Recipes: 884 results
Epiphany galette
(Found inTexts)Here is the recipe for the very classic but delicious "galette des rois" (Epiphany galette) in puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) with almond cream or frangipane . You will also see some professional tips to easily handle the dough, and obtain a nice and regular galette.
278K 24.5 3 hours 8 min. January 6th 2021
Caramelised apple pie
(Found inTextsStages)Apple pie made with caramelised apples.
250K4.3 1 hour 55 min. September 11th 2018
Exotic fruit tart
(Found inTexts)An exotic fruit tart (bananas, kiwi and pineapple), with crisp pastry and almond cream which are cooked beforehand. It's a rather simple recipe, but the final result will impress your guests.
310K5 2 hours 23 min. May 27th 2020
Pear tart with almond cream
(Found inTexts)This is a very quick and easy tart to make, as everything (or almost) can be done in advance. A piece of sweetcrust pastry, some almond cream and pears? You have "everything you need".
356K4.3 1 hour 14 min. March 17th 2011
Crème brulée
(Found inTextsStagesComments)Crème brûlée (burned cream) is quite easy to prepare: it's a simple egg-cream dessert. The only difficulty is in making the delicious crunchy caramel layer on top. The perfect crème brulée (for me) is a cold and soft cream, with on top a nice hot caramel crust. This is a completely new version...
1.6M 74.3 4 hours 38 min. December 31th 2011
Sweet pancake rolls from Brittany
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)Stewed apples, raisins soaked in whisky, toasted almonds, rolled in a lightly caramelized pancake.
240K4.3 2 hours 16 min. March 10th 2015
Herb olive oil
(Found inTexts)This flavoured olive oil, easy to prepare, goes very well with Mediterranean cuisine: pizzas, pastas, pan bagnat, etc...
300K3.8 21 min. February 21th 2011
Almond cream or frangipane
(Found inTextsStagesComments)Light and delicious, it is used in a lot of desserts like tarts, cakes and pies (epiphany galette).
444K 25 44 min. January 23th 2022
Real custard sauce (crème anglaise)
(Found inTextsStages)Real custard or vanilla sauce consists of egg yolks beaten with sugar and cooked slowly in vanilla milk. It is the base or the accompaniment for many desserts.
406K 24.3 44 min. January 17th 2018
Chocolate mousse
(Found inTextsStages)Here is a simple quick recipe for chocolate mousse. It is just necessary to be careful at the final stage, when mixing the melted chocolate and the beaten egg-whites.
468K3.7 40 min. February 21th 2011
Marzipan (almond paste)
(Found inTextsStagesComments)Very easy to do if you have a food processor which can slice or grate a lot of things.
623K 34.5 11 min. December 19th 2021
Breton galettes (pancakes)
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)Of uniquely Breton origin, this is a buckwheat pancake on which you cook an egg with ham and cheese before folding it over. Easy and quick to make, it's an ideal answer to the question "what are we going to eat this evening?".
213K 23.9 16 min. February 21th 2011
Tartiflette
(Found inTextsStages)A personal version of a classic recipe from Savoy.
590K 14.6 1 hour 27 min. September 16th 2019
Coconut paste
(Found inTextsStages)Similar to marzipan or walnut paste, coconut paste can be used in a variety of cake or sweet recipes, but you can enjoy munching it just as it is.
282K 14 15 min. October 13th 2010
Guacamole
(Found inTexts)For this typically Mexican recipe there are two main methods: smooth mashed avocado (made with a blender), or simple mashed avocado (made with a fork) with small pieces. And you can add, or not, finely diced tomato. You will find the first version (smooth) below.
289K4.1 1 hour 21 min. November 26th 2011
Pumpkin (or potimarron) soup
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)A smooth and fragrant soup, it's much better with potimarron (Japanese chestnut pumpkin) than ordinary pumpkin.
331K4.1 1 hour 10 min. October 13th 2010
Leavened bread
(Found inTexts)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 23th 2017
Preserved tomatoes
(Found inTexts)Softer than dried tomatoes, they can be used as a kind of chutney in pasta dishes for instance, or simply served to accompany an aperitif.
