Basics recipes

This section dedicated to the cooking basics, features quintessential recipes which are the base to some of the most famous and appreciated dishes of worldwide gastronomy. It is often an ancient recipe which is transmitted from generation to generation and forms part of the gastronomic heritage and which we refer to while cooking everyday.

In the professional cooking community and especially for the apprentice cook, these basics include culinary techniques and knowledges which should absolutely be acquired if you want to survive in this profession.
We talk about baking basic recipes when we refer to making the basic pastries (short-crust pastry, puff pastry, choux pastry, sponge cake), creams (whipped cream, pastry cream, custard cream, butter cream). Cooking basics include making stocks (chicken stock, beef stock, fish stock), the sauces (béchamel, salad dressing, mayonnaise) which will ns served as side dish with meat.
In general, a basic recipe is linked to gastronomic tradition and each recipe has its own story. All the culinary techniques used in these recipes will help each cooking newcomer to bud into a real connoisseur.
As famous French chef Jean-François Piège says: ‘’You learn cooking with others’ recipes. And at some point, you develop your own.’’ Discover our basic recipes on Goody!