French recipe collection

Italian style potato dumplings but made with Paris, France flair. This recipe is a good way to use up leftover Pâte à Choux or Quick change pastry by mixing it with leftover mashed potatoes to create a soft potato dumpling.

Classic French brioche a tete, the buttery, golden topknot rolls baked in fluted tins. A rich egg-and-butter dough chilled overnight for the tenderest crumb, with a traditional floating-sponge yeast start.

Spiral sweet bread rolls filled with almond butter and plump currants, topped with vanilla cream icing and toasted almonds. These elegant French-style snails are a stunning addition to any brunch spread.

Homemade crepes filled with chicken, green peas, and pimiento, then baked under a silky Gruyère and white wine cheese sauce with mushrooms. French-inspired elegance for a special dinner.

This cognac cream cheese filling is a rich and decadent mixture made by soaking raisins in cognac. The result is a smooth and flavorful filling with hints of tangy lemon and warm vanilla, punctuated by bursts of cognac-soaked raisins. This filling is perfect for adding a touch of elegance to pastries, cakes, or other filled desserts.

These may be served in a sandwich, as an appetizer or as a main dish with pasta and tomato sauce.

Elegant French escargot appetizer baked in puff pastry "coffins" with white wine butter sauce and toasted hazelnuts for sophisticated entertaining.

French strawberries in red wine with sugar, lemon juice, and fresh thyme. Marinate for 3 hours to overnight for a sophisticated, no-cook Burgundy dessert.

French bread mexi-melt with seasoned ground beef, tomato sauce, sliced tomatoes, and melted American cheese on a split loaf. A Tex-Mex pizza bread that feeds a crowd fast.

French cookies are easy rum-and-raisin drop cookies: dark rum-soaked raisins folded into a buttery sugar dough. Crisp edges, soft centers, and a grown-up boozy aroma.

French mushroom salad a la Grecque with whole caps simmered in olive oil, white wine, tomato, coriander seeds, and thyme, then chilled and served cold.

Classic French chicken fricassee from the Poitou region. Golden-browned chicken braised on a bed of caramelized onions that melt into their own sauce.

Classic French tarte Tatin with 5 pounds of Golden Delicious apples baked in caramel and topped with flaky puff pastry. A showstopping upside-down dessert worth the effort.

Old-fashioned veal stew is the French classic blanquette de veau: blanched veal gently simmered with pearl onions, mushrooms, and chicken stock, finished with a velvety egg-yolk and cream velouté sauce.

Slow cooker pot au feu with moose, pork tenderloin, chicken breast, kielbasa, and root vegetables in herbed beef stock. The classic French boiled dinner adapted for the crockpot.

Strawberry stuffed French toast sandwiches a thick layer of cream cheese and strawberry jam inside golden, egg-dipped bread, finished with powdered sugar and fresh strawberries. A fast, special-occasion breakfast.