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Trout Puff Pastry Braid
For starter or aperitif, the trout puff pastry braid can be made quickly and easily. Perfect if you don’t have plenty of time to prepare a meal but want something nice. For the dill, I used fresh one but you can also use drained. Ingredients: 1 puff pastry 200 g smoked trout (8 slices) 100 g ricotta cheese 1 tablespoon light cream (4%) 1 tablespoon poppy seeds 3 tablespoons grounded fresh dill 3 tablespoons pepper 1 tablespoon salt 1 egg yolk Recipe: Preheat the oven at 374°F (190°C). In a bowl, mix together the ricotta cheese, light cream, aneth, pepper and salt. Place a greaseproof paper in a drip pan…
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Cupcakes
There is something I will always remember from Montreal: Itsi-Bitsi’s cupcakes! Unfortunately, they are closed now, but it remains a good souvenir… When I came back to France, I haven’t been able to find any place for cupcakes so I decided to do mine. Here is a simple recipe with butter icing that you can color the way you like. Ingredients for 6 cupcakes: Cakes: 1 egg 50 g sugar 50 g butter 60 g flour 6 g baking powder 6 g vanilla sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 40 g chocolate 2 tablespoons water Icing: 2.8 oz butter 9.8 oz icing sugar 2 teaspoons rice milk food colouring (the color…
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Spring Rolls
Spring rolls need a little bit of time to prepare but they are so healthy and fresh… Moreover, you can add almost everything you want inside! I made some with chinese and red cabbages, mung bean noodles, chicken ham, mint and basil. You can do it totally veggie by removing the ham. Ingredients for 10 rolls: 10 rice papers 100 g mung beans noodles 260 g red cabbage 50 g chinese cabbage 3 chicken ham slices 10 mint leafs 5 basil leafs 3 tablespoons chinese sauce 1 tablespoon Maggi liquid seasoning 1 teaspoon honey 1 teaspoon sesame seeds Recipe: Boil water in a saucepan and add the mung beans noodles.…
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White Bread
What is better than home-made bread for breakfast? When it is still warm just out of the oven… My husband made some a few days ago and I have been lucky to watch him preparing and help for topping! For the flour, we used a fluid one and for the yeast, we have chosen a fast one. Ingredients: 250 g flour 5 to 7 g salt 160 g water 5 g yeast Recipe: In a mixing bowl, place de flour and salt. Add the yeast and mix it. Add the water bit by bit kneading but keep a few for later (0.5 fl oz). Knead for 20-30 minutes, then, add…
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Cabbage & Quinoa Salad
Quinoa is super cool to use in salads. This one with cabbages and tomatoes has a nice taste and is full of colors, perfect for spring meals! There are different kinds of quinoa and mine is white but you can use another one like the black. Same for the cabbage, I have chosen chinese and red cabbage but you can also add some white one. If you want it to be vegan, juste replace the Mozzarella with Tofu. Ingredients for 6 bowls (starters) or 2 plates (mains): 1 cup quinoa 4 cups water 4 chinese cabbage leafs 6 red cabbage leafs 2 yellow hairloom tomatoes 1 mozzarella 1 spring onion…
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Vegan Matcha Maleines
I am not Vegan but I enjoy trying new recipes and tastes. So I looked for a Vegan recipe with Matcha and found one for a cake. I changed some of the proportions and ingredients a few times before finding the best way to make it. For example, the original recipe is sugar free so I added some. As you will see in the pictures, I tried with milk rice and sunflower oil, but let me advice you that it is not the better way to make it! Milk rice is tasteless and sunflower oil too strong. I changed it for coconut milk (sooo good) and grape seed oil (perfect…
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Smoothie Orange, Strawberries & Minth
Looking for a good smoothie? One of my favorites is made with Orange, Strawberries and Minth… Fresh and delicious for all day long! Depending on how smooth and sweet you like it, you can adjust the volume of water and sugar needed. Ingredients for 1 bottle: 1 orange 1 cup strawberries 1 sugar cube 4 mint leafs 18 cl water Recipe: Peel the orange. Take off the leafs from the strawberries. Add all the ingredients in your blender (mine is the Nutribullet 900 serie): orange, strawberries, minth, sugar cube and water. Mix for 10-15 seconds until liquid and serve!
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Breakfast Egg Muffins
I am pretty sure you already know how to make Breakfast Egg Muffins. Those little things are just way too easy and quick to prepare. You can vary the taste by adding whatever you want inside it depending on the season and what you still have in your fridge. Even if they usually are served for breakfast, I enjoy to have them for lunch or even dinner… Fresh and healthy, you can eat them hot or cold. Here, I served it for dinner with chinese cabbage and some spring onion cooked in a pan for 5 minutes at medium temperature. I seasoned it with pepper and 1 tablespoon Maggi liquid…
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Okonomiyaki
Do you know Okonomiyaki? This a super Japanese recipe from Osaka and Hiroshima in which you can add a lot of ingredients to vary the taste. This is my husband who discovered it a few months ago (yes he loves to cook too, lucky me). In this one, we chose to use bacon and parmesan but you can make it veggie and dairy free if you do not use those ingredients. The dough remains the same but the vegetables you add can vary as you like and this is what I like in this recipe. Thanks to this, you can do it all year long using fresh and seasonal products.…
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Oatmeal Cookies
Do you love cookies? I do! Especially oatmeal cookies… It is a very good way to start your day with a lot of energy in a small amount of food. Easy to do, I chose organic oatmeal and eggs for a better taste and do prefer regular salted butter to unsalted one. I know there are a lot of recipes for this kind of cookies but I found in this one the perfect taste for me. You can also freeze your cookies if you want to keep some ready for further days. Quite simple: follow all the recipe but stop yourself before baking; when your dough balls are ready, place…
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