Category Archives: Classic recipes
High-fibre, low carb foods – cheat sheet
Here’s a handy guide to some common high-fibre, low carb foods you can find in most supermarkets or whole-food shops from the Little Pine Kitchen. If you’re looking into Keto or simply trying to cut down on sugars, this is a good place to start:
Crepes Suzette (classic French dessert)
One of the most iconic French desserts conjuring up images of the waiter preparing and flambeing the crepes at the restaurant table. This recipe can be made is stages (e.g. the crepe mixture and sauce the day before) and is quick to make.
Don’t forget to make sure you have something to ignite the brandy as we don’t tend to have matches or lighters always to hand these days!
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Crepes (classic French recipe)
Note: for the pancake recipe, see here
This is a recipe for the classic French Crepe – master this technique and you’ll open up a whole world of delicious desserts! Makes up to 9 crepes
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Pearl Barley and Cream Soup
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Salade de Chèvre Chaud – Goat’s cheese Salad
This is a very quick salad that takes very little preparation time. The goats cheese should take around 10 minutes to cook and the salad should take around a minute to prepare
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Mayonnaise (sauce mayonnaise) classic French recipe
Classic French Mayonnaise recipe
English mayonnaise is terrible! If you’ve never tasted Amora or Benedicta mayonannaise in France, get it on the bucket list and bring as much back with you. In the meantime, here is how to make your own.
This recipe makes around half a pint (in other words, a LOT of mayo.)
If you’re tempted to use olive oil instead of sunflower oil, don’t; it has too much of a strong flavour for the subtle taste of mayonnaise and will give it a green look. You can, however, substitute the second half or third of the sunflower oil which won’t affect the colour or flavour too much (don’t substitute the first half)
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Pizza dough (classic Italian recipe)
This is the classic Italian recipe for pizza dough.
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Classic pancake recipe
Fry the mixture in a well oiled pan and serve with lemon juice & sugar; maple syrup; Nutella; or whatever takes your fancy!
For a thicker pancake, just add less milk. This makes a great desert with vanilla ice cream, a slice of orange, and a slice of melon.
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Classic Italian Tomato Sauce
This recipe is for the classic Italian tomato sauce and serves 2 to 4.
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Tartiflette – the classic French dish
This recipe is for the classic French Tartiflette and makes a generous 4 portions.
If you can’t get lardons, you can use unsmoked bacon, however, cheap bacon may release water in the pan and stew so I’d recommend getting something a bit better quality. Also, make sure the potatoes are fully cooked through before lining the dish.
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Chicken Tagine with Apricots and Ras el Hanut
This is a really simple healthy recipe that can be made quickly and easily. Ras el Hanut is a classic Moroccan spice blend can be found at most of the large supermarkets with the other spices. I like this curry very spicy so simply add more Ras el Hanut to increase the spiciness
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