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Candied grapefruit peel
Candied grapefruit peel
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Not really a dessert, more a kind of sweet. After soakiing, strips of grapefruit skin are cooked very slowly to conservethem in sugar. It's a real treat with coffee at the end of a meal.
354K 14 1 day 1 hour 21 min. December 20th 2018
European glass
European glass
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A little dessert that's rather long to make, but which will always impress your guests. Layered in a glass: a jellied red fruit coulis, a layer of pineapple charlotte cream, a layer of kiwi coulis, topped with a peeled clementine segment. It's "european" because it resembles the italian flag, and in...
221K5 2 hours 29 min. August 15th 2010
Natural leaven
Natural leaven
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Leaven is a natural raising agent, a fermented mixture of water, flour and the microscopic yeasts which are present in the air. It's a delicate living substance, sensitive to the external environment. The recipe is around 4000 years old and dates back to the Egypt of the Pharaohs, via a beautiful...
1.7M 304.0 7 days 15 min. April 3rd 2020
Surprise bread
Surprise bread
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This recipe is for a large surprise bread so you can make six layers (48 small sandwiches if you divide each layer in 8), with three different flavours: smoked salmon/lime, smoked ham/butter, mayonnaise/chicken.
686K 84.5 6 hours 24 min. December 27th 2020
Pitta bread
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.
511K 14.5 2 hours 55 min. February 21th 2011
Special small breads
Special small breads
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When you are have mastered the basic leavened bread, you certainly ought to try special breads: with nuts, cheese, seeds, etc... Here is a series of recipes, based on traditional leavened bread.
374K4 6 hours 26 min. October 13th 2010
African style chicken
African style chicken
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This is a sort of smoked chicken, cooked in a tomato-coconut sauce, and served with kidney beans and plain rice. It's quite a simple recipe, with ready-made ingredients, but which needs a long cooking time on low heat (one hour).
393K5 2 hours 4 min. February 21th 2011
Hot box cheese
Hot box cheese
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This recipe is a great classic from Franche-Comté (area of eastern France). A Mont-dor cheese (from this area) is oven cooked in its wooden box with a little dry white wine, and served melted over baked potatoes. It's a dish for a winter evening meal with friends, very easy to prepare, everything...
335K4.3 58 min. February 11th 2016
Cornmeal baps for Anne
Cornmeal baps for Anne
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These small round baps are made with a mix of wheat flour and fine cornmeal. The dominant corn gives a moist and very yellow crumb.
250K4.3 5 hours 53 min. October 24th 2017
Tomato omelette
Tomato omelette
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Tomato omelette is a great classic of Provençale cuisine. This is my personal version with mushrooms.
111K4.6 1 hour 1 min. May 10th 2023
Dauphinoise potatoes with Serano ham
Dauphinoise potatoes with Serano ham
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These tasty, bite-sized rosettes can be served as an aperitif snack or to accompany a meal.
97K4.6 40 min. January 23th 2013
Polenta
Polenta
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Polenta is made from maize meal and can be prepared in a number of ways. In this recipe, it is cooked in milk, then moulded and set before being fried.
194K5 1 hour 27 min. May 24th 2022
Spinach Croque-monsieur
Spinach Croque-monsieur
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A croque-monsieur is a French toasted sandwich. Here, the 2 slices of buttered bread are filled with bechamel sauce, hard-boiled eggs, blanched spinach and melted cheese. The assembled sandwich is popped in the oven to toast the bread and melt the cheese.
57K4.5 45 min. May 24th 2015
Potato Waffles with Smoked Salmon
Potato Waffles with Smoked Salmon
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For potato waffles, the flour in the mixture for the sweet version is replaced with instant dried potato. This is a way of making delicious savoury waffles. Adding ribbons of smoked salmon, like here, turns them into a proper meal, though they can be also be served as an accompaniment.
56K4.5 39 min. April 22th 2018
Oatmeal cake
Oatmeal cake
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This cake has the distinctive and delicious flavour of old-fashioned rolled oats, also known as oatmeal. In the basic cake recipe, part of the flour is replaced with oats, which have been toasted, then blended.
88K 24.2 1 hour 8 min. September 20th 2017
Fish "à la Bordelaise"
Fish "à la Bordelaise"
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Fish "à la Bordelaise" is a fillet topped with a crust of breadcrumbs, herbs and onions cooked in white wine, then oven-baked until golden brown. It is a classic frozen family meal that many French children have grown up with, but here is a home-made version that is far better.
75K4.4 1 hour 7 min. February 20th 2019
Tandoori-flavoured chicken with leeks
Tandoori-flavoured chicken with leeks
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Indian flavours pep up this recipe. The leeks are cooked then mixed with chunks of chicken (a good way to use leftovers from a previous meal) and simmered with tandoori spices.
