Julia cooks a french onion soup.
Julia cooks 4 out of 200 potato recipes she found in a french cookbook.
The French Chef's Julia Child prepares Coq Au Vin Alias Chicken Fricassee. Take chicken, onions, and mushrooms, simmer them in red wine for coq au vin, or in white wine for an old fashioned fricassee. This episode offers two recipes in one–two famous dishes that will teach you a lot more about cooking than just how to stew a chicken.
Julia Child demonstrates how to make a classic French chocolate mousse. She shows techniques for whipping egg whites, melting chocolate, and molding the dish for an elegant presentation, often serving it with langues de chat (cat's tongues) cookies.
Sudden guests? Julia shows you how to bake them a quiche, in this episode of The French Chef. It’s fast, fancy and foolproof. Here’s the ultimate motivation for learning to make your own pie dough. Julia teaches you how to concoct an expert pie-crust dough and use it for open face, main dish pies, such as custard and bacon, spinach, and /or crab.
Julia shows how to use a funnel, pastry tube, or stuffing horn to fill casings, and explains how to twist and tie them into links, emphasizing techniques to prevent air bubbles.
Julia Child demonstrates how to make Bavarian cream using egg whites, whipped cream, gelatin and bourbon whiskey. She flavors the cream with hazelnuts then molds it in a souffle dish with some bourbon soaked cake and the cream.
After you’ve mastered French puff pastry, try this recipe for Le Pithiviers, a glorious almond tart.
Popular TV chef and author Julia Child was born on August 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California. In 1948, she moved to France where she developed a penchant for French cuisine. With a goal of adapting sophisticated French cuisine for mainstream Americans, she collaborated on a two-volume cookbook called Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which was considered groundbreaking, and has since become a standard guide for the culinary community. She also become a television icon with her popular cooking shows such as The French Chef. Julia Child was also the inspiration behind the 2009 film Julie & Julia, which was based on a cooking blog by Julie Powell.
