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    Home • Recipes • Season

    Easy Comfort Winter Recipes

    Collection of easy seasonal recipes for Winter. Each recipe (mainly French) typically uses fresh produce in season from the market from carrots and cauliflower to apples, pears and oranges. Comfort food from soups, stews to puddings.

    Looking for something specific? Browse the recipe index to refine your search.

    • Baked apples recipe that's French, stuffed with raisins, honey and almonds and split at the top in an ovenproof dish
      French Baked Apples Recipe
    • Round toasted custard tart with apples topped with an edible flower
      French Apple Custard Tart (Tarte Alsacienne aux Pommes)
    • stack of orange hued cottage cheese pancakes with pumpkin purée with dribbling maple syrup on a plate with blueberries
      Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Pumpkin
    • glass bowls of rice puddings topped with golden sultana raisins
      French Rice Pudding (Riz au lait)
    • white lion bowl of creamy fish soup surrounded by tartan and heather
      Cullen Skink - Traditional Scottish Smoked Haddock Soup
    • bowl of homemade vegetable soup made with fresh vegetable chunks and a short cooking time
      Homemade Vegetable Soup (Soupe de légumes)
    • a large spoonful of apple crumble showing perfectly cooked apples in vanilla topped with a golden crisp oat crumble
      Apple Crumble with Oats
    • pumpkin spiced macarons
      Easy Pumpkin Spice Macarons Recipe
    • classic Parisian brioche with a little head on top
      Classic French Brioche - Parisian 'Brioche à Tête'
    • pan of cooked spaghetti, tossed with a creamy lemon pasta sauce with parmesan and poppy seeds
      Creamy Lemon Pasta Sauce
    • cup of lemon ice cream with strawberries
      Creamy Lemon Ice Cream (Glace au citron)
    • galette des rois French puff pastry almond cake glazed and decorated with a paper crown
      Traditional Galette des Rois Recipe
    • spoonful of creamy orange curd, naturally thickened using egg yolks
      Creamy Orange Curd Recipe - A Perfect Crêpe Filling
    • individual ice cream with candied fruits on plate with lavender, apricot sauce and a macaron
      No Churn Ice Cream with Candied Fruit (Glace Plombières)
    • pasta bowl of egg noodles tossed in olive oil, butter, garlic, herbs and garlic
      Fresh Alsatian Egg Noodles (Pâtes d'Alsace)
    • creamy lemon sauce poured over roasted white asparagus, served with potatoes and roast chicken
      Creamy Lemon Sauce for Chicken
    • cracking in to a milk chocolate crème brûlée showing a delicious set custard topped with a thin caramelised crust - served with halved passionfruits
      Milk Chocolate Crème Brûlée Recipe
    • bowls of bright green watercress soup
      Watercress Soup (Soupe au Cresson)
    • 3 bowls of pea soup with fresh peas and pods
      French Pea Soup Recipe with Ham (Potage Saint Germain)
    • black bowl with a thick and creamy carrot soup, thickened with rice and topped with a sprig of fresh parsley and pinch of ground coriander
      Creamy Carrot Soup (Potage Crécy) without the Cream
    • plate of square cut flapjacks made with honey, fruit and nuts
      Healthy Flapjacks Recipe (Without Added Sugar)
    • French Semolina Cake (Gâteau de Semoule)
    • bright orange mini pumpkins baked and stuffed
      Stuffed Mini Pumpkins - The Most Versatile, Easy Recipe
    • large pot with a baked rice pudding covered in a thick caramel skin, spooning out a creamy mixture underneath with cinnamon and a traditional French Fallue brioche
      Baked Rice Pudding Recipe (French Teurgoule)
    • Stirring a pot of corn polenta made creamy with butter and Parmesan cheese
      Creamy Corn Polenta with Parmesan
    • tossed green salad with seasonal fresh vegetables such as arugula, avocado and other greens with toasted nuts and seeds
      Simple Green Salad - The Best All-Rounder, Seasonal Side
    • Parisian salad with ham, Emmental, hard-boiled eggs, dry-fried mushrooms and mustard vinaigrette
      Parisian Salad (French Ham and Cheese Salad)
    • slice of glossy dark gingerbread topped with candied ginger
      Pain d'épices (French Gingerbread)
    • Whisky glass filled with soft scoop creamy ice cream next to almond cookies, heather and Whisky liqueur
      No Churn Ice Cream with Whisky Liqueur, Drambuie
    • French vacherin ice cream meringue cake with layers
      French Ice Cream Cake (Vacherin Glacé)
    • round crepe pancake perfectly cooked in a pan
      French Pancakes (French Crêpes)
    • stirring a pot of homemade mincemeat without suet
      Quick No-Suet Mincemeat (For Mince Pies and a Macaron Filling)
    • Pear Belle Helene, a poached pear on ice cream topped with chocolate sauce
      Poire Belle Hélène - Parisian Poached Pears with Chocolate Sauce
    • whole sea bream fish in a baking dish topped with tomato sauce, roast garlic cloves, lemon slices and potatoes
      Sea Bream Fish Baked Provençal Style (Dorade à la Provençale)
    • baked pineapple with vanilla beans and rum caramel
      Baked Pineapple with Vanilla
    • pouring thick homemade hot chocolate from a jug
      French Hot Chocolate - How to Recreate The Parisian Love Potion
    • slice of purple carrot cake topped with cream cheese frosting
      Purple Carrot Cake
    • bowl of creamy broccoli cheese soup topped with grated broccoli and served with Parmesan crisps
      Broccoli Cheese Soup
    • a large slice of chocolate cake topped with a rum glaze, toasted flaked almonds and gold leaf
      Almond Flour Chocolate Cake (Gâteau Reine de Saba)
    • healthy banana oat muffins are packed with moist fruits
      Healthy Banana Oat Muffins (no sugar)
    • sliced banana coffee cake, showing a beautifully moist crumb and topped with walnuts
      Healthy Banana Bread with Coffee (Low Sugar Recipe)
    • stack of thin buckwheat crepes showing typical hole texture and dark colour of flour
      Buckwheat Crepes (Galettes de sarrasin)

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