The French Chef: Season 1

Boeuf Bourguignon

30min - Julia Child makes her famous French beef stew in red wine with mushrooms and onions, demonstrating how to brown meat, how to braise meat, how to make a good brown sauce, how to braise onions, and how to cut and sauté mushrooms.

French Onion Soup

30min - Julia Child makes French Onion Soup, the most popular French soup, as well as a superb Mediterranean vegetable soup.

Casserole Roast Chicken

30min - Julia Child makes a great French meal -- an all-in-one casserole, and demonstrates how to truss and brown a whole chicken, how to roast it the French way in a casserole with various vegetables, and how to carve a whole chicken.

French Omelette

30min - Julia Child teaches a lesson on how to make a real French omelette. She demonstrates two omelette-making methods and shows how to do ahead-of-time omelettes that are gratineed with tomato sauce and sour cream.

Scallops

40min - Julia Child whips up Coquilles St. Jacques, the French dish with sea scallops. She shows how to poach scallops in white wine, how to make the accompanying sauce, how to prepare the dish ahead of time and how to gratinee the final dish.

Quiche Lorraine

40min - Julia Child prepares everybody’s favorite savory French pie -- Quiche Lorraine. She demonstrates the perfect pie dough recipe and makes a pastry shell, and she shows how to make several types of quiches.

Fruit Tarts

40min - Julia Child prepares simple and beautiful desserts for every occasion. She demonstrates other uses for pastry shells, makes French custard fillings, strawberry tarts, and apple tarts, and shows how to glaze fruit tarts.

Chicken Breasts and Rice

40min - Ease and elegance with chicken breasts and rice. Julia Child shows how to bone chicken breasts, how to poach them in butter, how to make a winey cheese sauce, how to boil rice so it is fluffy and how to fix rice ahead of time.

Veal Scallops

40min - Julia Child showcases ten-minute wonder dishes, including Veal Scallops. Julia shows you how to cut veal scallops, how to make quick and delicious sauces for sauteed veal or chicken and demonstrates the French method of cooking green beans.

French Salads- Mayonnaise

40min - Julia Child focuses on tossed salads and French dressings, preparing mixed green salads, mixed vegetable salads, and French dressing. She also demonstrates how to dress and serve salad the French way.

Chicken Livers a la Francaise

40min - Julia Child prepares sauteed chicken livers and hot and cold mousse of chicken livers and illustrates how to prepare chicken livers for sauteeing, how to saute, and how to make a Madeira sauce for chicken livers or other meats.

Chocolate Mousse and Caramel Custard

40min - Julia Child whips up two famous French desserts -- Chocolate Mousse and Caramel Custard -- showing how to beat egg yolks and sugar, how to caramelize a mold, how to make and bake a custard and how to unmold a dessert.

Patés

40min - Perfect French pates for great events. Julia Child demonstrates how to line a baking mold to hold pate, what meats to use, how to fill a mold, how to bake a pate and tell when it is finished, how to cool and unmold it, and how to serve it.

Aspics

40min - Simple to do, beautiful to look at, Julia Child shows how to make aspics and jellied stock, how to test them and how to work with them. She also decorates a cold meat pate and poaches an egg and serves it in aspic.

Bouillabaise

40min - Julia Child prepares Bouillabaise, the famous French fish chowder. Skills include what fish to use, how to make a fish stock, how to cut and prepare the fish, how to make the bouillabaisse, and how to serve it.

Lobster a l'Américaine

40min - Julia Child prepares Lobster a l'Americaine, a great French lobster dish. Julia shows how to pick out a lobster, how to prepare live lobster, including how to saute and flambe lobster and how to make the sauce Américaine.

French Crêpes

40min - Julia Child demonstrates a fabulous way to use leftovers -- crepes! Julia makes a crepe batter in the blender and shows how to cook them, then makes delicious cream fillings out of leftovers, fills and serves them.

Pâte à Choux

40min - Pate a Choux, a quick-change pastry -- Julia Child uses this versatile pastry for everything from appetizers and dumplings to fancy desserts.

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