Olive Oil and Rosemary Pie Crust
This pie crust have is interesting because 1/ it’s Mediterranean favors are incredible. It taste just like being in Southern France 2/ it’s very easy to roll out.
Recipes
Strawberry and Rhubarb Tart on Sablé Breton Shortbread
I love this desert’s association of ingredients and textures: a crunchy sablé breton shortbread, the rhubarb’s acidity and the sweetness of fresh strawberries. Serve as a cake to share or tartelettes individual tarts.
Razor Clam Rillettes
Do you know how to catch razor clams, and how to cook them? Try these razor shell rillettes. It’s kind of a spread, or a pate – pâté – as we would say in French.
Cherry Tomatoes and Chive Flan
Savory flan in French is a kind of crustless quiche. Endless fillings possible I love as starter or side with cherry tomatoes and chives.
Provencal Tomatoes, almost Candied
Tomatoes, olive oil, garlic and herbs. That’s all. All the flavors of South France in a single recipe.
Homemade Deli Meat Dried Pork Tenderloin
Homemade deli meat simply prepared by leaving pork tenderloin in coarse salt for 20 days, then rinsed and seasonned. Nothing more!
French Classic Cherry Clafoutis
French clafoutis aux cerises. Learn how to make a perfect clafoutis, the classic homecooking treat the French love to bake when cherries season comes.
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.
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!