How to Make a Classic French Fraisier at Home
Fresh strawberries, tender sponge and smooth cream: this bakery-style centrepiece may look daunting, but home…
Latest articles
Fresh strawberries, tender sponge and smooth cream: this bakery-style centrepiece may look daunting, but home…
French home cooks insist that gratin dauphinois can be wonderfully silky without being awash with cream…
The tray slides out of the oven with a gentle crackle and, at first glance, you might take it for…
In a year when comfort food dominated freezer aisles, Picard’s biggest success was not the product anyone…
The dough felt… wrong. You followed the recipe, weighed the flour and even treated yourself to that posh…
The first time I made this light apple cake with oil and yogurt, it was a Tuesday night and everybody…
At 3:17 p.m. one Tuesday, I made the sort of choice that seems insignificant in the moment but feels enormous…
Well away from Parisian limelight and Instagram-ready boutiques, Mathis and Samuel Anstett have secured a…
A quick batter, speedy cooking and a few carefully chosen ingredients can turn a simple homemade canapé…
Weeknight mayhem, hungry children and a nearly empty fridge: this soothing fish gratin discreetly tackles all…
Bread goes stale quickly, but in Britain a baguette often loses its best qualities faster than most loaves.
It is 10.30 pm, rain is clinging to the windows and, at the back of an almost empty bistro, a…
Shoppers in western France have been told to inspect a festive dessert after a contamination concern was…
There are evenings when you open the cupboard with little enthusiasm, find three potatoes rolling around in…
Some evenings, you have no energy left but still crave something hot and comforting, with the inviting aroma…
It is 7.40 pm. The dough has risen in its bowl, the mozzarella is waiting on the worktop, and the…
It is 7.12 pm, the fridge looks hopelessly empty, and ordering a pizza is starting to seem like the best…
This pastry flan has everything needed to turn heads: it is tall, golden, richly scented with vanilla and…
There are dishes that quieten the whole house before they even reach the table. Stuffed tomatoes are one of…
Fresh from the oven, the cake fills the kitchen with the scent of warm butter and vanilla. Yet the first…
On Sunday evenings, darkness falls early, rain is often on the way, and everyone seems to be dragging their…