Recipes: 87 results
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.
May 10th 2023355 K3.8 50 min.
Soufflée omelette with cheese
(Found inTextsStages)Halfway between an omelette and a soufflé, this quick recipe give a light and delicious result. The secret is mainly in the two cooking methods: frying pan, then oven.
June 22th 2013432 K4.7 55 min.
Almond dacquoise
(Found inTexts)A dacquoise is a sort of almond meringue that can be eaten like a biscuit or can be used as the base of more sophisticated desserts.
June 28th 2011199 K5 45 min.
Onion fondue
(Found inTextsStages)Onion fondue is a delicious classic of French cuisine: finely-sliced onions, cooked long and slow until they are melting and caramelized. This can be used in many other recipes.
March 25th 2020136 K 50 min.
Sliced veal with leeks and mushrooms
(Found inTextsStages)Small strips of veal sautéed with mushrooms and leeks in a creamy sauce.
May 10th 202318 K 2 hours 6 min.
Tomato sauce (with fresh tomatoes)
(Found inTexts)When we make a classic tomato sauce, we generally use tinned crushed tomatoes, and that's already very good. But it's possible to do much better, using fresh tomatoes (when in season, of course), which are gently preserved in the oven with thyme and garlic. See how in this recipe.
July 14th 20246,697 1 hour 35 min.
Galette Charentaise
(Found inStages)This is a traditional cake from France's Charente region. The recipe is straightforward and the cake is slightly dense in texture, but quite delicious.
August 26th 201848 K5 2 hours 45 min.
Ham "friand" pie
(Found inStages)A "friand" (the word means "fond"!) is a sort of French pasty. This pie-style version has two layers of puff pastry filled with a mixture of cheese, ham and bechamel sauce.
September 8th 201886 K4.2 1 hour 5 min.
Little apple turnovers with almonds and raisins
(Found inStages)These are small apple turnovers ("chaussons") of puff pastry, filled with a mixture of caramelised almonds, stewed apple and rum-soaked raisins. To be eaten just as they are...
September 11th 2018299 K3.8 1 hour 35 min.
Gratin du Nord
(Found inStages)This gratin combines the flavours that are so characteristic of France's northern region: endives (chicory), beer and Maroilles cheese.
January 21th 201874 K5 1 hour 35 min.
Seared tuna with lemon and lime
(Found inStages)This is a very simple way to prepare and cook tuna - a fish that tends to dry out very quickly if you are not careful about how you cook it. In this recipe the tuna medallions are marinated in a mixture of olive oil, lemon and lime, before being seared briefly on both sides. Serve with rice cooked...
July 23th 201751 K4.8 2 hours 20 min.
Red mullet fillets with a reduced white-wine sauce
(Found inStages)For this recipe, the red mullet fillets are fried in a large saucepan, then removed and kept hot. The "jus court" sauce is made by reducing dry white wine with spring onions in the pan used to cook the fish. The small quantity of sauce left (its French name literally means "short juice") is very...
June 25th 201744 K3.8 30 min.
Apple and almond gratin
(Found inStages)Imagine a gratin, but sweet, made with apples and toasted ground almonds. This delicious dessert combines apples and almonds with a vanilla custard-like mixture - simply yummy!
February 8th 201752 K4.6 1 hour 5 min.
Gâteau Nantais
(Found inStages)This traditional cake from the French city of Nantes is deliciously moist, flavoured with almonds, vanilla and rum. For the finishing touch, the top is covered with boozy white icing.
January 8th 201750 K3.9 1 hour 30 min.
Toffee apple upside-down cake
(Found inStages)With a flavour reminiscent of the French classic tart tatin, this cake is made with a ring of tart apples arranged on a layer of caramel, then covered with the batter. After baking, the cake is turned out while still hot so that the caramelized apples are on the top with the moist cake underneath.
December 4th 201649 K5 1 hour 50 min.
Pork chops with a duo of brassicas
(Found inStages)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.
November 20th 201652 K4.3 50 min.
Santiago Cake
(Found inStages)Santiago cake (or Torta de Santiago) has a lovely moist texture. It is made with almonds and lemon and contains no butter or flour. This Spanish speciality from Galicia is still often decorated with the cross of St James.
April 24th 201670 K5 55 min.
How to cook potato grenaille
(Found inStages)The French call very small potatoes "grenaille". This is a typical way of cooking them: the tiny potatoes are pan-fried in their skins and make an excellent accompanient for meat. Grenaille can be made with any kind of potato; it is a question of size, rather than variety, though I think that...
September 16th 2015450 K4.5 45 min.
Spring veal sauté
(Found inStages)This sauté combines small chunks of veal with spring onions in a white-wine sauce with just a dash of cream.
May 18th 201481 K4.5 60 min.
Blog articles: 3 results
Maillard reactions
This subject cropped up recently in a discussion with my three charming nieces; do you know what Maillard reactions are? With a name like that, they could well be some principle in mechanics, but in fact the term applies to something much closer to all of us: it's what gives food more flavour...January 28th 201533 K4
The art of the charlotte
In cooking, a charlotte is a delicious moulded dessert, with biscuits around the outside that have been soaked in a flavoured syrup, filled with a light cream or mousse. The charlotte is left to set in the fridge before being turned out and served in slices. It is very light and a lovely sweet...February 27th 201340 K4.3
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.February 26th 20227,9754.7
Utensil: 4 results
Tart rings, moulds or tins
(Found inTexts)For cooking tarts and tartlets, you can use classic moulds or tins (left photo), or rings (right photo) which are moulds with no base that are placed on a non-stick baking sheet for cooking. This is what pastry chefs use, because with no base, tart cook faster and more evenly, and it's easier to...
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Baking sheet
(Found inTexts)This is a metal sheet or tray, covered with a non-stick coating, similar to the lining of an oven. It can be used for cooking a wide range of things, but mainly small items to be cooked together such as rock cakes or profiteroles. .
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Silcon baking mat
(Found inTexts)Sometimes using a nonstick baking sheet is not enough when cooking items that stick well, such as macarons or coconut tuiles for example. In this case it's possible to line the sheet with cooking parchment,but one can also use a silicone baking mat which is a flexible sheet with a silicone coating,...
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