Recipes
Breakfast/ Brunch
Delicious scones
Perfect waffles
‘Something’s gotta give’ pancakes
Eggs and soldiers
Eggs Benedict
English muffins
Cheese & tarragon omelette
Scones & melon jam
Melon jam
Starters
Carciofi alla Giudia (artichokes Jewish style)
Gougères
Bouchée à la Reine
Icelandic fish soup
Gazpacho with garlic cream
Mint and tuna salad
Old-fashioned French onion soup with Comté tartines
Escargots aux cèpes
Escargots à la Bourguignonne
Escargots à la Bordelaise
Chestnut soup with tapioca pearls
Cabbage salad
Chestnut pancakes with shallots, poached egg, truffle and morel mushrooms
Pâté en croûte
Blinis
Borscht soup
Parmesan soup from l’ami Jean
Jerusalem artichoke soup (topinambours)
Endives tarte tatin
Eggs cocotte à la Bordelaise
Caramelized beetroot tarte tatin
Winter vegetable tartlets
Main courses
Turkey rolls with mustard & cream
Tandoori chicken
Scotch eggs
Chicken and ham pie
Chili con carne
Frank Sinatra meatballs
Roast chicken with rosemary, lemon and thyme
Galettes
Quiche Lorraine
Steak, mushroom and Guinness pie
Magrets de canard with peaches and potato cake
Salade Niçoise
Fish cakes
‘Crying tiger’ char-grilled beef
Broccoli pasta
Sophia Loren’s meatballs
Veal liver with caramelized shallots and balsamic vinegar
Gratin Dauphinois & cigalines
Steak & Béarnaise sauce
Duck confit parmentier
Ratatouille
Osso busso ‘tout nu’
Flammekueche
Brioche Lyonnaise & warm potato salad
Couscous
Aïoli & Cod
Pirate chicken
Tomate Provençales
Red cabbage, onion and walnut tart
Pastilla with chicken and almonds
Black pig flank and apple sauce
Cockles and mussels
Spider crab cakes
Cannelés with black pig, foie gras and vine leaf
Ravioles de Langoustines et sauce vierge
Oxtail macaroni and cheese
Poulet au vinaigre (vinegar chicken) and braised butter endives
Tomato tart with tarragon mustard
Lucky pumpkin soup
Pumpkin gnocchi with Saint-Nectaire sauce
Pan-fried foie gras with golden rosé apples (flambés with cognac) on toast
Pan-fried foie-gras with figs and Chasselas grapes
Pan-fried foie gras with poached egg and Périgueux sauce
Roasted foie gras with Chasselas grapes and cognac
Roast quails with vine leaves
Black pudding
Roast mustard Coquelet & Squash
Roast lamb with thyme cream
Buckwheat galette with squash and roquefort
Roast beef
Rigatoni with cèpes à la Bordelaise
Roast guinea fowl with chestnuts
Beef Stroganoff
Roast sausages with fennel
Black pepper steak and cognac cream sauce
Confit de canard
Beef stew (daube de boeuf)
Garbure des Pyrénées
Blanquette de veau
Side dishes
Pilau rice
Raita
Salade Piémontaise
Potato cake with garlic and parsley
Ginger rice
Vegetable tian
Yorkshire pudding
Purée aligot (cheese potato mash)
Winter vegetable cocotte (stew)
Sauces
Cakes
Chocolate cake à la crème de marron
Cake pops
Italian pear cake
Carrot cake with vanilla cream cheese frosting
Garden cake
Persian love cake
Madeleines
Baba au rhum
Joséphine ruffle cake
Saint Honoré
Kouglof
Merveilles
Lemon meringue cake
Far Breton
Mathieu’s fruit cake
Summer peach and vervain tart
Paris-Brest
Quince tarte tatin
Kouign Aman
Plum & Fig meringue tart
Brioche à la fleur d’oranger
Calvados apple tart
Croustade with apples, prunes & armagnac
Christmas log cake
Chocolate tart
Galette des rois
Sarah Bernhardt
Desserts
Eton mess
Coconut tapioca pudding
Marie-Antoinette’s secrets
Pink praline tart & île flottante
Morrocan orange salad
Summer trifle
Old-fashioned chocolate mousse with salted butter caramel chunks
Riz au lait by Jean-Luc Rocha
Summer gems
Chocolate swirl meringues
Red velvet plums with pain perdu
Pomegranate meringues
Crème caramel
Bread & butter pudding
Mont Blanc
Cookies
Chewy chocolate chunk cookie
Home-made ‘Oreo’ cookies
Black & white sablés – by Jean-Luc Rocha
Drinks
Bellflower ice-cubes
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Amazing blog and description of your life. I am beginning to wonder if I should leave NYC for the country side!
