Children love them.
145K4.3 39 min. November 23th 2014
Grandma Solange's biscuits
(Found inTexts)These biscuits are very simple to make and delicious with tea or coffee. They are easy enough for children to enjoy making them.
57K4.1 44 min. November 12th 2014
Ham pasta bake
(Found inTexts)Here's a really simple recipe that children love. Just pasta, ham, a little cream and cheese on top.
131K5 42 min. July 15th 2015
Caribbean upside-down cake
(Found inTexts)The dominant flavours in this cake are pineapple and almonds. The pineapple is caramelized first separately, with brown sugar and lime, before being laid in the bottom of the tin. The cake batter is then poured over. The cooked cake is turned out to reveal the lovely golden pineapple layer on top a...
59K4.7 1 hour 7 min. December 30th 2019
Beetroot and fried chicken salad
(Found inTexts)A raw beetroot salad, enriched with toasted almonds, diced fried chicken and potatoes. As beetroot tends to colour everything it touches, you can be sure that your diced chicken will be an unusual but attractive bright pink - children love this!
44K4.2 39 min. October 16th 2016
French toast "cordon bleu"
(Found inTexts)You are probably familiar with those "cordon bleu" chicken breasts filled with ham and melted cheese that so many kids seem to enjoy. Here's a lighter, bread-based version that is deliciously moist. The bread is dipped in egg, like for French toast, then in a coating of breadcrumbs with herbs before...
43K4.5 38 min. February 12th 2017
Framboisier
(Found inTexts)This is a classic French raspberry-flavoured dessert. It generally consists of raspberries in cream sandwiched between two layers of cake. In this version, the cake is genoa sponge and the cream is vanilla-flavoured and mixed with mascarpone. This is just as good made as a large rectangle or, as...
47K3.8 2 hours 38 min. July 16th 2017
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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
Blog articles: 10 results
Children and vegetables
This is an attempt to address the question that all parents and grandparents, maybe you included, face so often: how can we get children to like vegetables? And at the same time, we might get away from the familiar, day-in, day-out round of pasta, chips, toast.. Well, I can hear you say, it's...11K5 March 9th 2017
Butter doesn't make you fat, unless you eat too much of it.
Whenever I'm discussing cooking and recipes, there is one idea which comes up frequently, like this: "Oh no! But that's got butter in it" (I should add, for the sake of accuracy, that this is something I hear more frequently from women, who are almost all concerned with keeping their figure). ...38K4.5 March 26th 2012
The 3 kinds of meringue
Meringue – what could be simpler? Just beaten egg whites with sugar added. This makes a fairly stiff mixture which can then be cooked in a cool oven to create those lovely, light confections. But in the world of professional patisserie, meringue comes in three different kinds. Even if the...54K4.5 June 14th 2013
The bitterness of endives
As I write these lines, we are entering the endive season, and if you like it, it's time to enjoy it, if possible with your local producers. Endive is good, but the reproach that is often made of it, and children in particular, is: "It's bitter! And it is (somewhat) true of course, endives...8,7774.9 February 9th 2019
The perfect boiled egg
Making boiled eggs is always a delight and it pleases the young and old alike. This little transgenerational side puts them on the list of "things to do on Sunday evening when you don't know what to do" in many families (including mine)... That said, it's not that simple, you have to pay...12K4.7 January 30th 2021
The return of the vegetable grater
If you are of a certain age (say +50) you may have known, when you were a kid, something that your grandmother had in her kitchen set, the vegetable grater. A kind of mill, to be turned by hand, and which with cutting discs of different sizes, allowed to grate a lot of vegetables, carrots first...11K4.6 March 20th 2021
Let's rehabilitate the burger
The burger is a sandwich that is very fashionable at the moment, and as for all other sandwiches, the worst (often) rubs shoulders with the best (much more rare). In principle, I'm probably not teaching you anything, it's a sandwich made of a small round bun, rather soft, like a sandwich bread,...4,8384.9 April 10th 2021
The peak of the apple season
As I write these lines, we are in the middle of the apple season, and it's an apple year, as you may have noticed if you have apple trees around you, they are bursting with fruit! Excellent news for the people in the west of France in particular, but let's have a little thought for those in the...4,8535 October 23th 2021
Brussels sprouts are very good
We are, as I write this, in the season of Brussels sprouts, a delicious vegetable that often suffers from a bad reputation, let's try to fix that.6,2204.7 March 5th 2022
When I was a kid, I didn't like...
Maybe you've already made this strange observation: when you were a kid, there were things you hated, but as an adult it's almost the opposite? For example, you used to hate spinach or chicory, but now you love it?4,9265 November 5th 2023
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