Lunch box: Gnocchis with vegetables

What’s cooking in Pauline-Cuisine?

The sun is back and that is really great news. I am still really tired by our long winter but seeing the sun when I wake up is marvellous. So, I decided to put some colour on my dishes, still hot but really colourful and tasty.  This week I will share with you the recipe of Lunch box: Gnocchis with vegetables.

I have used some leftover in my fridge for creating this weekly recipe. In fact, I am so busy at the moment that I didn’t take time to order my grocery and that is quite good because I just cook with all the leftover on the fridge, so no waste. Every time, I place an order, I order some gnocchis because it is a long conservation product and you can use it when you are in a rush. But this time, I wanted to spend a little bit more time in my kitchen and make a more complicated recipe with my gnocchis that my usual one: Gnocchis with cheese and pesto. I had cherry tomatoes and courgettes in my fridge because I went to the market on Thursday. In fact, I have discovered recently an amazing market near my place where they sell bowls of fruits and vegetable for £1, unbeatable :).

I decided to cook the courgette in square piece in a pan. I have peeled the cherry tomatoes in order to let them really melt with the gnocchis. Everything in a pan with some piece of mozzarella, then served with fresh basilic, really amazing taste and texture.

Take time to try this really nice recipe that you can eat straight away or for your next day lunch box.

Amazing lunch box and two potatoes soup

What’s cooking in Pauline-Cuisine?

I hope you are fine and you have enjoyed the recipes already online; I was quite busy these last weeks.  One more hard working week at work and then I will be not as busy as these few last weeks.

I didn’t have put new recipes online but I have continuing to experiment new cooking thing in my kitchen. Just for a quick overview, I have tried a chocolate short-crust pastry that was amazing with strawberry, I will try with pears and I will probably share the recipe with you. Another good discovery was a quick lunch box with couscous semoula and carrots… and so many more delicious edible experiences.

With the snow and the frozen weather, I would like to share with you a really nice soup with two potatoes: charlotte potatoes and sweet potatoes. I have tried this one the first time when I was in charge of cooking for the homeless (one of my charity activity) and it was a success. The key success is a right balance with the water and the milk at the end because if it is not right, you will eat a mash and you are not going to drink a creamy soup.

The second recipe that I would like to share with you is a lunch box. In these frozen weather time, it is quite hard for me to keep awake all the day and it become more and more hard to wake up on the morning, so each evening I take the opportunity of commute across London for thinking about a delicious lunch box, something appealing that can help me to go to work. So it was during a underground journey that I had decided to do a gnocchis-pesto lunch box. The colours are nice, the gnocchis are good to eat and keep you awake all the day long. The value-added of this lunch box is that is really easy and quick to do (only take 5 minutes for cooking the gnocchis), that is really great when you go to bed really early on the evening and you have difficulty to wake up on the morning. I let you try it and don’t hesitate to leave a comment on the post.

I wish you an happy weekend and a good week.

See you next week with a  new soup: mushrooms and chestnuts.