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Why Bakery Croissants Taste Better Than Homemade Croissants
Saturday morning: no alarm, a coffee warming your hands. You lift a tray of homemade croissants from the oven…
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Laurent Mariotte’s Pommes Boulangères: A Lighter Alternative to Gratin Dauphinois
On winter nights, it is easy to instinctively turn to double cream, melted cheese and oven dishes that emerge…
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10-Minute Molten Chocolate Cake for Weeknights
A saucepan, a chocolate bar and ten spare minutes: that is all this weeknight dessert needs to quietly become…
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Carrot and Ham Spiral Tart for Easy Weeknight Dinners
Weeknight meals can soon become a repetitive cycle of familiar dishes, particularly if quiche is your usual…
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How to Make Bakery-Style Croissants at Home with Basic Tools
There is a distinctive hush in a kitchen at 6 a.m. The coffee machine murmurs, the road outside has barely…
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Cream Cheese Mashed Potato: the simple trick for a creamier mash
On a weeknight, the saucepan is still steaming on the worktop and the potatoes are waiting to be dealt with…
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Easy Raisin and Almond Squares for Winter
Across France, an unassuming raisin and almond traybake is gaining favour as a cold-weather bake because it is…
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Norbert Tarayre’s Quiche Lorraine With a Clever Spiced Shortcrust
Comfort food does not often make headlines, but one French TV chef has transformed a weekday favourite into an…
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Fluffy Pan-Fried Bread Rolls Without an Oven
In a compact kitchen, a frying pan takes on the role normally reserved for an oven. There are no baking…
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Italian Pandoro recalled in Paris over inert residues
In Paris in recent days, an Italian pandoro - golden and soft - had taken on that role in a…
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The Trending Molten Heart Dessert That Makes Every Dinner Memorable
The table is laid, candles are glowing and the playlist is queued. Yet one small question remains: will this…
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How to Cook Crozets Like Risotto: The Savoyard Crozotto Secret
In the icy mountains of Savoie, one understated detail in the pan separates bland crozets from a truly…
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Panettone vs Pandoro: Italy’s Christmas Cake Showdown
Across Europe and the US, two lofty Italian cakes are engaged in a quiet Christmas battle for space on festive…
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The Chef’s Secret to Crisp Quiche Lorraine
Quiche lorraine may seem like the sort of straightforward supper you can make without a second thought, but…
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Why Your Oven Temperature Is Lying to You
The baker crouched down, eased the oven door open and frowned. The croissants appeared perfectly good to me…
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Mandarin Orange Cake Recipe
A friend I swap recipes with passed this recipe on to me. It is wonderfully moist and delicious. As a…
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Cyril Lignac’s 15-Minute Crispy Croque-Monsieur Method
You can certainly make a croque-monsieur at home in 15 minutes. The challenge is achieving that café-standard…
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Best Apples for Every Dessert: Pies, Tarts, Crumbles and Compotes
“For crumble or for tart?” she asks the stallholder, laughing and panicking in equal measure. The crates spill…
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Carrot, Cumin and Orange Soup for Grey Autumn Evenings
On an October evening, rain clings to the windows and the shopping bag suddenly feels rather heavy. Yet on the…
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Gluten-Free Genoise That Actually Floats
The unassuming gluten-free genoise - that light European sponge - is proof. The secret is to let the eggs…
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Light Spinach Gratin for Grey Toulon Skies
A soft grey sky covers Toulon, yet residents still have reason to celebrate the mild weather with something…