French Holiday/Event Recipes

"This is a really simple dish to make and it's quite elegant."

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Ingredients: dried basil, shrimp...

"This is the easiest and one of the most impressive chicken dishes I make. Serve with grated parmesan at the table."

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Ingredients: pepper, fettuccine...

"This is a recipe I have been making for yonks now.....I first devised it about 18 years ago, when I was following Rosemary Connely's "Hip & Thigh Diet"!! It's a very easy low fat chicken dish, which can be pan fried or baked in the oven - I prefer the latter method, it's much easier! Serve it with a medley of gently steamed vegetables,..."

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Ingredients: Dijon mustard, fresh ground black pepper...

"I do these in the crock pot mostly, but sometimes I do them covered on the stove top, and both ways they come out moist and juicy. Stove top takes only 25 minutes simmering. The sauce is so good!"

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Ingredients: pepper, cream of chicken soup...

"This one's a truly memorable dinner without a lot of time spent in the kitchen."

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Ingredients: pepper, rib eye steaks...

"Make up a large batch of rustic artisanal bread dough, store it and then bake a loaf each day you need fresh bread, amazing but true! This is a hodge podge of old fashioned English and French rustic bread recipes; the bread dough is made up ahead of time and stored (in the old days) in an earthenware crock or bowl, with a lid. You tear a piece of the..."

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Ingredients: fast rising yeast, warm water...

"...from THE REALLY GOOD FOOD COOK BOOK. You won't believe how wonderful this mousse is! You can serve it at the most elegant dinner parties or at family dinners and, I promise you, it will be all gone."

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Ingredients: chocolate chips, confectioners' sugar...

"Ohhhh m'gawd, are these good or what? I don't like to toot my own horn, but TOOT! TOOT, TOOOOOOOOOOT!! The less expensive cube steak finally gets some respect here."

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Ingredients: cracked black pepper, cremini mushrooms...

"Wonderful French Dish! A different way to serve potatoes that my whole family just loves. Enjoy!"

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Ingredients: fresh chives, fresh parsley...

"This recipe makes a rather good French loaf. Since it uses "rapid rise" yeast, it is quicker to make because it only needs 1 rise instead of 2. Prep time includes 40 minute rising time."

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Ingredients: cornmeal, fast rising yeast...

"This classic French potato gratin dish is world famous, and rightly so! I am quite happy to have this as a main meal, with just some crusty bread and a large mixed salad on the side. I have heard that this famous dish was created as a way of encouraging the "Dauphin" (the young prince destined to become King Henri II), to eat up his vegetables,..."

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Ingredients: double cream, fresh ground black pepper...