Le Creuset Oval French Oven

by Doug DuCap Food and Travel

Article by Robert Scott

When you think of Gourmet Cookies, you are instantly taken back to your childhood memories. The faded images of cookies baked in an oven by your mom seem to come alive, when you think of it. And next, a bite, a crackling sound, and you have invaded the deepest memories from your past.

When you think of Gourmet Cookies, you are instantly taken back to your childhood memories. The faded images of cookies baked in an oven by your mom seem to come alive, when you think of it. And next, a bite, a crackling sound, and you have invaded the deepest memories from the past. Coming to making of Gourmet Cookies, it is not as easy as it seems ? yet not a rocket science either. All you need is to be careful, creative, and have passion to bake the best cookies. However, unlike other cookies, Gourmet cookies are indeed different ? as the name suggests. Gourmet is generally associated with recipes that are specially made, with special care. For this reason, unlike chocolate chips, or raisin cookies or even wheat-based cookies, gourmet is the most relishing cookies of all time.

The secret is simple. The secret to the secret ingredient for Gourmet Cookies is that you need to be innovative. Keep trying something new, something different every day. And not only the baking part, even the presentation and serving of such exquisite delicacies should be taken care of. Haphazard presentation or rushing through will mar your entire effort. Infact, it is fun to bake such cookies if you have an adventurous mind.

If your kid seems to be bored with the same old chocolate chips, and no longer hankers for chocolates, then the time is ripe to start off with gourmet recipes. However, even Gourmet Cookies can be of different types. First there is the Banana Bread Cookies – simple to make, yet very tasty. All you need to do is peel of bananas, smash them, and add them instead of chocolate chips and bake it. The taste is awesome, much better and different than the regular raisin cookies or chocolate chips.

For more innovativeness, try the Coconut Gourmet Cookies. However, no matter what ever cookies you make, be sure to use the right ingredient in the right quantity. Now if you are all confused and tensed up by this, then refer to the online recipe trainings, for fast learning. The advents of online tutorials, videos and recipes have made it much easy.

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Anyone in the market for a Dutch Oven has no doubt heard of Le Creuset. Le Creuset is a company mainly known for producing high quality French ovens.

These are similar to “Dutch Ovens”, but these are produced in France. Le Creuset first started making these quality ovens in 1925 from it’s foundry in Fresnoy le Brand, France, and continue to produce them in France to this day.Key Features of the 5-1/2 Quart Oven:• Heavy Enameled Cast-Iron French Oven with lid• Product dimensions:10 x 10/8 x 4 inches; 10.5 pounds• Oven safe to 350 degrees(you can buy a seperate stainless-steel handle if you need higher temp.)• Won’t hold food odors or stains• The 94 customers that have reviewed it on Amazon have given it an average 4.5 out of 5 starsThis dish is large enough for most meals. The 5-1/2 Quart Oven is probably the most popular size of the Le Creuset French oven, as it big, but does not take up as much space as the 7-1/4 Quart.

For someone looking to get a braise meats in, cook soups, etc., this size usually does the trick. Keep in mind too, if you have limited kitchen space, this may be a better choice for you than the larger 7-1/4 quart.

I would recommend this size to any cook that wants a cast iron dutch oven, but doesn’t need the 7-1/4 Quart to cook for large amounts of people on a regular basis.When you use a real french oven like this the flavors created are amazing. The ceramic cooking surface over the cast iron seasons and builds upon the flavors as time goes on, making your food taste even better every time you make it.

But don’t worry, it will never keep the flavors from one dish and bring them to the next, as this dish is impermeable to odors and stains.Likewise, the ceramic cooking surface keeps food from burning. You don’t have to worry about food drying up and burning to the bottom of the pan like with other pans.

One big reason is the lid on this dish, which fits tight and makes sure food stays tender and juicy. Dishes that may have come out dry in the past will be rich and moist when made in this Le Creuset cookware.

What Makes This French Oven So Amazing?

The key to any Le Creuset cookware is the material it’s made from.This 5-1/2 Quart French Oven is made from pure enameled Cast-iron. Anyone that knows about cast iron knows that one of it’s biggest draws is it’s ability to cook food evenly.

Working best at low to medium heat, a cast iron dutch oven cooks evenly and brings out complex flavors you would have never even knew the dish possessed! This heavy enamel coating gives this cast iron dutch oven a fantastic non-stick quality that will never burn your dishes.

This versatility also allows the French Oven to be heated in any way you see fit- Gas Stovetop, Ceramic, Glass, Electric, even old ranges fired by wood, coal, or oil!

Question by : A recipe for gourmet puree foods… please tell me your recipe and how you prepare and serve it…?
I have been on a puree diet due to health reasons for 3 years now. I am dreadfully tired of the over simplified 3 ingredient scoops of food. Please share recipes which have worked extremely well for you, list the recipe and how you make it your own. I would love to feel like I am eating something gourmet which was meant for that consistency.

