French Recipes

Advantages: A delightful lunch or dinner meal
Disadvantages: None

What could be more French than the classic Quiche Lorraine? I was inspired to begin cooking up French cuisine during my last year in college over twenty years ago, when I took a French language class, and by the arrival of a new French chef that was just starting to become popular in America, none other than Jaques Pepin. A quiche is fairly easy to make and provides a bit of elegance as a lunch or even dinner meal. While it may be "easier" to get ...
...beats making homemade, and I'm a stickler for making everything from scratch. Pastry: 1 ½ cups flour ¼ teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons (¾ stick) sweet butter 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening ¼ cup cold water In a stainless steel mixing bowl, work the flour, salt, butter and shortening together until you have a course mixture. Add the water and mix into a ball. Line a 10½ inch flan ring or quiche pan and refrigerate for about an hour. Quiche ... Read review

Advantages: Heavenly!
Disadvantages: None

...sides. Add wine, bouillon. On low heat, cover, cook for 35 minutes. Remove toothpicks. Put on plate -blend cornstarch with cream in a bowl. Whisk into the skillet. Cook mixture until thickened, and pour over chicken. Ready to eat in about and hour. Serves 8 Hungry French People :) ... Read review

Advantages: DELICIOUS
Disadvantages: Fattening

Vanilla Sable Cookie Recipe 2 cups all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon baking powder 10 tablespoons butter ½ cup granulated sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Egg wash: 1 egg white 2 teaspoons water Preparation: In a medium bowl mix the flour and baking powder and set aside. In large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until smooth. Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix in the dry ingredients until a smooth dough forms. Form ...
...Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 350F. Prepare the egg wash by beating together the egg white and 2 teaspoons of water. Roll out the disk of dough to ¼-inch thickness, and cut out the sables using a 2-inch fluted cookie cutter. If using a log of cookie dough, slice it crosswise into ¼-inch thick coins. Brush the sables with the egg wash, and bake on a parchment lined baking sheet for 15 minutes, or until they ... Read review

Advantages: GOOD Disadvantages: ZIP

French Apple Turnovers are very good. I love to make these. They are easy to make, and if you are a apple loved like I am, you are sure to love them. here is the recipe I use. Filling: 3/4 pound Granny Smith apples 3/4 pound Golden Delicious apples 1/4 cup water 3 tablespoons sugar 3/4 teaspoon fresh lemon juice For pastry: 1 14- to 16-ounce package all-butter frozen puff pastry (1 or 2 sheets, depending on brand), thawed 1 egg, beaten to blend ...
...core, and cut apples into 1-inch pieces (about 4 cups). Place apples in medium saucepan; add 1/4 cup water, 3 tablespoons sugar, and lemon juice. Bring to boil, stirring occasionally until sugar dissolves. Cover; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until apples are very tender, stirring frequently, about 12 minutes. Remove from heat. Gently mash apples with fork or potato masher until mixture is very soft but still chunky. Cool completely. DO AHEAD: ... Read review

Advantages: very easy to prepare, very tasty
Disadvantages: nothing

...Once I came across the French Onion Soup recipe. It seemed to be a very tasty one and yes, everyone at my home liked it very much. Here are ingredients that are required to prepare the French Onion Soup: White onions - 6 Corn flour - 2 tspn Vegetable stock - 1 cup Butter - 1 tspn Pepper powder - ½ tspn Sugar - ½ tspn Salt Parsley Slice the onions into small pieces. Put butter in a deep pan. Add the sliced onions and saute till the onions ...
...Make a paste with corn flour and water and add it to the soup. This helps to thicken the soup. Garnish the soup with parsley and serve hot. This French Onion soup tastes so good with garlic bread and boiled potatoes. You can prepare the soup in minutes. ... Read review

Advantages tasty and sugar free!
Disadvantages none

...with an old french recipe which commands that the sweetness comes from grape juice! So that's exactly what they've done - created a marvellously light and sweet tasting spread which is absolutely delicious! And contains not a grain of sugar! It has a much lighter taste than other jams, but still perfectly sweet, and it's the sort of jam that lends itself well to bread and jam. Another source of fun from my friends - they think I'm on rations! The jams - and the marmalade in particular are quite dusky in colour, as though they're home made: they don't have that radioactive processed glow! They spread beautifully, and you'll find huge strawberry chunks in the strawberry version, and the marmalade is thick cut, so it's probably not best for picky kids!! :-p But as an every day indulgence for the rest of the family, it's perfect. Even the smell... Read review

Advantages Tastes great, has a 'rapid' 1hr programme
Disadvantages Long cooking times for lighter, fluffier bread

...’ white bread. Takes about 3 hours + depending on your exact choice of loaf size/colour etc. 2. FRENCH The simplest of recipes with only 4 ingredients makes French style bread. Lighter texture and crispy crust. 3. WHOLE-WHEAT Whole-wheat flour is heavier and makes a denser loaf. This programme pre-heats the ingredients and lets the dough rise a little longer 4. SWEET For loafs with fruit, nuts, chocolate chips etc. It beeps during the second kneading process telling you when to add these extra ingredients 5. SUPER RAPID (750G) Not to be confused with Rapid (I’ll explain later) Produces bread in under one hour as long as you have the correct ingredients i.e. fast acting yeast. Suitable for a 750g loaf 6. SUPER RAPID (1KG) As programme 5 but for a 1kg loaf 7. QUICK A programme for batter rather than dough, using baking soda... Read review

Advantages Very simple to make and very filling
Disadvantages None

...I found this recipe on the www.ffcook.com web site, I was looking for something different to try out. The web site has a different suggestion every week. The recipes are all French and include aperitif, entrees, main courses, desserts and crepes. You can have the recipes in French or English, they will send you a news letter each week with recipes to try and run competions, they will also answer any cookery questions you might have. I love making healthy meals for myself and my husband, I am on the never ending quest to be 10 stone again and he is in to weight training and protien is high on his list of imortant things when it comes to food. So This is an ideal meal full of protien and not too fattening, I hope !!! To make this loaf you will need a loaf tin, the recipe didn't say what size so I had to quess and hope it didn... Read review