Love French Food is a renowned feature of France, steer any conversation, wherever you are, to food, and the French will go into raptures about what they plan for the evening's meal, what they ate yesterday, what they will consider for tomorrow.
In recent times, there are those who claim that French restaurant food is in decline, and while that may be true of mid-range restaurants, it certainly isn't true of the cuisine of the home, the food that the home chef makes.
Well, be that as it may, to love French food is home-made and that is what this website is all about.
It's that simple, unfussy, unpretentious food that has been lovingly and honestly prepared by the home chef. A heart warming daily experience.
The same is true of fine dining, as it is as much about the experience as it is about the food.
The difference is that in a fine French establishment there could be several courses served, all carefully designed to precede and follow the last, with exquisite flavor and as much pleasure to the eye as the taste buds!
And now, with many decades of wielding my own sauté pans in the kitchen (I started young), not exactly a master chef, just a middle-of-the-road, daring, domestic cook.
With no ambitions to be otherwise in the kitchen, I regularly turn my hands to something French, although I could no more manage without a recipe at the beginning, than a novice piano student could play a Beethoven sonata without the music in front of them!
Of course, that doesn't matter, the beauty of a recipe is that at first you follow it faithfully, find what works for you, tweak it, put in this, take out that, and create your own dish full of the flavors of France. There's nothing wrong with that, every cook in France has their own take on even the most classic dishes.
For me, it is painfully hard to measure this, then that, especially if I am pressed for time which these days is often the case. I tend to talk to myself, mostly in my head with a conversation that goes something like this, "That looks right, maybe too much of that, so I'll add a bit more of this..." I have tried to make sure I have measured all ingredients in my wonderful collection of French recipes here, so you can make them well, at least at the outset!
So, while using these recipes as a foundation, make the adjustments that suit your taste. The whole point about cuisine is that it is always evolving, and after all, it's a fundamental principle of evolution that only the best survive.
Always, Love French Food! Bon appetit.
East Well!
Judith