French desserts and pastries

Treat yourself with the French delicacies. If you fond of French desserts and pastries, here are some common French desserts and pastries:

- Crème Brûlée: custard base topped with a contrasting layer of hard caramel.

- Choux à la Crème : cream puffs

- Crêpes Suzette: French pancakes in a sauce of jam and orange sauce, flamed with liqueurs.

- Tartes aux fruits : fruit tarts.

- Éclairs: choux dough filled with a cream and topped with icing.

- Gâteaux: cake.

- île flottante: “floating island dessert“, poached meringues on custard.

- Mousse au chocolat: chocolate mousse.

- Mille-feuilles: cake of a thousand leaves.

- Religieuse: chocolate éclair shaped to resemble a nun.

- Macaron: a variety of light, baked confections, small cakes or meringue-like cookies.

- Madeleine: a small cake-like cookie.

- Tarte Tatin: caramelized apple tart.

- Profiteroles: baked puff pastries (choux) filled with cream or ice cream.

If you have tried one of the above desserts and pastries or if you have some other French desserts and pastries, please do not hesitate to post them in our blog and share them with all of us.

French Savory Dishes

We would like to share some of the “tasty” suggestions to all of those visitors to Paris, you will find here below some of the common French dishes:

- Blanquette de veau: blanquette of veal.

- Coq au vin: rooster in red wine.

- Croque-monsieur: toasted ham and cheese sandwiches on white bread.

- Bouillabaisse: rich fish soup served over toasted bread with garlic and pepper sauce.

- Boudin blanc: delicate flavored sausage similar to bockwurst.

- Canard à l’orange: braised duck served with an orange and lemon sauce.

- Escargot à la bourguignonne: snails cooked in their shells with garlic, butter and parsley.

- Foie de veau: calf's liver.

- Andouillette: chitterling sausage.

- Foie gras: fatty duck or goose liver.

- Gigot d’agneau: roast lamb “larded” with slivers of garlic.

- Poulet frites: chicken and fries.

- Pot au feu: beef stew with mixed vegetables.

- Magret de canard: filleted duck breasts.

- Quiche Loraine: ham and custard pie.

- Steak frites: steak and fries.

- Soupe à l’oignon: French onion soup made with chicken broth, sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and browned in the oven.

If you have tried one of the above savory dishes or if you have some other French savory dishes, please do not hesitate to post them in our blog and share them with us.

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