Cod loin with saffron

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A thick, deboned loin of fish (cod in this case), pan-fried and served with a reduced white-wine and cream sauce, flavoured with shallot and saffron.
December 17^th 2014114 K4.4 50 min.

Spring veal sauté

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This sauté combines small chunks of veal with spring onions in a white-wine sauce with just a dash of cream.
May 18^th 201486 K4.5 60 min.

Welsh (French Welsh Rarebit)

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This is a French version (as served in brasseries in northern France) of the traditional Welsh rarebit. It contains boiled ham as well as the usual toasted bread and Cheddar cheese melted in beer.
February 2^nd 2014100 K4.2 35 min.

New York style pasta

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Pasta served like in NYC: tagliatelle or spaghetti with lightly fried ham, peas and a nutmeg-flavoured cream sauce.
July 1^st 201399 K4.3 50 min.

Aperitif rolls

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These are small, bite-sized, soft bread rolls made with bacon bits and topped with grated cheese.
October 24^th 2017123 K4 2 hours 35 min.

Sausage with duchess potatoes and a Mont d'Or fondue

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The duchess potatoes are poached in a roll before being sliced and fried. They are served in alternate layers with slices of sausage, also cooked in two stages (boiled then fried), then topped with a fondue of Mont d'Or cheese.
December 12^th 2010197 K3.9 2 hours 15 min.

Little vegetable omelettes

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As an appetiser or starter, little thick soft omelettes, with diced tomato, courgette and smoked ham.
June 11^th 2011304 K4 1 hour 10 min.

Scallops with green asparagus tips and parmesan

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In this recipe scallops are fried quickly, then cooked aaparagus tips are added with a sprinkling of parmesan to serve.
February 21^th 2011245 K4.1 40 min.

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.
February 21^th 2011332 K5 55 min.

Rolls of fish in smoked ham

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Pieces of white fish rolled in thinly sliced smoked ham. These rolls are cooked in a little olive oil and served with French beans. The pairing of smoked ham with fish might seem a little strange, but in fact these flavours marry well.
February 21^th 2011312 K4.9 55 min.

How to prepare leeks

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Leeks are vegetables that are often muddy, we must be careful when washing them to remove mud that would be very unpleasant to "discover" the plate.
October 13^th 2010552 K5 30 min.

Roscoff salad

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This Roscoff salad, named after the pretty little town on the Brittany coast, is a delicious mix of regional ingredients: sliced cauliflower, smoked sausages and, of course, onions.
December 30^th 201949 K 2 35 min.

Bistro-style red endive salad

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Have you tried red Belgian endives? They are similar in size to the more common white sort, just as crunchy, but slightly less bitter. They are the main feature in this salad inspired by French bistro cuisine: combined with chopped hard-boiled eggs, fried ham and croutons, in a rémoulade dressing.
March 11^th 202046 K 30 min.

Boulangère potatoes

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This great classic of French home cooking consists of sliced potatoes with slivers of bacon between, on a bed of onion fondue, moistened with poultry (or beef) stock and baked in the oven. It takes a fairly long time, but is so good, and reheats very well.
April 5^th 202041 K 2 1 hour 40 min.

Ratatouille confite

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In this ratatouille recipe, the vegetables are cooked longer than usual to get a richer melting dish.
June 12^th 2011220 K 13.8 2 hours 40 min.

Polish-style beetroot salad

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This salad combines raw beetroot with fried potato slices and morsels of smoked sausage.
February 24^th 202133 K2 45 min.

Lime crémeux

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This "crémeux" is a creamy mixture ideal for filling tarts, either on its own or as a bottom layer topped with fruit, for example.
April 14^th 202171 K1 50 min.

Pork Chops Champvallon style

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Pork chops à la Champvallon are a nicely historic recipe of meat and potatoes in long cooking.
April 30^th 202324 K 3 hours 8 min.

Sliced veal with leeks and mushrooms

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Small strips of veal sautéed with mushrooms and leeks in a creamy sauce.
May 10^th 202324 K 2 hours 6 min.

"Au vert" beef

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A piece of beef of your choice, grilled and accompanied by sautéed greens and beet tops.
June 18^th 202316 K 40 min.

Bread oven

Building a bread oven was until a few years ago a job for the professionals. But now you can buy a kind of kit which allows you to build your own bred oven without professional masonry know-how. You should know that the kits only provide the main part of oven, the hearth, where you light the fire...
October 15^th 20241.17 M3.6

Advice on heating oven

For good results with a wood-fired oven, it's very important to manage the heating process well. Here is some advice to help you succeed in this delicate operation.
August 24^th 2024179 K4.0

Cleaning endives

If you buy your endives elsewhere than in supermarkets, and in this case the best is of course from a market gardener, he or she is the one who planted and harvested them, in this case you will have endives full of earth or sand, depending on where they were grown, which is normal and reassuring, we...
March 24^th 202023 K4.6

How to choose a centrifugal juicer

A centrifugal juicer is an appliance designed to extract juice from all kinds of fruit and vegetables. It will produce juice from tomatoes, carrots, apples, pineapple, blackcurrants, etc.
April 1^st 201141 K4.4

Unmoulding cakes while hot

When you make a cake, pound cake or whatever (what bakers call a "travel cake" because it's easy to carry around) you've most likely made a batter, either by hand or in a food processor, which you then pour into a buttered pan. It's a classic, and I've already talked to you about 2 or 3 tips on...
February 6^th 202135 K4.6