Matcha Macarons is a type of French macaron flavoured with matcha powder and filled with chocolate gananche. If I love cooking savoury dishes my daughter is the total opposite, she is into making amazing pastries like this macaron. This was her nth time making macarons and as she endlessly prepares...
I did not know that breakfasts in a good hotel starts late on a weekend and that’s what happened to me when I was staying at this big hotel in Sydney’s Harbour. It was 6:30 am in the morning and we were up quite early as we will be planning...
There are many dishes to whip up with that left-over Christmas Ham, most of you already have a stock standard recipe that you prepare on a yearly basis like soup, pasta and quiche to name some but have you tried making Croque Madame or Croque Monsieur? Croque Madame or Croque...
Strawberry French Macarons is a French Style pastry made with almond flour and egg whites filled with cream cheese and strawberry jam. It was a proud parent moment when I saw my daughter patiently makes her first macaron and she nailed it. It was a very laborious process as I...
Moules à la Crème is a French dish prepared with mussels cooked in a saute of garlic and shallots served on white wine and cream sauce. The French really know how to use their cream properly, one great example is this dish a simple mussel dish cooked in white wine...
Duck Fat Potatoes is dish of floury potatoes twice cooked, par boiled then roasted with duck fat. There are many ways for prepare a potato, fry them, steam them or bake them, while most of these are good I guess the best one is to cook them in duck fat....
Examples of regional dishes in North France Many dishes in the French cuisine are heavily influenced by the region they come from. France is a large country with rich traditions and history, which influence the cuisine. Some dishes might not be very popular, but they can be considered a speciality...
Chicken Galantina is a dish of deboned chicken stuffed with minced meat, egg, cold cuts, pickle relish and spices that is either poached, steamed or baked. Chicken Galantina is a Filipino dish of deboned chicken stuffed with a mixture of minced meat, egg, cold cuts, pickle relish and other spices...
Blueberry Creme Brulee is a custard dessert with blueberries prepared by water bath baking then finished by torching sugar crystals on top Creme Brulee is a custard dessert prepared by water bath baking then finished by torching sugar crystals on top creating a hard-caramel topping. On its simplest form, it...
Steak in Mushroom Miso Sauce is a simple steak of beef that uses a popular Japanese ingredient to flavour its gravy, the miso Yōshoku is a term for Western-influenced cooking in Japan and some good examples of it are Omuraisu (Omelette Rice), Hayashiraisu (Hashed Beef with Rice), Kareraisu (Curry Rice), Korokke...
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