Swiss Meringue Buttercream
A smooth buttercream made by whipping butter into a cooked Swiss meringue.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-4585 · Hand-built original
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A smooth buttercream made by whipping butter into a cooked Swiss meringue.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-4585 · Hand-built original
A Provençal olive spread blended from Kalamata olives, capers and anchovy with lemon, brandy, mustard and olive oil.
Main ingredient: Kalamata olives
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-15518 · Hand-built original
Twelve small lemon tartlets in crisp sweet pastry, filled with a sharp lemon cream and decorated with piped dark chocolate.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-15520 · Hand-built original
Tarte tatin is a French afternoon tea, dessert, treat built around pastry. Ready in 1 h 35 min.
Main ingredient: pastry
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-2302 · Hand-built original
A caramelised onion tarte tatin on thyme shortcrust, the onions simmered in butter, sugar and balsamic vinegar, then inverted and finished with fresh goat cheese and thyme.
Main ingredient: onions
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-8551 · Hand-built original
Tartiflette is a French baked, baking, main course, mains, potato built around potato. Ready in 90 min.
Main ingredient: potato
Pairs well with: sour cream, green beans, coleslaw, grilled steak, roast chicken
HB-2303 · Hand-built original
A Savoyard bake of sliced potatoes layered with bacon lardons, shallots and garlic, deglazed with white wine and covered in cream and melting reblochon.
Main ingredient: bacon
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-8552 · Hand-built original
A smaller tartiflette of unpeeled waxy potatoes with pancetta, onion, white wine and creme fraiche under reblochon, served with a sharp endive salad.
Main ingredient: potatoes
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-8553 · Hand-built original
A smooth French garlic soup from the south west, thickened with flour and enriched off the heat with egg yolks and sherry vinegar. Crisp garlic, thyme and golden bread cubes garnish each warmed bowl.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-18164 · Hand-built original
A traditional quiche Lorraine in a butter and lard pastry: crisped smoked bacon scattered over the blind-baked base, then a nutmeg-seasoned egg and cream custard poured over and baked until puffed and pale gold.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-18405 · Hand-built original
Hot smoked trout mousse with cream cheese and horseradish, served with a quick-pickled cucumber and dill salad on Melba toast.
Main ingredient: trout
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-5138 · Hand-built original
Pan-fried turbot with a citrus and wild garlic purée, a brown-butter Grenobloise sauce of lemon, capers and croûtons, and a salad of sea herbs.
Main ingredient: only
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-18260 · Hand-built original
Light cheese and leek soufflés baked once until set, then baked again in cream with extra cheese until puffed and bubbling. They can be frozen between bakes for easy entertaining.
Main ingredient: butter
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-15679 · Hand-built original
A quiche Lorraine with Parmesan and thyme worked into the pastry itself, and pancetta, crème fraîche and Gruyère in the filling. The cheese in the crust is doing real work here.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-18384 · Hand-built original
Thick white bread brushed with an aquafaba, maple and vanilla coating and fried in sunflower oil until golden on both sides, served with mixed berries and icing sugar.
Main ingredient: aquafaba
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-8713 · Hand-built original
Vegetable Tian is a French side dish, vegetables, vegetarian, vegetarian main built around eggplant. Ready in 1 hr 25 min.
Main ingredient: eggplant
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-3263 · Hand-built original
Sweet onions caramelized until nearly blackened at the edges top grilled pizza dough with anchovies and olives. Thyme scattered over the hot pizzas finishes this pissaladière variation.
Main ingredient: brushing
HB-15746 · Hand-built original
A bistro salad of torn lettuce, tomato, toasted walnuts and pine nuts and bacon lardons under crumbed goat's cheese rounds fried in butter until golden and molten.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-8762 · Hand-built original
Zucchini and feta baked in an olive oil shortcrust with eggs, cream and herbs.
Main ingredient: zucchini
Pairs well with: baguette, green salad, ratatouille, pommes frites
HB-4756 · Hand-built original
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