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.
103K4.4 47 min. December 17^th 2014

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.
75K4.5 56 min. May 18^th 2014

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.
88K4.2 33 min. February 2^nd 2014

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.
90K4.3 46 min. July 1^st 2013

Aperitif rolls

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These are small, bite-sized, soft bread rolls made with bacon bits and topped with grated cheese.
112K4 2 hours 31 min. October 24^th 2017

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.
185K3.9 2 hours 13 min. December 12^th 2010

Little vegetable omelettes

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As an appetiser or starter, little thick soft omelettes, with diced tomato, courgette and smoked ham.
292K4 1 hour 10 min. June 11^th 2011

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.
234K4.1 38 min. February 21^th 2011

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.
321K5 54 min. February 21^th 2011

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.
299K4.9 54 min. February 21^th 2011

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.
539K5 30 min. October 13^th 2010

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.
39K 2 32 min. December 30^th 2019

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.
34K 29 min. March 11^th 2020

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.
30K 2 1 hour 36 min. April 5^th 2020

Ratatouille confite

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In this ratatouille recipe, the vegetables are cooked longer than usual to get a richer melting dish.
209K 13.8 2 hours 40 min. June 12^th 2011

Polish-style beetroot salad

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This salad combines raw beetroot with fried potato slices and morsels of smoked sausage.
23K2 41 min. February 24^th 2021

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.
57K1 46 min. April 14^th 2021

Seafood rice salad

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This warm rice salad ("riz du pêcheur" – fisherman's rice in French) combines cooked rice with sautéed prawns, mussels and flaked salmon in a rémoulade dressing.
21K 26 min. October 17^th 2021

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.
11K 3 hours 8 min. April 30^th 2023

Sliced veal with leeks and mushrooms

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Small strips of veal sautéed with mushrooms and leeks in a creamy sauce.
12K 2 hours 6 min. May 10^th 2023

A 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...
1.1M3.5 August 29^th 2023

Advice on heating oven

Construction of a Fayol bread oven: advice on heating and preparing for baking bread.
175K4.0 August 29^th 2023

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...
18K4.6 March 24^th 2020

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...
32K4.6 February 6^th 2021