This recipe makes for 3 baguettes. Ingredients: 25 cl water 2 Tbsp olive oil 2 Tbsp sugar 1 dehydrated yeast bag 1 tsp salt 375 g flour I placed all the ingredients in the bowl of the bread machine and stared the kneading program. It is also possible to knead by hand. Once the bread machine is over, flour hands and work surface. Remove dough, divide it into 3 and work each part for 5 minutes.…
Read more »This recipe makes for 1 puff pastry. Total time ~7 hours Ingredients: For the pastry 200 g flour 50 g butter 8 cl water 1 tsp salt For the puff A 150 g butter rectangle of about 12x10 cm In a bowl, mix the ingredients for the dough and form a smooth ball of dough. Cut a cross on the top with a knife. Cover with a plastic wrap and set to cool for 30 minutes.…
Read more »Preparation time : 25 minutes This recipe makes for about 125g of butter. Ingredients: 40 cl heavy cream, at least 35% fat. Better the quality of the heavy cream, better the butter will be. I bought it at an organic food store, the cream was very fat and tasty, this made me about 140g butter. Salt if you want to make salted butter, 2 good pinches of salt would be enough.…
Read more »Here are my very successful detox tricks after a heavy weekend with a lot of food and drinks. What I do for at least one week is the following : the juice of half a lemon with a bit of warm water, before having breakfast (half an hour before at least) a big glass bottle (75cl - 1L) with 2 tea bags from bio nutrisanté. This diet is meant to help clean your liver and gallbladder, the liver being the filter of your body’s toxins.…
Read more »Preparation time : 5 minutes, cooking time : 10 minutes Ingredients: 1 liter of milk 8 egg yolks 200 g sugar 1 vanilla pod Whisk together the egg yolks with the sugar until the mixture whitens. Open the vanilla pod in half and scrape the seeds, add these seeds to the cold milk. Bring the milk to a boil, pour over the eggs, whisk. Pour this mixture in another saucepan, cook over low heat about 10 minutes, stirring regularly (note the temperature of the custard should not exceed 85 ° C).…
Read more »This recipes makes for 4 servings. Takes 15min for the preparation and 15min for the cooking Ingredients: 3 large leeks 1 shallot 1 yellow onion 25g butter 1 small glass of dry white wine 1 tbsp full cream 1 pinch of Espelette pepper salt, freshly ground pepper Start by sorting the leeks. Remove the hard green part. Cut into 2 in the lengthwise. Chop finely into half-rings begining at the white base.…
Read more »This recipe is for 12 half-baked dark chocolate coeur coulants. Ingredients 280g dark chocolate (70% cocoa) 220g butter 80g cream 50g flour 60g cornstarch 100g brown sugar 8 eggs 2 squares of dark chocolate for each coeur coulant Mix the eggs and brown sugar, beat until the mixture whitens. Add the flour and cornstarch, continue beating. Melt the chocolate, butter and cream in a double boiler. Stir in chocolate mixture egg-sugar-flour until smooth.…
Read more »This recipes makes for 12 servings. Takes 1hr30 for the preparation and at least 2hr for cooling Ingredients: For the crust 85g butter melted, plus extra for the pan 140g digestive biscuit, made into fine crumbs 1 tbsp sugar, granulated or golden caster For the cheesecake filling 3 x 300g/11oz pack Philadelphia cheese, or other full-fat soft cheese 250g golden caster sugar 3 tbsp plain flour 1½ tsp vanilla extract finely grated zest of 1 lemon (about 2 tsp) 1½ tsp lemon juice 3 large egg, plus 1 yolk 200ml sour cream For the sour cream topping 226ml sour cream 1 tbsp golden caster sugar 2 tsp lemon juice Position an oven shelf in the middle of the oven.…
Read more »This recipe makes for 10 servings. Total recipe time : 2 h 45 Ingredients: 1 kg potatoes 3⁄4 liter milk 75 cl cream 200 g butter salt, pepper Peel the potatoes, wash them one by one under the tap without soaking. Cut into thin slices (I used a mandolin). Butter an earthenware dish and arrange the potato slices in layers. Add salt and pepper (I also put nutmeg) and pour the milk on top.…
Read more »This recipe makes for 10 servings. Total time for the recipe : 4 h 45 Ingredients: 2 kg beef (“gîte”, a part of the leg) 500 g carrots 300 g smoked bacon 500 g pearl onions butter 1 cup of oil For the veal stock 1 veal’s foot 200 g smoked bacon 2 kg onions 500 g carrots 1 garnished bouquet(parsley, thyme, bay) 1⁄2 bouquet chervil 1 head of garlic 1 liter full-bodied red wine (like burgundy) butter salt, pepper Preparation Peel and chop roughly the 2 kilos of onions and 500 grams of carrots.…
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