French cuisine is filled with perfect recipes that suit North American Thanksgiving dinners to a "T"! But, France has their holidays to celebrate with delicious dishes like Galette des Rois, Mussels In Wine, and Escargot. They have the very best appetizers, main dishes and wonderful tasty sides. Make up your whole meal from these dishes, many can be made ahead so you can enjoy your day visiting with family and friends!
First, Roast Your Choice
Turkey Stuffed with Chestnuts & Sausages
This is a French classic roast turkey recipe that is cooked mainly for Christmas dinner but, can be served all year of course. The stuffing or dressing in this recipe has chestnuts and sausages, and the bird is roasted on a bed of onion, carrot, belly pork or bacon, and bouquet garni. It is very seasonal as the Turkeys and chestnuts are ready together in the autumn months.
Pork Loin With Figs, Pomegranate and Nuts
This dish is a combination of the savory flavors of the pork loin with the sweetness of the figs, the tangy pomegranate berries, mellow nut flavors, and the richness of the balsamic sauce resulting in a delightful and impressive meal!
How To Cook Venison Roast Tender And Juicy
This is a lovely venison recipe that results in tender and juicy deer meat. For special occasions it really is worth the effort. Once you have prepared the meat and the marinade 48 hours in advance of your meal time, it is easy to cook and enjoy!
Lemon & Thyme Roast Chicken Recipe
Once you have learned how to roast a whole chicken in your oven, you will be able to transfer this knowledge to other roasted poultry to make the best, juicy, tender, meat imaginable. This is a perfect recipe for an amazing chicken dinner, with lots of leftovers for more!
Succulent Roast Duck Recipe
A roast duck recipe is a delicious dinner recipe that takes no time at all to prepare and goes with vegetables you like and a great pairing with roast or mashed potatoes.
Whole Roasted Chicken With Tarragon Recipe
Chicken with tarragon is a summer roast with a luscious sauce made with butter, flour, cream and seasoning, magnificent...
Second, Choose 2-3 Side Dishes
Best Beet Recipe
This is a very warming and delicious beetroot recipe with the addition of onions. What an appetising combination of vegetables to satisfy your family and it's such a simple dish to make, which is a bonus.
Tartiflette Sticks It To Your Ribs
This is a seriously stick-in-the-ribs stuff, and perfect for a cold winter's day! This recipe is primarily potato with the usual accompanying allium vegetables, with a thick creamy dairy, cheese that melts so beautifully and the final ingredient many people think is part of every French dish white wine!
Petits Pois À la Française
This recipe is usually served as an accompaniment with meat dishes, but is more versatile than that. These delicious Little Peas The French Way will be a hit with everyone.
Green Beans
The humble green bean is often not treated with the respect it deserves. Yet using it to produce a simple side dish that will accompany a very wide range of meals is so easy. A really quick and simple side dish!
Glazed Carrots Recipe Vichy Style
Glazed carrots Vichy style is a distinctive, simple vegetable side dish with a difference. They are superb in flavor, appearance and very quick to prepare. Cooked in special mineral water, preferably Vichy water (mineral water), butter, sweetened, and garnished with minced parsley! An easy, so tasty, colorful, addition to a meal for everyone to enjoy, even the kids!
Ultimate Potatoes Lyonnaise
This dish is a classic French dish appreciated for its simplicity and savory flavor that features thinly sliced potatoes cooked with onions, herbs, and butter until they are golden and crispy. You might be thinking like scalloped potatoes, but no milk or flour here!
Third, Pick Dessert
Exquisite Choux Pastry Recipe
Choux pastry, is the simple preparation for making those wonderful puff shells or profiteroles which we have all come to love. All it really consists of is a very thick white sauce, sometimes called a panade of flour, water, butter, eggs and seasoning, for creating the most amazing and loved sweets and savory appetizers!
Supreme French Chocolate Cake Recipe
This is the ultimate chocolate cake, dense, dark and delicious. This is the chocolate cake for all chocoholics with chocolate drizzle icing and toasted nuts crusted on the sides, it is the cake you dream of!
French Apple Tart Golden Heaven
A mouthwatering pie recipe that is a sensational, traditional French dessert and so easy to make at home. It is versatile as it is just as good eaten hot or cold. Although this is one of the most simple fruit pastry dessert dishes, it is one of the best for taste and comfort!
Pears in Red Wine
Pears in red wine is an intoxicating combination of sweetness from the fresh pears mingling with the taste of a good red wine just has to be the most beautiful dessert, and it's easy to make!
Cherry Clafoutis Recipe
Cherry Clafoutis Recipe is a very versatile dish and although cherries are traditional in France other fruits in season can be used such as blackberries, raspberries, plums, pears, or apples.
Fourth, Appetizers Served First
Fresh Crudités Platter
Crudités is a term used for either small pieces of vegetables served with a delicious tasty dip or for a selection of vegetable salads presented in separate dishes. They can be lightly cooked or raw vegetables, especially if fresh spring vegetables are plentiful. They are always beautifully presented as part of the hors d'oeuvres table.
Stuffed Avocado Recipe, Indulge in French Delight
Stuffed Avocado recipe is such an easy dish to prepare and only has a few ingredients, yet they make a superb hors d'oeuvre or appetizer.
Duck Rillettes Remarkably Good
This tasty recipe is made with a flavorful mix of star anise, fennel, cloves, bay leaf, and rosemary. Rillettes are a preparation of meat similar to pâté, and normally used as spread on bread or toast and served at room temperature. The finished dish will surprise you completely after reading the instructions if you have never tried this before. This is a remarkably good recipe for lunch or a starter that will please everyone!
Avocado Vinaigrette Appetizer
This is one of the easiest avocado vinaigrette recipes to make for a quick appetiser or hors d'oeuvres. If you love avocado, you will love this one. It is simply a split avocado with vinaigrette drizzled over the fruit. So very simple yet sophisticated and delicious.
Stuffed Tomato Recipe
A delicious tomato and egg hors d'oeuvres recipe that is easy and quick to make with a simple tasty dip! This is such a simple yet colorful and tasty dish and is found in most charcuteries throughout France.
Duck Foie Gras With Truffles
Make this exquisite recipe for an appetizer, it is a decadent treat and will be remembered fondly by everyone who partakes of it for a long time! Just a few ingredients (although pricey) are quick and easy to prepare for this creamy, buttery hors d'oeuvres! A bonus recipe included!
Fifth, There Must Be Wine!
Sparkling Wine Versus Champagne
Blanquette de Limoux is considered to be the first sparkling white wine produced in France, created long before the Champagne region became world renowned for the sparkling wine Champagne.
How To Taste Wine
Wine tasting is something taken very seriously by professional wine tasters and is not just a way of showing off. It may be something that most people have seen or heard of and it may appear quite mysterious to the novice. However, all the ritual is really only a series of steps that can enhance your enjoyment of wine.
Best Pinot Noir
Pinot noir is said to be an emotional grape. It brings tears to your eyes, evoking joy and ecstasy. Winemakers go insane trying to pursue pinot noir wine even in climates that are unfavourable. Picking the best pinot noir is synonymous with falling in love. Read the expert notes on the peculiarity of the grape, tasting tips, and some of the best regions to find the unique wine.
Beaujolais Wine Explained
Beaujolais Nouveau is in fact fermented for only a few weeks before being released for sale. It is very low in tannins and is the most easy-to-drink, light-bodied and fruity wine.
Full Bodied Red Malbec Wine
Malbec wine is a dry French red wine with full, rich taste. It is renowned for its full-bodied flavor and notes of floral licorice.
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