Thank you! Life here is revitalizing and inspiring. However, I wouldn’t mind a little week of NYC! Ah, the grass is always greener on the other side!
Loving your recipes mimi! Made your Parmesan soup for my family at Christmas, went down a treat for them! Thank you!!
, your blog is so beautiful!! Look forward to trying lots of your recipes out with my family & friends!!
Thank you Angela for your kind words! Enjoy the recipes! Mimix
Hi, love your blog. could you please add me to your mailing list?
Thank you for visiting! To follow the blog, please click the icon ‘Follow’ on the bottom right of the blog’s page – you will then receive all updates on the new recipe posts. Have a lovely evening, Mimi
Hello Mimi! Your blog is beautiful!!!
I want to try all your recipes, starting with the icelandic soup on Saturday!
Maybe followed by the chocolate tart
Thank you!
hi. just wonderful and i will try some recipes thanks a lot for share from other place in this world.merci.
delicious !
Do you ever make Parisian macarons? I have been thinking of making them! I would love to see a recipe on your gorgeous, whimsical blog!
Wow!! yr amazing woman.. i hope to get to know you and yr creations
I, from Philippines by the way
I admire your blog and your life in Medoc! Une vie hyper agreable ! Your receipts are magnifique!
Chun from Beijing
Thank you so much! Have a lovely day! Mimix
Hi Mimi, love reading about your life in France, so long ago that I was there, and so far away from me here in Australia! So it’s lovely to – just for a brief moment – “be” in another place when I read your latest. Congrats on a fab blog, and also to your brilliant photographer hubbie…always beautiful photos to accompany your writings! I do have a question…with your creme fraiche chicken, do you place on a roasting rack when you bake it, or is it straight into a baking dish (or does it not matter!)? Thanks, Katie
Bonjour Katie! Thanks so much for visiting Manger – I am very touched by your kind words. I love to hear that you feel like you can ‘be’ in another place. Even if it is for a brief moment, it’s excatly how I want my readers to feel. I wish I could transport everyone to Médoc through the sights, sounds and culinary delights. To answer your question regarding the chicken, it goes straight into a baking dish. Check once in a while and add a bit of water (if the botton of the baking dish is too dry) so you can achieve a lovely gravy – the creamy sauce is delicious! Bonne journée, Mimix
Bonjour, Mimi!
First, I just want to say how much I enjoy your blog. It’s such a lovely escape from the hustle-bustle of everyday life. Second, I have a question for you. I recently became engaged, and we are planning a summer picnic themed wedding with a French flair. All of our family and friends gathered in our backyard with good food and garden games is just what we want on our special day. Do you have any suggestions for traditional French picnic fare that we could make ourselves?
Merci beaucoup,
Marie-Christine
Bonjour Marie-Christine! Congratulations on your engagement – so romantic! I am very happy for you! I love the idea of a French picnic. I would suggest to get a few ‘Vichy’ print tablecloth to sit on (red and white checkered print is my favorite). As for a menu, here are some suggestions: quiche Lorraine, quiche provençale, saucissons sec/ pickles, camembert/walnuts/ ham/emmental cheese baguette sandwiches are great classics. My kids love these sandwiches with a pain au lait bun (milk bread). Salads: celery remoulade, grated carrots with parsley and lemon vinaigrette, poached egg salad frisée with lardons (I like to make a walnut dressing with this), salad Piemontaise (it’s on the blog and my favorite salad!), terrines of country pâté, rillettes, pâté en croute (recipe on the blog), cheese/ cured ham platter, radishes with salt and butter, artichokes and leek with vinaigrette, eggs/mayonnaise and good wine should make everybody happy! Wishing you a great picnic, Mimix
Merci beaucoup, Mimi!
I’m so excited to start trying recipes! I don’t suppose you could point me in the direction of a good saucisson sec recipe? What sort of pickles are common in France? Do you pour melted butter over the radishes, or dip them? I’m sure all our guests will be very pleased with such a lovely menu. I’m dying to try a pate en croute! My father brought back several tablecloths from Marseille when he was there years ago, which will make lovely decor for the picnic.
Merci encore!
Marie-Christine
Danke Mimi fuer ein bisschen Frankreich in Deutschland. Bin auf Sie durch die Zeitung ” Saveur ” aufmerksam geworden.
Vielen Dank Sabine!