So you want to make Authentic French Food at Home
It is difficult to find more delectable and delicious cooking than French cuisine, and the good news is that you too can make real authentic French food at home. There are a few simple things to learn first. The most important thing to remember is that when you are cooking French food, you must remember that the French take their food seriously and as such take their time to prepare it, and of course, best of all to enjoy it. In Rome, do as the Romans do and in France… you get the meaning.  There are a few recipes in particular that you are going to want to learn if you want to know how to make French food at home.
Beef en Brochette
Popular throughout France, brochette is food threaded onto a small skewer and then grilled! Hmm.. I can smell the aroma already! So if you want to learn how to make French food at home, this is definitely one type of food that you are going to want to get your hands on and then, very definitely, your teeth. For Beef en Brochette you will need the following ingredients: 3 lbs. beef tenderloin and of course the following spices and ingredients needed for the marinade (A marinade is a mixture of ingredients used to flavor and moisten food): 4 medium shallots finely minced, 3 cloves garlic minced, 7-inch stalk celery minced, 2 tbsp. chopped parsley and 1 tbsp. fresh chopped rosemary.
You will also need 1 tbsp. fresh thyme leaves, the juice of 1 lemon, 1 tbsp. freshly ground pepper, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tbsp. oil, 2 tbsp. unsalted butter, 1 onion minced, 1 cup red wine, 1 tomatoes peeled and chopped, ½ tsp. sugar, 2 tbsp. Dijon mustard, 1 tbsp. lemon juice, and 1 tbsp. chopped parsley.
Combine the marinade ingredients in a large glass bowl, and then add the meat into this mix so that all the pieces are coated and let soak for at least an hour, more if you can. I usually like to live for at least 3 hours so that every aroma of the spices and other ingredients are permeated through the meat. Melt the butter in a skillet and add onion, cook, stirring occasionally for about 7 minutes or until it is brown, and then scrape the marinade off the meat and add to the onion.
Now you want to add the wine, tomatoes and sugar and let this cook over medium heat until slightly thickened, which will usually take about 15 minutes. Puree the sauce in a blender until it is smooth, and then let the sauce cool slightly and stir in the mustard, lemon juice, parsley, salt and pepper.
All you need to do from here is divide the beef cubes among 6 12-inch skewers, and cook over very hot heat for about 8 minutes.
Of course, this is just one recipe to get you going.. There are literally thousands of recipes for French dishes and hundreds of cooking book to get your passion for French Food on the way to become a reality.
Remember that making French food at home may not be easy at first but as long as you take your time and have patience you will get better at it.