Recipes: 13 results
Natural leaven
(Found inTextsStagesComments)Leaven is a natural raising agent, a fermented mixture of water, flour and the microscopic yeasts which are present in the air. It's a delicate living substance, sensitive to the external environment. The recipe is around 4000 years old and dates back to the Egypt of the Pharaohs, via a beautiful...
1.7M 304.0 7 days 15 min. April 3rd 2020
How to prevent bad breath after eating garlic
(Found inTexts)The main problem with garlic, is that even a long while after eating it, you often still have the smell on your breath.
69K 24.3 February 21th 2011
How to prepare cauliflower
(Found inTexts)This is how to start with a whole califlower and finish with only the best of the vegetable.
211K4.1 33 min. February 5th 2022
How to seal a terrine or casserole dish
(Found inTexts)The French have a term for it: "luter", which means to seal around the lid of a cooking dish with dough. The dough forms a crust and hermetically seals in all the steam and flavours while the dish is cooking in the oven. This is a good way to concentrate flavours. The dish is brought to the table...
159K3.8 33 min. January 11th 2017
Noisette butter
(Found inTextsStages)"Noisette" means hazelnut in French. Noisette butter is made by melting butter, then boiling and raising it to a high temperature until it takes on both a light brown hazelnut colour and also a characteristic nutty smell. Compared with simple clarified butter, this noisette butter has a delicate...
114K4.5 15 min. December 30th 2019
Cream of cauliflower soup with smoked haddock
(Found inTexts)This soup with a difference plays up an amazing flavour combination: creamy cauliflower with morsels of smoked haddock.
31K 24 min. March 18th 2020
How to cook hard-boiled eggs properly
(Found inStages)A hard-boiled egg is properly cooked when: shell is not broken, white and yolk are firm, yolk is only yellow with no traces of green around it. Here are some tips to make this easy.
1.4M 65 1 hour 28 min. November 4th 2013
Quick chicken curry
(Found inStages)This curry is quick to make if you have left over cooked chicken, and is always delicious.
261K5 33 min. August 25th 2011
Salmon "en papillote" with small vegetables
(Found inStages)A fresh salmon escalope just salt and pepper with small dices of small vegetables.
237K 15 1 hour 28 min. June 22th 2011
Rosemary steamed fish
(Found inStages)In this recipe the fish is cooked in steam perfumed with rosemary, which makes it tender and aromatic, served on a bed of onions fondue and finished with a dry white wine sauce.
325K3.8 1 hour March 29th 2020
Foie gras cured in salt
(Found inStages)This a quite different preparation from the terrine of foie gras, this time it does not go in the oven, the liver is salted for 48 hours and it "cooks" (or cures) in this way.
552K5 2 days 16 hours 28 min. December 23th 2017
Basic cake batter - the French way
(Found inStages)The French have adopted the word "cake" for one that will stand up to being transported (usually made a loaf tin and sometimes called a "travel cake" in French). There are many versions, but here is a new basic recipe to which you can your choice of flavours (pistachio, lemon, chocolate...) and...
37K 17 min. November 18th 2020
Madeleines
(Found inStages)Madeleines, the delicious little cake so French, that everyone loves, and which, of course, always makes its little nod to Proust and his novel "Du coté de chez Swann". Small cake that is not so simple to succeed perfectly, that is to say to obtain the small bulging side on the top. But don't...
15K4 12 hours 46 min. November 18th 2022
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Closed fire cooking
Construction of a Fayol bread oven: closed fire cooking, with the embers removed .50K4.4 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
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.303K 13.6 August 29th 2023
Blog articles: 7 results
Cream and sauces
Have you ever wondered why making beautiful tasty sauces is so easy when you use cream? First of all, we need to be aware that some flavours only dissolve in water, while others only dissolve in fats. This phenomenon leads to this kind of accident: If you put a chocolate mousse uncovered...17K4.4 October 15th 2012
Good fridge management
We all have a fridge at home – it's an indispensible part of the kitchen and so much a part of the furniture that we tend not to pay it much attention. But often, out of habit, we don't use it properly. Here are a few tips to help you get more from your fridge. .25K4.4 April 19th 2011
Choosing a chopping board
It's a no-brainer, surely? If you want a chopping board, just find a piece of wood, and Bob's your uncle! You can happily chop away with a knife and not damage the table or worktop. But in reality, it's a bit more complicated than that. You need to be careful what you are buying, in particular the...45K4.6 May 8th 2012
Making the most of seeds: Dry roasting
In cooking, and particularly in baking, there are a lot of seeds we can use, such as linseed, sesame, poppy, etc. Usually, recipes simply say to add them just as they are to the mixture or dough. To make a seeded loaf, for example, prepare a plain bread dough as usual, then, towards the end of...55K4.0 January 30th 2015
There is vanilla and vanilla
The vanilla is a delicious taste that can be found in many many dessert recipes, creams (the cream and the cream for example), ice creams, but also cakes and entremets. Whenever you need to add this vanilla note, you have several possible choices because vanilla is commercially available in...8,5565 December 14th 2017
What happens to the bread when you make it?
This bread that we eat every day, and that our baker makes for us, what happens during its manufacture so that it becomes bread? I will try to answer this question, and to summarize the complex alchemy that takes place.8,7774.9 May 28th 2021
Cooking cauliflower
Dramatic observation: cauliflower when cooked has a bad reputation ("it doesn't smell good!" and the like), and yet it's an excellent vegetable, very Breton, that deserves to be treated well, to give the best of itself.7,1873.3 August 29th 2023
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