Savory Dishes

Piperade

Piperade is the quintessential Basque sauce and condiment, an indispensable basic of Basque cooking.  It is essentially a slow simmered compote of sweet peppers, tomato and onions, flavored with thyme and Piment d’Espelette.  Piperade can be used in many dishes, including with eggs (the photo shows a dish of eggs baked with prawns and piperade), […]

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Piperade is the quintessential Basque sauce and condiment, an indispensable basic of Basque cooking.  It is essentially a slow simmered compote of sweet peppers, tomato and onions, flavored with thyme and Piment d’Espelette.  Piperade can be used in many dishes, including with eggs (the photo shows a dish of eggs baked with prawns and piperade),

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Lentil Ragout with kale, winter squash and brown butter-garlic cream

This hearty Fall ragout is featured on the Fall 2011 menu at Cafe Presse, where we offer it topped with either a crispy leg of duck confit or with a sunny side up fried farm egg.  I have had a number of requests for the recipe so thought it would be best to just post

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This hearty Fall ragout is featured on the Fall 2011 menu at Cafe Presse, where we offer it topped with either a crispy leg of duck confit or with a sunny side up fried farm egg.  I have had a number of requests for the recipe so thought it would be best to just post

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Garbure Landaise

Madame Cabannes of the Ferme-Auberge “Marquine” near Montfort-en-Chalosse offers this very simple recipe for Garbure.  Although the origins of garbure are generally assigned to Gascony, it it is found throughout the regions of southwestern France, many of which claim it for their own.  Madame Cabannes calls her version “Garbure Landaise”, les Landes being the region

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Madame Cabannes of the Ferme-Auberge “Marquine” near Montfort-en-Chalosse offers this very simple recipe for Garbure.  Although the origins of garbure are generally assigned to Gascony, it it is found throughout the regions of southwestern France, many of which claim it for their own.  Madame Cabannes calls her version “Garbure Landaise”, les Landes being the region

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Roasted Chicken

This recipe, which I developed for Le Pichet in 2000, is designed to produce a perfectly roasted, crispy skinned chicken in just under 1 hour.  Since the recipe is so simple with almost no added flavors to hide the great taste of the chicken, choose the best quality bird you can get your hands on. 

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This recipe, which I developed for Le Pichet in 2000, is designed to produce a perfectly roasted, crispy skinned chicken in just under 1 hour.  Since the recipe is so simple with almost no added flavors to hide the great taste of the chicken, choose the best quality bird you can get your hands on. 

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Raclette Savoyarde

Raclette Savoyarde, along with Fondue, is an arch-typical dishes of the region of the French Alps.  Since it is a very simple dish, it is quick to prepare and depends almost entirely on the quality of the ingredients chosen.  Choose waxy, think skinned new potatoes.  Any mix of sliced hams and sausages may be used,

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Raclette Savoyarde, along with Fondue, is an arch-typical dishes of the region of the French Alps.  Since it is a very simple dish, it is quick to prepare and depends almost entirely on the quality of the ingredients chosen.  Choose waxy, think skinned new potatoes.  Any mix of sliced hams and sausages may be used,

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