French Recipes
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Brie and Jelly French Toast
This Jelly and Brie Stuffed French Toast recipe is an improved old favorite. Easy to make and requires only 4 ingredients! Top with syrup and enjoy!
Chard Stalk, Celeriac and Leek Soup
Hold onto your chard stalks! Recently I came upon a recipe in a Provençal cookbook for a gratin made with chard stalks and celeriac. I used the combination for a purée, which I served at Thanksgiving dinner to great acclaim. I took the same idea and made it into a blended soup, this time adding a potato and a bunch of leeks for added flavor and body. The soup is incredibly satisfying, but quite light.
Aioli With Roasted Vegetables
In Provence, the garlic-infused mayonnaise called aioli is typically served with a platter of raw and boiled vegetables and sometimes fish. With its intense creamy texture and deep garlic flavor, it turns a humble meal into a spectacular one. In this recipe, an assortment of colorful roasted vegetables stand in for the raw and boiled ones. It makes a very elegant side dish to an entrée of roasted fish or meat, or can be the main event of a vegetable-focused meal. The aioli can be made up to three days ahead and stored in the refrigerator. The vegetables are best roasted right before serving.
Blackberry French 75s
I have altered the classic a little, swapping Prosecco for the usual Champagne and adding a blackberry syrup rather than simple syrup. The blackberries make the cocktail feel extra summery to me and turn the cocktails a lovely ruby jewel tone.
Molly Wizenberg & Brandon Pettit's Red Wine Vinaigrette
This is a trick for making any old vinegar taste like something fancy, with just a splash of red wine. This red wine vinaigrette recipe is delicious.
Sizzling CHA! French Onion Dip
Dig into a bowl of spicy French onion dip prepared with a blend of sour cream, mayonnaise, French onion seasonings and lots of CHA! by Texas Pete® served with an assortment of fresh seasonal vegetables, crackers and potato chips for dipping.
Dan Leader's 4-Hour Baguette
This baguette recipe is the push you need to start baking your own bread. It will only take you 4 hours and it will rival your favorite bakery's french bread.
Rye Bread French Toast
My mom's recipe makes a French toast out of thin slices of Jewish rye bread, dipped in egg, fried until golden, and served with plenty of salt and pepper.
My Perfect French Omelette
I've been trying to "perfect" the French Omelette for a long time and I finally think this is it! Sometimes, the simplest and quickest recipes are the best.
Roasted Baby Turnips with Dijon-Shallot Vinaigrette and Tarragon
Oftentimes at brunch, I'm so underwhelmed by the side dishes: usually just some overdressed frisée or a bad biscuit (hey, I may live in Brooklyn, but this Southern girl knows what a real biscuit is supposed to taste like). This delicious side dish is easy to pull together at the last minute, but your guests will never know! It's a great compliment to any brunch table.
Deliciously Simple Shrimp Pate
This is my go-to recipe for the holidays: shrimp pate. It's super easy to make. Not terribly expensive. Easy to transport. And my guests always love it.
Pumpkin Soup Served in a Pumpkin (Potage au Potiron)
There was a little farm near where we lived, in Alsace, in a small town by the name of Thann, where we got our pumpkins. My mother would make soup just this way; she served it in the pumpkin, too. We kids looked forward to it every year. Along the way I’ve improved it a little bit. I added the croutons, which I sauté in butter and salt. She didn’t do that. I love soup, and this soup in particular. We usually have Thanksgiving up in the Catskills, at our friends’ house. I always say I’m not cooking, and I end up cooking. This is what I make.
Anthony Myint's French Toast Crunch
What happens when the minds behind Mission Chinese cross creme brûlée, French toast, and tres leches cake? An indulgent, 5-ingredient treat -- maybe the best pick-me-up we've ever had. French Toast Crunch is Anthony Myint's brilliant brûléed buttered toast resting in a pool of warm, sweet milk: our old friend milk toast, all dressed up. In his book, he lists 13 variations, from Matcha to Baklava. We've included a simple chamomile option, but feel free to make it your own. Adapted slightly from Mission Street Food (McSweeney's, 2011).
Niçoise Salad With Basil and Anchovy-Lemon Vinaigrette
Here is a riff on a classic French salade niçoise. Traditionalists drape anchovy filets across the finished salad, but here, they're minced and used only in the dressing. Anchovy admirers can certainly add more for garnish — and anchovy avoiders can simply leave them out. The only cooking is boiling the potatoes and haricots verts, which can be done together in the same pot. Add a jammy egg or two if you like. Dressing the vegetables while warm helps them absorb all the good flavors more deeply, making this a salad that manages to be intense and light at the same time.
Socca
This is essentially a large chickpea pancake from Provence (and neighboring Liguria, where it’s called farinata). It’s traditionally cooked in wood ovens on copper disks, roughly cut and served hot or warm. (In the main market in Nice, it’s baked a few hundred yards away and delivered by bicycle, to be wrapped in paper and eaten on the street.) If you have no wood or copper, that’s no problem. They’re nearly as great in a skillet or in a pizza pan in your oven, and totally foolproof.
Rustic Beet Tart and Wilted Greens
This recipe creates a flaky, buttery crust topped with creamy, tangy goat cheese custard and sweet, ruby red roasted beets for a beautiful rustic tart.
Mousse au Chocolat
Ok - this is not my recipe. This is pretty much the recipe from the back of plain ol' chocolate bars in France, and honest-to-goodness, it's the one most Parisians use. I swear! It's dead simple to make (the hardest part is remembering to leave the butter out to soften), but it always impresses. My kind of recipe.
Goat cheese and Tomato tart
My dear friend Flo Hiller introduced me to this recipe. He used to make it when he was a student in Paris and this was a cheap dinner and was enough for lunch the next day.
Rustic French Pork and Chicken Pâté
O.K., this is a little bit of a project, but not too taxing for an adventurous home cook. How about making your own pâté for the holidays? Ask the butcher to grind three-fourths of the meat medium, and one-fourth very coarse. Otherwise, if you are using a home meat grinder, you will need to hand chop about one-fourth of the meat, so that the mixture is dotted with little cubes of meat and fat. This will ensure a juicy texture and a rough mosaic pattern in each slice.
Quiche With Herbs and Goat Cheese
This green quiche laden with herbs and with thin slices of fresh goat cheese baked on top has a Gallic rusticity. A proper quiche (also known as a tarte salée, or savory open pie) should have really good pastry and contain a soft, tender eggy custard. It should be light enough to serve as a first course, or in larger portions for a simple main course. It should be something to sing about.
French Potato and Green Bean Salad
If this sounds like a pared-down salade niçoise, it is. Make a bold vinaigrette that is unapologetically fragrant with garlic and anchovy. Boil medium-size potatoes in their skins. Peel, slice and dress them while they are still slightly warm. You can even do the work in advance and then assemble it all just before serving. Authentic, traditional or somewhere in between, maybe we’ll just call this a potato salad with a southern French accent and let it go at that.
Tahitian Coconut Bread
I am not a big fan of coconut but it works in this delicious Tahitian bread recipe. I hope you love it as much as I do!
Hervé This' Chocolate Mousse
Hervé This discovered how to make a flawless, creamy Chocolate Mousse out of just chocolate and water. Yes, that's the recipe! No need to go to the store ever!
Melissa Clark's Really Easy Duck Confit
This is not the confit recipe they teach in cooking school-it's the easy kind you can make any time. All you need are a few duck legs, a skillet, & some spices.