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...
1.6M 74.3 4 hours 38 min. December 31th 2011
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.
411K3.3 34 min. October 6th 2010
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.
302K5 2 hours 40 min. January 8th 2013
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.
220K4.6 22 min. October 13th 2010
Spaghetti with mussels and basil
(Found inStages)Mussels and pasta cooked separately, then combined in a cream sauce made with the reduced mussel juices.
148K4.1 1 hour 40 min. September 14th 2011
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.
157K4.1 1 hour 23 min. June 11th 2011
How to bake blind
(Found inStages)This method allows you to cook a tart case, and then fill with a preparation which may or may not need further cooking (fruit, chocolate, crème patissière , etc...).
903K5 1 hour 40 min. May 6th 2017
Involtinis
(Found inStages)Involtinis are small rolls of meat, usually veal, and cheese. Here is my version.
379K4.4 2 hours 51 min. February 21th 2011
Oriane's tuna rillettes
(Found inStages)Quick to make, delicious as an aperitif.
187K5 17 min. February 21th 2011
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.
180K 13.8 5 hours 31 min. September 11th 2018
Mouna
(Found inStages)Mouna is a delicious citrus-flavoured brioche from the Oran region of Algeria. It origins are much disputed, but it was no doubt inspired by a brioche brought over by Spanish immigrants from the Valencia region: the "Mona de Pascua". However, it is also amusing to remember that the citizens of Oran...
53K1 18 hours 31 min. May 22th 2019
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...
31K4.1 2 hours 23 min. September 3rd 2017
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.
34K 29 min. March 11th 2020
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.
514K4.6 1 hour 34 min. February 21th 2011
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.
201K 134.2 6 hours 49 min. September 7th 2018
How to use a forcing bag (piping or icing bag)
(Found inStages)The forcing bag is the tool needed whenever you need to deposit a blob of something precisely in a particular place (in a mould, a glass, on a plate, etc). Here is how you do it.
291K 15 22 min. January 14th 2011
Fillings for macaroons
(Found inStages)The macaroons recipe shows how to make these small cakes, and gives the example of a raspberry filling. Here are several other possibilities: Apricot macaroons, Chocolate macaroons, Mint macaroons, Blackcurrant macaroons.
285K 24.3 2 hours 1 min. May 30th 2020
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.
687K 84.5 6 hours 24 min. December 27th 2020
Chinese style chicken
(Found inStages)Only "chinese style", not a true chinese recipe.
293K4 1 hour 38 min. February 28th 2012
Peach and mint salad
(Found inStages)Here is a very simple, fresh and delicious recipe; the flavour of mint goes very well with peaches.
302K 24 20 min. September 7th 2012
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My good addresses, favourite suppliers, ingredients, products and equipment.295K4.0 August 29th 2023
Herbs in the kitchen
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...182K 13.9 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.75K3.8 August 29th 2023
parsley
There are different kinds of parsley, the two main ones are curled parsley and flat-leaf (or Italian) parsley. The most important difference between the two, except the leaf shape, is taste: flat-leaf parsley has much more flavour.59K4.1 August 29th 2023
fresh coriander (cilantro)
This is a plant of which the leaves are used fresh. It has a very subtle flavour which is remarkable in salads. It is an indispensible ingredient in Asian and Mediterranean cuisine. The seeds are also available (like white pepper grains but paler), which have a different taste.40K4.2 August 29th 2023
tarragon
Tarragon is a herb with strongly aromatic leaves. These are used for their characteristic flavour that goes very well with meat and fish.49K4.1 August 29th 2023
mint
There are several kinds of mint with different flavours, some stronger than others. The important thing, if you have the choice, is to use the strongest flavour possible (crush a leaf with your fingers, and smell to compare).36K4.2 August 29th 2023
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How easy is it to chop herbs?
Whenever you have fresh herbs - parsley, chervil, coriander, mint, etc. - to incorporate into a recipe, we tell you to chop them up. In this case, "chopping" means separating the leaves from the stems, keeping only the leaves, and chopping them more or less finely. It's not very complicated,...6,7495 September 12th 2023