Montbenoit's canapés

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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.
269K4.6 1 hour 45 min. October 13^th 2010

Leavened bread

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It might be harder to achieve good results than with traditional yeast bread, but what a flavour! It also keeps better. This recipe is designed for baking bread in a wood-fired oven but, of course, you can use the conventional oven in your kitchen.
1.2M 23.8 6 hours 26 min. May 23^th 2017

X-Files cookies

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These cookies made with lime and almonds are a sure-fire hit with children. They enjoy the amusing shape, of course, but also the delicious flavour.
103K4.1 3 hours 35 min. May 27^th 2012

How to peel tomatoes using a flame

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The classic and most usual way to peel tomatoes is by plunging them first into boiling water, then into cold. But there is another method, "flame peeling", which is quicker than boiling water as it bursts the tomato skins open very rapidly. Here is how to do it.
65K 11 min. July 17^th 2019

Classic French white bread

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This is the recipe for classic, everyday French bread raised with yeast. French bakers call this "pain courant". It is quicker and easier to make than leavened bread or new leavened bread, so ideal for a beginner.
289K4.1 3 hours 50 min. June 6^th 2017

Naan

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Naan is a type of Asian bread made from wheat flour. This kind comes from the Punjab region of India.
179K4 3 hours 42 min. September 25^th 2011

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant

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Pears cooked until soft in a red wine and blackcurrant syrup, served with the reduced syrup and custard sauce (crème anglaise).
236K4.1 2 hours 35 min. February 21^th 2011

Beans with tomatoes

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Fresh white haricot beans and leftover chicken cooked with stewed tomatoes, a sprig of parsley and it's ready.
195K4.1 1 hour 55 min. February 21^th 2011

Smooth mixed vegetable soup

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Any vegetables you have, cut into small pieces, mixed with a shallot cooked in butter, cooked together then blended. Even better when it's cold outside.
337K4.4 2 hours 3 min. January 3^rd 2014

Express sauerkraut

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Sauerkraut (choucroute in French) is a traditional Alsatian recipe. It consists of fermented cabbage slowly cooked with white wine, potatoes and a variety of salted pork meats. This is a simplified and fairly quick version.
353K 13.9 2 hours 24 min. February 21^th 2011

Pears and caramelised walnut samosas

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Samosas are small parcels of filling wrapped in brik (or filo) sheets and either shallow or deep fried. Here is a sweet version, with pears and caramelised walnuts.
322K4 1 hour 21 min. October 13^th 2010

Pitta bread

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This Lebanese speciality is made as a flat round pocket, which can be filled with all manner of things.
515K 14.5 2 hours 55 min. February 21^th 2011

Couscous

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In couscous, the meat and vegetable mixture is rather long to cook, but not difficult. And the couscous itself (a kind of coarse semolina) is simple and quick to prepare.
506K4.3 2 hours 36 min. November 16^th 2017

Clarified butter

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This is a way of melting butter to eliminate all the impurities. The clarified butter can then be heated without spoiling, and is more digestible. It is ideal for cooking at high temperatures where small black specks would spoil the appearance, or for emulsified sauces like béarnaise or mousseline.
451K4.2 2 hours 14 min. June 21^th 2017

Eggs meurette

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Eggs meurette or "œufs à la bourguignonne" is a great classic of French cooking, and of Burgundy in particular. It consists of poached eggs on a bed of fondue onions and bacon, served on a slice of fried bread. This is topped with a tasty reduced red wine sauce.
193K 14.1 1 hour 11 min. March 29^th 2020

Marinated tuna with herbs

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Here is a very simple recipe, preferably for a barbecue or plancha, but could be made in the kitchen. As for any summer-barbecue-backyard recipe, all proportons can be varied according to taste.
261K4.3 1 hour 22 min. February 21^th 2011

Meringues

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A very simple recipe but which always impresses.
385K4.5 4 hours 17 min. June 10^th 2019

Boeuf (beef) bourguignon

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Bœuf bourguignon is a traditional recipe of French cuisine (bourguignon means from Burgundy). It's chunks of meat cooked slowly with bacon, onions, carrots and mushrooms in red wine.
464K 32.5 4 hours 20 min. February 21^th 2011

Eggs "en cocotte" with spinach

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A buttered ramekin, a layer of mushroom duxelles, a layer of spinach, a bit of cream, and an egg, in two layers, on top.
132K5 1 hour 14 min. May 10^th 2023