Best answer:

Answer by Zapadeesplat M
Pureed Vegetable Soup with Broccoli Florets
ingredients
2 Potatoes, peeled & diced
2 Stalks celery, chopped
2 Carrots, chopped
1 Sm Onion, chopped (1/4 cup)
1 Cloves garlic, minced
2 c Vegetable stock
1?4 t Black pepper
1?2 t thyme
1 dsp Nutmeg
3 c Broccoli florets
1 c Milk
1 Egg yolk, slightly beaten
1 t soy sauce
Cooking Pureed Vegetable Soup with Broccoli Florets
1. GARNISH: minced fresh parsley, dash of paprika, minced fresh chives, grated cheese, sliced almonds, or finely diced sweet red peppers, opt. In Dutch oveni or 4-5 qt saucepan, place potatoes, celery, carrots, onion, garlic, stock, and seasonings.
2. Bring to a boil, cover, lower heat, and simmer until vegetables are very tender, about 10 minutes.
3. (The potatoes must be fully cooked to thicken the soup properly.
4. ) While the soup is simmering, steam the broccoli florets.
5. When the simmered vegetables are tender, transfer it and broth to food processor, and process till smooth.
6. Return pureed soup mixture to pan. Stiri in broccoli florets.
7. In a measuring cup, combine remaining ingredients.
8. Add to soup and heat; do not allow mixture to boil.
9. Top each serving with garnish if desired.
10. VARIATIONS: – substitute 2 cups steamed chopped carrots, or 2 cups steamed peas, for the broccoli.
11. ~ substitute 1 t curry powder for thyme and nutmeg.
12. Garnishi with thin apple slices or raisins.
13. ~ add 1 cup shredded Cheddari cheese; melt into soup base before adding broccoli; subst.
14. pinch dry mustard for nutmeg.
15. ~ add more milk, vegetable stock, or water if you want a thinner soup.
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Cream of Shrimp Soup

Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 lb medium raw shrimp, peeled,deveined,shells reserved
4 cups fish stock or bottled clam juice
1 cup dry white vermouth
1 bay leaf
1 chopped onion
1 carrot, scraped and chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
3 tablespoons tomato paste
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 tablespoon butter
3 tablespoons brandy
3/4 cup whipping cream
Directions
1.Heat 1 T olive oil over medium heat in a large saucepan.
2.Add reserved shrimp shells and saute’stirring for 5 minutes.
3.Add stock, vermouth, and bay leaf.
4.Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 25 minutes.
5.Strain stock into a bowl.
6.Heat remaining T olive oil in the same saucepan over medium heat.
7.Add onion, carrot, and garlic, saute’ 5 minutes.
8.Add tomatoe paste and cayenne, blending well.
9.Add tomatoes with juices and shrimp stock.
10.Simmer 5 minutes.
11.Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat and add shrimp.
12.Saute 2 minutes.
13.Remove from heat.
14.Add brandy and carefully ignite.
15.After the flames subside, return pan to heat and saute shrimp 2 more minutes, or until cooked through.
16.Place 6 shrimp in a bowl and set aside.
17.Mix remaining shrimp into soup.
18.Add cream to skillet, bring to boil and add to soup.
19.In a food processor or blender, puree soup in batches.
20.Strain through a coarse sieve, set over a large saucepan, pushing through most of the solids with a wooden spoon.
21.Bring to a simmer.
22.Season to taste.
23.Ladle into bowls, topping each bowl with 1 reserved shrimp.
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Sweet Potato Bisque

Ingredients
3 sweet potatoes
4 potatoes, peeled and quartered
1 large onion, thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
10 cups water
1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup chicken broth
3/8 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon fresh nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon white pepper
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
salt
ground black pepper
Directions
11. Roast sweet potatoes in 450 degree F (230 degrees C) oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and slice open, allowing to cool while assembling rest of soup.
22. Saute onion and garlic in olive oil and butter until soft and slightly browned. Add potatoes to pot and saute 1 minute. Stir in flour. Deglaze pan with broth, scraping up brown bits. Add water and sweet potato flesh. Bring mixture to a boil and reduce heat to medium low. Simmer partially covered for approximately 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender. (Liquid will have reduced to approximately 8 cups.)
33. Remove from heat and puree soup in batches in blender or directly in pot with hand-held blender.
44. Return soup to pot and re-heat over low heat. Add buttermilk, nutmeg, ginger, white pepper, thyme, cumin, and salt and pepper to taste, stirring well.

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Wonderfully Cooked Masterpieces

The Le Cresuet Factory Store is one of the leading top quality manufactures for quality cookware in the world. It is made with the finest quality in mind since 1925. Many companies offer other brands of cookware with the promise of wonderfully cooked masterpieces only to leave you with little to no results even equaling the promises they have made. The Le Cresuet Factory Store is the leading in cookware because they have learned to keep their promises. Leaving you with some of the most delicious recipes, recipes that any kitchen would desire. 
 
