Fruit crumble

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A fruit pudding: very easy to do and delicious: just a layer of fruit with a golden crunchy topping.
345K4.0 1 hour 11 min. February 21^th 2011

Chocolate tart

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As you can see, there's very little added sugar in this recipe, so it's a very chocolatey and bitter-sweet tart.
282K 15 2 hours 26 min. November 16^th 2013

Citrus crunch

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These are fine crumbs of candied citrus peel. It can be used to sprinkle a dessert or other preparation to add both crunch and the flavour of the chosen citrus fruit. It is easy to prepare well in advance, and will keep in an airtight jar. This recipe is given for clementines, but can be made with...
221K3.7 1 hour 16 min. February 2^nd 2016

Hachis parmentier

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This is the French answer (meat with mashed potato and cheese) to the English cottage or shepherd's pie: a typical family recipe which is an excellent way of using up leftover meat. The proportions are vague here: you need "whatever you have left over"...
392K 24.4 1 hour 22 min. February 21^th 2011

Parcels of fish fillet in spinach

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These parcels are made with small pieces of fish fillet, wrapped in a blanched spinach leaf and lightly fried in butter. They can be served with a salted white wine sabayon (as in the recipe of scallops with crunchy vegetables), a beurre blanc, a dash of olive oil with herbs, or any other sauce of...
229K5 2 hours 23 min. March 18^th 2013

Profiteroles

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Small choux pastry puffs, filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with a rich smooth chocolate sauce.
301K 14.5 1 hour 35 min. October 13^th 2010

Nanterre brioche

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This is the classic, but delicious, brioche recipe that you can find in any good baker's. Her unique shape is made from small balls of dough put in a mould.
265K3.8 2 hours 26 min. September 10^th 2018

Coconut-vanilla cream for Elsa

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A dessert in three layers: a first of smooth vanilla cream, a second of coconut cream (also very smooth), and to finish, a thin crunchy layer of coconut tuiles. In the spirit of crème brulée: break through the crisp surface layer to discover the smooth melting coconut and vanilla creams beneath. A...
206K3.8 4 hours 58 min. February 21^th 2011

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

Jam doughnuts

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These were originally a traditional German treat (Berliner Pfannkuchen in German): big fried doughnuts filled with jam and sprinkled with icing sugar.
149K4.5 4 hours 23 min. May 27^th 2011

How to prepare cucumber

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Or how to start with a whole cucumber and finish with small crunchy dice, ready to be added to a salad.
233K4.6 39 min. August 6^th 2019

Fraisier (French strawberry cake)

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This classic French patisserie is a delicious assembly of 2 layers of genoa sponge filled with strawberries and crème mousseline (confectioner's custard with butter). The sponge is soaked in strawberry syrup and the cake is topped with a thin layer of marzipan.
165K4.2 2 hours 43 min. September 18^th 2011

Brioche galette

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This galette (flat cake) is made with brioche dough, stuck with little pieces of butter and sprinkled with sugar.
86K4.8 2 hours 3 min. February 23^th 2012

Pretzels

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Pretzels are bread sticks looped into a knot, probably with origins in southern Germany. The tops are sprinkled with poppy seeds or grains of coarse salt. Here is a fairly straightforward recipe that is simple to prepare.
126K4.9 5 hours 21 min. October 24^th 2017

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

Apple Batter Puddings

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Similar to a traditional French "clafoutis", usually made with cherries, this simple apple and almond dessert is quick to make.
46K4.7 41 min. March 30^th 2016

Bonnevaux apple tart

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This is without doubt the easiest apple tart you can make: a simple pastry case (a sweetened sort of shortcrust pastry without egg) and apples - that's all! It's the tart my grandmother Jeanne made when I was a boy (a long time ago, as you can probably gather) and my father's favourite dessert.In...
38K4 2 hours 7 min. November 2^nd 2016

Flognarde

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Flognarde is a dessert that originated in France's Limousin region. The recipe is very simple: a vanilla-flavoured egg custard, thickened with flour, and sometimes made with seasonal fruit (apples, cherries, pears...). This is a very old recipe that has come down to us virtually unchanged since...
72K4 47 min. December 30^th 2019

Dried apricots

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Making your own dried apricots at home is perfectly feasible. It's really quite simple, though it takes a long time. Basically, the apricots need to be cut in half, destoned, then the halves put to dry slowly for several hours in a cool oven.
118K3.9 6 hours 6 min. July 12^th 2023

Green avocado salad

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This salad is all green and fresh, with diced avocado, lettuce, spring onion and the softness of pieces of hard-boiled egg. The flavour is brought out further with a lime and olive-oil dressing, pepped up with a touch of Tabasco.
51K 27 min. July 8^th 2018

Some hints for a pizza-party

Some hints for a successful pizza party.
185K3.7 August 29^th 2023

How to sprinkle well?

When in a recipe you need to sprinkle something, that is to say to spread a fine layer of powder (flour, sugar, etc.) on something, powdered sugar on a pie for example, you will probably use a fine strainer or a sieve, this is the best way to proceed. But is that all?
4,1464.7 May 23^th 2023

Maillard reactions

This subject cropped up recently in a discussion with my three charming nieces; do you know what Maillard reactions are? With a name like that, they could well be some principle in mechanics, but in fact the term applies to something much closer to all of us: it's what gives food more flavour...
32K4 January 28^th 2015

The cake and the raisins

When you bake a cake, like a cake or pound cake, you may have already encountered this thorny problem: How to make sure that the raisins, or the candied fruits, or any other small filling, do not fall to the bottom of the pan during the baking process?
10K4.7 May 31^th 2019