Home-made terrine of foie gras

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Preparing your own home-made foie gras from raw is immensively satisfying: good quality liver and a simply amazing flavour – much better than anything you can buy. This recipe is a bit tricky, but quite within everyone's grasp, as long as you follow the 3 most delicate stages carefully. These are,...
5.2M 64.2 4 days 15 hours 50 min. December 17^th 2023

Open fire cooking

Construction of a Fayol bread oven: open fire cooking, with the embers inside.
89K3.9 August 29^th 2023

Closed fire cooking

Construction of a Fayol bread oven: closed fire cooking, with the embers removed .
51K4.4 August 29^th 2023

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...
1.2M3.6 June 3^rd 2024

Making your own bread

In praise of home-made bread, so much better.
564K 63.9 August 29^th 2023

Oven housing

Construction of a Fayol bread oven: oven housing.
114K3.9 August 29^th 2023

Finishing touches

Construction of a Fayol bread oven: finishing touches and accessories.
71K4.4 August 29^th 2023

Advice on heating oven

Construction of a Fayol bread oven: advice on heating and preparing for baking bread.
176K4.0 August 29^th 2023

Elements in the table

All elements of the Periodic Table in practice.
35K3.9 August 29^th 2023

Small history of elements classification

History of the classification of the elements down the centuries.
40K3.9 August 29^th 2023

A mist free mirror

Shave or put on make up with a clear mirror, even in a steamy bathroom: the anti-mist mirror.
216K 13.6 August 29^th 2023

Make your own hot-wire or styrofoam cutter

Cut polystyrene and foams easily with your own hot-wire cutter.
504K 433.5 February 20^th 2024

Homemade plancha

Make you own plancha and cook the Spanish way on this scorching hot metal plate.
255K 43.7 June 3^rd 2024

Thermal inertia or "out of the fire"

When you're cooking, you need a lot of heat to cook, and most of the time it's on the fire, literally if you're on gas, more indirectly if you're not. An expression that comes up quite often is "Off the heat", but what does it really mean?
5,9284.6 December 12^th 2020

The ideal restaurant

Like all passionate cooks (I suppose), from time to time I dream of opening my own restaurant. I imagine loads of things: it will be like this or like that, we'll do this, I'll cook that, the room will have this or that – in short, I dream.
12K4.4 October 15^th 2012

20 measures to protect your privacy

As we use more and more new technology, we leave ourselves increasingly vulnerable to companies who make money out of collecting our personal data. For instance, when we use the internet, we need to be wary of what is collected about what we do, our habits, etc. Here is a list of simple...
17K3.9 April 16^th 2013

Perpetual stock

It's something you have probably have done yourself: cooked or pre-cooked vegetables before adding them to a recipe. This is almost always done the same way: peel the chosen vegetables (carrots, for example), cut them up, boil them in salted water (using a tablespoon or so of coarse salt per litre),...
23K5 November 22^th 2016

Vegetable soups

As I write this post, we are slowly slipping into winter, and this late autumn is the perfect time for soups, especially vegetable ones. Soups, that somewhat "soft" dish, often associated with our childhood, infallible remedy against a cold evening or an ugly weather, or both.
7,6435 December 5^th 2017

The first breads of humanity?

I have already told you in a previous article the beautiful story of the croissants, but do you know what it is about the bread, who "invented" it, where and when? Well, you can imagine that recent discoveries, in 2018, have profoundly changed the history of bread.
9,3235 February 16^th 2019

The dissociation of a preparation

It may have already happened to you: You prepare a sauce, a cream, a ganache etc. and then suddenly or almost, the whole thing dissociates, and from a smooth mixture that you were preparing with love, you end up with a horrible thing with a more or less solid part and another liquid part. It's...
7,8184.9 January 22^th 2022

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.
7,4104.7 February 26^th 2022

Brussels sprouts are very good

We are, as I write this, in the season of Brussels sprouts, a delicious vegetable that often suffers from a bad reputation, let's try to fix that.
6,4874.7 March 5^th 2022

Tranché, dissociated, failed, in short... missed!

When preparing a sauce or a cream, there's always a (small) risk that the creamy preparation you're working on will suddenly separate into two parts of different textures: a liquid part, for example, and a more or less solid part, or even become lumpy. It's terribly frustrating, but we'll see...
6,1065 June 19^th 2023