Pork chops with caramelized peaches

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I am quite fed up by the weather at the moment, I didn’t use a lot my balcony and I can’t do my favorite skewers on the barbecue. With my winter mood, sometimes it is hard to wake up on the weekend. When I wake up quite late, that is difficult to eat a breakfast and a lunch. So usually, I cook a brunch.

Last weekend, I was not in mood to eat a lot of pancakes, brioche or bread…. So I decided to cook something new, still sweet but not as usual. I bought pork chops on Friday and I decided to use them. Surprised? A few weeks ago, I have seen a recipe where you need to mix the pork chops and orange juice. I was not really convinced by the idea but I decided to give a try as I feel it because I don’t have the recipe.  First, I mixed sugar and orange juice and let them cook in a pan in order to create a kind of caramel, then I put the mixture on the pork chops and cook the pork chops. In order to accompanying the meat, I cooked peaches that caramelized thanks to their own juice. The sweet and sour mix was amazing and this recipe was a success.

Don’t hesitate to give a try to this new recipe: pork chops with caramelized peaches.

I wish you an excellent week.

Lunch box: Gnocchis with vegetables

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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.

Welsh - Typical dish in the North of France

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I am planning to pass some few days on the North of France next week, near the sea in order to have a nice relaxing break. As I am dreaming at it I decided to cook a really typical dish of this area: Welsh. One again, it is not a healthy recipe but with this awful weather I need to cook some comfort food. This recipe is really easy to cook and it is so delicious. I just recommend doing it on a small portion because it is really consistent. Moreover, I usually serve it with French fries. So try the recipe of Welsh during the weekend and go for a long walk after eating it :)

See you next week with another cheese recipe.

American pancakes

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Once again I am late but with the bank holiday that we had on Monday, I have enjoyed my free and sunny time. So this week I will share with you a pretty simple recipe. A really tasty one but be careful because it is a really caloric one… An American touch has arrived in my kitchen this weekend. I have done some pancakes for the Breakfast.

Indeed, I was so lazy (quite often at this moment) that I didn’t bake bread or brioche, so when I woke up on Sunday morning, anything wasn't cooked for me and I have anything delicious to eat for breakfast. At this time, I remembered that I bought a pancake pan one month ago, not because I wanted to cook pancakes but because it is pretty red small pan. So on this Sunday morning I decided to give a try to my new pan with a recipe that I had for several years, it was my mother that found this excellent recipe in women's magazine.

These pancakes were really nice and I have enjoyed to see this big pile for breakfast. We didn’t eat all of them, so I have some for my afternoon break. I have served them with maple syrup, so delicious.

See you next week with a typical recipe from the North of France.

Asian Chicken skewers

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One more week lazy and tired, so I will share with you some really easy and quick recipe with an Asian touch. In fact, I was a little bit nostalgic of our dinner at the Japanese restaurant near where we lived in Paris, so I wanted to recreate the chicken skewers.

I was in the mood of skewers because two weeks ago (before being really sick) I bought a new pan. In fact, last time that I have tried to cook some skewers, I used my oven (because it was too cold for using the outside BBQ) and I was really disappointed by the result and I had a hard clean job to do after using all the stuff because everything has sticked. So last time, when I saw an online offer for a Tefal grill pan, I decided to buy it. That was a great purchase. I was at the beginning a little bit surprise by the square sharp of the pan but after the first use, I totally understood this sharp, that is perfect for cooking skewers.

I have really enjoyed this simple Asian recipe with soya sauce, honey and sesame. This new pan was a real advantage and the dinner was perfect. It was great for my next day lunch box as well.

Apricot treat and homemade yogurt

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Sorry for my absence from last week but I was badly ill and I couldn’t go out to my bed and cook, so no new recipes went on going and all my grocery that I have ordered became out of date, so that is a pity, no strength for cooking and no food. I am a little poor thing :)

Anyway, as I had difficulty to eat, I focused on what I like the most and guest what! That is the sweet food. In my bed, I though about something that I usually saw in a famous French bakery in London: that is apricot in puff pastry. So I just try to imagine how to do it, I saw a friend to eat it so I had an idea of how to do it. When I feel a little bit better, I went out my bed and I defrost a puff pastry dough. When the dough was ready, I have prepared a frangipane and I took some apricots in a can and I began to do this little sweet thing. It was really delicious and I feel a little bit better after eating it. The frangipane was perfect with the apricot and you can choose the size of your dough in function of as sweet tooth as you are. Take the opportunity of the weekend for trying this quick and delicious treat or dessert.

The second recipe that I wanted to share with you is the one of homemade yogurt. I enjoy doing my yogurt and manage all the various taste of them. When I have checked my website two weeks ago I saw that I didn’t share with you the simple homemade yogurt, the one that you need for doing the yogurt cake with chocolate touch, so it is time to share with you this recipe. And if you have bored of the natural one, don’t hesitate to try the Homemade Guava yogurt or the Homemade Pineapple yogurt.

I wish you a nice week and see you next week with new recipes a little bit more Asian.

Lunch box: Semolina with sultanas and carrots - dessert: Cake with chocolate touch

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This week was quite busy because I began a new job. It is always hard to arrive in a new company; I feel always uncomfortable and useless. Fortunately at the end of the week, I felt a little bit better.  In order to help me to bear all the day, I have decided to do a cake for my after working day treat. I made homemade yaourts last weekend, so I decided to bake a yaourt cake but with my sickness during Easter weekend, I wanted to take the opportunity to add some chocolate in my cake, so I have done a yaourt cake with chocolate. The cake was really tasty and looked really good, so I share with you this lovely recipe, try it :)

Another job, new range of lunch box! When I need to face to something stressful, I usually sleep a lot, so I don’t have a lot of time for cooking. For my last week lunch box, I have opted for easy and quick option. I have done carrots with semolina and sultanas lunch box. I have enjoyed it.

I wish you a nice week and see you next week for new tasty recipes.