Recipes: 168 results
Potato gratin
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)This classic French recipe is made with sliced potatoes baked in milk and browned on top.
1.1M 14.6 1 hour 47 min. February 21th 2011
Hachis parmentier
(Found inTexts)This is the French answer (meat with mashed potato and cheese) to the English cottage or shepherd's pie: a typical family recipe which is an excellent way of using up leftover meat. The proportions are vague here: you need "whatever you have left over"...
392K 24.4 1 hour 22 min. February 21th 2011
Röstis
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)Probably a swiss recipe originally, but also known in the French region of Franche-comté. This version is more sophisticated.
254K4.2 40 min. February 21th 2011
Tartiflette
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)A personal version of a classic recipe from Savoy.
584K 14.6 1 hour 27 min. September 16th 2019
Vegetable pie
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)Three layers of vegetables, baked in puff pastry.
231K3.9 1 hour 21 min. September 10th 2018
Leek and potato soup
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)A classic of French family cooking.
474K5 42 min. October 3rd 2010
Ramekins of duchess potatoes
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)Duchess potatoes are a mix of mashed potato and egg yolks, cooked in the oven, in a decorative shape and delicious. In this recipe they top a ramekin containing a layer of mashed potato, cooked leek, and thinly sliced bacon.
285K 24.6 2 hours 5 min. March 4th 2020
Morteau sausage
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)In this recipe Morteau sausage is cooked on a bed of potatoes cut into medium sized pieces. The idea of this recipe is that the pricked Morteau sausage cooks slowly, so that its smoky flavour seeps down onto the potatoes - it's a pure delight.
1.2M 34.1 1 hour 31 min. October 13th 2010
Oxtail Parmentier
(Found inTexts)Rather like the classic hachis Parmentier, but using oxtail stewed very slowly in red wine and herbs.
301K4.7 5 hours 46 min. October 13th 2010
Big knife-cut chips (French fries)
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)These chips (French fries) are made from potatoes steamed then fried in their skins. Usually we make big ones (3 times the usual French fry) and serve 2 or 3 per guest.
265K4.1 1 hour 19 min. February 21th 2011
Chicken breasts with tarragon
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)Chicken breasts are slowly cooked in a frying pan, then the sauce is made in the same pan with dry white wine, chicken stock and tarragon, and served with sauté (pan-fried) potatoes.
300K 15 1 hour 39 min. February 21th 2011
Avengers' potatoes
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)Lurking behind this strange name (see reason below) is a kind of potato-cheese gratin, which is wrapped in thin slices of bacon. It's cooked first on the hob, then in the oven.
294K5 1 hour 54 min. February 21th 2011
Gratin Dauphinois
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)This recipe is a bit sensitive for people from Dauphiné (a French area around the city of Grenoble), many of them are sure to have the "true" recipe. Here is the version of the famous French chef Michel Guérard. The most interesting thing about gratin Dauphinois, is that it has a delicate hint of...
380K 25 1 hour 3 min. August 13th 2016
Express sauerkraut
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)Sauerkraut (choucroute in French) is a traditional Alsatian recipe. It consists of fermented cabbage slowly cooked with white wine, potatoes and a variety of salted pork meats. This is a simplified and fairly quick version.
350K 13.9 2 hours 24 min. February 21th 2011
Potato tortilla (Spanish omelette)
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)Tortilla is a recipe from Spain, which can be eat hot or cold. It's a kind of omelette, with several ingredients, in this recipe potatoes, onion and smoked ham. Ingredients are cooked first, then mixed with egg, to make a tortilla which is cooked on both sides.
283K 34 1 hour 17 min. February 21th 2011
Mixed salad
(Found inTexts)Mixed salad is one of those simple but delicious summer recipes which go so well with a barbeque. It's a mix of several fresh vegetables, herbs and French dressing (vinaigrette).
281K4.6 1 hour February 21th 2011
Alsatian-style salad
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)This salad is based on a traditional Alsatian recipe: cabbage julienne, warm potatoes, bacon, parsley and vinaigrette.
