French Food

If you're a seafood lover looking for a hearty dish to cook up on a cold night, look no further than this richly satisfying shrimp gratin recipe. This main dish is delicious enough to turn even lukewarm seafood eaters into shrimp enthusiasts! Bon appetit!

Shrimp Photo: Flickr user pelican

Tender, flaky, golden pastry can be yours, without needing to pull out the sugar, cinnamon, or raisins. These savory pastry recipes present delicious options for pastry lovers who aren't fans of the sweet stuff. You'll find cheese puffs, perfectly flaky tarts, and over-the-top, delicious croissant creations for breakfast. For those of you sitting on the fence, there's even a sweet-savory tart in the recipe collection! Bon appetit!

Cheese and Apple Tart Photo: Jessica Spengler

Dining out at a restaurant is always nice; but what about when you want to have take-out food for dinner, without the price of take-out. Try these budget cafe recipes for a variety of choices, without the high cost of actually going to a cafe. There are several selections of inexpensive tarts, soups, and desserts, so you can mix and match until your heart's content. The best past of this recipe collection? You'll have leftovers of you favorite restaurant specialties for half the price! Bon appetit!

Pasta Salad Photo: ©Brianna Lehman

Perk up the same, old roasted chicken and potatoes with one of these sauce recipes for winter dishes. Whether it's savory, tangy, or downright buttery, add new flavor to your daily menu by coordinating these sauces with your favorite meals. Bon Appetit!

Butter Sauce Photo: ©Glen MacLarty

Fresh lemon zest gives any dish a sweet, invigorating vibe. Bring that sunny flavor to your winter menu with these sweet and savory lemon recipes. Lemons happen to be in season right now, so a nice size bag of them equals big flavor, high quality, and good savings. What could be a better way to brighten up the winter? Bon Appetit!

Lemon Pastry Cream Photo: ©Flickr user avlxyz

After fiddling around with almond cream filling for the Epiphany cake, I found I had taken a liking to it. Actually, I developed an unrelenting craving for it, so I worked on incorporating it into a king cake recipe for Mardi Gras next month. Let me tell you, it's delicious. The flavor of rich almond cream melds so deftly into the mildly spiced sweet bread that it could be a year-round treat. Just make sure to trade the tri-color sugar sparkles for something subtle, like pearl-toned sanding sugar; otherwise, the bright colors may get some well, that's sure creative "compliments" any other time of the year.

Kings Cake Photo: Martin Rottler

Add sensational flavor to your menu with these winter salad recipes. They're a great way to add healthy ingredients to your diet, and because the produce is seasonal, these recipes can be made on a tight budget.

Apple, Beet, and Pear Salad Photo: Tim Brauhn

For a luxuriously rich alternative to the vegetable gratins so popular in the winter, try this langoustine gratin recipe. The langoustines can easily be found in larger fine food markets, but lobster meat makes a perfectly flavored and textured substitute if you cannot locate them. Offset the heaviness of the gratin with a crisp, chopped salad for a satisfying meal. Bon appetit!

Langoustine Gratin Photo: matsuyuki

Baking this Galette de Rois recipe is a wonderful way to celebrate Epiphany. Made of almond cream filling and buttery puff pastry, this cake is a tradition that stems from the Middle Ages. Children and adults, alike, delight in the special games of le feve. The diner who finds the bean buried in the almond filling becomes "king" or "queen" for the day.

Galette des Rois Photo: ©Steph Gray

Get the recipe here.