334K4.8 5 hours 6 min. February 21th 2011
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Bread oven
Building a bread oven was until a few years ago a job for the professionals. But now you can buy a kind of kit which allows you to build your own bred oven without professional masonry know-how. You should know that the kits only provide the main part of oven, the hearth, where you light the fire...1.2M3.6 June 3rd 2024
Homemade plancha
Make you own plancha and cook the Spanish way on this scorching hot metal plate.255K 43.7 June 3rd 2024
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.204K 44.2 August 29th 2023
A little molecular gastronomy
A little molecular gastronomy ot understand how slow cooking makes meat tender.38K4.4 August 29th 2023
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...723K 413.6 June 3rd 2024
Information on weights and measures in the kitchen
Weights, measures and volumes in a recipe.820K3.7 December 10th 2023
My best addresses...
My good addresses, favourite suppliers, ingredients, products and equipment.297K4.0 August 29th 2023
Cooking with herbs
Herbs: there's nothing else so small that can add so much to a recipe. They are not only for garnishing, but are a true part of the dish, sometimes one of the main ingredients. A small example of the "power" of herbs: you make a chopped carrot salad, which is very good with a vinaigrette, but if you...185K 13.9 June 3rd 2024
Finishing touches
Construction of a Fayol bread oven: finishing touches and accessories.71K4.4 August 29th 2023
Small history of elements classification
History of the classification of the elements down the centuries.40K3.9 August 29th 2023
A mist free mirror
Shave or put on make up with a clear mirror, even in a steamy bathroom: the anti-mist mirror.216K 13.6 August 29th 2023
chives
Chives grow in clumps, and the leaves used as a herb have an extraodinary taste. It's an essential for adding to salads, and everything else that can be eaten cold, because it doesn't like long cooking during which it loses most of its flavour.76K3.8 August 29th 2023
Submitting a comment or image
Submitting comments or questions: some advice, norms, and rules .78K 23.9 August 29th 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.305K 13.6 August 29th 2023
Webmaster tools
Page for webmasters and bloggers who wish to add tools or widgets (links, feeds, images...) to their own sites.230K3.5 August 29th 2023
Blog articles: 67 results
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...87K 23.9 June 16th 2021
One should cover a pan while heating?
You've probably heard it before: "Cover your pan, it'll boil faster", but is it true? Let's find out.26K 13.4 February 27th 2015
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
The power of sayings and beliefs in the kitchen
One day, in the comments on the recipe for beaten egg whites, a young woman asked if you could beat egg whites stiff while having a period, as a friend had told her it wasn't possible. Sometime later another person commented that for mayonnaise it had been (get this!) scientifically proven that a...47K4.4 February 6th 2011
Fried potatoes or fried mash?
In cooking there are a lot of dishes that appear to be extremely simple but which can actually prove to be very tricky. Amongst those that I'm aware of having this reputation are omelette and fried potatoes.21K4.5 February 6th 2011
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...32K4 January 28th 2015
Cream and sauces
Have you ever wondered why making beautiful tasty sauces is so easy when you use cream? .17K4.4 October 15th 2012
A memo of utensil weights
You will no doubt have come across this problem while cooking: after starting a recipe, when you already have some ingredients in a pan and have maybe cooked them, you need to know the weight of the pan's contents so that you can take half out, or add the same weight of sugar, for example.24K4.6 May 9th 2011
Preservative oil, an asset for taste
When you prepare a dish using an ingredient that has been preserved in fat, for example a springtime mixed salad with tuna in oil or sun-dried tomatoes, you're probably going to make a french dressing (vinaigrette) next. In that case, why not use the preserved oil from the tuna or tomatoes?2,1825 June 5th 2024
Too much sweet and savoury
There is a food trend which is creeping in everywhere in France right now: mixing sweet with savoury. In some restaurants, it is becoming difficult to order a classic dish, like “roast veal” for instance, without being served fruits in the garnish or honey/conserves/syrup in the sauce or cooked...23K4.5 November 3rd 2011
Different kinds of pastry and dough
When cooking in general, and particularly in baking, we can make and use many different kinds of pastry and dough. All built on the same "base": flour - a powder to which we add fat, liquid or both to produce the dough which is then cooked. .105K 14.0 November 6th 2012
20 measures to protect your privacy
As we use more and more new technology, we leave ourselves increasingly vulnerable to companies who make money out of collecting our personal data. For instance, when we use the internet, we need to be wary of what is collected about what we do, our habits, etc. Here is a list of simple...17K3.9 April 16th 2013
Raising (or leavening) agents