270K4.4 1 hour 11 min. January 3rd 2014
Boiling potatoes in their skins
(Found inTextsStagesComments)Boiling potatoes has given rise to two sayings: 1) You should not peel potatoes before boiling. 2) You should not leave potatoes to cool in the cooking water. The first suggests that potatoes should be always cooked in their skins, to prevent water penetrating and making the potatoes go soft and...
605K 34.4 30 min. July 25th 2017
Hot box cheese
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)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...
336K4.3 58 min. February 11th 2016
Pan-fried potatoes
(Found inTextsStagesIngredients)What could be simpler than fried potatoes? No need of a recipe for that! Quite right, but it's also very easy to end up making fried mash instead. Here are the main pitfalls to avoid.
286K4.4 1 hour 37 min. February 3rd 2011
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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.302K 13.6 August 29th 2023
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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. Take fried potatoes; it's very simple because it's all there in the name of the dish: you...20K4.5 February 6th 2011
The right way to cook potatoes
If you simply boil them (not steam them), or bake them in the oven, at some point you will have to ask yourself the question "are they well cooked?".11K4.7 March 23th 2020
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
Well-cooked meat
Have you ever noticed that if you like your meat well done, it invites strange looks? For instance, in a restaurant, when asked “How would you like that cooked?” If you reply, “Well done,” it is almost as if you are swearing….29K 14.4 May 21th 2011
Markers in cooking
When it comes to cooking, there is only one real rule, and that is that there are no rules! By that I mean that everything is possible, everything can be combined, everything or almost everything can go with everything, but you have to like it, you have to find it good. I have friends who...6,9315 July 3rd 2021
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
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.7,3355 December 5th 2017
Should a sausage be pricked before cooking?
If you are using sausages in a recipe, you may have already asked yourself the question: Should you prick it before cooking it, or not? You will certainly find as many opinions "you should prick" as "you should not". Let's try to untangle all this.42K4.1 September 29th 2018
The green of leeks
We are all, consciously or not, very sensitive to the colour of our food. That's why a red strawberry will always seem more appetizing than a pale one, even if it's not necessarily true. This is true for red, but it is also true for the green of certain vegetables.15K4.0 March 30th 2020
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...5,7384.6 March 13th 2021
The return of the vegetable grater
If you are of a certain age (say +50) you may have known, when you were a kid, something that your grandmother had in her kitchen set, the vegetable grater. A kind of mill, to be turned by hand, and which with cutting discs of different sizes, allowed to grate a lot of vegetables, carrots first...11K4.6 March 20th 2021
In praise of Mont d'Or cheese
Do you know the Mont d'Or, this extraordinary cheese from the Haut-Doubs in France, with a unique taste and appearance, which can be eaten both raw and cooked? I'll tell you a few words about it, and with some tips on how to choose it and cook it. .6,9805 November 27th 2021
Parmesan cheese crusts
If you use Parmesan cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano) in your recipes, you may have already noticed: when you grate it, it becomes (very) difficult near the crust, especially if it is a slightly aged parmesan, as the cheese gets harder and harder. So we stop grating, leaving some crust on top, and a...12K4.8 September 14th 2022
Sausage broth
I've already talked to you about vegetable cooking water, which becomes a precious broth after cooking that would be a shame to throw away. Now let's look at the special case of meat cooking broth, and in particular sausages, which are often poached.5,0775 June 28th 2023
In Praise of the Vegetable Mill
When a recipe or preparation calls for something solid to be pureed, as in a soup for example, the natural reflex is to take out the blender and plunge it into the saucepan. This works very well in most cases, but there are times when you'd like to puree something and at the same time remove the...5,2435 July 12th 2023
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Brunoise (tiny diced vegetables as garnish)
(Found inTexts)Cutting a product into very small dice.
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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.
727K
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instant mashed-potato powder
(Found inTexts)Instant mashed-potato powder is made of cooked potatoes which have been dried, then powdered. Though intended as a quick way of making mashed potato, it can be used as an ingredient in recipes.
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