Marzipan (almond paste)

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Very easy to do if you have a food processor which can slice or grate a lot of things.
620K 34.5 11 min. December 19^th 2021

Foie gras fingers

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An elegant canapé which consists of a crisp layer of shortcrust pastry topped with a layer of foie gras.
127K4.6 2 hours 50 min. December 21^th 2011

Meatballs

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Used in several recipes like couscous, meatballs can also be a dish on thier own. The secret of this recipe is in the mix of two different kinds of meat with a little Parmesan. Note that it's a dish children always love.
280K 24.7 43 min. February 21^th 2011

Pistachio powder or paste

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Pistachio paste has a similar texture to almond paste, but the similarity ends there, as its flavour and colour are quite characteristic.
358K 154 48 min. October 13^th 2010

Fresh pasta dough

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You can use this dough to make lasagne, ravioli, spaghetti, etc. - in fact, any fresh pasta you wish.
173K3.8 1 hour 13 min. December 6^th 2012

Spinach and Comté Loaf

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For this savoury cake-style loaf, we use a plain basic mixture and add wilted spinach wth shallots and diced Comté cheese.
96K4.3 1 hour 13 min. April 17^th 2016

Special Cheese and Walnut Sticks

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These crusty mini-baguetttes are generously dotted with diced Comté cheese, toasted walnuts and fried bacon bits. They are ideal for slicing and serving as an aperitif snack.
67K5 3 hours 51 min. October 24^th 2017

Jura bread

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This speciality bread is full of all the character of the Jura: dry white wine (made with Savagnin grapes, of course), diced Comté cheese and toasted walnuts. "Jurassic bread" was is first name... The loaves can be made long, as shown here, or as small rolls. This is ideal as an aperitif snack,...
54K4.4 6 hours 9 min. October 24^th 2017

Seeded loaf

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This seeded bread is based on a French baguette dough, with a mix of dry-roasted seeds added (poppy, millet, linseed, sesame...). Delicious on its own, this bread makes excellent toast to go with foie gras, adding an amazing complementary crunch.
143K3.8 4 hours 27 min. October 24^th 2017

Red cabbage salad with chives

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This simple winter salad recipe combines red cabbage with spring onions (or chives) in a good vinaigrette.
61K5 20 min. February 18^th 2015

Creamy Winter Vegetable Soup

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This is a very simple recipe: lots of winter vegetables cooked in chicken stock, then blended. The soup's special finishing touch comes from cream and a spoonful of mustard.
73K5 1 hour 23 min. January 14^th 2015

French Family Cake

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The idea of a "family" cake can mean so many different things, depending on where your family came from. This French version consists of a layer of pears in liquid caramel, topped with a basic cake mixture, similar to the four quarters recipe.
65K4 1 hour 12 min. October 12^th 2014

Little lemon biscuits

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These small, lemon-flavoured biscuits are very easy to make and are inspired by the Italian "biscotti al limone".
70K5 1 hour 42 min. September 14^th 2014

Arlesian Biscuits

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These small almond and lemon-flavoured biscuits have a short, melt-in-the-mouth texture. They are known as "sablés arlésiens" in French.
65K5 1 hour 33 min. July 30^th 2014

Saucipain

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Saucipain (or sausage bread) is a kind of savoury baguette. The dough contains small dice of dry-cured sausage or salami and is mixed with red wine instead of water. Served sliced in rounds, it makes a typically French aperitif snack.
59K3.8 4 hours 26 min. October 24^th 2017

Papadums

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Papadums (pronounced "poppadoms") or papad are very thin, crisp Indian crackers. They are often served as an aperitif snack in Indian restaurants. The tricky part of making them at home is rolling them out thinly enough.
91K4.5 22 min. June 26^th 2014

Peanut rolls

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Combining soft and crunchy textures, these flavour-packed peanut rolls are delicious just as they are, but they are also ideal for burgers.
73K4.6 4 hours October 24^th 2017

Salt cod brandade

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"Brandade de morue" is a classic of French bistro cuisine, especially in the south. It is a puréed mixture of salt cod and olive oil with (or sometimes without) potatoes. Here is a simplified version.
83K4 1 hour 32 min. March 2^nd 2014

Pretzels

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Pretzels are bread sticks looped into a knot, probably with origins in southern Germany. The tops are sprinkled with poppy seeds or grains of coarse salt. Here is a fairly straightforward recipe that is simple to prepare.
126K4.9 5 hours 21 min. October 24^th 2017

Nougat

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Nougat is a sweet made with honey and almonds that has changed very little since ancient times. The nougat we know today is the Montelimar variety, in which egg whites are added to the basic recipe for a lighter texture. Here is a simplified version.
113K 15 1 hour 41 min. June 19^th 2013

My best addresses...

My good addresses, favourite suppliers, ingredients, products and equipment.
295K4.0 August 29^th 2023

The march forward

When professionals get to work in their kitchen, lab or bakery, they are (if they are conscientious) very sensitive to hygiene and cleanliness. It is impossible for a good baker for example to do a day's work without regularly cleaning the table where he or she works, and it is even more...
13K5 June 30^th 2021

The return of the vegetable grater

If you are of a certain age (say +50) you may have known, when you were a kid, something that your grandmother had in her kitchen set, the vegetable grater. A kind of mill, to be turned by hand, and which with cutting discs of different sizes, allowed to grate a lot of vegetables, carrots first...
11K4.6 March 20^th 2021

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,...
5,3235 November 12^th 2023