When we want to make a dough or batter rise when baking, either in patisserie or bread-making, we need to use a raising agent or leavening agent, one of which is called leaven. In the context of baking, a raising agent is simply what "makes something rise". It is a substance which, when added to...51K4.8 June 16th 2021
Foie gras without force-feeding: it can be done
I adore foie gras... I willingly admit it, I adore foie gras: the texture, the taste, the festive aspect – I enjoy all of it. I really love eating it, preparing it and, most of all, sharing what I have made with my family over Christmas and New Year. ...but then I begin to have doubts Of...44K4.4 December 15th 2014
5 really useful cooking tips
Cooking is about recipes, of course, but it is also an impressive collection of small gestures, ways of doing things, knowing what to do and what not to do. All these little tips and tricks can be very important: they can affect the way a recipe turns out, simply because you did just the right...19K4.9 March 29th 2016
Perpetual stock
It's something you have probably have done yourself: cooked or pre-cooked vegetables before adding them to a recipe. This is almost always done the same way: peel the chosen vegetables (carrots, for example), cut them up, boil them in salted water (using a tablespoon or so of coarse salt per litre),...23K5 November 22th 2016
Children and vegetables
This is an attempt to address the question that all parents and grandparents, maybe you included, face so often: how can we get children to like vegetables? And at the same time, we might get away from the familiar, day-in, day-out round of pasta, chips, toast.. Well, I can hear you say, it's...12K5 March 9th 2017
The right way to use a blender
You may well have a blender in your own kitchen. You know, that useful gadget that allows you to liquidize stuff at high speed into a smooth liquid. Of course, the most obvious use that comes to mind is for soups: if you have boiled some vegetables in water, with just a quick blast of the blender,...19K5 May 31th 2017
Lemon in recipes
Let's take a look at the lemon, yellow or green, which is used in a whole host of recipes, both sweet and savoury. It brings both its taste, and the small acidity that makes its charm. Mind you, I'm not talking about lemon used as an anti-oxidant that prevents it from turning black, or to just spice...12K5 October 23th 2017
Vegetable soups
As I write this post, we are slowly slipping into winter, and this late autumn is the perfect time for soups, especially vegetable ones. Soups, that somewhat "soft" dish, often associated with our childhood, infallible remedy against a cold evening or an ugly weather, or both.7,6435 December 5th 2017
Lexicon: 12 results
Add liquid to cover
(Found inTexts)Filling a receptacle with liquid, until the contents are just covered.
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Dry roasting
(Found inTexts)Dry roasting (torréfication in French), usually seeds (sesame, linseed,...) or nuts (almonds, walnuts, ...), means to heat without water or fat, in the oven or a heavy pan, to drive off all water they contain.It make seeds crunchier, very pleasant in the mouth, with an improved flavour.
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Off the heat
(Found inTexts)To "take off the heat" means to take a pan off the hob and stop it heating any further in order to bring down the temperature of the contents rapidly, usually to stop the cooking.
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Utensil: 6 results
Soft spatula
(Found inTexts)This is a flexible rubber or plastic spatula, ideal for stirring a preparation that could stick to the bottom of the pan, or for completly emptying a bowl or a pan cleanly without leaving a drop.
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Scouring pad
(Found inTexts)This sponge with one abrasive face is normally use to clean pans, but it's also very useful for scrubbing fruit or vegetables that are not going to be peeled like courgettes or potatoes.
776K
Blender
(Found inTexts)A blender consists of a sort of "propellor" or knife blade, driven by an electrc motor. Ideal for transforming a lumpy mixture into something smooth and homogenized. There are two kinds: classic blenders with a goblet into which one pours the substance to be blended, and hand blenders which are...
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Ingredient, product: 3 results
potimarron (Japanese chestnut pumpkin)
(Found inTexts)The potimarron is a kind of pumpkin which originated in Asia. It's shaped like a very large pear, with a hard reddish-orange skin.It is different from the classic pumpkin, especially in 2 respects: the skin is edible, and its flavour - which is rather like chestnut - is stronger.
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chestnut flour
(Found inTexts)Made from dried chestnuts, this is a light brown flour without gluten. Not suitable for making bread (unless mixed with a proportion of wheat flour), but it's excellent for cakes, biscuits, pancakes,...
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Griottine cherries
(Found inTexts)The griottines cherries are small red cherries, pitted and kept in a Kirsch syrup.
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