Cassoulet is a fairly epic dish that many home cooks shy away from because it requires a lot of time, some recipes call for 3 days of preperation/cooking. It’s a peasant dish and they were too busy working to be cooking for three days straight. I’ll guarantee they worked a lot harder for longer hours [...]
Tag Archive 'french'
Three Course French Meal
Posted in Cooking on Jun 12th, 2010
I was having some friends over for dinner and wanted to be very french, and just happened to have a lot of stuff stashed in my freezer that was perfect for it … Freshly cured pork belly, a bone from a home cured ham, duck legs, confit pork belly, and slow cooked beef ribs. I [...]
The makings of a French Classic.
Posted in Cooking on Sep 27th, 2008
Over the last few days I have made a White Mother Sauce ( Sauce Veloute Ordinaire ) from the epic cookbook ‘The Saucier’s Apprentice’ by Raymond Sokolov. There are three steps to making it, and each step is in it’s own blog post, This post is simply to join them all together. Firstly you make [...]
Sauce Veloute Ordinaire ( Ordinary Cream Sauce )
Posted in Cooking on Sep 27th, 2008
Sauce Veloute Ordinaire ( Ordinary Cream Sauce ) commonly just called Veloute is the white mother sauce used to make a lot of french classic sauces ( Sauce Allemande, Sauce Andalouse, Sauce Aurore, and many more ). It is made from mixing a Fond Blanc Ordinaire ( Ordinary White Stock ) with a blonde roux. Pretty [...]
French Country Style Terrine (Pate de campagne)
Posted in Cooking on Sep 9th, 2008
Inspired by a recipe posted in a forum I frequent I decided to attempt this classic french dish for Father’s Day. It’s a fairly lengthy process especially as I decided to mince the meats myself, so I gave myself the whole weekend to do it, Saturday for Prep and Sunday for assembly and cooking. All [...]
