Caramelized Onions
This onion stew or confit, almost caramelized, can be served as a side to any kind of savory dish or even be added to your preparations, such as savory custard or tarts.
Recipes
French Lemon Tart
Lemon tart might be one of French’s favorite desert. This is an extremely quick recipe that enhance lemon flavor without being too acidic and without meringue’s sugary taste.
It’s kind of the French Key Lime Pie.
Slow Cooked Seven-Hour Leg of Lamb
If one think of Easter traditional family meal, there’s immediatly images of roast leg of lamb. Why not changing for the 7-hour recipe, slow cooked in the oven at low temperature? Quite long but very easy to make. The meat becomes so tender that you can even serve it with a tablespoon. Almost like a confit.
French Classic Potato Gratin
This is one of the most traditional French side for any kind of meal, from daily simple lunch to fancy dinner. Easy recipe explained step by step in photo
Spices and Honey Gingerbread
No eggs left at home? And you want to bake a cake? Why not try this French version of gingerbread, which is actually more of a spice and honey cake than the traditional gingerbread. It does contain ginger, but not only.
Pie Crust
There are many different recipes of pie crunch: with or without butter, with or without almond powder, with different proportion of ingredients, adding the ingredients in different orders – the flour first or at the end -, handmade or using a food processor…
I choose this recipe, from Christophe Felder, because it is simple and easy to roll out.
How to Make Perfect Choux Pastry
The basic pâte à choux / choux pastry recipe, great for baking French classic pastries such as chouquettes, profiteroles, gougères…
Nanterre Brioche
Brioches are mainly made of flour, eggs, and butter, LOTS of butter! The question is how can Nanterre style brioche become so aerated with so much fat? The art consist in mixing the dough for a long moment.
Osso Bucco with Oranges
Composed of veal shank, slowly cooked in a white wine and tomato sauce stew, osso bucco tends to be eaten only by bone marrow amateurs even though it’s a woderful dish.
Marinated Bell Peppers
Roasted, peeled then marinated in olive oil, baslamic vinegar, spices and herbs. Those marinated red and green bell peppers are a delight and they can be used in many different ways.
Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise can seem so difficult to make and yet becomes so easy once you are fully aware of the tips and tricks and the different steps. Homemade mayonnaise is so tasty. You’ll never be able to eat that industrial stuff once you’ve tasted it!
Fennel and Orange Salad
October. Fennel is about to disappear from the shelves of our favorite markets who respect seasons, and juicy oranges sneak up. It’s the ideal moment to prepare this delicious fresh salad. It’s light and full of vitamins.
Mendiant Chocolate Disc with Fruit and Nuts
Literally this means beggar. What a strange name for a chocolate treat!
Garlic Purée
You think professional chefs’ recipes are too difficult to do yourself?
You find the taste of garlic too aggressive?
Try this.
Madeleines
Have you ever heard the expression « c’est ma madeleine de Proust »?
The French use it when something – be it an object, an event or a situation – reminds us of sweet memories of the past.
Chouquette Choux Pastry
Chouquettes are tiny little airy pastries that everybody seems to come away from the bakery with and eat one after the other before you know it, the whole bag’s gone. They are so tempting.
But have you ever imagined making them yourself?
Chocolate Ice cream
Chocolate Ice Cream Demonstration at the 2014 Chocolate Fair “Salon du Chocolat” in Paris, by France’s Finest Artisan Meilleur Ouvrier de France Jean-Claude David.
Tarte Tatin Apple Pie
Iconic French tarte tatin is a caramelized apple pie baked upside down. A delicious recipe comming form a mistake, Here is the story behind.