Dessert Hard difficulty Kitchen
Canelés de Bordeaux
Rum, vanilla, a wrong-looking crust. Bakeries guard the copper molds like family silver — here's the honest 48-hour version, priced in patience.
Hard French recipes
3 recipes. For weekends and showing off — the recipes that earn their reputation.
Dessert Hard difficulty 
Plat Hard difficulty Sauce
Sauce Hollandaise
Butter, yolks and acid balanced on sixty degrees of margin — the warm emulsion that crowns asparagus and haunts apprentice cooks. Feared, famous, and entirely fixable.
Dessert Hard difficulty Kitchen
Tourte de Blettes
Swiss chard, raisins, pine nuts and — yes — parmesan, under a sugar lid. Nice's sweet-salt tart that plays by its own rules — as Nice always has.