35K 54 min. April 17th 2019
Enchiladas
Enchiladas
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Enchiladas are tortillas (cornmeal pancakes), filled with a pre-cooked filling, then topped with grated cheese and browned in the oven.
46K 1 hour 41 min. May 8th 2019
Mulled apple juice
Mulled apple juice
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This very simple recipe will give you a warming drink with an amazing flavour of apples and spices. Just the thing to serve to your guests as a "trou normand" (traditionally a small glass of calvados served between courses), or to round off a meal with the dessert.
28K 1 hour 18 min. February 16th 2020
Pumpkin and red-bean tortillas
Pumpkin and red-bean tortillas
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Here's a recipe for tortillas with a simple, pre-cooked vegetable filling, made from Japanese chestnut pumpkin (potimarron), onion and red kidney beans.
19K 56 min. April 4th 2021
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What is this site, and who am I?
What is this site, and who am I?
The important thing is the content of the site, the recipes and information you can find, but some of you want to know who is behind it all.
199K 44.2 August 29th 2023
Flours
Flours
At the most basic level, wheat grain is put through a mill, which produces a white-ish powder flour... Well, actually it's not quite that simple. First of all we need to distinguish between the different grains that can be made into flour: wheat of course, but also rye, barley, buckwheat, etc. So we...
719K 413.6 August 29th 2023
The recipes
The recipes
Hints for using the recipes: how to read and recreate them.
163K3.6 August 29th 2023
Some hints for a pizza-party
Some hints for a pizza-party
Some hints for a successful pizza party.
185K3.7 August 29th 2023
My best addresses...
My best addresses...
My good addresses, favourite suppliers, ingredients, products and equipment.
294K4.0 August 29th 2023
Blog articles: 11 results
Properly cooked! (the taste)
Properly cooked! (the taste)
Going out to a restaurant is getting harder at the moment. In France, at least, you have to try and find one that has agreed to pass on the new lower rate of VAT at anything other than a symbolic level, and there aren't many. And then, most importantly, you have to find a good one: one where you...
13K 14.6 February 6th 2011
The ideal restaurant
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. But now I have a son who's in the trade...
12K4.4 October 15th 2012
Foie gras service
Foie gras service
For the upcoming christmas meals you too may be sacrificing to the tradition of foie gras? If so, I suggest you take a look at everything that revolves around serving foie gras: how to serve it, and what to eat and drink with it.
10K4.9 December 23th 2017
The mock CAP baker's certificate exam
The mock CAP baker's certificate exam
The next instalment in my life as an apprentice baker at the French INBP professional school. I’m now halfway through training and it’s still as exciting as ever, and exhausting – but maybe I’m just getting old, or both… Anyway, a few days ago we had to go through the mock CAP exam. A sort...
16K4.4 May 1st 2018
Let's go easy on the salt
Let's go easy on the salt
In terms of cooking, I'm probably not teaching you much, salt is ubiquitous, we put it in almost all our dishes, in varying amounts depending on our taste, some like salty, others less, others still not. Its main role is the flavor, the taste, we say that it is a flavor enhancer, ie it reveals the...
4,3854.8 February 20th 2021
The infinite variety of salads
The infinite variety of salads
Making a salad for a meal, a few ingredients of your choice and a sauce to bind it all together is still one of the best ways to cook something really good quickly and simply. And since there is often a "fresh" aspect with the vegetables in the ingredients, not only does it taste good, but it's...
5,6654.6 March 13th 2021
The 3 secrets of successful mousses
The 3 secrets of successful mousses
When you make a traditional mousse, that is to say without using a siphon, whatever the recipe, it's always the same principle: on one side you have a dense mixture, very tasty, and on the other side egg whites beaten until stiff. All the difficulty of the success of a mousse, it will be to mix the...
5,4454.6 April 3rd 2021
Introduction to New Nordic Buffet Delicacies
Introduction to New Nordic Buffet Delicacies
Nordic delicacies reflect culinary proficiency from Nordic nations of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland. It features a range of simple and classic flavors and ingredients that produce satisfying meals when combined. As is the case in other regions, the flavors and ingredients often...
9,175 August 10th 2021 Sponsored article.
The return of the "Norman hole"
The return of the "Norman hole"
You maybe know the "trou normand", this old gastronomic custom typically French which consists in taking a (small) glass of calvados, generally between the last course and the dessert? It's something that seems a bit anachronistic nowadays, having a glass of an alcohol of more than 60° in the...
8,0084.8 December 18th 2021
The delicious complexity of Jura wines
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.
9,1144.9 May 14th 2022
When I was a kid, I didn't like...
When I was a kid, I didn't like...
Maybe you've already made this strange observation: when you were a kid, there were things you hated, but as an adult it's almost the opposite? For example, you used to hate spinach or chicory, but now you love it?
4,0795 November 5th 2023


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