Cuisine de Grand-Mère: 140 Easy French Home Cooking Recipes by Colette Moreau
Real French home cooking, the way it was made in my grandmother's kitchen, written for American kitchens.
Cuisine de Grand-Mère brings together 140 French family recipes: the soups, gratins, stews, tarts and desserts that French families have cooked for generations, plus 25 American favorites made the French way. Everything is made with ingredients from a normal US supermarket. No fancy shops and no restaurant tricks, just good, generous food.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- Breakfast (15 recipes): soft French omelette, crêpes, brioche French toast with salted caramel, yogurt cake
- Soups (15): French onion soup, potato leek, soupe au pistou, split pea with ham
- Potatoes and Sides (15): gratin dauphinois, ratatouille, garlic potatoes, glazed carrots
- Lunches, Salads and Tartines (20): quiche Lorraine, croque monsieur, salade niçoise, gougères
- Chicken, Meat and Fish (30): coq au vin, beef bourguignon, steak frites, mussels in white wine
- Desserts (20): tarte Tatin, crème brûlée, chocolate mousse, cherry clafoutis
- American Classics, the French Way (25): mac and cheese with Gruyère, chicken pot pie with tarragon, the French-way cheeseburger
EVERY RECIPE INCLUDES
- A full-page photo of the finished dish
- Serves, prep time, cook time and difficulty (Easy or Medium)
- An ingredient list with a small picture of each ingredient
- US cups and spoons first, with metric in parentheses; oven temperatures in °F and °C
- Clear, numbered steps, each with a short bold title
- Colette's trick: the one thing that makes the dish work
- "If it goes wrong": the 3 most common problems and how to fix them
- How long leftovers keep and how to use them
Large, easy-to-read text, one recipe per two-page spread, and a kitchen notes page with French cooking terms and an oven temperature chart.
DETAILS
- Format: PDF, 303 pages, US Letter size (8.5 x 11 in)
- Instant digital download, no physical item will be shipped
- Read it on your tablet, computer or phone, or print the recipes you love
- For personal use only; please do not share or resell
From Colette Moreau of The Old French Kitchen. Bon appétit!