Thursday 26 January 2012

Chicken with Honey and Fruits salad glass...

Edito 26/01/12
Hi everybody,

What’s new in Pauline-Cuisine this week?

You already know it if you read regularly the notepad on the Home Page. Anyway,  this week, I will give you two recipes: one for cooking Chicken with honey and a second for preparing fruits salad. In fact, one of my new resolutions is to eat more fruits, so I tried to find nice and tasty way to eat them.
   

Since I was teenager, I enjoy eating sweet and sour meals, so I always try to find new recipes and new mixed taste. 
Last week, I discovered an easy recipe of chicken with honey that I found in one of my cooking books. But when I tasted it I have thought that I have to add something to this recipe. I had two ideas for adding an ingredient: mixed herb because I love the taste or sesame seeds because I just discovered them. I tasted these two but my favorite is Chicken with honey and sesame seeds. Moreover, I read in a book that sesame seeds bring calcium to your body, so it is a great value-added, don’t you think so?

The second recipe is a glass of fruits salad. Fruits salad is really easy and quick to prepare but if you present it in glass, the effect is amazing. I don’t particularly love eating but I eat when the presentation is great. So, I think I will eat more fruits salad now.
    apple and rhubarb soup

Have a nice week and don’t hesitate to share your cooking experience on www.pauline-cuisine.com.

Thursday 19 January 2012

Spotlight the parsnip...

Week 19/01/2012
Hi everybody,


A new week, 2 new recipes.

   
Last week, I discovered a new vegetable: the parsnip. If you follow my edito, perhaps are you thinking that I discover a lot vegetable here in London. In fact, in France, I cooked with all the vegetables that can find easily in the supermarket and in England I do the same thing but the offer is quite different.

Anyway, where did I discover the parsnip? Not in Tesco like usual because this vegetable is like a big white carrot, that doesn’t attract my eyes. I discovered it per chance last week. Indeed, I cook every Wednesday a soup for the homeless of the Westminster borough and in this beginning of year, a charity gave me vegetables for cooking this weekly soup. when I arrived I was really surprised to see a big bag of this big white carrot (the parsnip). I took some of them and I tried to cook them with a friend. We did a delicious and creamy soup of parsnip. Everyone enjoyed it.

   
   
When I came back at home, I decided to use parsnip again. The taste is strong and it is quite like celery, so I thought that can be tasty in a “au gratin” dish. I open my fridge and pick up all the vegetables that can find and I cooked 5 vegetables au gratin. The result was really good, so I give you the recipe for this week.


Have a nice week and don’t hesitate to share your cooking experience on www.pauline-cuisine.com.



Thursday 12 January 2012

Soup and dessert, a perfect match for winter dinner!

Soup and dessert, perfect match for winter dinner
Hi everybody,




We spent one/two week in this new Year but nothing had changed for me : I am still looking for a job, trying to build my company, the sky is grey… So, in order to avoid a big winter depression, I cooked. 


   
This week, I will give you the recipe of a lime cream. It is really tasty. One of my friends tasted it a few months ago and she asked me to put the recipe in the website because her future husband enjoys lemon. So, I hope she will appreciate. If you want to impress your guests, do like me and write with chocolate the name of your guests on the top the lime cream. For doing it, use a small pipette and pour it with chocolate (25 g of plain chocolate with 1 tablespoon of water and put it in the microwave 1 minute at 600W). Success guaranteed.

The second recipe is a soup, a Tomato soup. It is really easy to do because you just need a plum tomatoes can and potatoes. I discovered this soup by chance when I cooked a sweet couscous. In fact, I didn’t use all my plum tomatoes so, I tried to do a soup in adding potatoes in order to give a consistence to my soup. the tomato soup was born. The result was really tasty and delicious, so I share with you my recipe.
    barleycorn bread

Have a nice week.

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Thursday 5 January 2012

Fruits soup and bread, what's more?

Document sans nom
Hi everybody,



I wish you a Happy New Year. I hope this New Year will give you all that you wish. From my part, I will give you two new recipes each week in order to help you for cooking your meal.

   
This week, I will finish my fruits soup theme. I began this trilogy because one of my friends in London said me that she haven't found real fruits soup in London. She is right, so I decided to give to her some recipes via my website. I give some quick to do recipes with using microwave and not a pan like everyone use for doing fruits soup. So, the last one is a sweet and delicious mix with pears and apples: pears and apples soup. You can eat it as a dessert or if you are sweet tooth, this apples and pears soup can be really great with vanilla ice cream.


The second recipe of the week is Bread with barleycorn flour. This flour is a great discovery from Waitrose. I really love this shop for finding new ingredient. The taste of the flour is quite similar to strong whole wheat flour but with a little something more. I enjoyed tested new flour in order to change the bread every time. Indeed, for me, bread has a great part in my feeding so I give to it a huge importance for the texture and the taste. I hope you will enjoy it.
    barleycorn bread


I wish you again a happy New year and a great health. For a great health, the big secret is cooking fresh vegetable, so find recipes in the website: www.pauline-cuisine.com,  try them and don’t hesitate to comment them.

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