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Exotic fruit tart
Exotic fruit tart
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An exotic fruit tart (bananas, kiwi and pineapple), with crisp pastry and almond cream which are cooked beforehand. It's a rather simple recipe, but the final result will impress your guests.
306K5 2 hours 23 min. May 27th 2020
Warm apple feuillantines
Warm apple feuillantines
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It's a rather long recipe but which never fails to impress, perfect for a special dinner party. It's made up of 3 circles: one almond "tuile", 2 of caramelized brik sheets, with a caramelized apple layer between each, whipped cream on top, and custard all around. Everything, except whipped cream,...
313K5 3 hours 9 min. May 28th 2012
How to roll out pastry for a tart
How to roll out pastry for a tart
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Rolling out pastry from a block and lining a tart mould or tin is not as straighforward as all that. To help you to succeed every time, here is a very simple tip. It will to change your opinion of tarts...
287K4.6 23 min. October 13th 2010
Little apple turnovers with almonds and raisins
Little apple turnovers with almonds and raisins
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These are small apple turnovers ("chaussons") of puff pastry, filled with a mixture of caramelised almonds, stewed apple and rum-soaked raisins. To be eaten just as they are...
293K3.8 1 hour 31 min. September 11th 2018
Quail egg canapés
Quail egg canapés
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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.
320K5 54 min. February 21th 2011
Tart Tatin
Tart Tatin
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Tart tatin is one of the great classic desserts of French cooking. It's an apple tart cooked upside down. Apples are cooked in sugar until they caramelise. Then a circle of puff pastry is put on top, and the whole tart is baked at 356°F (180°C) for 20 minutes. To serve, the tart is turned over so...
391K 13.8 1 hour 17 min. October 30th 2015
Steak burger topped with egg
Steak burger topped with egg
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A succulent steak burger, topped with a perfect egg. Here are all the tips you need to produce this simple but delicious dish.
248K4.9 52 min. June 22th 2013
Arizona cupcakes
Arizona cupcakes
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Cupcakes are small sponge cakes. In their original American version, they are usually decorated with brightly coloured icing. Here's a version inspired by the famous saguaro cactus, so common in Arizona.
183K 14.6 1 hour 49 min. October 13th 2010
"BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits
"BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits
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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!
195K 24.6 5 hours 12 min. March 21th 2011
Paris-Brest
Paris-Brest
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The Paris-Brest is a famous French patisserie: a ring of choux pastry, scattered with flaked almonds and icing sugar and filled with a praline cream. The name comes from a historic cycle race between Paris and Brest (600 km or 372 miles), as the shape is like a bicycle wheel.
179K4.6 2 hours 18 min. May 8th 2011
Fraisier (French strawberry cake)
Fraisier (French strawberry cake)
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This classic French patisserie is a delicious assembly of 2 layers of genoa sponge filled with strawberries and crème mousseline (confectioner's custard with butter). The sponge is soaked in strawberry syrup and the cake is topped with a thin layer of marzipan.
164K4.2 2 hours 43 min. September 18th 2011
Saint Honoré cake
Saint Honoré cake
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The Saint Honoré cake is a famous example of French patisserie. It consists of a puff pastry base surrounded by a ring of caramel-coated choux puffs and topped with whipped cream (Chantilly). It is a bit tricky to make, but this recipe gives you all the hints you need.
112K4.7 2 hours 51 min. April 14th 2013
Seafood feuillantines
Seafood feuillantines
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Little savoury "millefeuilles" with a very Breton taste of the sea: a mix of crab and salmon in a herb mayonnaise, piled up between crisp circles of buckwheat pancake.
94K5 48 min. April 28th 2013
Brioche Tatin
Brioche Tatin
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For this filled brioche, the apples are cooked separately, as for a tart tatin (caramelized), then sandwiched between two circles of brioche dough.
68K3.7 3 hours 21 min. September 10th 2018
Mini palmiers
Mini palmiers
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Palmiers are a traditional French patisserie, consisting of folded puff pastry caramelized with sugar. These small versions are made with the shop-bought puff pastry that comes ready-rolled in a circle.
76K5 39 min. September 11th 2018
Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines)
Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines)
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The French name for these tubular biscuits means "Russian cigarettes". Cigarettes Russes are perfect for serving with ice cream or other desserts. The basic biscuit is fairly easy to make; the tricky bit is rolling the tube once cooked.
94K 54.5 46 min. May 25th 2014
Ice-cream Vacherin
Ice-cream Vacherin
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Ice-cream vacherin is a festive French dessert. It consists of two different flavours of ice cream (blackcurrant and vanilla here) sandwiched between two circles of meringue, topped with whorls of Chantilly (whipped cream) which is then frozen. It is not too complicated, but involves a bit of work...
163K4.5 8 hours 45 min. December 21th 2014
Little caramelized peach tarts
Little caramelized peach tarts
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This is an elegant summer dessert: a thin base of puff pastry, topped with caramelized peach slices. For a delicious contrast of hot and cold, serve with the reduced caramel and citrus sauce poured over over hot and, at the last minute, a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, .
44K3.8 1 hour 15 min. September 11th 2016
Strawberry feuilleté
Strawberry feuilleté
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This elegant French dessert is not quite a tart. The base is a circle of puff pastry baked and caramelized, then topped when cold with a thin layer of lime-flavoured confectioner's custard and beautiful fresh strawberries.
41K3.8 43 min. May 27th 2018
How to make a good pastry tart case
How to make a good pastry tart case
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Lining a tin or mould with pastry to make a tart or pie seems simple enough: you roll out the pastry, put it in the tin and trim off any overhanging bits. It may not be rocket science, but if you want a tart with a perfect pastry case, it really helps to take care over a few details, which I will...
59K 42 min. July 14th 2019
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Some hints for a pizza-party
Some hints for a pizza-party
Some hints for a successful pizza party.
185K3.7 August 29th 2023
Open fire cooking
Open fire cooking
Construction of a Fayol bread oven: open fire cooking, with the embers inside.
87K3.9 August 29th 2023
Blog articles: 4 results
Circles vs. moulds tins
Circles vs. moulds tins
If you like to bake or make quiches, pies etc. you must surely have one or more pie pans at home, in different diameters and perhaps materials. They are indispensable, without them there is no way to make beautiful pies, and they work very well, but you have another option, instead of moulds,...
11K5 October 2nd 2020
Devising a recipe
Devising a recipe
A question I'm often asked is: how do you come up with your recipes? How do you perfect them? This is something I've already mentioned on this page, but I'll take this opportunity to go into a bit more detail.
13K4.4 October 15th 2012
The art of the charlotte
The art of the charlotte
In cooking, a charlotte is a delicious moulded dessert, with biscuits around the outside that have been soaked in a flavoured syrup, filled with a light cream or mousse. The charlotte is left to set in the fridge before being turned out and served in slices. It is very light and a lovely sweet...
38K4.3 February 27th 2013
Let's go easy on the salt
Let's go easy on the salt
In terms of cooking, I'm probably not teaching you much, salt is ubiquitous, we put it in almost all our dishes, in varying amounts depending on our taste, some like salty, others less, others still not. Its main role is the flavor, the taste, we say that it is a flavor enhancer, ie it reveals the...
4,3854.8 February 20th 2021
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Rolled-out pastry
Rolled-out pastry
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Pastry that has been rolled out with a rolling pin, usually in a circle.
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Line (with pastry)
Line (with pastry)
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Lining a tart mould or tin with a circle of pastry.
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