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Rougail Saucisse

16 Tuesday Oct 2012

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A while ago, I was referring to Creole cuisine as a source of cooking  inspiration for a tomato salad recipe. Tonight it is an alternative to the classic mashed potatoes and sausage and gravy. Here comes Rougail saucisse.

Plain pork sausage (large ones)

ginger, turmeric, garlic, onions, tomato puree (or fresh tomatoes), laurel, thyme, salt and pepper.

Boil the sausage in water for 10 min, then pan fry them with garlic and onion, turmeric, ginger, until everything reaches a golden color. Add tomatoes, laurel and thyme and cook at low heat until tomatoes are cooked. Dinner’s ready! It goes very well with plain rice but I try it on occasions with steamed new potatoes and it is not bad at all.

Blondy and Bonny enjoy it very much.

I make this recipe for the whole family so I usually remove the red chili that is usually used in creole cooking, but feel free to add some to spice up your meal!

Me & The Girls

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My Easy Peasy Curry

18 Tuesday Sep 2012

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chicken curry, family recipe, fish curry

I felt like eating a curry tonight, and I has some chicken in the fridge that I had to eat, so be it. Chicken curry!

I fried onions with garlic in rapeseed oil, added a tea-spoon of curry, turmeric, ginger, added the chicken and pan-fried until it became golden then I added fresh tomatoes this time (that’s the tomatoes we see in the pics, they have changed colour! I’ve tried with passata before and it’s good as well) and coconut milk until the sauce thickened (about 20 min). I served it with rice. And I am happy to add one more family recipe to my repertoire.

I had tried this with swordfish before and Blue Eyes and the girls loved it as well!

Me & The Girls

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Rougail Tomate

12 Wednesday Sep 2012

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I love all kind of food and Creole Cuisine is a good souce of inspiration sometimes. Here is a family recipe inspired from Creole Cuisine of a tomato salad that to me goes very well with plain rice and grilled meat.

Finely chopped fresh tomatoes, salt and pepper, olive oil, chives, finely chopped fresh shallots, finely chopped ginger and tumeric. served chilled. I love it.

Me & The Girl.

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Courgette Flower Beignets

03 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Blue Eyes came back from the farmers’ market with a bag full of Courgette Flowers. Then I thought : what on earth am I going to do with courgette flower?

This brought me back 25 years earlier. I was a teen at the time and I spent one of my last summer holidays with my parents at their best friends’ summer house in the mountain near Nice. They had 2 sons a bit older than me and we had great fun (end of story, you won’t get any more from me). Anyway, G., my mum’s best friend cooked courgette flower beignets for us. It was delicious but it was the first and the last time I had some! To me this was the kind of cooking that was too difficult for a novice like me.

Well I was not going to throw away those beautiful courgette flowers so I gave it a go, and guess what, it is delicious but it is also very simple and quick to prepare. You just need to prepare the dough 1 hour ahead of baking because it needs to rest.

I took bits and pieces from various recipes on the internet and this is what I finally managed to do.

For 18 flowers

Remove the centre of the flower, wash and dry

Flour 150g

2 Eggs

10/15cl Beer (I did not have any yeast)

Salt

A spoon ful of olive oil

parsley

Mix flour, with eggs, oil, beer, salt and parsley, stir until you reach an homogeneous dough. Keep it covered for one hour (not in the fridge).

For more smoothness you can separate the yolks from the whites and add whisked whites.

In a pan, heat oil (Half a centimeter, I use a mix of rapeseed and sunflower oils). Plundge the flower in the dough and let them fry in the pan until the dough becomes golden. Once ready, place the beignet on several layers of tissue papers. Eat warm, not hot. With the rest of the dough I made dough balls, just drop a spoon of dough in the pan and fry it until it becomes golden.

It’s very good as an appetizer or as a main dish. Bonny loved them and Blondie liked the plain one. I wish we had have a nicer weather to complement them!

