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Recipes: 119 results
Pear tart with almond cream
(Found inTexts)This is a very quick and easy tart to make, as everything (or almost) can be done in advance. A piece of sweetcrust pastry, some almond cream and pears? You have "everything you need".
March 17th 2011369 K4.3 1 hour 15 min.
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.
February 21th 2011333 K 14 40 min.
Soft fruits in sabayon
(Found inTextsStages)This recipe is made by briefly cooking an assortment of soft fruits (raspberries, blackcurrants, blackberries, blueberries, currants...) with a little sugar to glaze them. They are served in a small dish, covered with a delicious sabayon which can be lightly "burned" on surface.
February 21th 2011270 K3.9 50 min.
Montbenoit's canapés
(Found inTexts)A recipe from Franche-comté (lovely region of eastern France): large slices of bread coated with melted shallot, grilled bacon dice, a big slice of Morbier (cheese from the same region) and a brief spell in the oven. It really is a winter dish.
October 13th 2010282 K4.6 1 hour 45 min.
Sesame fried scampi
(Found inTextsStages)Scampi, coated with a sesame crust, fried quickly, and served with a herb salad.
November 11th 2012305 K5 35 min.
Scallops with crunchy vegetables and wine sabayon
(Found inTextsStages)This is a bed of vegetables cut small, lightly cooked to stay crunchy. The scallops are cut in half and fried, filled with a morsel of foie gras, and served coated with a savoury reduced white wine sabayon. It entails some work, but the result is impresive.
June 11th 2011315 K4 2 hours 60 min.
How to glaze a tart
(Found inTexts)Professional pastrycooks usually say that "a beautiful cake is already half sold", it is one of the reasons why they do not put a tart on sale without glazing it ("abricoter" in Fench), i.e. coating it with a thick apricot syrup. This glaze gives a glossy finish to the tart (see the photographs...
February 15th 2016459 K4.4 7 min.
How to prevent peeled fruit or vegetables turning brown
(Found inTexts)Most fruits turn brown soon after peeling due to oxydation, and this is unattractive. To prevent this, you will find many recipes that tell you to coat them with lemon juice as soon as they are peeled. It's relatively effective when fruit are simply to be used peeled, but if you want to make a...
February 21th 2011123 K4 1 min.
Crunchy little pieces of fish
(Found inTexts)Small pieces of fish, dipped in beated egg then in breadcrumbs, and fried. Preferably serve with something with slightly acidic like herb salad, or Béarnaise sauce.
February 21th 2011271 K5 50 min.
Pan-fried potatoes
(Found inTextsStages)What could be simpler than fried potatoes? No need of a recipe for that! Quite right, but it's also very easy to end up making fried mash instead. Here are the main pitfalls to avoid.
February 3rd 2011304 K4.5 1 hour 40 min.
Salmon chard rolls
(Found inTexts)For this dish only the green part of the chard is used. The blanched leaves are rolled around grilled salmon portions. The rolls are served coated with a savoury lemon sabayon, or the sauce of your choice.
August 8th 2010176 K3.8 1 hour 25 min.
Sausage with duchess potatoes and a Mont d'Or fondue
(Found inTextsStages)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 12th 2010200 K3.9 2 hours 15 min.
Like Bounty
(Found inTextsStages)You will no doubt be familiar with Bounty, the chocolate-covered coconut bar. Here's a melt-in-the-mouth version "on a plate" for a chic dessert.
August 1st 2011153 K4.6 1 hour 55 min.
Praline rochers
(Found inTextsStages)Here is how to prepare your own chocolate rochers with a chocolate praline filling covered in milk chocolate and chopped torrified almonds.
August 28th 2011202 K5 3 hours 15 min.
Fish in a sesame crust
(Found inTextsStages)Fish portions cooked in 2 stages: first in the pan, then in the oven, covered with a sesame paste which turns crisp when baked.
February 28th 2012164 K4.4 45 min.
Wiener Schnitzel
(Found inTexts)A Wiener schnitzel is a thin veal cutlet (escalope) coated in breadcrumbs.
September 7th 2018147 K4.1 1 hour 20 min.
Chicken breasts in a potato crust
(Found inTextsStages)In this recipe, instant mashed potato powder is used to give an original crusty coating to the chicken breasts. These are fried and served with peas.
August 26th 2012137 K4.8 1 hour 3 min.
Peach Melba
(Found inTexts)Peach Melba is a famous dessert created in 1893 by an equally famous chef, Auguste Escoffier, and inspired by the singer Nellie Melba. There have been many versions of this well-known dish but, in principal, it consists of vanilla ice cream, poached peaches, raspberry coulis and sweetened whipped...
September 9th 2012131 K3.9 2 hours 20 min.
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A mist free mirror
I don't know if you're like me, but I find it very annoying after a shower or bath to have to wipe down the bathroom mirror 36 times with a towel just so I can see myself shaving (or putting on make-up for the girls).How do you solve this tricky problem? First of all, by looking at the cause of the...August 29th 2023223 K 13.6
Blog articles: 7 results
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.October 15th 201215 K4.4
The cake and the raisins
When you bake a cake, like a cake or pound cake, you may have already encountered this thorny problem: How to make sure that the raisins, or the candied fruits, or any other small filling, do not fall to the bottom of the pan during the baking process?May 31th 201912 K4.7
The baker always gild twice
I've already told you about gilding, the beaten whole egg that is spread with a brush on anything that needs to brown in the oven: puff pastry, pastries, etc. and that professionals use a lot, I'm going to come back to this to clarify a bit how to do it, and give you a professional tip.June 9th 201932 K4.2
Roasting spices
If you like your food a little, or a lot, spicy, you'll no doubt have a jar or sachets of mixed spices in your cupboards from which to draw when preparing a dish. I'm thinking, for example, of curries, chili and couscous, all of which fill the kitchen, and sometimes far beyond...October 30th 20207,2604.9
The two frying pans
Where we see that a non-stick frying pan, if it is very practical in general, sometimes it is not enough.February 26th 20229,1314.7
Sauce and salad: When and how to mix them?
When dressing a salad, there's a kind of golden rule: add the dressing very shortly before serving, especially if your salad contains crunchy elements such as croutons or fresh vegetables, which will retain their crunchiness or crispiness. But, as is often the case in the kitchen, there are...November 29th 20244,5505
A drizzle of olive oil
Often in a recipe, you have to "baste" vegetables, for example, before sending them to the oven. What the author means by this is that you need to put oil on top of the vegetables to cook them in the oven. Typically, we just quickly drizzle oil over the vegetables, hoping not to miss any, but...July 13th 20254735
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Chablonnage (sealing pastry with chocolate)
(Found inTexts)Chablonnage is a French pâtisserie term which means sealing the inside of a pastry tart case with a thin coating of melted white or dark chocolate, normally applied with a brush. After cooling, the chocolate hardens to form a fine, moisture-proof layer. The chocolate prevents the tart filling...
959 K 2
Utensil: 3 results
Baking sheet
(Found inTexts)This is a metal sheet or tray, covered with a non-stick coating, similar to the lining of an oven. It can be used for cooking a wide range of things, but mainly small items to be cooked together such as rock cakes or profiteroles. .
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Silcon baking mat
(Found inTexts)Sometimes using a nonstick baking sheet is not enough when cooking items that stick well, such as macarons or coconut tuiles for example. In this case it's possible to line the sheet with cooking parchment,but one can also use a silicone baking mat which is a flexible sheet with a silicone coating,...
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apricot glaze
(Found inTexts)Apricot glaze is an apricot jelly (strained jam), used to coat tarts, to protect them from the air and give them a glossy appearance.
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