Recipes: 25 results
Crème brulée
(Found inTexts)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 of the former recipe, with video.
December 31th 20111.68 M 74.3 4 hours 40 min.
How to prepare sorrel
(Found inStages)Here is how to clean and cut fresh leaves to use in a recipe, by removing stalks and central vein, to retain only the very best of the sorrel.
October 6th 2010457 K3.3 35 min.
Poached eggs
(Found inStages)Poached eggs are cooked, without the shell, in barely simmering (nearly boiling) water. White should be firm and yolk soft, that's the difficulty. This recipe teaches you how to succeed with three important points.
January 8th 2013327 K5 2 hours 40 min.
Herb salad
(Found inStages)Herb salad is a small salad made with leaves of all kinds of aromatic herbs, it's highly flavoured, and should be considered almost as a condiment. It really is a salad, the leaves are not chopped.
October 13th 2010240 K4.6 25 min.
Spaghetti with mussels and basil
(Found inStages)Mussels and pasta cooked separately, then combined in a cream sauce made with the reduced mussel juices.
September 14th 2011170 K4.1 1 hour 40 min.
Courgette tart with mint
(Found inStages)Fried rounds of courgette in a puff pastry case with a feta and mint filling. You will find that this combination of feta with mint gives an agreeable fresh lift to this tart.
June 11th 2011178 K4.1 1 hour 25 min.
Involtinis
(Found inStages)Involtinis are small rolls of meat, usually veal, and cheese. Here is my version.
February 21th 2011407 K4.4 2 hours 55 min.
Oriane's tuna rillettes
(Found inStages)Quick to make, delicious as an aperitif.
February 21th 2011209 K5 20 min.
Milk rolls
(Found inStages)This sweet milk bread, made as baps or rolls, with its sugar topping is delicious for breakfast or with afternoon tea.
September 11th 2018207 K 13.8 5 hours 35 min.
Peach and verbena feuilleté
(Found inStages)In French, a "feuilleté" can be anything, sweet or savoury, wrapped in or with a base of puff pastry, from a sausage roll to a millefeuille. This is an elegant tart-style feuilleté with a caramelized pastry base, topped with a light custard flavoured with verbena. This is based on a confectioner's custard (french pastry cream), lightened with September 3rd 201752 K3.9 2 hours 25 min.
Bistro-style red endive salad
(Found inStages)Have you tried red Belgian endives? They are similar in size to the more common white sort, just as crunchy, but slightly less bitter. They are the main feature in this salad inspired by French bistro cuisine: combined with chopped hard-boiled eggs, fried ham and croutons, in a rémoulade dressing.
March 11th 202056 K 30 min.
Fresh mint ice-cream
(Found inStages)This well-flavoured ice-cream is excellent on its own, or in profiteroles with a chocolate sauce for example.
February 21th 2011545 K4.6 1 hour 35 min.
Paté en croute (terrine in a pie crust)
(Found inStages)The French classic "Paté en croute" is a terrine of different meats layered and baked in a pie crust. There are many recipes which vary the kind of meat and the seasonings. This is my version with pork, veal and chicken, which is not too difficult, though it does entail quite a lot of work.
September 7th 2018232 K 134.2 6 hours 50 min.
Surprise bread
(Found inStages)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.
December 27th 2020719 K 84.5 6 hours 25 min.
Chinese style chicken
(Found inStages)Only "chinese style", not a true chinese recipe.
February 28th 2012318 K4 1 hour 40 min.
Peach and mint salad
(Found inStages)Here is a very simple, fresh and delicious recipe; the flavour of mint goes very well with peaches.
September 7th 2012324 K 24 20 min.
Chicken and mushroom pie
(Found inStages)This lovely pie has a puff pastry crust filled with a mixture of fried mushrooms, diced chicken and parsley, all bound in a cream sauce.
May 10th 2023109 K 14.4 1 hour 40 min.
Rustic chicken and mushroom pie
(Found inStages)This homely looking pie gets back to what good, old-fashioned pies are all about: it's round, deep and has both a proper bottom and lid. The one small concession to modernity is the use of puff pastry for a lighter, crisper crust. The filling combines mushrooms, leeks and diced chicken in a cream sauce.
May 10th 202382 K 1 hour 35 min.
Verbena flan
(Found inStages)In this recipe, a delicious variation on the Parisian flan with verbena, you'll see that the delicate taste of verbena goes very well with the slightly creamy sweetness of the flan.
September 17th 202325 K 3 hours 25 min.
How to make tart cases
(Found inStages)It's not easy to make beautiful, even tart cases, but here I'll let you into the secret of how the professionals do it. You will see that there are a lot of little details that make all the difference. It's a bit technical, but don't worry, I'll guide you through the important points.
October 3rd 202187 K 2 hours 30 min.