Me & The Girls

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Lentils My Way

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

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family dinner, lentils carrot onion and lardons

We had lentils tonight. Lentils is not something I normally cook but I had this in mind for a while. I just wanted something new for the girls to experience and also because I like them!

I had some pancetta in the fridge and carrots we needed to eat before a long week end away. It was perfect!

In a pressure cooker, place puy lentils (or other lentils, sorry being French that is the only lentils I know!) with 4 times their water volume (you can also buy them precooked), add sea salt (a little), then a chopped onion and trunks of carrots and diced pancetta. Once the pressure is on, cook for 10 to 15 min. The look is so so but it tasted really good.

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Someday It is Going To Become Warm and Sunny

22 Tuesday May 2012

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…and salad would be the perfect dish to suit the weather!

So just in case, here is my recipe for Greek Salad:

I like to prepare a vinaigrette with salt, pepper, mustard, vinegar (1 table spoon) and olive oil (4 table spoons), add some spices such as fresh basil and oregano; and then cherry tomatoes, cucumber, black olive, spring onions and feta cheese. In addition to being very good for you it also looks nice with all the mixed colours – the perfect quick family recipe!

Bon appetit!

Me & The Girls

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Salad Season Has Started!

24 Tuesday Apr 2012

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avocado and shrimp salad, family recipe salad

This was my go to salad when Blue Eyes and I were single. For some reason, I had completely forgotten about it for over 10 years and I have only just recently rediscovered it. I prepared the vinaigrette with rapeseed and sunflower oils and lemon; salt and pepper. Then I add cherry tomatoes, diced avocado and grapefruit; whole prawns. Done! If you want to make it more consistent for a family-style recipe salad, you can add (cold) rice. My mother claims that the tomatoes don’t necessary go with the rest of the ingredients so I would then suggest mixing the prawns with grapefruit and avocado; and substituting the vinaigrette with mayonnaise. Enjoy!

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Jerusalem artichokes

10 Tuesday Apr 2012

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I was recently reminded of my father’s father when I saw these beautiful Jerusalem artichokes at the market. I remembered him telling me how weird he felt when he planted Jerusalem artichoke in his garden for the first time; a vegetable that he discovered during WWII when him and his family had nothing else to eat. At that time Jerusalem artichokes were very cheap in France and nobody fancied them.

But I digress. Here is a very simple and delicious soup that the whole family can enjoy.

Boil Jerusalem artichokes and a couple of potatoes in milk for 30 minutes; taking care that the milk does not boil over. Use a knife to make sure all the vegetables are cooked through. Mix well. Add salt and pepper to your taste. I enjoyed this soup recently with chopped walnuts and hazelnuts. Enjoy!

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Fussy Eaters – Guess The Ingredients – Answers

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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fun recipes for children, fussy eaters

Here is the answers to last week post about fun children recipes that would potentially help our fussy earters enjoy their food more.

Could you guess the ingredients behind this cute little mushroom?

(Egg, tomato, fresh goat cheese and chives).

Please guess what recipe is behind these 2 cute characters…

(egg, yolk for hair, ketchup, parsley and a suggestion that cannot be seen on the picture is canned tuna mixed with petits-suisses, lemon juice, salt and pepper to garnish inside the eggs).

these adorable mice… (fresh goat cheese mixed with mascarpone, chives and black olives)

and ahoy, this sail boat.

(potatoes, lettuce, ham, mayonnaise)

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Fussy Eaters – Guess The Ingredients

27 Tuesday Mar 2012

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My mother in law often sends me her French magazines once she’s finished reading them. I have found these recipes in “Prima” magazine and I just thought they were really fun recipes. I think these recipes would help fussy eaters try new things and enjoy their food more  – and end results look great.

Can you guess the ingredients behind this cute little mushroom?

Disclaimer: if you find such mushrooms already available in the bush, please do not eat them or you will be in trouble!

Please guess what recipe is behind these 2 cute characters…

these adorable mice…

and ahoy, this sail boat.

Me & The Girls (answers in next week food post)

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