Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)

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Sweetcrust pastry is one of the basic pastry of French patisserie, used in many tart and cakes recipes, but it can also be rolled out and cut into biscuits, delicious with tea or coffee. This recipe is given for those who have a mixer (Kenwood, KitchenAid or other), but it can also be done with your...
467K 24.4 33 min. July 1^st 2019

How to prepare corn salad

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Corn salad (or lamb's lettuce) is a green salad plant. It can be used like lettuce, but requires careful preparation as it is often grown in sand. Here is how to prepare corn salad from the freshly picked plant to the leaves ready to use.
134K4.1 20 min. April 10^th 2013

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

Potimarron braised in meat jus

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This is a very quick and simple recipe which makes an excellent accompaniment for roast meat, for example. It is also a good Sunday night dish.
55K 1 hour 5 min. February 25^th 2018

Chocolate Truffles

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Chocolate truffles: those dreamy, creamy chocolatey treats, rolled in cocoa powder or a mix of chopped dry-roasted pistachios and almonds.
47K5 2 hours 54 min. January 6^th 2016

Chocolate and matcha tea biscuits

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Little spiral biscuits flavoured with chocolate and matcha green tea.
100K4 3 hours February 19^th 2012

Kouign-amann

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Kouign-amann is a traditional cake from Brittany. the name means butter cake in Breton (Kouign = cake, amann = butter). It is a sort of caramelized millefeuille, crunchy on the outside and melting in the middle.
131K4.3 6 hours 38 min. May 24^th 2018

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.
175K4 3 hours 42 min. September 25^th 2011

How to prepare a lettuce

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It is much more economical to buy a whole lettuce than separate leaves in a plastic packet. And it's so simple to prepare - you can see how here.
389K4.8 28 min. April 17^th 2011

Sushi

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Sushi is probably the best known element of Japanese cooking outside Japan. For the Japanese it's a culinary art learned over time from masters, but we can make simplified and easier sushi which are still pretty and delicious. The most common types of sushi are nigiri: a little oval-shaped mouthfuls...
323K4.5 1 hour 38 min. October 13^th 2010

Tart Tatin

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Tart tatin is one of the great classic desserts of French cooking. It's an apple tart cooked upside down. Apples are cooked in sugar until they caramelise. Then a circle of puff pastry is put on top, and the whole tart is baked at 356°F (180°C) for 20 minutes. To serve, the tart is turned over so...
393K 13.8 1 hour 17 min. October 30^th 2015

Moist cereal bars

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Whether bars or rounds, this recipe produces delicous small cereal cakes.
287K4.9 1 hour 5 min. February 21^th 2011

Mixed seed grissini

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Little crusty bread sticks of Italian origin, these are delicious for aperitifs, plain or with dips like tuna rillettes, guacamole or houmous.
257K4.2 2 hours 30 min. February 21^th 2011

How to peel a pineapple

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For most recipes it is necessary to completely peel the pineapple, and to keep only the flesh which is then often cut into small pieces. Here is a method.
196K3.7 20 min. February 21^th 2011

Diamond biscuits

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These round biscuits no doubt get their name from the coating of sparkling sugar crystals around the edge.
46K 1 hour 47 min. December 30^th 2019

Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies

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A traditional American recipe for homely biscuits, which can be made in different flavours or with additions (seeds, dried fruit, nuts, chocolate, etc.).
361K4 1 hour 49 min. January 5^th 2020

Autumn apple and plum crumble pie

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This crumble with a difference captures real autumn flavours: apples, plums and hazelnuts. For a change, the crumble topping is pressed into a thin crust, more like a pie.
36K 1 hour 37 min. October 27^th 2019

Fruit salad

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To make a good fruit salad, there are three important points: Choose fruits that go well together (avoid putting soft pears with crunchy apples for example).Remove absolutely all skins and seeds.Bring it all together with a good home made sugar syrup added to the fruit juices.Here is a recipe which...
374K4.1 1 hour 13 min. April 20^th 2020

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

How to use a forcing bag (piping or icing bag)

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The forcing bag is the tool needed whenever you need to deposit a blob of something precisely in a particular place (in a mould, a glass, on a plate, etc). Here is how you do it.
291K 15 22 min. January 14^th 2011

Making your own bread

In praise of home-made bread, so much better.
563K 63.9 August 29^th 2023

Make your own hot-wire or styrofoam cutter

Cut polystyrene and foams easily with your own hot-wire cutter.
502K 433.5 February 20^th 2024

The name of the elements

Where the names of the elements that make up matter come from.
72K3.6 August 29^th 2023

Solar lighting

Fit a small solar panel at home.
231K4.0 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.
303K 13.6 August 29^th 2023

The peak of the apple season

As I write these lines, we are in the middle of the apple season, and it's an apple year, as you may have noticed if you have apple trees around you, they are bursting with fruit! Excellent news for the people in the west of France in particular, but let's have a little thought for those in the...
4,8925 October 23^th 2021

Divide and weigh dough into regular pieces

When you prepare dough for cupcakes in a pastry shop or bakery, at some point you're going to have to divide it, i.e. cut it into small pieces, which should all have the same weight. Sounds simple enough, but is it really that simple?
5,2385 May 30^th 2023

Toss the salad

When you've finished preparing a salad, green or otherwise, it's usually time to add the dressing and toss. It's often said to "toss the salad", which means to season and mix. Is it easy? Not so easy...
2,8235 March 8^th 2024

The window-pane test in bread-making

The home bread-makers often ask themselves “Have I kneaded my dough long enough?” . A good question, as dough that is insufficiently kneaded will not rise properly or will fall flat when the top is slashed, which is very frustrating. To know when the dough is ready, one can rely on the length...
86K 23.9 June 16^th 2021