The red orange is about to finish, enjoy it because they are particularly juicy to slightly acidic flavor.
Remember to cook a Navarin with lamb collar.
The flatfish dab inexpensive, suitable for simple meals. Containing few bones, it is well suited for children. Do not cook too, it will crumble.
Monkfish French will be the best of taste until March.
The first cooked beets should be tender but not soft, taste floods such as grated carrots.
Until May, enjoy the kiwi from the South-west, the Pyrenees and Corsica. Rich in vitamins, choose them a bit firm but soft at both ends. To accelerate ripening, place them near apples and bananas.
Celeriac, her skin is much thicker at this time of year, prefer small jigs, large hollow ring often.
Cod, it is found almost throughout the year. You can buy salt, in this case it is called Cod, where it is dried it is renamed stockfish. It is often breaded and frozen fillets, sliced or whole (this solution is not economic as a whole there is a large part of waste). The best method of cooking, the court-bouillon, in foil, at the stove or oven. Do not cook too much at risk to get a flesh fade and cotton.
The lemon is often imported from Spain, Italy and the United States will keep several weeks at room temperature. Select it with a smooth, bright yellow and supported. To use the zest, buy lemons untreated. To cook raw fish, use lime juice, more acidic and juicy as its yellow cousin. If you use a few drops of lemon for a preparation, pierce it with a picnic or olive toothpick, press it and insert the spade in the hole, it you may be reused later.
Vanilla is relatively expensive, this is due to many manipulations. The most popular is the vanilla of Mexico, home to this wild flower. "
Tahitian vanilla is little known, despite its fine flavor and suave.
Bourbon vanilla from the Indian Ocean is excellent, presented the favorite tube or sheath, the long pods should be a little greasy to the touch and flexible.
When it was used, split and scraped for preparation, do not discard, rinse it, dry it and store it in a jar of sugar.
You will get a natural vanilla sugar, the sugar flavor jam or a dessert.
You can do the same with a jar of coffee or cocoa. Or infuse it into the melted butter to make pancakes. Prick pieces of fruit to make kebabs, accompanied by custard. They can also serve as links for sucrées chaplain.
In the kitchen
Taste the emmental.
The most imposing emmental cheese. To build a wheel of 80 kg. must be 1000 L. milk.
It is often grated bag, yet the French emmental must have its place on the cheese platter.
To avoid disappointment with pasta sour, spicy, brittle or resilient choose to purchase from the cut and grate it yourself. Check its origin, in France the only real emmentals are manufactured in the Franche-Comté and Savoie from raw milk. "Red Label Emmental grand cru, or Savoy Label.
Holes in Emmental cheese should not be in caves, they must not be round, oval and not too close to each other. According to some fans is Emmentaler Switzerland which is considered superior in taste.
At Candlemas, think pancakes, a coin in the left hand to ensure good fortune and wealth. The pancakes have all year their fans, but especially throughout the month of February during Candlemas Carnival Mardi Gras, they are found accompanied by Gauffre and donuts.
Tip: If the dough is light and more light decrease the proportion of milk and add to your dough as you work 1.5 dl. beer.
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