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  • How to Make a Great Bechamel Sauce

    Making a great Bechamel Sauce is essential in being a good home cook, because it’s one of those building block sauces called the French Mother Sauces. These are “Mother” Sauces, as…

  • 10 Great French Cookbooks You Should Read

    French cooking is probably more filled with modern “masters” than any other culinary discipline, and with that comes a lot of information, a lot of cookbooks, and a lot of people…

  • Julia Child’s French Onion Soup Recipe

    Julia Child has the distinction of being one of the most famous American chefs ever, all without any proper training. The self-taught culinary genius brought French delicacies into American kitchen’s, and…

  • Gordon Ramsey Scrambled Eggs Recipe

    Ingredients 6 cold eggs 15g butter Salt and pepper Crème fraîche Chives Instructions Crack 6 cold eggs into a deep saucepan. Add the butter. For smaller batches, use a 2-to-1 eggs-to-butter…

  • Pork Chops with Leeks in a Mustard Sauce

    Ingredients: 4 thick cut bone-in rib chops, 1½ – 2 inch thick (about 2½ – 3 pounds) 2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 teaspoon chopped fresh…

  • Steak au Poivre

    Ingredients: 2 tablespoons whole, black peppercorns, roughly ground 2 filet mignon steaks (½ – ¾ pound each, about 2½” thick) – other thick (at least 1” thick) steaks work well, too…