French Snack
The French snack is the apéro — radishes with butter, saucisson sliced thin, gougères still hot from the oven. Small things, before something larger. Always with a drink.
Featured french snack recipes
- Gougères, gruyère puffs — Iris · Burgundy, France · Pâte à choux with cheese in it. The apéro that everyone repeats.
- Radishes with butter and salt — Iris · Paris, France · Sweet butter, fleur de sel, the freshest radish. That is the recipe.
- Saucisson, sliced thin — Iris · Lyon, France · A board with three saucissons, gherkins, a baguette, and a Beaujolais.
- Rillettes de porc, in a jar — Iris · Tours, France · Slow-shredded pork in its own fat. Toast. Wine. Done.
- Madeleines, brown butter — Iris · Lorraine, France · Tea-time shells. The bump is from a cold pan into a hot oven.
- Tartelettes aux fruits — Iris · Paris, France · Sweet pastry, crème pâtissière, whatever fruit the season gave you.
- Palmiers, sugared puff — Gabriel Moreau · Paris, France · Gabriel: leftover pâte feuilletée, sugar, oven. The proof of the lamination.
- Olives, herbes de Provence — Iris · Provence, France · Warm in oil with thyme, fennel, orange peel.
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