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The Elegant Cook

M-J presents her original and classic recipes, accompanied by beautiful culinary photography. Please visit The Elegant Cook.

Bols Liquor, 1961

Photograph of 1961 Magazine Advert by M-J de Mesterton

Elegant Apple-Ginger Cocktail

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Elegant Eggs Vienna

An old friend of mine used to make this dish for me in the 1970s. I published my recipe for the unusual breakfast offering on Elegant Survival in 2006; it was for a long time the only recipe for Eggs Vienna on the internet. I shall reconstruct it here at Elegant Cuisine: Eggs Vienna for [...]

M-J’s Elegant Sauce Velouté

Sauce Velouté for an Elegant Dinner Dish Made with Poached Chicken Breasts M-J’s Sauce Velouté Recipe Save the broth from poaching chicken breasts as shown in a previous post, and make elegant sauce velouté, a classic feature of French cuisine. For this recipe, I would prefer the chicken poaching liquid to contain just salt, white wine, [...]

Cooking with Wine: Burgundy in a Box

Wine isn’t used just for drinking in France; it is used in cookery, including the famous braised-beef dish boeuf bourguignon. Marinating and cooking meat  in Burgundy wine makes it very tender, with a robust flavour. In the U.S., you may wish to keep a five-litre box of Almaden Mountain Burgundy (available at Sam’s and elsewhere [...]

M-J’s Meat Sauce and Rotini

See M-J’s Sauce RagúM-J’s Original, Slow-Cooked Meat SauceA French and Italian Hybrid

Home-Garden Harvest Vegetables

Home-Garden Harvest Vegetables

M-J’s Elegant Brownies

See Elegant Cook for the Brownie Recipe

M-J’s Elegant Brownies

See Elegant Cook for the Brownie Recipe

Elegant Cocktail Buffet and Painting by M-J de Mesterton

Elegant Cocktail Buffet and Painting by M-J de Mesterton

Steak-Frites

Steak-Frites

The Elegant Cook

The Elegant CookOfficial Website by M-J de Mesterton

The Elegant Cook

The Elegant CookOfficial Website by M-J de Mesterton

The New Address

Elegant Cuisine, which has existed at Elegant Survival since 2006, has an official new address, so that M-J can better keep track of all her recipes: www.elegantcuisine.net

Still Life with Fruit Smoothie

Still Life with Fruit Smoothie

Elegant Roast Beef

Elegant Roast Beef

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