Recipes: 55 results
Caramelised apple pie
(Found inTexts)Apple pie made with caramelised apples.
248K4.3 1 hour 55 min. September 11th 2018
Little apple turnovers with almonds and raisins
(Found inTexts)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...
294K3.8 1 hour 31 min. September 11th 2018
Smoked salmon sacristains
(Found inTexts)Sacristain (sexton in English, a strange name though common in French cooking) is a small pastry twist, made with puff pastry. There are many recipes with different flavours, sweet or savoury. Here is one with smoked salmon, ideal as an aperitif.
221K 33.9 1 hour 30 min. February 21th 2011
How to prepare broccoli
(Found inTextsStages)Broccoli are vegetable cousins to cauliflowers. Here's how to prepare them for using in a recipe.
1.4M3 35 min. October 7th 2013
How to prepare an onion or shallot
(Found inTextsStages)Onions and shallots are widely used in the recipes on this site, generally finely chopped. Here is a method to do it quite easily with a simple knife.
172K5 10 min. February 21th 2011
How to prepare carrots
(Found inTexts)Here's how to prepare carrots, from the simplest way (peeled then rinsed) to a more sophisticated version where only the very best ofthe vegetable is kept.
162K4.3 14 min. February 21th 2011
How to prepare cauliflower
(Found inTextsStages)This is how to start with a whole califlower and finish with only the best of the vegetable.
211K4.1 33 min. February 5th 2022
How to prepare cucumber
(Found inTexts)Or how to start with a whole cucumber and finish with small crunchy dice, ready to be added to a salad.
233K4.6 39 min. August 6th 2019
How to prepare romanesco
(Found inTexts)Here is how to take a whole romanesco and end up with small pieces ready to use in a recipe.
643K 23 28 min. January 17th 2013
Quick Strawberry Millefeuille
(Found inTexts)A millefeuille (which in french means "thousand sheets") is a delicious pâtisserie consisting of layers of puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) sandwiched together with cream, fruit, etc. In this recipe, we will be using sheets of caramelized brik or filo, which makes a delicious, light...
58K5 48 min. May 3rd 2015
Langoustine gratin
(Found inTexts)This elegant gratin has a layer of brunoise vegetables in the bottom, with langoustine tails (scampi) cooked in two stages on top, finished with a thick creamy sauce, made with the "fumet" from the langoustines. This recipe is quite long to make, but can be prepared in stages over a number of days....
57K3.9 2 hours 15 min. December 30th 2019
Jelly-style plum jam
(Found inTexts)Lots of people make plum jam, but you can also elevate this to a rather elegant jelly, simply by removing the skins. It's not a true jelly (this is normally made with juice), but leans towards that style: light and, above all, delicious.
85K 13 hours 11 min. October 13th 2019
Citrus tart
(Found inTexts)This is an unconventional tart, though the recipe is quite simple: no cream filling in the bottom, just slices of lightly poached fruit in a sweetcrust pastry case.
23K 2 hours 31 min. July 8th 2020
Nachos
(Found inTexts)Nachos (or tortilla chips) are small Tex-Mex snack triangles, often served with guacamole. Authentic nachos are made from tortillas, cut into triangles and fried, but here is a lighter, oven-baked version. The recipe is very simple, though the cutting out is a bit of work, and I've given you 2...
33K 1 hour 6 min. November 4th 2020
Pistachio and goji pinwheels
(Found inTexts)Inspired by the traditional French "pain aux raisins" (like Danish pastries), here is a colourful and flavoursome version filled with pistachio cream and goji berries.
18K 2 hours 19 min. October 10th 2021
How to prepare Brussels sprouts
(Found inTextsStages)Brussels sprouts are delicious. On this site you'll find many recipes that use these versatile vegetables. Here is all you need to know about preparing and cooking them.
18K 40 min. February 6th 2022
How to prepare Jerusalem artichokes
(Found inTextsStages)Jerusalem artichokes are quite an unusual vegetable with a strong artichoke taste, if you want to use them in a recipe, here is how to prepare them.
13K 18 min. January 11th 2023
How to prepare apricots
(Found inTexts)Here's how to prepare apricots for use in a recipe, from washing to slicing.
729K3.7 32 min. July 12th 2023
How to prepare green beans
(Found inTextsStages)Here's how to turn freshly bought (or picked) green beans into ready-to-use vegetables.
8,230 22 min. August 11th 2023
Chocolate cereal bars
(Found inStages)These have a chocolate sweetcrust pastry base, topped with dried fruit, toasted nuts and seeds, bound with a brown-sugar and butter mixture, then gently baked. Once the flapjack-like cake has cooled, it can be cut into bars.
