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Coconut Macaroons
I have cook so many coconut macaroons in my life, it was a huge success when I was in charge of the breakfast in a boutique hotel a few years ago. Sometimes, I could cook 800 per week! So I didn’t cook them anymore when I stopped this job and what a shame. It is so easy to do and so delicious… Here is my recipe for 15 little bites. You will only need the egg white so with the egg yolk, you can cook Hélénettes. Ingredients: 2 egg whites 115 g dry coconut powder 100 g sugar 1 teaspoon liquid vanilla extract Recipe: Pre-heat the oven at 190°C. In…
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Potatoes & Zucchini Fritters
I used to cook potatoes fritters before, but never with zucchini. So, when my husband suggested to add zucchini, I was really curious about how good it would be. Finally, we will never cook potatoes fritters without zucchini now! Here is the recipe so you can do it as well. The ingredients here are for 15 fritters. Ingredients for 3 people: 4 potatoes 1 zucchini 2 eggs 1 shallot 60 g all purpose flour 35 g grounded parmesan cheese 30 g grated emmental cheese black pepper olive oil salt Recipe: Peel and wash the potatoes. Wash the zucchini. Cut them using a food processor. Mix them with 1 teaspoon salt…
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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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Yellow French Beans Colombo
This summer, we have plenty of Yellow French Beans and Zucchini Flowers in our garden. There is so much that we can eat full meals of them every 3 days! Because of that, I have made a lot of different recipes with them like this delicious and super easy Colombo from the west Indies. Ingredients: 800 g Yellow French Beans 20-30 Zucchini Flowers 1 Yellow onion 12 cl liquid cream 12% 1 tablespoon Maggi liquid seasnoning 10 g butter 1 tablespoon Colombo 1 teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon poppy seeds fresh parsley Recipe: Remove each end of the Yellow French Beans. Put them in a sauce pan and cover with…
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Strawberry Layer Cake
For my birthday in June, I received gifts I wanted since a long time ago: a lot of kitchen aids for cakes! So, I have decided to cook my own birthday cake and I was really happy about it. It was my first layer cake ever and I made it with one of my favorite fruits: strawberries… Here is the recipe for those of you who would like to make one. Be advise, it is quite long to prepare and it a cake for 6 to 8 people! Ingredients for the Molly cake: 3 eggs 150 g all purpose flour 130 g sugar 25 cl single cream (fleurette) 11 g…
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Pavlova
Since I have seen Pavlova pictures on Instagram, I really wanted to make this Italian dessert! So, when I realised I had all the ingredients at home to prepare some, I couldn’t resist to realise one. Here is my recipe for a small Pavlova for 4 people. I made it with strawberries but you can also use raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. Ingredients: 2 egg whites 100 g sugar 6 g corn starch 8 cl single cream 10 g icing sugar 2 drops liquid vanilla extract 7-10 strawberries 5 mint leaves Recipe: Preheat the oven at 95°C. Cover a baking tray with baking paper. In a mixing bowl, using an electric…
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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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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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Almond Tuiles
There is a particular cookie I really enjoyed when I was a child: almond tuiles. We used to have them with tea in the afternoon, most of the time when we were going to see our grand parents. It remind me all of those moments we shared together and I just realised that I never tried to cook some myself! So, here is my recipe for those little cookies that are perfect for tea time or breakfast… Ingredients: 50 g sugar 40 g all purpose flour 40 g butter 40 g flaked almonds 7.5 g vanilla sugar 1 egg 1 tablespoon sunflower oil 1 pinch of salt Recipe: Preheat the…
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