Vanilla ice cream

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Rediscover the full flavour of a real vanilla ice cream with this classical recipe.

How to use a vanilla pod effectively

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Vanilla pods are used in many recipes, but they need to treated in a particular way to be effective, detailed here.

Super-green, super-thrifty soup

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It's all too easy to just throw away the leaves or other green parts of our usual fresh vegetables. This is a real shame, because most of them can be cooked, as in this very green soup that uses up radish tops, spring onion greens and pea pods. I'm sure you'll get how it's "green" in every sense: economical, simple and a way to reduce waste.

How to prepare gourmands peas

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In spring, when the first peas arrive fresh on the market stalls, there's a special variety called "gourmands", which can be eaten whole, pea and pod. So, rather than shelling them, you need to prepare them, and here's how.

How to prepare broad beans

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Here's how, from fresh beans in pods, to obtain beans ready to use in a recipe.

Vanilla sugar

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Almost essential in patisserie, you can find it in expensive little sachets of about 10g. It's necessary to distinguish between the vanilla sugar which really contains vanilla, and vanillin sugar, purely chemical which has never seen a vanilla pod. Here is how to quickly make a whole jar full of your own vanilla sugar.

Panna cotta

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Panna cotta is an Italian dessert which means "cooked cream". It's a set vanilla cream, similar to blancmange, which is frequently served with other things like fruit coulis (fruit purée), caramel etc.. Here is the basic panna cotta recipe.

Mint and pea pesto

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Here's a version of pesto with mint and peas, for a very fresh take on this famous Italian sauce.

Devising a recipe

A question I'm often asked is: how do you come up with your recipes? How do you perfect them? This is something I've already mentioned on this page, but I'll take this opportunity to go into a bit more detail.
October 15^th 201218 K4.4

There is vanilla and vanilla

The vanilla is a delicious taste that can be found in many many dessert recipes, creams (the cream and the cream for example), ice creams, but also cakes and entremets. Whenever you need to add this vanilla note, you have several possible choices because vanilla is commercially available in...
December 14^th 201713 K5