A navarin d’agneau is a French lamb casserole like no other! Veggies are beautifully cooked and the meat is tender and moist and has a wonderful flavor thanks to thyme, rosemary and wine! It’s really good :-) Give it a try and you will not be disappointed!
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A cream of mushrooms that is easy and really good! Mushrooms are cooked in a pan with a little bit of olive oil, some garlic and some thyme! It’s a fine cream that can be used as a side dish or during the aperitif! You chose!
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This is a fine dessert that celebrates Earl Grey tea and it does it with great success. Prunes go very well with the rest of the ingredients, and the two biscuits (frangipane and lady fingers) go together wonderfully with the sabayon cream flavored with this fine tea!
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The vigneronne sauce is rather simple to make and has very nice perfumes and flavor! It goes very well with beef, and croutons with shallots bring some crunchiness but are even better with the sauce and the meat! It’s a recipe coming from the Ritz in Paris and its school called “Escoffier”! It certainly worth the detour!
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Some potatoes for Christmas or winter time flavored with duck or goose fat and with some mandarin zest and a little bit of bay leaf for extra flavor! It’s good and easy to make!
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This is a fine rabbit with cider and spices (ginger and cinnamon), it’s very good and even more tasteful thanks to honey that accentuates the taste of sweet and savory of the dish! It couples well with the fruits made with honey and spices!
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These light lasagna have a secret ingredient that gives them a very special character to the point that it does not matter that these lasagna do not have béchamel sauce :-) This secret ingredient is called allspice and it’s so good that you will not eat normal lasagna no more ;-)
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These shrimps à la creole are very special because they couple well tomato puree and lime (juice and zest)! Seeing these two ingredients together we might think they will not match, but this is not true, they go very well together! Besides onions, garlic and red peppers that give some extra taste there is also thyme, bay leaf and some chili that bring even more flavor! On top we grate a little bit of nutmeg and thus we create a wonderful sauce that goes very well with pasta or rice! You need to try it to see for yourself!
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This veal with lemon confit has a multitude of ingredients (onions, garlic, carrots, honey, wine, orange juice and zest, thyme, bay leaf and of course lemon confit) that create a symphony of flavors! It’s really good and quick to make! Don’t miss the opportunity to taste it :-)
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Lentils the Greek way are cooked as a soup or as a dish and they are made with tomato puree, onion and garlic and they have some bay leaf for extra flavor! You serve it with some red wine vinegar or Xérès vinegar and it’s really good! They are different from the lentils as we eat them in France and this recipe has better taste! But the lentils themselves are better in France than those in Greece and they cook faster! Give them a try and let me know!
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