Recipes: 9 results
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...
1.7M 304.0 7 days 15 min. April 3rd 2020
Soufflée omelette with cheese
(Found inTexts)Halfway between an omelette and a soufflé, this quick recipe give a light and delicious result. The secret is mainly in the two cooking methods: frying pan, then oven.
425K4.7 51 min. June 22th 2013
Blackcurrant liqueur
(Found inStages)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 3rd 2013
How to extract passion fruit juice
(Found inStages)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.
502K 32.3 20 min. March 23th 2011
Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines)
(Found inStages)The French name for these tubular biscuits means "Russian cigarettes". Cigarettes Russes are perfect for serving with ice cream or other desserts. The basic biscuit is fairly easy to make; the tricky bit is rolling the tube once cooked.
95K 54.5 46 min. May 25th 2014
How to peel a pineapple
(Found inStages)For most recipes it is necessary to completely peel the pineapple, and to keep only the flesh which is then often cut into small pieces. Here is a method.
196K3.7 20 min. February 21th 2011
How to cook red meat properly
(Found inStages)Cooking red meat well is not as simple as it might seem. Even if you start with high quality meat, with poor cooking it can become dry and tough. Here's a way that will guarantee you a perfect result.
460K2.7 1 hour 24 min. October 13th 2010
How to dust
(Found inStages)"Dusting" in cooking is sprinkling a very fine layer of something in powder form. Icing sugar or cocoa powder on cakes for example. As this is not very easy to do evenly, here is a way to do it.
143K5 2 min. October 13th 2010
How to peel a fruit
(Found inStages)Usually French chefs says "peler à vif", which means to completely peel the fruit (removing skin and core) and keep only the very best of the flesh. Here is a method for grapefruit, but it can be used for all the other citrus fruit, and many other fruits.
174K4.3 32 min. February 21th 2011
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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.201K 44.2 August 29th 2023
A bread oven
Building a bread oven was until a few years ago a job for the professionals. But now you can buy a kind of kit which allows you to build your own bred oven without professional masonry know-how. You should know that the kits only provide the main part of oven, the hearth, where you light the fire...1.1M3.5 August 29th 2023
Home made plancha
Make you own plancha and cook the Spanish way on this scorching hot metal plate.253K 43.7 August 29th 2023
My best addresses...
My good addresses, favourite suppliers, ingredients, products and equipment.295K4.0 August 29th 2023
Finishing touches
Construction of a Fayol bread oven: finishing touches and accessories.71K4.4 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.302K 13.6 August 29th 2023
Blog articles: 7 results
A memo of utensil weights
You will no doubt have come across this problem while cooking: after starting a recipe, when you already have some ingredients in a pan and have maybe cooked them, you need to know the weight of the pan's contents so that you can take half out, or add the same weight of sugar, for example.23K4.6 May 9th 2011
The proper use of a dusting machine
Let's take a look at a simple gesture, the sprinkling, that is to say to distribute a fine powder (icing sugar, sugar, flour,...) on a surface. If you have to sprinkle something, you may use a sprinkler or "poudrette" (in french) it is a very simple utensil, a box, with a lid pierced with holes...7,0364.6 July 31th 2019
The perfect boiled egg
Making boiled eggs is always a delight and it pleases the young and old alike. This little transgenerational side puts them on the list of "things to do on Sunday evening when you don't know what to do" in many families (including mine)... That said, it's not that simple, you have to pay...12K4.7 January 30th 2021
The salad spinner is not only for salad
Where we see that the salad spinner can be used for many other purposes.7,0284.8 March 25th 2022
In Praise of the Vegetable Mill
When a recipe or preparation calls for something solid to be pureed, as in a soup for example, the natural reflex is to take out the blender and plunge it into the saucepan. This works very well in most cases, but there are times when you'd like to puree something and at the same time remove the...5,2435 July 12th 2023
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,...6,7515 September 12th 2023
It's spinning too fast!
When you need to grate or slice vegetables, you generally use an electric machine that does all the work: a food processor, a mixer with a "slicer" extension or similar. Are these machines really suitable? Generally speaking, yes of course, but there's one criterion that often poses a problem,...5,0865 November 12th 2023
Lexicon: 2 results
Zesting
(Found inTexts)"Zesting" / "to zest" means to take off the zest, the thin outer layer of peel on citrus fruit (lemon, orange, grapefruit, etc.), to add the fruit's flavour with a hint of bitterness to a mixture. This can be done with an ordinary knife, a vegetable peeler, or a more specialised utensil: a zesting...
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