29K 1 hour 18 min. July 11th 2018
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Slashing loaves
Cutting the top of the loaf so that it rises better during baking: slashing.279K 43.6 August 29th 2023
Make your own hot-wire or styrofoam cutter
Cut polystyrene and foams easily with your own hot-wire cutter.501K 433.5 February 20th 2024
A mist free mirror
Shave or put on make up with a clear mirror, even in a steamy bathroom: the anti-mist mirror.214K 13.6 August 29th 2023
chives
Chives grow in clumps, and the leaves used as a herb have an extraodinary taste. It's an essential for adding to salads, and everything else that can be eaten cold, because it doesn't like long cooking during which it loses most of its flavour.75K3.8 August 29th 2023
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: 14 results
A stable cutting board
As soon as you have something to cut in the kitchen, the best thing to do is to use a cutting board, it protects your table or work surface, and their material is made to protect the edge of your knife, that is to say that it is soft enough, in short it is the ideal thing. But simply put on the...5,1325 May 22th 2021
Cutting soft cheeses
As you may have already noticed, when you have to use a "soft" cheese in a recipe - their exact name is "soft cheese" - such as Camembert, Munster or Mont d'or, it's not easy to make anything other than thick slices.2,3325 February 20th 2024
Choosing a chopping board
It's a no-brainer, surely? If you want a chopping board, just find a piece of wood, and Bob's your uncle! You can happily chop away with a knife and not damage the table or worktop. But in reality, it's a bit more complicated than that. You need to be careful what you are buying, in particular the...45K4.6 May 8th 2012
Artichoke stalks
When preparing artichokes for cooking, you may well already know that we often need to remove the first round of leaves, if they are tatty or dirty, as well as the inedible stalk. The operative word here is “remove” , rather than “cut off”.47K4.3 October 25th 2016
The 3 essential knives
You must have heard a chef or cook say: "There’s no good cooking without good ingredients". This is very true, of course, but for any amateur or beginner it is equipment that really counts to start with. What I mean is that you should not skimp on kitchen equipment, good utensils, a food...19K5 May 30th 2018
Drawing a pattern in pastry
Often in the kitchen, in pastry-making, or in baking, we need to trace a pattern on a pastry. It's just a question of aesthetics but it has its effect after baking on a galette, pithiviers, pâté en croute (terrine in a pie crust), etc.25K4.1 May 23th 2019
The right way to cook potatoes
If you simply boil them (not steam them), or bake them in the oven, at some point you will have to ask yourself the question "are they well cooked?".11K4.7 March 23th 2020
Coarsely chopped herbs
Although we are in the middle of winter as I write these lines, you should not hesitate to make salads at this time, it is actually quite simple, rather fast, and so pleasant. A while ago, I already told you that a salad is a salad, but a salad with herbs is immediately something much better:...7,9054.9 January 9th 2021
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 so-called "nervous" meats
You've probably heard this before, we're talking about "nervous" meat, or meat with nerves, to describe what is indicated by the blue arrow on the left. This is a piece of beef, and what we call a nerve is not a nerve, it is in fact collagen (chemists sometimes call it a "collagen sink"), a...22K4.5 April 16th 2021
Incise some meats before cooking
Have you ever had this rather unpleasant phenomenon: you grill a meat, a pork chop or a veal cutlet for example, and during cooking it becomes completely deformed? It takes a very strange shape, a bit difficult to describe, a sort of cone around the central area of the meat, which also hinders...7,1274.9 June 19th 2021
In praise of Mont d'Or cheese
Do you know the Mont d'Or, this extraordinary cheese from the Haut-Doubs in France, with a unique taste and appearance, which can be eaten both raw and cooked? I'll tell you a few words about it, and with some tips on how to choose it and cook it. .6,9985 November 27th 2021
The right bread knife
We almost all have a bread knife in our kitchen, that is to say the knife we use almost exclusively to cut bread. Is this knife efficient, is it really the one you need? Here is some information to guide you in your choice. .7,372 September 15th 2022
It's spinning too fast!
When you need to grate or slice vegetables, you generally use an electric machine that does all the work: a food processor, a mixer with a "slicer" extension or similar. Are these machines really suitable? Generally speaking, yes of course, but there's one criterion that often poses a problem,...5,2095 November 12th 2023
Lexicon: 4 results
Broken pieces or crumbs
(Found inTexts)Remaining parts of a product, after cutting, which are edible but not very attractive.
729K
Brunoise (tiny diced vegetables as garnish)
(Found inTexts)Cutting a product into very small dice.
729K
Utensil: 3 results
Dough cutter
(Found inTexts)In plastic or metal, this tool is ideal for cutting a large lump of dough into smaller pieces. Alternatively, when cooking it's very useful for picking up small items (e.g. diced vegetables) from the work surface.
729K
Serrated knife
(Found inTexts)Unlike a classic knife, which is ground to produce a fine cutting edge to the blade, a serrated knife has teeth like a saw. This kind of knife doesn't need sharpening, and cuts certain foods, bread and cakes for instance, more easily than a normal knife.
729K