All Entries in the "French Cooking Recipes" Category
French Onion Soup
Ingredients Serves 6 For the soup • 5 large brown onions • 50 g butter • 2 tbsp olive oil • 2 tsp brown sugar • 4 nips vegetable stock • 1 cup white wine • 2tbspbrandvorcognac • Salt to taste For the bread • 6 diagonal slices baguette • l garlic clove [...]
Coq au Vin
Ingredients Serves 2 4 large chicken thighs, skin on 2—3 red onions (diced) 150 grams of bacon bits or streaky bacon sliced into 1 inch squares 3 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon Olive oil Brown button mushrooms 400inl red wine (dry) 2 tablespoon flour 1 sprig fresh thyme 1 bay leaf 1 clove garlic [...]
Chicken with prunes, honey and almonds
Original french name: Tajine de poulet aux pruneaux Place of origin: Toulousain, Quercy, Aveyron & Auvergne French culinary is famous for broad range of chicken dishes. Some of them can be served daily for a usual dinner. However, there are a number of chicken meals that are made for really special occasions. The way chicken [...]
Parisian breakfast
Typical Parisian breakfast is a piece of baguette or small roll, croissant, brioche or fruit bun, jam or butter. Sweet pastries are called viennoiseries, as it was wrongly assumed that they came from Vienna. They are Parisian inventions for which puff or choux (cream or custard puff) pastry and great quantity of butter are used. [...]
Candied fennel sponge cake
Original french name: Bras de Vénus, crème legere au fenouil confit Place of origin: Roussillion, Southern France A candied fennel sponge cake is a very light and delicious french dessert. It originates from Southern province of France, Roussillon. Generally, in this fruit-growing area of France there is abundance of dessert recipes. Today’s one however is a bit [...]
Mussels in crème fraîche
Original french name: Mouclade Place of origin: Poitou-Carentes and Limousin, Central France In Charente the most popular way of eating mussels bred along the coast is in the form of Mouclade. It is a type of appetizer where mussels baked in a creamy sauce made from the mussel cooking liquid, egg yolk and crème fraîche. [...]
Bercy whiting
Original France name: Merlans Bercy Place of origin: Paris & Ile-De-France Whiting fish is a fish with a white, delicate and tender flesh that can be prepared different ways. It is also known is merlan. The fish should be cooked very fresh. Whiting fish mostly caught in the Atlantic. It prefers cold water and it [...]
Beef olives
Original french name: Paupiettes de boeuf Place of origin: Poitou-Charentes and Limousin, Central France French cuisine pays a great attention to the high quality beef production. One of the most popular french beef breeds for many years is Limousin breed. The Limousin breed has even spread over 60 countries making it the most frequently exported [...]
Escalope of Salmon with Snapper Sauce
Welcome back to My French Cooking Blog! I ‘m saying that not only for you but for myself as well. I have not posted for a while here. I have taken that time studying of cooking dishes from the French Culinary. I’m ready to share a few of the best dishes from my past experience [...]
Salmon with an Almond Crust
Today I wish to share one more main course dish with salmon. In French cuisine every fish dish must be served with any fish sauce. The Red Wine Butter Sauce perfectly matches to the Salmon with Almond Crust. This recipe works well with other firm-fleshed fish. Ingredients & Method of Salmon with an Almond Crust: [...]
Pear and Almond Cream Tart
Well, Christmas is coming and I wish to share today my favourite french tart to these special days. This glorious tart makes a truly indulgent dessert. It might be varied according to the season -it equally successful made with pears, nectarines, peaches, apricots or apples. Ingredients for the pastry: 200g/ 1 3/4 cup all purpose [...]
Fruit Salsa
Christmas Holiday is coming… I wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Today I want to share one sensational salad recipe that might be well fit to your festive Christmas table. This is a Fruit Salsa, very colorful and beautiful combination of many fruits and few vegetables. Here are honeydew melon, [...]
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