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Green Tomatoes Jam
This autumn, we had a lot of tomatoes in our garden that would not turn red but remained green. I hate food waste so I when I heard about that green tomatoes could be cooked into jam, I have decided to make some with mine. Ingredients: 1.7 kg green tomatoes (not mature) 1 kg granulated sugar 10 cl water 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Recipe: Wash your tomatoes, remove the stem and cut them in big pieces. Pour them into a big sauce pan with the sugar, water and vanilla extract. Place the sauce pan on the burner at high temperature (but not the highest because it will burn). Mix with…
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Tomatoes Tart
Summer is the season for eating tomatoes in many ways and this tomatoes tart recipe is perfect for a starter or if you invite friends or family for a drink! Quite easy and fast to make, it is also really tasty. You can make it with red tomatoes like I did but also with many colors. Ingredients: 5 big tomatoes 1 puff pastry 35 g grated parmezan 6 basil leaves 3 tablespoons french mustard (Dijon mustard) 1 tablespoon black pepper 1 teaspoon thyme Recipe: Preheat the oven at 365°F (185°C). Cut the tomatoes in slices. Place the puff pastry in a tart baking pan covered by a baking paper. Spread…
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Tomatoes & Mozzarella
Summer is coming and it’s my favorite time for cooking tomatoes! I love salads and tomatoes and use them in a lot of recipes. We are lucky to have so many types including different colors, great to create cool dishes. Here is my recipe for the perfect Tomatoes Mozzarella Salad. For this one, I chosed to use those types of tomatoes: Red Beefsteak, Green Beafsteak and Hairloom. I also wanted to add some cocktail tomatoes as you can see on the picture but it was enough with the others. For the Mozzarella, use the most common which is soft but remain solid instead of the burrata or di buffala which…
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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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Neer Dosas & Sambar
What I really enjoy about internet is that you can learn so much about so many things! A few weeks ago, I was checking Indian food recipes and found something I never heard about before: Neer Dosas… It looked so good that I really wanted to make some at home so I have been reading and watching a lot of recipes before trying. I also wanted to do a dish side and finally found the perfect dish that I could prepare with vegetables from my garden: a sambar. This two dishes are from South India so feels like you are travelling while cooking them thanks to all the spices you…
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Lentils Dahl
Since we had a lot of rain and cold temperatures in the begining of August, I needed warm and comfort food. But I also wanted something colourful and tasty, not winter meals, so I made a lot of Indian recipes like this delicious lentils Dahl. Ingredients for 3-4 people: 200 g red lentils 1 tomatoe 2 garlic cloves 1 onion 75 cl water 3 tablespoons sunflower oil 1 teaspoon cumin 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon coriander 1/2 teaspoon curcuma 1/2 teaspoon paprika salt & black pepper fresh coriander Recipe: Rinse and drain the lentils. Peel and chop the onion and garlic. Wash and blend the tomatoe. Pour the oil in…
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Quinoa Tabbouleh
Since I am allergic to lemon, red pepper and green pepper, I cannot eat tabbouleh. So, I have decided to make my own without those ingredients and created a delicious recipe with quinoa insted of couscous. Here is my quinoa tabbouleh recipe for summer… Ingredients: 200 g quinoa 16 cocktail tomatoes 8 strawberries 1 cucumber 1 shallott 1/2 grapefruit 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 handfull of fresh mint salt & black pepper Recipe: Pour a large amount of water in a sauce pan on the burner and make it boil. Then, reduce the heat at medium temperature and add the quinoa. Cook it the time needed (for mine 12 minutes).…
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Scandinavian Summer Salad
Since a few days, I have been eating a lot of fresh food from our garden without taking pictures, just enjoying the moment of cooking my own food. I realised that I totally forgot to publish a new article since 2 weeks so all my apologize. Here is a new salad recipe that I have cooked for yesterday’s dinner with fresh food from a local market gardener. It was so good that I really wanted to share it with you… Ingredients for 2 people: 4 smoked herring fillets 4 potatoes 1 big tomatoe 1 sucrine salad 1 spring onion 6 chives pieces 2 eggs 6 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon…
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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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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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