Keeping Traditional Recipes Traditional

Every home desires to not only keep their traditional recipes that have been carefully passed down from generation to generation tasting great, but also creating new ones that with the help of one of many Le Cresuet french oven’s would also urge your children to carry on the tradition even with a brand  new recipe. No matter if it is a new recipe or one that has been handed down for years, a piece from the Le Cresuet French oven line would keep your special dishes tasting great year after year. Provide a lifetime of special memories to your family and friends with a special dish prepared with a Le Cresuet Cookware piece.  
 
Special Features
 
Some of the special features include the very unique lid on the doufeu, more knowingly as the French Oven. The doufeu was patented in 1934 when realized the oven would improve the cooking quality. This wonderfully made lid allows the moisture to drip down into the oven when placing ice cubes in the center.  The steam rises to the top of the lid underneath and produces the moisture droplets and drips back down into the oven. Basically, the ice cubes melt keeping the meat moist inside the pan giving it a self basting effect. This self basting effect is important when slow cooking a meal. Instead of having a tough dried out roast, you are left with one that is moist and retaining its nutrients and flavors. 
 
You can also place the Doufeu right in the middle of a wood burning or coal stove. This special cast iron piece wrapped in porcelain is able to withstand intense heat. Made to withstand heat from gas, electric, oil, coal, and ceramic stoves.  It is even dish washer safe and east to clean. Cast iron can also be used cold. You can also prepare meals and place the pan in the refrigerator or freezer ahead of time enabling you to serve a chilled dish.  When placing your meal on the table it is able to stay hot or cold well into a second helping. What is special about the outlet stores is that  they have a lifetime warranty on their cookware. Cooks all down through time have cooked by different means and the Doufeu remains as one of the great Le Cresuet French oven’s of all time.
 
The Le Cresuet outlet offers a wide range of kitchen cookware and utensils. Some of what they offer are ovens and braisers, roasters, gratins, cookware pans, saucepans, stock and soup pans. They offer grill pans and griddles, steel casserole dishes, bake ware sets, loaf pans, and pie pans. They offer non-stick cook ware and cookware accessories of many shapes and sizes. They offer virtually everything every kitchen would need or desire. It is almost impossible to walk into a Le Cresuet outlet store and not buy something. 

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Has anyone heard about turbo cooking?

Well, if you can still remember, that was I suppose the middle of 2010 when a fresh brand and breed of tabletop oven was released in the market. That was the Secura oven specifically called as Secura Digital Halogen Infrared Turbo Convection Countertop Oven.

You might have known already a number of of the well-known characteristics why Secura oven customers have deeply uttered their great satisfaction over other brands and models of similar infrared type ovens. Briefly, we have the double safety power switch which reinforces electrical safety in the oven; elegant and innovative design with removable cord and hinged top cover, and most importantly the non-toxic non radioactive break resistant glass housing.

In this piece of article, I wish to share you some interesting reviews why the Secura Turbo oven can be unmistakably more secured and superior choice of turbo oven than others.

1. First thing first! Just like other ovens using infrared heat, cooking time is significantly reduced as well as better results. What you may not probably knew is that the Secura Turbo Oven uses halogen lamps. Because of that, it allows you to clearly see inside the oven while cooking. That makes cooking in an oven even more exciting!

2. The Secura Turbo oven features an innovative design of flippable hinged top cover. Well, absolutely this is a great improvement as it leverages yourself from the hassle associated with this hot part of oven.

3. The Secura Turbo oven is also built mostly of glass of French arcola quality that is break resistant and being able to withstand extreme temperatures. Not only that, this glass housing is able to protect the beauty of your oven from staining and scratches that is common to other ovens that still incorporate a good percentage of plastic.

4. If you have encountered difficulty in washing infrared ovens, that can change now with Secura’s glass bowl design. You can then easily put it in the dishwasher for easy cleaning and washing.

5. The last but not the least and the most important probably of all would be the quality of food it cooks. What do you think? Well, suffice it to say that the taste of both meat and fish are far better. With the convection fan technology, it not only allows the heat to evenly circulate around the food during cooking but it also seals in the juices. The result without a doubt would be a well-preserved moist tender juicy well-cooked meat.

With all the above points, you would conclude tha the Secura Turbo oven is indeed a top-noched superipr product. When you buy the Secura Turbo oven , come to think of it, none other offers you the following great piece of stuff which include the following:

Double safety power switch Elegant and innovative design Digital control panel Fan speed control button Detachable power cord Rating: 1,3000W Capacity: 1L Standard stainless- Steel accessories, tongs, dual rack, low rack, lid holder, extender ring User’s manual and recipe book

Great indeed! If you have enjoyed nuwave cooking before, this time you will surely be challenged to try this.

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