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Spring Carrots Tart
After the carrot tops soup recipe, here is another delicious recipe you can do if you have baby carrots in your garden with full of carrot tops: a Spring Carrots Tart! Ingredients: 1 shortcrust pastry 8-10 baby carrots 180 g crème fraîche 2 eggs 1 spring onion 1 shallot 1 mozzarella cheese 10 g grounded parmesan cheese 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon Maggi liquid seasoning 1/2 teaspoon black pepper Recipe: Preheat the oven at 180°C. Peel and chop the shallot. Wash and chop the spring onion. Separate the carrots from the carrot tops. Wash and cut in small slices the carrots. Wash and cut the carrots tops in pieces…
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Carrot Tops Soup
Don’t throw away your carrot tops anymore! You can cook them for a delicious soup with onion and potatoes… The first time I have seen someone cooking this, it was my former Chef, where I used to work a few years ago. It seemed so good that I really had to make some too and as it was a success, here is my recipe! Ingredients: All the carrot tops from 6 carrots 3 potatoes 1 onion 1 chicken stock cube (or vegetable) 75 cl water 20 g butter 1 teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon creme fraiche (optional) Recipe: Peel and chop the onion. Peel and cut the potatoes in cubes.…
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Carrot Cake
When I was working as a cook in a hotel, I was the person in charge of the breakfast. I was cooking everything “home-made” from jams to juices, fruit salads, cakes, cookies and granola. I really enjoyed my job but since I am allergic to a lot of things, I could’nt taste most of the food I cooked including a beautiful carrot cake that I really wanted to eat. So, I changed the recipe at home for me and it was delicious! Here is it, tasty and sweet… Ingredients for the cake: 2 carrots 2 eggs + 1 egg yolk 100 g almond powder 20 g whole almonds 20 g…
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Summer 2021
What a complicated weather we had this Summer! Almost no heat but always cold and rainy days most of the time… It’s been really hard to keep the vegetable garden healthy and productive. We have been facing for the first time two diseases: mildew and powdery mildiou. They attacked our tomatoes, zucchinis, borage flowers, mint and sage… Hopefully, I used baking soda combined with water to face it as soon as it arrived and removed the attacked leaves. Thanks to this, only the leaves have been touched and all our fruits were healthy! But even with those deases, we had some beautiful harvests and been able to eat a lot…
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Vegan Poke Bowl
I really wanted to create my own poke bowl full of veggies and colors. So I began to think about the colors, tastes and textures I could pick and step by step, this beautiful bowl was created. Here is my recipe for a tasty, colourful and full of vitamins vegan poke bowl! Ingredients for 4 bowls: 530 g lentils 140 g corn 110 g palm heart 10 fresh peas (without pod) 6 radishes 2 carrots 1 cucumber 1 beetroot 1 turnip 1 shallot 1 tablespoon black sesame seeds chives 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 1 teaspoon Maggi liquid seasoning 1 teaspoon black pepper Recipe: Pod the peas.…
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Spring 2021
Hello everybody, I hope you are enjoying the last days of Spring before Summer! Some changes here since the blog is now on its third year, I have decided to publish 3 different articles by year for our garden: one in the end of Spring, one in the end of Summer and another one between Autumn and Winter. Why? Many reasons: for the first time, I have planted an autumn and winter garden last year so I had a lot to tell about it; then, I begun the 2021 season really early from seeds so I am lucky to have a Spring garden; finally, we have expanded our vegetable garden…
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Radish Asian Salad
If you are gardening, did you ever missed your radishes? I mean, you had radishes but only greens and no roots? This is one of the problems I am facing in my garden, I have been trying to cultivate radishes since 2 years and I always harvest very thin roots and a lot of greens! Sometimes, I have a baby radish or a normal one, but it doesn’t really work for me. So I have been searching for different ways to cook their greens and here is one of them. You can also turn them into a delicious soup (here is the recipe, just replace the carrot tops by radish…
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Seasonal Vegetables & Fruits
I really appreciate to cook seasonal vegetables and fruits. This is how things should be, we shouldn’t be able to have strawberries in Winter and chestnuts in Summer. So here is a list of a large amount of seasonal vegetables and fruits month by month. You can click on the links below to discover my recipes and posts about them. Avocado – Beetroot – Chard – Broccoli – Carrot – Celery – Mushroom – Brussel Sprout – Cauliflower – Butternut Squash – Watercress – Endive – Fennel – Turnip – Parnsip – Sweet Potatoe – Leek – Potatoe – Onion Squash – Black Radish – Rutabaga – Lettuce – Sunchoke…
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Pea Pods Velouté
In the Spring season, I really enjoy to cook peas! But since a few time, I have been looking for recipes that I have never done before because I didn’t want to waste a part of my vegetables: carrot tops, radish greens and now, pea pods! We have been facing rainy cold days since a few days so I have decided to cook a delicious pea pod velouté. Here is my recipe… Ingredients: 150 g pea pods 2 potatoes 1 onion 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons crème fraîche (use a vegetable crème fraîche the vegan version) 1 chicken stock cube 1 L water black pepper Recipe: Wash and cut…
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Veal Blanquette
Veal blanquette is a dish my parents used to cook on weekends when I was a child. I never did it myself before so I just realised why they only cooked this during the weekend: it takes 3h to cook! But it is so worth it… It is the perfect meal for the cold season, from the last days of Autumn, until the begining of Spring! Here is my recipe for 4 people. For the wine, I suggest you to chose one you will enjoy to drink with your meal, I choose a Chardonnay here. For the side dish, I cooked some rice (180 g cooked 10 minutes in the…
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