French Recipes
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Crêpes Parmentier
Dark Chocolate Mint Sorbet
When I dream about the decade-plus I spent living in Paris, there’s often a dessert involved. Specifically, it’s the luxurious chocolate mint sorbet that I used to order every time I splurged on one of my favorite restaurants, the Michelin-starred Au Trou Gascon. It has the thrill and depth of any dark chocolate dessert, but with a light, refreshing quality. This is my version, and it couldn’t be simpler.
Grilled Bread Topped With Celery Heart And Goat Cheese
Herb Mayonnaise (Sauce fines herbes)
Sweet-and-Sour Cherries with Bay Leaves
Croque Monsieur
In Italy, bricklayers and plutocrats alike eat the same thing for lunch: panini, sandwiches layered with meat and cheese and flattened between two searing griddles. Today they're almost as common as cappuccino in America, albeit much cheaper and easier to make. One affordable panini press, and you're on the fast track to the perfect party food.
Rouille
Hollandaise Sauce
For the longest time I made a classic French hollandaise sauce with two or three egg yolks, until I tasted what happens when you use seven, in keeping with the teachings of the chefs David McMillan and Fred Morin, of the restaurant Joe Beef in Montreal. Their advice carries over to the use of a blender instead of a double boiler to make the sauce. It’s a terrific sauce for asparagus, for broccoli, for steaks, for scallops, for eggs Benedict or for my homage to a Joe Beef dish: scallops with hollandaise sauce and shredded duck.
Snapper Fillets Provencal Style
Chicken Braised With Grapes
This chicken casserole is simple to prepare, yet stunning and a trifle unusual to serve. The addition of whole clusters of seedless grapes elevates it from easy everyday to dinner-party material. I based it on two recipes: the memory of a chicken dish that I ate many years ago in Toulouse, France, and the classic poulet au vinaigre, or chicken in vinegar sauce. A mellow, aged sherry vinegar and a high-quality balsamic complement the grapes. I prefer a 15-year-old balsamic, which replaces the smidgen of tomato that is often included in poulet au vinaigre. One final tip: Be sure the grapes you select — and they can be black or green instead of red — are sweet and have green stems, an indication of freshness.
New Potato Salad With Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Ina Garten’s Make-Ahead Coquilles St.-Jacques
Here is an easy version of coquilles St.-Jacques, the classic French preparation of scallops in a creamy sauce, under a crust of bread crumbs and cheese. It comes from Ina Garten, the celebrated cookbook author and television star, who has been cooking it for dinner parties, she told The Times, practically since the start of her marriage to Jeffrey Garten in 1968. It makes for a beautiful entree that matches well with a green salad, flinty white wine and good conversation. It can be made the day before serving and heated through in an oven while guests gather. “A lot of dishes taste better after they sit for a while,” Garten said. With its whisper of curry powder in the rich, unctuous sauce, this is one of them. You can make it in a casserole, but little gratin dishes are better and come in handy far more often than you might think. One per guest.
Brie Sandwiches On Croissants
Veal In Red-Wine Sauce (Meurettes De Veau)
Eggs Poached In Red-Wine Sauce (Les Oeufs Poches Au Vin Rouge)
Fish Fillets in Red Wine Sauce (Filets de Poisson Au Vin Rouge)
Matelote of Monkfish (Monkfish Stew)
Sauce Vinaigrette Au Vermouth (Vermouth Vinaigrette For Salads)
Tomato And Tapenade Salad
Gâteau de Crêpes
Duck With Cherries and Red Wine Vinegar
Classic French duck dishes, like Caneton aux Cérises (roast duckling with cherries) are for the most part considered too formal or just old-fashioned, relics from a bygone era. An updated version, however, can have great appeal. This interpretation uses a pan-roasted large Muscovy duck breast instead of a whole bird, as easy to cook as a steak. A pungent spice rub imbues it with big flavor. The sauce maintains some classic elements, like red wine vinegar and caramelized sugar, for a sweet-sour aspect, but fresh ginger and cayenne are added for more dimension and spark. Note: Muscovy breasts are quite lean and are best cooked rare to medium-rare (rosy); otherwise the meat will be dry.
Steamed Mussels With Garlic and Parsley
This is absolutely the simplest way to cook mussels, and perhaps the most satisfying. A big pot of them makes an easy, festive dinner any night of the week.
Baked apples, stuffed with beets, pine nuts and raisins
This side dish combines several of the usual game accompaniments in a single, attractive presentation. Mr. Lenotre likes to use the Reines des reinettes, but both Granny Smith and Golden Delicious apples may be substituted. He serves it as a side dish to the civet de lievre but it also goes well with pork, duck or turkey.
