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Julia Child : French Onion Soup Gratiné
13：30 mins
Julia showed the French method of poach egg:
10 secs in hot water to firm the egg whites, next
( low heat) boil 3 mins the egg
then
soak in cold water to stop the egg from cooking.
Sole Meunière à la Julia Child
Sole Meunière loved by Julia Child on first taste.
Watch the French Chef’s technique to de-bone the sole (or any fish)…he started cutting from the head-end, (I prefer cut from the tail-end), then pull the whole central backbone out (before this step, separate the top fish meat into left-right 2 parts ), all the affiliated tiny bones attached to the central backbone would be pulled out altogether, very neat !!!
[Video 14:19 mins ] :
both Chefs Julia and Jacques agreed
“No Garlic” to the fish (à la Provençal cuisine).
Why?
Explained by Chinese cuisine 3 ‘taboos’ to avoid :
“Fish no garlic,
Beef no chives,
Mutton no ginger”
“鱼不蒜， 牛不韭，羊不姜。”
https://m.sohu.com/a/517328375_120932978?scm=1007.11.0.0.0
A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online, and You Can Help Improve It – Gastro Obscura
The Sifter – A Food History Research Tool
5 Julia Child recipes that will make you say, ”Bon appétit!”
We Made Julia Child’s French Bread Recipe
Julia Child, the only one non-French & lady Chef who obtained the highest rank Michelin 3-Stars. She was also figured as the “Times Magazine of the Year” & Harvard 荣誉博士 Honorary Doctorate.
Part 1:
Julia’s Tips:
Bread rise best at 75° F (~24° C) in 3 hours. If at 85° F (~29° C ) for 2 hours (1 hour less) , would not give the BEST quality.
Part 2: More about French Bread:
https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/julia-child-french-bread-recipe/
Julia Child’s Tips:
- Use unbleached AP (All-Purpose) Flour (lower glutten), not Bread Flour (high gluten). [Although Bread flour bread more chewy]
- Salt : important for taste & color
- Yeast & salt : don’t mix together in the same place in flour. Salt kills Yeast.
Julia Child’s Funny, Best Moments: “The Way to Cook”
Julia Child French Cooking Lessons
Julia Child at early years during WW2 adored Chinese cuisine while working as an american intelligence agent in ChongQing (China).
After the war, she lived with her diplomat husband in Paris, attended the famous French prestigious “Cordon Bleu” Cooking school.
From the love of Chinese food to mastering French cuisine, she revolutionized the entire American Kitchen through her masterpiece of the 2-volume-and-540-recipe Encyclopedia 《Mastering the Art of French Cooking》.
Julia Child was Times Magazine “Woman of the Year” and awarded the “Honorable PhD” from Harvard.
Note: The Chinese cuisine Grande Dame equivalent of Julia Child was 傅培梅 (台湾) – my 1980s inspired chef (启蒙师傅) by her classic masterpiece 2 volumes of Chinese Cooking (out of print) 。
Below are some of the best selections from her videos:
Meat:
Vegetables:
Desserts:
10 surprising facts about Julia Child
https://www.today.com/today/amp/tdna160763
American “Goddess” Chef Julia Child, Woman of the Year in “Times Magazine”, she brought French Fine cuisine to the American household kitchens. Her love of cooking began in the WW2 China where she worked as the intelligence agent against Japanese.
Julia Child – The Whole Fish Story
Julia Child – Bouillabaisse à la Marseillaise
“Bouillabaisse” (French Fish Soup ) – [pronounced as “boul-ya-best”]
法国名菜 – 原本是法国南方地中海的马赛(Marseille)海港穷渔夫们发明的鱼汤, 捕鱼船底丢弃的新鲜鱼头, 鱼骨, 整只小鱼, 番茄, 便宜的淡菜贝类, 小虾等, 用香料, 橄榄油熬制的浓稠热汤, 高雅又美味。不逊给新加坡的印度名菜 “咖喱鱼头” (Curry Fishhead) !
祝大家: 2016 年年有馀 (鱼) !!
[S$42 a dish for 2 pax in local French restaurant]
Ingredients:
1. Local Seafood (not expensive type, preferred without tiny bones) :
◇ Big Fish head, fish body bones,
◇ Whole medium fishes (整只)
◇ Mussels (淡菜), &/or Clams (蛤) [or buy pre-cooked NTUC frozen package imported from New Zealand]
◇ Scallops (干贝),
◇ Prawns,
◇ (Optional): lobster (龙虾), crab (螃蟹), abalone (鲍鱼), squid (乌贼), sea cucumber (海参)…
注意顺序 (大约45分钟) :
1 鱼头等硬肉的鱼先煮20分钟后,
2 才放肉软的整只中小鱼,
3 最后15分钟放入淡菜蛤等贝壳类,
4 最后3分钟煮快熟的干贝, 虾。
2. Herbs:
◇ Garlics
◇ Onions
◇ Saffron* (藏红花) – Attention: (Avoid all spices like saffron which may cause miscarriage during pregnancy) ,
◇ Parsley (芫茜) & / or Thyme (百里香)
◇ Fresh tomatoes
◇ Tomatoes paste (to thicken the soup)
◇ Small quantity of other dry herbs (10-mixed-herbs bottle available in any supermart). eg. Bay leaves (月桂叶), dill (莳萝), fennel (茴香), pepper, coriander seeds, etc.
3. Olive oil, Salt
4. Croutons (Baguette 切片 烘脆)
Cooking Duration: 45 mins
Learn from Julia Child, the best american French Chef (Times “Woman of the Year” for revolutionalised American kitchen after WW2)
Local Fish Selection:
Simplified Bouillabaisse (Fish Stew) by UK celebrity cook Jamie Oliver.
Ingredients:
1. Seafood :
◇ fish (slices, skin crossed //),
◇ squid (inner crossed x),
◇ mussels
◇ clams
◇ prawns
◇ optional: scallop / crabs / lobster
2. Herbs: fennel (or parsley or dill), garlic, chilly
3. Tomotoe paste, lemon
4. Olive oil
5. Croutons
1995 Clip: Julia Child on McDonald’s French Fries
Julia Child Roast Chicken
Julia Child Chicken:
Julia Child makes an omelet
Julia Child makes an omelet with different types: poached, scrambled.
Julia Child The American French Chef- Your Own French Onion Soup
Julia Child was a legendary american lady who became a French Chef against all odds. She worked as a USA spy in WW II based in China where she was first attracted to food by the Chinese cuisine, then after the war living in Paris where she enrolled herself in “Le Cordon Bleu” French Chef School. She was honored as the Cover Lady of the Time Magazine for transforming Americans’ kitchen, also received Honorable Doctorate Degree from Harvard University.
We were taking the hot French Onion Soup in a Parisian restaurant, near the 1,000 year-old Cathedral “Notre Dame de Paris” (where Victor Hugo’s story about the “Hunched man and the Beauty” took place), in cold 2005 winter. With the melted cheese and french bread covering the serving cup of onion soup, it was very delicious!
I had a very late lunch with my family who visited France first time. The restaurant’s garçon (waiter) was a young French man who kindly accepted us in. I gave him €20 for tips, fully satisfied with the lunch and his service. He was quite surprised: “C’est pour moi ?” (It is for me ?)
For lazy cook, you can now buy Australian Campbell’s canned French Onion Soup, served with off-the-shelf croutons (or equally good to substitute by 油条 ) :
Best Seller Book:
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (2 Volume Set)
DVD:
DVD:
Julie & Julia
Watch the 2009 Meryl Streep Movie: “Julie and Julia”:
Savoir Vivre -> 活学活用 