Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)

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Puff pastry is an incredible assembly of thin layers of butter enclosed in thin layers of dough. After cooking this give a succession of thin crisp pastry leaves that produce exceptional desserts or pies. It's a jewel of French patisserie. Making your own puff pastry is not very difficult, it's just...
436K 63.3 2 hours 45 min. January 19^th 2011

Don't throw apricot stones away

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You might not think so to look at them, but apricot stones contain an edible kernel which you can use in your recipes. Here is how to extract them.
190K3.5 18 min. August 13^th 2014

How to prepare purple artichokes

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The small purple artichokes, which are more tender than the larger green ones, are almost entirely edible. But they need to be prepared in a particular way. Here is how to do this fairly easily.
649K 44 19 min. February 26^th 2016

Turnip top soup

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It may no longer be widely known these days, but the leafy tops of certain root vegetables are edible, so it's a shame to waste them. Better still, the leaves can be made into interesting accompaniments for their root vegetable, or soups with amazing flavours. In this recipe, I will show you how to...
48K 42 min. April 10^th 2019

Creamy artichokes

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This hearty vegetable recipe uses the whole globe artichoke (heart and leaves), combining the creamy artichoke texture with the crunch of sautéed potatoes.
23K 1 hour 18 min. August 6^th 2020

Stewed apricots

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Here is how to make delicious stewed apricots, both an easy and a more sophisticated way.
755K 143.6 1 hour 17 min. July 12^th 2023

How to cook Morteau sausage well

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This is, in my opinion, the best smoked sausage. You can cook it in a number of ways, here are three of the best known.
2.7M 23.4 40 min. November 15^th 2018

The recipes

Hints for using the recipes: how to read and recreate them.
164K3.6 August 29^th 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 29^th 2023

Maillard reactions

This subject cropped up recently in a discussion with my three charming nieces; do you know what Maillard reactions are? With a name like that, they could well be some principle in mechanics, but in fact the term applies to something much closer to all of us: it's what gives food more flavour...
32K4 January 28^th 2015

Foie gras without force-feeding: it can be done

I adore foie gras... I willingly admit it, I adore foie gras: the texture, the taste, the festive aspect – I enjoy all of it. I really love eating it, preparing it and, most of all, sharing what I have made with my family over Christmas and New Year. ...but then I begin to have doubts Of...
44K4.4 December 15^th 2014

Cooking time for pasta

What is as good and simple as pasta? Not much, I think, and it's so easy to prepare: boiling water, salted (or not, depending on your taste), a few minutes of boiling and it's ready. The only "difficulty", so to speak, is the respect of the cooking time and the risk of, unfortunately, overcooking...
18K4.6 July 18^th 2019

What happens to the bread when you make it?

This bread that we eat every day, and that our baker makes for us, what happens during its manufacture so that it becomes bread? I will try to answer this question, and to summarize the complex alchemy that takes place.
8,6204.9 May 28^th 2021

The delicious complexity of Jura wines

Do you know the wines of the Jura? Maybe not, it's a small appellation, 2000 hectares, with a production of wines that are both very atypical and very typical, even unique for some of them. Let me tell you a few words about it.
9,1814.9 May 14^th 2022

The softness of sandwich bread

You're probably familiar with what's known in France as "pain de mie", a very white, molded and rather soft bread, widely used in cooking, particularly for croque-monsieur. Let's find out what it's all about.
7,045 September 5^th 2023