chicken ispahan recipe with French flavours
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My Chicken Ispahan Recipe – Inspired by Pierre Hermé’s French Pastry

It may seem strange, but I am not a café au lait fan. However, a hot chocolate (chocolat chaud) in Paris with a beautiful pastry called an Ispahan – now that is a magical French experience. Pierre Hermé created the dessert for Ladurée, the finest purveyor of macarons in Paris …

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Potage Parmentier - Creamy Potato Soup Recipe
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Authentic French Cream Potato Soup For Your Next Dinner Party

Potage Parmentier is an easy French cream potato soup that makes a delicious first course. The ingredients are only a few: potatoes, leeks, salt, water, and a little cream. Considering the ingredients, this is most likely a peasant soup, but these days, it is served in some very nice restaurants …

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Blanquette de Veau French Classic Recipe
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Blanquette de Veau a Classic French Recipe

Blanquette de veau is a traditional French main course that an aspiring French cook should have in their repertoire. The good news is that it’s easy to prepare and deeply satisfying on a cold day. Walking along the arcade of the Palais Royal in Paris, we found ourselves hungry for …

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Seared Scallops Morel Sauce
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Seared Scallops in a Morel Cream Sauce a French Classic Recipe

If you like mushrooms, you already know that the most wonderful varieties are foraged in the wild. Perhaps it’s because they have the hearty, earthy flavour of their terroir. Or maybe it’s just that these treasures must be searched out and harvested by hand. I created a French-inspired classic using …

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Scallops in a creamy Sauce
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Try This Recipe For Pan-Roasted Scallops in Creamy Sauce

Are there smells or tastes that transport you (at least virtually) to another time and place in your life? If you say “pan roast” to me, I’m immediately transported to New York City’s Grand Central Station. Below the main floor, you will find the Grand Central Oyster Bar, is an …

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Traditional Beef Daube from Provence with White Wine
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Traditional Beef Daube from Provence: A Stew Made with White Wine

What is a daube? It’s a slow-cooked beef stew served in Southern France, especially Provence. When I look at daube recipes and compare them to other beef stew recipes or bœuf bourguignon, there are a lot of similarities, but daube has a lighter body, more like a soup. For me, …

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sablefish in lemon cream over lavender fettucine
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Seafood Pasta with Lemon Cream and Lavender Fettuccine

As we enjoy the coolness of autumn, I think of the spent fields of lavender covering the Provence countryside, once vibrant, purply-blue, and fragrant fields. I wanted to reclaim a bit of that summer feeling by creating today’s recipe for Sablefish in Lemon Cream over Lavender Fettucine. I paired it …

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Homemade Classic French Baguettes
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Homemade Classic French Baguettes Try This Easy Recipe

Let’s be honest; no one can make French Baguettes without the perfect French flour, the correct French yeast, or a wood-fired oven. But I still want to bake something at home with the right texture and that distinctive crinkling sound when gently squeezed. Sure, we can buy decent bread where …

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Arroz con Pollo Delicious Paella Recipe
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Delicious Paella Recipe Served With a Rosé from Bandol in Provence

Playing around with this recipe for paella (Arroz con Pollo) took me years to perfect. Paella is a Spanish dish from the Valencian Community but is often found in Provencal markets. The exact ingredients are up to the chef, but this version was inspired by Jacques Pépin’s Arroz con Pollo, …

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grenache blanc cake
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Make this Easy Cake with Grenache Blanc Wine from Scratch

Last year, I celebrated International Grenache Day (September 15) by sharing a delicious cake created by Sue Tipton, owner and vintner of Acquiesce Winery, for which she doctors a box cake mix to make her Acquiesce Grenache Blanc Cake. Well, you know me — I love cooking too much to …

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