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    Home • Recipes • Season

    Easy Comfort Winter Recipes

    What can you cook on a cold winter day? Here's a collection of easy French seasonal recipes for Winter. Each recipe typically uses fresh produce in season from the market from carrots and cauliflower to apples, pears and oranges. Recipes are typically family comfort food from soups, stews to puddings.

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

    • Vanilla Poached Pears - Be Bold with Coffee
    • Chocolate Marble Cake with Banana
    • Smoked Garlic Soup with Rocket (Arugula)
    • French Lemon Tart (Tarte au citron)
    • Potato Gratin Savoyard (Without Cream)
    • Sticky Toffee Pudding - Extra Lush with Apple
    • Galette des Rois (French King Cake)
    • Banana Coffee Cake (Low Sugar)
    • Roquefort Salad with Pear, Apple and Walnuts
    • Moist Banana Nut Bread
    • French Almond Cake (Le Saint-Germain)
    • Creamy Lemon Ice Cream (Glace au citron)
    • Gratin Dauphinois (Creamy Potato Gratin)
    • French Pea Soup (Potage Saint-Germain)
    • Chicken Tagine with Prunes
    • Thin Buckwheat Pancakes (Galettes de sarrasin)
    • Healthy Banana Oat Muffins (no sugar)
    • French Apple Tart with Puff Pastry (Tarte fine aux pommes)
    • Corsican Veal Stew with Red Peppers (Vitellu incu pivaroni)
    • Roasted Pineapple with Sticky Vanilla (Ananas rôti à la vanille)
    • Healthy Flapjacks (Barres de céréales)
    • Rose Panna Cotta (with Cherry & Cardamom Coulis)
    • Leek and Potato Soup (potage Bonne Femme)
    • Apple Horseradish Sauce
    • Pain d'épices (French Gingerbread)
    • Gingerbread Men and Decorating Ideas (Biscuits Speculoos)
    • Canelé Recipe (Cannelés de Bordeaux)
    • Christmas Granola (Granola de Noël)
    • Chocolate Beetroot Cake (Fondant Chocolat-Betterave)
    • Cranachan Parfait - A French Twist to the Scottish Dessert
    • Goat Cheese Pasta (Creamy Sauce with Walnuts)
    • Carrot Cake Muffins
    • Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies with Hazelnut & Cranberry
    • Milk Chocolate Crème Brûlée with Passionfruit
    • Cheese Waffles (Gaufres au fromage)
    • Creamy Lemon Pasta Sauce
    • Coconut Macaroons (Rochers Coco)
    • Watercress Soup (Soupe au Cresson)
    • Coq au Vin (Chicken Casserole in Red Wine)
    • Pear Crumble with Oats, Chocolate and Hazelnut

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