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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.
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
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
