Crème brulée

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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...
December 31^th 20111.65 M 74.3 4 hours 40 min.

How to prepare sorrel

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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 6^th 2010426 K3.3 35 min.

Poached eggs

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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 8^th 2013310 K5 2 hours 40 min.

Herb salad

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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 13^th 2010225 K4.6 25 min.

Spaghetti with mussels and basil

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Mussels and pasta cooked separately, then combined in a cream sauce made with the reduced mussel juices.
September 14^th 2011154 K4.1 1 hour 40 min.

Courgette tart with mint

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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 11^th 2011164 K4.1 1 hour 25 min.

How to bake blind

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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...).
May 6^th 2017914 K5 1 hour 40 min.

Involtinis

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Involtinis are small rolls of meat, usually veal, and cheese. Here is my version.
February 21^th 2011387 K4.4 2 hours 55 min.

Oriane's tuna rillettes

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Quick to make, delicious as an aperitif.
February 21^th 2011192 K5 20 min.

Milk rolls

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This sweet milk bread, made as baps or rolls, with its sugar topping is delicious for breakfast or with afternoon tea.
September 11^th 2018187 K 13.8 5 hours 35 min.

Peach and verbena feuilleté

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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...
September 3^rd 201737 K4.1 2 hours 25 min.

Bistro-style red endive salad

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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 11^th 202041 K 30 min.

Fresh mint ice-cream

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This well-flavoured ice-cream is excellent on its own, or in profiteroles with a chocolate sauce for example.
February 21^th 2011526 K4.6 1 hour 35 min.

Paté en croute (terrine in a pie crust)

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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 7^th 2018210 K 134.2 6 hours 50 min.

How to use a forcing bag (piping or icing bag)

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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.
January 14^th 2011295 K 15 25 min.

Fillings for macaroons

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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.
May 30^th 2020292 K 24.3 2 hours 1 min.

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.
December 27^th 2020697 K 84.5 6 hours 25 min.

Chinese style chicken

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Only "chinese style", not a true chinese recipe.
February 28^th 2012299 K4 1 hour 40 min.

Peach and mint salad

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Here is a very simple, fresh and delicious recipe; the flavour of mint goes very well with peaches.
September 7^th 2012309 K 24 20 min.

Chicken and mushroom pie

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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 10^th 202394 K 14.4 1 hour 40 min.

Cooking with herbs

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...
June 3^rd 2024189 K 13.9

Polynesian arrow

A Polynesian arrow is an arrow with a tail that is thrown by hand, using a piece of string. The result is a "slingshot" effect that propels the arrow much further than if it were simply thrown by hand.It's a craft to do with children, for example on an afternoon when they're a bit idle...
August 29^th 2023191 K 14.3

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.
August 29^th 202376 K3.8

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.
August 29^th 202361 K4.1

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.
August 29^th 202341 K4.2

tarragon

Tarragon is a herb with strongly aromatic leaves. These are used for their characteristic flavour that goes very well with meat and fish.
August 29^th 202351 K4.1

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).
August 29^th 202337 K4.2

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,...
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