Recipes: 67 results
How to succeed in making sabayon (syllabub)
(Found inTexts)A sabayon is a delicious and delicate preparation based on egg yolks and sugar, with a liquid added (wine, alcohol, fruit juice, etc), which is then whipped in a bain-marie until it is both light and smooth. Usually sabayon is sweet (syllabub), but you can make it savoury, in which case there is...
924K 54 18 min. November 12th 2017
Lille style chicken
(Found inTextsStages)Chicken breasts and mushrooms, cooked separately, then mixed with a tasty cream sauce before serving. It's a dish with a "cuisiné" taste, but which unfortunately is becoming increasingly rare in restaurants.
351K3.8 50 min. May 10th 2023
Five hours poultry
(Found inTextsStages)Perhaps simplest recipe on this site, but what a result! The idea is to cook the bird, without fat, at low temperature, covered, and for a long time. In this way, the poultry cooks so as to be almost like a "confit": soft and very tasty. The effect is more spectacular with duck because it is a...
531K3.8 5 hours 12 min. January 27th 2012
How to keep meat tender after cooking
(Found inTextsStages)When you cook meat, the cooking heat causes the juices to run back inside, so the outside dries up somewhat. Here is a tip to avoid this.
114K4.3 5 min. February 21th 2011
Fruit salad
(Found inTexts)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...
377K4.1 1 hour 13 min. April 20th 2020
How to cook red meat properly
(Found inTextsStages)Cooking red meat well is not as simple as it might seem. Even if you start with high quality meat, with poor cooking it can become dry and tough. Here's a way that will guarantee you a perfect result.
463K2.7 1 hour 24 min. October 13th 2010
Roquefort sauce
(Found inTextsStages)This is an ideal sauce to make when you have been cooking meat, as it uses the juices left in the pan, but there's a tip for making it without meat juices.
197K4.9 22 min. December 19th 2010
Quick chicken curry
(Found inTexts)This curry is quick to make if you have left over cooked chicken, and is always delicious.
263K5 33 min. August 25th 2011
Escalope of veal in a cream sauce
(Found inTextsStages)Escalopes of veal, mushrooms and a cream sauce.
248K4.6 1 hour 3 min. May 10th 2023
Mussels marinière
(Found inTextsStages)This is the most classic way of preparing mussels, simple and delicious.
206K5 1 hour 4 min. September 4th 2011
Spaghetti with mussels and basil
(Found inTextsStages)Mussels and pasta cooked separately, then combined in a cream sauce made with the reduced mussel juices.
151K4.1 1 hour 40 min. September 14th 2011
Scallops with cabbage julienne
(Found inTexts)Pan-fried scallops in a sauce of their juices deglazed with a little Noilly Prat, served with a julienne of blanched cabbage in cream.
125K4.6 1 hour 21 min. December 31th 2013
Seven-hour lamb
(Found inTexts)Seven-hour lamb is a good old country recipe and very simple. There's really not much to do, just long, slow cooking and the result is always amazing: the lamb is so tender it can be cut with a fork.
222K3.9 7 hours 33 min. April 20th 2014
Pork chops in the oven
(Found inTexts)To cook a pork chop well, without it drying out, one of the best methods is to cook it in two stages: start by pan-frying, then finish in the oven. This recipe adds flavour with mustard and thyme, with the cooking juices deglazed and reduced before serving.
285K3.5 25 min. August 16th 2015
Tagliatelle with cockles
(Found inTextsStages)In this recipe, the cockles and pasta are prepared separately, then mixed with the sauce at the last minute. The cockles are first cooked quickly, then shelled carefully (I find it unpleasant to have to do this on the plate) and the cooking juices are used to prepare a cream sauce. The tagliatelle...
135K 14.7 2 hours 16 min. June 24th 2018
Veal Chop With Assortment of Vegetables
(Found inTextsStages)The veal chop in this recipe is cooked in two stages: flash fried first to brown it all over, then gently roasted in the oven. The chop is served with an assortment of vegetables, first lightly boiled, then reheated in the "jus" (cooking juices).
61K5 2 hours 27 min. November 18th 2015
How to remove fat from meat juices
(Found inTextsStages)After cooking meat, we are left with the delicious cooking juices, but these can often be rather fatty. Here is one simple and effective way to remove much of the fat.
129K3 3 hours 4 min. May 11th 2016
Pork chops with a duo of brassicas
(Found inTextsStages)In this recipe, the pork chops are pan-fried and served with a sauce of the reduced pan juices and white-wine, and two different brassicas: Brussels sprouts and romanesco.
49K4.3 46 min. November 20th 2016
Fish in white wine
(Found inTextsStages)This recipe for cooking fish in the oven is both simple and delicious. The fish is cooked with herbs and onions in white wine. It is served in a light sauce, made with the cooking juices and a little lemon juice.
114K4.3 56 min. December 14th 2016
Chicken with rice and leeks
(Found inTextsIngredients)For this "chicken with rice", the rice is cooked using the pilau method (started on the hob, finished in the oven), but with chicken cooking juices as the liquid to add plenty of delicious flavour. Pieces of cooked chicken are then added. This version also has chopped and lightly fried leeks.
45K4.1 56 min. January 29th 2017
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The secret of cooking until "done"
This is a real chef's skill: being able to look at a fish fillet cooking and say, "Stop – that's enough, it's cooked". I always admire this ability to see at a glance if something is done. It is what sets the professionals apart from us mere amateurs. And it's true that how fish is cooked is...16K4.4 November 26th 2012
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 26th 2022
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