Recipes: 69 results
Epiphany galette
(Found inTexts)Here is the recipe for the very classic but delicious "galette des rois" (Epiphany galette) in puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) with almond cream or frangipane . You will also see some professional tips to easily handle the dough, and obtain a nice and regular galette.
January 6th 2021282 K 24.5 3 hours 8 min.
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...
December 31th 20111.65 M 74.3 4 hours 40 min.
Cocotte eggs with Comté
(Found inTexts)A light delicious and quickly prepared dish, an easy and elegant answer to the frequent question "what are we going to eat this evening?". Here is version with Comté (a famous cheese from eastern France, like gruyère, but much better), but it can be made prepared many different ways.
February 21th 2011347 K4.3 1 hour
How to cook hard-boiled eggs properly
(Found inTexts)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.
November 4th 20131.37 M 65 1 hour 30 min.
Natural leaven
(Found inTexts)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...
April 3rd 20201.69 M 304.0 7 days 15 min.
Pizza dough
(Found inTexts)Pizza dough is a lind of bread dough with olive oil, which make it softer. This is the same dough that I use for pizzas and flammenkuches, this is no doubt incorrect, but it's very good nevertheless. At home we used to make pizza dough quite thick, and flammenkuche as thin as possible.
September 22th 2024502 K4.6 1 hour 60 min.
How to extract passion fruit juice
(Found inTexts)Passion fruit are rather strange fruit as they do not really have much flesh, but rather seeds surrounded by a fine layer of pulp. Here is a way to extract the juice.
March 23th 2011514 K 32.3 20 min.
How to prepare an avocado
(Found inTexts)Here is how to get from an avocado only the flesh of the fruit.
January 9th 2010194 K 14 15 min.
How to roll out pastry for a tart
(Found inTexts)Rolling out pastry from a block and lining a tart mould or tin is not as straighforward as all that. To help you to succeed every time, here is a very simple tip. It will to change your opinion of tarts...
October 13th 2010294 K4.6 25 min.
How to use a forcing bag (piping or icing bag)
(Found inTexts)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 14th 2011295 K 15 25 min.
How to beat egg whites
(Found inTexts)Beat egg whites is very common in cooking and pastry, here are some tips to get there easily.
February 21th 2011551 K5 5 min.
How to add beaten eggs whites to a mixture
(Found inTexts)It is common in cooking or pastry, having beaten whites mix preparation to another without making them completely fall, here are some tips to help you to.
August 3rd 2012124 K4.3 10 min.
How to choose an avocado well
(Found inTexts)It is not so easy to choose a good avocado, tasty and well ripe. Here are some tips to help you.
June 28th 2011181 K4.4 1 min.
How to keep meat tender after cooking
(Found inTexts)When you cook meat, the cooking heat causes the juices to run back inside, so the outside dries up somewhat. Here is a tip to avoid this.
February 21th 2011115 K4.3 5 min.
How to prevent a sheet of paper sliding
(Found inTexts)If you put cooking parchment on a baking sheet, you will find it slides all over the place, which is annoying.
February 21th 201167 K4.5 3 min.
Scallops with green asparagus tips and parmesan
(Found inTextsStages)In this recipe scallops are fried quickly, then cooked aaparagus tips are added with a sprinkling of parmesan to serve.
February 21th 2011240 K4.1 40 min.
Béarnaise sauce
(Found inTexts)This very tasty sauce, flavoured with tarragon, chervil and shallot, with its hint of acidity, is perfect for grilled fish or meats. Its well-known as a difficult sauce, but here are all the tips that you need to succeed.
May 22th 2016338 K4 1 hour 6 min.
Blackcurrant coulis
(Found inTexts)Blackcurrants make a very good coulis, but it's a bit more difficult than with other fruits. Here is a simple method to help you succeed.
February 21th 2011443 K 23.5 25 min.
How to prepare sorrel
(Found inTexts)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 6th 2010425 K3.3 35 min.
Hollandaise sauce
(Found inTexts)This sauce is quite similar to Béarnaise sauce, but with a light lemon flavour. It can be used hot, warm or cold on several things: vegetables, fish, eggs... Not easy to get right, like all "emulsified warm sauces" (Béarnaise, Hollandaise, etc.), but you will find all the tips you need here.
July 25th 2019237 K 14.7 25 min.
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What is this site, and who am I?
