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Please find below the 4 golden rules for Food & Wine matching. It is a very simplistic approach, but it works in most cases. Coulour Matching the colour of a dish to the colour of a wine works in 50% cases. For example, a bull’s casserole (“daube”), will match a string-coloured wine such as a …
Recovery cake An easy to make recovery cake for marathons, ultra trails, etc. 2 yoghurts 3 yoghurt pots white flour 1/2 yoghurt pot brown sugar 3 eggs 200 g fruits (banana, apples, pears) 1/2 yoghurt pot hazelnut oil 1/2 bag baking powder 1 lemon zest Preheat the oven (170°C). Mix all the ingredients except the …
It is the blackberry season! This is a very quick & refreshing recipe that I made this weekend. I used my thermomix but you can make it with any kitchen food processor. Serves 6 – 15 minutes Ingredients 250 g mascarpone cheese 250 g wild blackberries 1 lemon (zest & juice) 20 g glucose (optional) …
This recipe is my grand mummy’s specialty. It was a tradition for women in Aniane, the village where my grand-parents live, to gather a whole afternoon to make “oreillettes” for the Carnival and for Christmas. This recipe requires a long time and a lot of patience, so I recommend that you do it just like …
With this recipe I introduce you to two local products from the South of France: Noilly Prat, a vermouth made in the small town of Marseillan, between Montpellier and Béziers, and zézettes de Sète on Wikipedia, which are small biscuits made with olive oil and a local sweet wine called “Muscat de Frontignan“. Time: 30 …
I had in the freezer some white fisf fillets and some squid, and as I like cannelloni, I made a Mediterranean version of them, using some saffron, this magic spice that I love. So please find below my recipe… Serves 6 – 1 hour. Fish & Squid 400g white fish fillets (cod, seabass, sole, etc.) …
Churros are delicious but they are greasy and get your fingesr dirty…. This is why I imagined a “girly” version of them, still as greasy, I have to say, but in a mini version, and pink! With Disney’s Frozen music in the background, this is a future star of any girls’ birthday afternoon, for sure! …
This is a totally reliable old Tupperware recipe. !you czn use it for both sweet and savoury tarts, it never fails: It is very quick to make (less than 5 minutes, 3 ingredients), easy to roll (not elastic), no need to make it in advance and pre bake it, and it does not shrink once …
A slightly different version from the classic Iitalian Tiramisu, with some Languedoc influences, to use the last figs of the season. For those of you who have never heard of Noilly Prat, it is a vermouth made in the small & beautiful town of Marseillan in the Languedoc. It is mostly used in cocktails but …
In 2014, the total are under vine in the woris of 7,519,000 hectares, which is the equivalent of 700 times the area of Paris. The number 1 country is Spain, with more than 1 million hectares under vine, followed by China and France. In place #6 and #7 we find some countries that come in …
Cheese and Wine tend to work very well together (please see my last infographics about this here – click). But Comté is a multiform cheese. Its taste and aromas depend on the micro-region where it was produced, the local microflora, the season in which the cheese was made, the distinctive style of the cheesemaker, the cellar …
The idea for this recipe came to me over the week-end. I was organising a Xmas dinner with friends and each one of us had to bring something. There were some kids with us, so I thought making some pizzas with various toppings and some shapes reminding us of Xmas would be a good option …