Flambéd bananas

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The trick of this recipe is to end up with bananas caramelised on the outside, still firm on the inside, coated with a tasty syrup which is not 95% butter.
313K 14 40 min. February 21^th 2011

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...
1.6M 74.3 4 hours 38 min. December 31^th 2011

Passion fruit jellies

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Usually to make fruit jellies or (fruit "paste"), it's like jam but you need to cook fruit pulp and sugar much longer. Unfortunately, this long cooking is bad for both vitamins and flavour. In this recipe we use a special jam gelling agent, to reduce cooking time as much as possible .
320K4 2 hours 30 min. July 4^th 2018

Baked apples from St Aubin le Vertueux

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Under this pretty name, my personal version of "Les pommes au four" (baked apples).
239K 24.2 1 hour 7 min. February 21^th 2011

4 pears salad with vanilla

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It's a very easy recipe, everything depends on the choice of differents kinds of pears all fully ripe, to give a delicious contrast in the mouth.
217K4.2 37 min. February 21^th 2011

Tiramisu

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Classic italian recipe (the name means "pull me up" or more poetically, "take me up to the sky"). It's similar to a charlotte in its structure: layers of flavoured biscuits between layers of smooth cream.
482K5 49 min. July 27^th 2013

Belle-helene in a glass

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It's a recipe where you make 4 layers of different creams in a small glass: vanilla cream, small dice of pear cooked in maple syrup, chocolate mousse and whipped cream. It should be served to your guests cool but not too cold .
247K3.8 1 hour 47 min. February 21^th 2011

Sugar syrup

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This syrup is mainly used as a basis for all sorbet recipes, which consist of this syrup and fruit pulp, but it can be also used to soak biscuits for example, or for fruit salads.
733K3.5 8 min. February 21^th 2011

Blackcurrant liqueur

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The fruit liqueurs (or "creams" in French) are a mix of neutral alcohol in which fruits are macerated, and sugar syrup. They are the basis of the very famous "Kir", mixture of dry white wine and blackcurrant liqueur. This recipe is for blackcurrant, but it can be made with other soft fruits like...
833K 44.7 51 min. August 3^rd 2013

How to glaze a tart

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Professional pastrycooks usually say that "a beautiful cake is already half sold", it is one of the reasons why they do not put a tart on sale without glazing it ("abricoter" in Fench), i.e. coating it with a thick apricot syrup. This glaze gives a glossy finish to the tart (see the photographs...
434K4.4 7 min. February 15^th 2016

Fruit salad

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To make a good fruit salad, there are three important points: Choose fruits that go well together (avoid putting soft pears with crunchy apples for example).Remove absolutely all skins and seeds.Bring it all together with a good home made sugar syrup added to the fruit juices.Here is a recipe which...
373K4.1 1 hour 13 min. April 20^th 2020

Moist cereal bars

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Whether bars or rounds, this recipe produces delicous small cereal cakes.
286K4.9 1 hour 5 min. February 21^th 2011

New tiramisu

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This new version of tiramisu is easier, and in my opinion much better. You will certainly appreciate, like me, the light creamy taste, this time presented in brandy goblets.
366K3.3 54 min. January 19^th 2015

Pear sorbet

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For a great pear sorbet, choose your fruit carefully: they should be perfectly ripe and full of flavour. You will get good results with williams, but any other variety of your choice will work.
322K4 54 min. February 21^th 2011

Blackcurrant sorbet for Edith

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If you love the taste of blackcurrants (like Edith), this sorbet is for you...
242K4.9 23 min. October 13^th 2010

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.
302K 24 20 min. September 7^th 2012

Brioche slices with almond cream

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A brioche slice, soaked in rum syrup and covered with almond cream, then browned in the oven. It's a dessert, and also a pastry which goes very well with tea or coffee at the end of the afternoon, especially when it's cold outside.
202K4.1 54 min. June 13^th 2013

Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse

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This is a chocolate cream with chopped candied grapefruit peel and caramelized nuts added to give bit of crunch. The small pot of cream is topped with an Irish coffee mousse (flavours of coffee, fresh cream, sugar and whisky).
248K 15 59 min. March 11^th 2011

Poaching syrup

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Less sweet than normal sugar syrup, poaching syrup is specially for slow cooking fruits to be used in other recipes.
279K5 14 min. September 2^nd 2012

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant

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Pears cooked until soft in a red wine and blackcurrant syrup, served with the reduced syrup and custard sauce (crème anglaise).
233K4.1 2 hours 35 min. February 21^th 2011

Ice-cream and sorbets

All about ice-creams and sorbets, their differences and how to make the most of them .
420K4.0 August 29^th 2023

Some hints for a pizza-party

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

Fruits and their syrup

As I write these lines, we are finally in the summer, the holidays are approaching, and above all, the fruits are pouring onto the market stalls, if they are ripe, it's time to enjoy them to the full! .
7,0294.7 July 24^th 2019

Sugar syrups

In cooking, and especially in pastry, we often use sugar syrups, a simple mixture of water and sugar in varying proportions. Here is a presentation of their differences. .
6,1454.8 January 17^th 2023

Too much sweet and savoury

There is a food trend which is creeping in everywhere in France right now: mixing sweet with savoury. In some restaurants, it is becoming difficult to order a classic dish, like “roast veal” for instance, without being served fruits in the garnish or honey/conserves/syrup in the sauce or cooked...
22K4.5 November 3^rd 2011

The time of the jams

We are well into summer as I write this, and this is the time when most of the fruit is giving or about to give in full. And for many of us, it will also be the time for jams and jellies, one of the best ways to preserve fruit for the next winter.
23K4.5 July 12^th 2021

The art of the charlotte

In cooking, a charlotte is a delicious moulded dessert, with biscuits around the outside that have been soaked in a flavoured syrup, filled with a light cream or mousse. The charlotte is left to set in the fridge before being turned out and served in slices. It is very light and a lovely sweet...
38K4.3 February 27^th 2013

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...
8,4795 December 14^th 2017

Foie gras service

For the upcoming christmas meals you too may be sacrificing to the tradition of foie gras? If so, I suggest you take a look at everything that revolves around serving foie gras: how to serve it, and what to eat and drink with it.
10K4.9 December 23^th 2017