A comprehensive list of your favorite French recipes found here. Delicious and authentic French dishes that are beautiful and simple to create
This raw Beef dish is a famous, classic French dish that is a favorite appetizer in fancy restaurants all over the world. The dish consists of evenly diced pieces of Beef Tenderloin that is mixed into a sauce made of Onions, Worcestershire Sauce, Mustard, Tabasco, and Parsley. It is served raw with a single Egg…
This wonderful piece of French-influenced cookery showcases the magic of one pot meals. The simplicity of this amazing Cast Iron Tarragon Chicken recipe is only outshone by the immense flavors this dish will produce. The best kind of recipes in our opinion are ones that are easy to make, take no time at all, and…
Every once in a while it’s fun to show off with your home cooking and make something truly spectacular. This is the dish for that time! Our amazing Crispy Skin Snapper with Fish Beurre Blanc hits all the notes of a classic restaurant-quality Fish dish. It looks stunning on the plate, and there are loads…
In this recipe we’ll show you how to make our amazing Easy Dauphinoise Potatoes. This dish goes by many names, such as Potatoes au Gratin and Scalloped Potatoes. However you call it, the dish is about as luxurious and French as you can get. Layers of thinly sliced Potatoes are soaked in a mixture of…
This is a simple and delicious recipe to make amazing White Fish Stock at home. The flavors in this classic Fish Stock are great, making it the perfect ingredient to use when making any Seafood based dishes, particularly Sauces and Soups. White Fish bones are gently boiled down in a pot filled with a load…
This fancily French-named sandwich is, essentially, a Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Ham. The Croque Monsieur Sandwich has a few unique differences from a typical grilled cheese which makes it unique. The main difference is the primary components of cheese in the dish is a Cheesy Bechamel Sauce instead of simply using sliced or grated cheese….
An Espagnole Sauce is one of the five famous French mother sauces. It is a core component in cooking sauces and forms the base for some of the most famous and delicious sauces that exist. Famous sauces such as Demi-Glace and Bordelaise Sauce all start from a humble beginning as an Espagnole Sauce. Learning the…
This delicious sauce is a classic French sauce that is so adaptable, working with so many great proteins and vegetables. The base of the sauce is a classic Velouté – which is one of the five famous ‘Mother Sauces’ in French cooking. It is further intensified with flavor by adding Mustard and finished with some…
When you think about classic, old-school recipes, Duck a L’Orange is always one that springs to mind. This ridiculously famous dish cut its teeth in the 70’s and 80’s in French restaurants all around the world. While it may have fallen a little bit out of fashion in modern times, it’s still one of the…
French cooking is famous for its decadence, with overt usage of Butter, Oil, and Fat to create rich and indulgent dishes. Perhaps the most indulgent of them all is a classic Confit Duck. This utterly delicious preparation of Duck is made by slowly cooking the Duck in Duck Fat, leaving it irresistibly tender and tasty….
This recipe is so simple and will produce the most amazing tasting Béarnaise Sauce you’ve ever made at home. What is so amazing about this recipe is there’s no fancy techniques required. No water baths required, or any sophisticated cooking techniques. No, all you need to do is pop the ingredients into a Blender! This…
We’ve gone on a little kick here at the Dinnertime Somewhere compound in creating restaurant quality plating for our home cooking. This isn’t something that we do often, but on occasion it’s nice to try and create a beautiful plate of food that is just as appealing to look at as it is to eat….
The famous Soup from France has seen a huge resurgence in recent years. No longer being confined to it’s classical preparation as a traditional Soup, so many different dishes have become ‘French Onion Soupified’. We’ve already thrown out hat into the ring with our amazing French Onion Soup Burger. However, we’re stepping it even more…
One trick we’ve only recently adopted when cooking is to store any excess fat into some sealable glass jars for future use. This stuff is absolute liquid gold for cooking, and it always felt like such a shame to be throwing it out when there are so many great applications you can use the fat…
Mussels are always such an impressive plate of food when served up at the dinner table. Beautiful, juicy Mussels with that meaty goodness inside, topped with a delicious Sauce and some amazing aromatics are simply irresistible. One of the most classic preparations is this White Wine Butter Mussels with Garlic and Chili recipe, which you…
This recipe is our attempt to recreate a delicious Gnocchi dish we recently ate at a famous restaurant in Sydney, Australia. The dish is a beautiful Brown Butter Sage Gnocchi with Mushrooms and Goats Cheese. The restaurant who created this dish is called Franca. Anyone in Sydney, we’d recommend checking it out! For the rest…
Fusion food is defined as cuisine that brings dishes or cooking styles from completely different cultures together into a single, harmonious dish. Getting it right can be tricky, but when done well, fusion food is a force to be reckoned with. Well, this is one fusion dish that gets it right on all counts. This…
If you really want to impress when it comes to dessert making this is a great choice. Our Easy Creme Brulee recipe looks and tastes spectacular! Complete with a beautiful crispy sugar disc on top, it’s a showstopper dessert by anyone’s standards. You’ll be an absolute hero to your friends and family when you serve…
The Filet au Poivre, or Steak au Poivre dish has become immensely popular in recent times. We wanted to share our take on this famous, and delicious Steak dish from France. It has all the markings of a classic French steak recipe: Loads of flavor. Loads of Cream, and a generous amount of beautiful Pepper…
The quintessential French Bistro of Steak Frites! No dish represents classic French Bistro dining more thank this world-famous dish. We are particularly taken by this version of the classic dish as it uses one of our all-time favorite cuts of meat – Hanger Steak. We would love for you all to try this delicious Hanger…