The important thing is the content of the site, the recipes and information you can find, but some of you want to know who is behind it all.August 29th 2023210 K 44.2
Ice-cream and sorbets
Making homemade ice cream may seem complex, but with the right methods and a few tricks, you can achieve a creamy texture and incomparable flavors. On this page, we'll be revealing the secrets of successful homemade ice cream, guiding you step by step through the various stages of preparation. ...August 12th 2024433 K4.0
Making your own bread
You'll find a whole range of bread and pastry recipes on this site, but before you get started, perhaps you'd like to know more about the subject, get some tips and tricks, and find out what the main mistakes beginners make? If so, this page is for you.August 22th 2024565 K 63.9
Recipes
A recipe is really quite a simple thing (or should be): a list of ingredients, a method, and that's all there is to it. Unfortunately its not always the case. Sometimes you might get the impression that a recipe, found in a magazine or on a web site, has been concocted especially to make you fail:...June 3rd 2024170 K3.6
Some hints for a pizza-party
A pizza party is always a very pleasant and convivial occasion. Good people (friends and family) get together to enjoy delicious pizzas, baked right in the oven. Here are a few tips to help you make yours a success.August 30th 2024187 K3.7
Information on weights and measures in the kitchen
The way ingredients are described in a recipe varies from country to country. This difference, which is quite profound, relates not only to units of measurement, but also to the way in which they are measured: weight or volume. Let's take a look.August 22th 2024822 K3.7
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 29th 202337 K4.2
Start off well to cook well
What do I need to get started in the kitchen? First of all, a good website! That's it, you're there ;-), then a minimum of equipment, and the few products you should always have in your cupboards or fridge. Here are a few things to help you make your choices.August 29th 2023308 K 13.6
Advices for writing your recipes
If you choose to submit one of your recipes, you'll need to do so via a form (accessible when you're logged in), in which you'll need to enter all the information about the recipe. Please note that in order to log in, you must first create an account. Here are some tips on how to fill in the various...August 29th 202358 K4.4
The amateur baker
You may have noticed over the pages of this site, I am passionate about everything that is related to the bakery: I love making bread, pastries, maintain my leaven, etc.. This page contains links to all the different parts of the site where we talk about bread: recipes, special pages, etc.October 15th 2024170 K 44.1
On this site you can...
Cooking-ez.com is a site that offers you many possibilities. Here are the main functions and information available to you. .August 29th 2023195 K 23.7
Blog articles: 9 results
5 really useful cooking tips
Cooking is about recipes, of course, but it is also an impressive collection of small gestures, ways of doing things, knowing what to do and what not to do. All these little tips and tricks can be very important: they can affect the way a recipe turns out, simply because you did just the right...March 29th 201620 K4.9
A few tips for effective kneading at home
When you have to knead dough for bread or some other recipe, you may well use a food processor or the type of machine known as a stand mixer. The best-known brands are Kenwood and KitchenAid. They are useful tools, but here are a few tips to help you get the best out of them.June 23th 2021272 K 23.7
A few tips on homemade ice cream
If you make ice cream at home, which is a very, very good idea, you'll find a few tips and tricks in this article that should make your life easier. Combined with the site's ice cream recipes, they'll help you improve your production, to the delight of everyone around you, children first.August 11th 20244,0585
How to choose a good password
These days more and more websites ask you to create a user account, so that you can be identified before being allowed to access some service or other. To create an account you need to choose a user identity. This is simple, as your email address is used in most cases (ann.other@gmail.com, for...March 29th 201317 K4.1
Children and vegetables
This is an attempt to address the question that all parents and grandparents, maybe you included, face so often: how can we get children to like vegetables? And at the same time, we might get away from the familiar, day-in, day-out round of pasta, chips, toast.. Well, I can hear you say, it's...March 9th 201712 K5
The 3 secrets of successful mousses
When you make a traditional mousse, that is to say without using a siphon, whatever the recipe, it's always the same principle: on one side you have a dense mixture, very tasty, and on the other side egg whites beaten until stiff. All the difficulty of the success of a mousse, it will be to mix the...April 3rd 20216,2884.6
Let's rehabilitate the burger
The burger is a sandwich that is very fashionable at the moment, and as for all other sandwiches, the worst (often) rubs shoulders with the best (much more rare). In principle, I'm probably not teaching you anything, it's a sandwich made of a small round bun, rather soft, like a sandwich bread,...April 10th 20215,8344.9
Parmesan cheese crusts
If you use Parmesan cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano) in your recipes, you may have already noticed: when you grate it, it becomes (very) difficult near the crust, especially if it is a slightly aged parmesan, as the cheese gets harder and harder. So we stop grating, leaving some crust on top, and a...September 14th 202213 K4.8
The right size of zucchini
When you buy zucchini at the market, you're often offered a wide variety of sizes, from very small to very large. But which ones to choose? Here are a few tips.September 9th 20243,4805