Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble

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A small ramekin filled with sausage sandwiched between two layers of cooked mushrooms, topped with a savoury crumble made with cancoillotte (a cheese typical of eastern France). All the French region of Franche-comté is in this recipe: Morteau sausage, cancoillotte cheese, and Jura white wine.
235K 24.6 2 hours 45 min. May 10^th 2023

Sandwich bread

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Soft and moist, almost like brioche, it can be made in a tin or mould or as a classic long French-style loaf.
340K3.9 3 hours 26 min. October 24^th 2017

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.
687K 84.5 6 hours 24 min. December 27^th 2020

Quail egg canapés

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This starter is a small canapé consiting of a toasted and buttered bread slice covered with a slice of smoked ham topped with a fried quail egg.
321K5 54 min. February 21^th 2011

Eggs Benedict

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Soft-boiled eggs, served on toast with a slice of fried smoked ham, and the whole covered with Hollandaise sauce.
215K4 1 hour 4 min. April 8^th 2023

Crab and smoked salmon club sandwiches

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A club sandwich has three slices of bread, filled with a mayonnaise-style dressing. Here is a crab and smoked salmon version with cocktail sauce.
212K 15 1 hour 2 min. October 13^th 2010

Ciabatta

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Ciabatta is a small, very soft Italian bread. The name means "slipper". It normally takes a long time to prepare as a special leaven called "biga" is used, but this simplified version is quicker and just as good.
279K3.8 3 hours 21 min. October 24^th 2017

Croque-monsieur

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A classic of French "street food" or bistros: a slice of ham between two slices of bread spread with béchamel sauce. The sandwich is then sprinkled with cheese and toasted in the oven.
247K4 46 min. August 1^st 2010

"BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits

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These are similar to the BN biscuits so well-known in France. They are a sandwich of chocolate filling between two layers of biscuit. Children adore them!
196K 24.6 5 hours 12 min. March 21^th 2011

Pan bagnat

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Pan Bagnat is a traditional recipe from the Nice area. The name means "soaked bread", as it consists of a round bread roll that has been drenched with a mix of oil and vinegar then filled vegetables and fish. Years ago this was the snack that fisherman took with them on their boats, but this is a...
147K4.1 43 min. October 18^th 2020

Winemaker's toast

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These oven-baked open sandwiches are topped with onions cooked in red wine, fried bacon and potatoes, finished with a thin layer of melted cheese.
93K5 1 hour 20 min. March 11^th 2012

Chicken club sandwich

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In this club sandwich: chicken marinated in lime, fried bacon, lettuce, red onion and mayonnaise.
113K4.1 1 hour 42 min. November 19^th 2012

Duck Parmentier

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This recipe is very simple to make as everything can be prepared in advance. A layer of duck meat is sandwiched between two layers of potato purée. This is topped with grated cheese before being put in the oven.
99K3.9 51 min. January 27^th 2013

Brioche Tatin

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For this filled brioche, the apples are cooked separately, as for a tart tatin (caramelized), then sandwiched between two circles of brioche dough.
69K3.7 3 hours 21 min. September 10^th 2018

St Tropez tart

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This famous dessert from St Tropez is more of a cake than a tart. The sugar-sprinkled brioche layers are sandwiched together with a rich vanilla filling which is a mixture of confectioner's custard and whipped cream.
99K3.8 3 hours 34 min. September 11^th 2018

Ham "friand" pie

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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.
80K4.2 1 hour 5 min. September 8^th 2018

Feta and spinach brik pie

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In this recipe, a feta and cream filling is sandwiched between layers of spinach and wrapped in brik (or filo) pastry.
70K 24.8 55 min. December 10^th 2014

Ice-cream Vacherin

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Ice-cream vacherin is a festive French dessert. It consists of two different flavours of ice cream (blackcurrant and vanilla here) sandwiched between two circles of meringue, topped with whorls of Chantilly (whipped cream) which is then frozen. It is not too complicated, but involves a bit of work...
164K4.5 8 hours 45 min. December 21^th 2014

Quick Strawberry Millefeuille

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A millefeuille (which in french means "thousand sheets") is a delicious pâtisserie consisting of layers of puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) sandwiched together with cream, fruit, etc. In this recipe, we will be using sheets of caramelized brik or filo, which makes a delicious, light...
58K5 48 min. May 3^rd 2015

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.
58K4.5 45 min. May 24^th 2015

The softness of sandwich bread

You're probably familiar with what's known in France as "pain de mie", a very white, molded and rather soft bread, widely used in cooking, particularly for croque-monsieur. Let's find out what it's all about.
7,117 September 5^th 2023

What is the difference between bakery and patisserie?

This is a question that you may well have asked yourself and which I will attempt to answer. In France the two trades of "boulangerie" (bakery) and "pâtisserie" (patisserie and confectionery) have always been quite distinct, but where exactly do the boundaries lie? .
119K 14.1 February 7^th 2017

Let's rehabilitate the burger

The burger is a sandwich that is very fashionable at the moment, and as for all other sandwiches, the worst (often) rubs shoulders with the best (much more rare). In principle, I'm probably not teaching you anything, it's a sandwich made of a small round bun, rather soft, like a sandwich bread,...
4,8134.9 April 10^th 2021

The color of the bread crumb

When you go to buy bread, at your baker's, at the time of the choice, if you hesitate of course, you will undoubtedly be very sensitive to the color of the crust, and you will be right. The color of the crust, from golden, to sometimes very dark, deep brown almost black, depending on the maturity...
12K4.6 April 30^th 2022

The preservation of bread

Eating fresh bread is always a delight, the crust crumbles deliciously, you take full advantage of the taste of your bread (80% of this taste is in the crust), it is a fleeting moment to enjoy. Who hasn't already eaten the crouton or croutons of his baguette, on the way back from the bakery? ...
10K4.7 June 11^th 2022