Chicken with Honey and Fruits salad glass...

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.

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

Spotlight the parsnip...

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.

Soup and dessert, a 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.

Have a nice week.

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Fruits soup and bread, what's more?

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.

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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After parties dessert: fruits soup !

Hi everybody,

I hope you had a really nice Christmas parties and Santa Claus was generous. I received too many gifts for my kitchen so I will try plenty of new recipes … but the free space in my Kitchen is smaller and smaller. 

Today, I have had too many things to reorganize; it can explain why I updated the website at this time. Moreover I changed a little bit the schedule with the fruits soups. I wished to cook an apples and pears soup but unfortunately my pears were rotten so I cooked an apples soup. But not a simple one, I added a teaspoon of vanilla and some cinnamon and the taste was wonderful. So, I share with you my new recipe: apples soup with vanilla and cinnamon.

The second recipe can be nice if you have some rest of cheese from your Christmas parties. I give you the recipe of Roquefort and Walnuts pie. It is a nice alternative to the Quiche Lorraine. The taste of the cheese is strong but not disgusting and the walnuts give something more to this delicious pie. If you don’t want to cook it for your main course you can cook it as nice appetizers for New Eve.

I wish you a nice week and a Happy New Year in advance. See you in 2012 for a lot of more recipes, a new newsletter….

Need idea for Christmas Eve appetizers?

Hi everybody,

First of all, I wish you a happy Christmas. I hope Santa Claus will be generous.

This week, I give you a nice idea for appetizers for Christmas parties: smoked salmon toasts. I discovered this recipe when I was in Paris, and I adopted it because it is quite posh and the taste is really delicious. Moreover, that is something that changes from the traditional smoked salmon toasts. I hope you will enjoy this quick recipe. You can easily impress your guests.

The second recipe is not a Christmas one, but perhaps an after Christmas one when you will probably quite ill after eating a lot at Christmas parties. Here it is: an apples and rhubarb soup. It is a good idea for cooking “old” fruits. If you are like me you don’t like mess and it is a pity when you have to throw some “old” fruits. But, I am pleased to say you: that time is finished. Now you can cook soup with them. Moreover, I give you a recipe where you will only use microwave for 10 minutes. So no more excuses for not eating fruits or throwing them to the bin.

I wish you nice Christmas parties.

Spotlight the Butternut

Hi everybody,

This week, I would like to spotlight the Butternut.

I discovered this vegetable a few weeks ago. I always do my grocery shopping in Tesco and when I bought some courgettes this autumn, I saw a really strange vegetable: the Butternut. I decided to buy one and to try to use it. As my habit, I cook a soup. So, this week, I give you the recipe for cooking a Soup of Butternut.

I was so surprised about the easy way to peel it. Even if is the same family of pumpkin the peel is softer than the pumpkin one. Moreover, the texture is quite different too. One more time it is softer than pumpkin one. And the taste in soup is really sweet. I enjoyed this new vegetable and I am very happy to have discovered it. I hope you will enjoy it too.

Then I decided to use the Butternut in another way. I tried to mix it with other vegetable. In particular, another strange one: sweet potatoes. It is really common in London, which is not the case in France. The taste of sweet potatoes is really surprising because it is between potatoes and carrots. It is something which has the taste of carrots but with the texture of potatoes. That was a nice discovery again. So, I decided to mix sweet potatoes, Butternut and a common vegetable: carrots. The result is really tasty. This small cauldron of orange vegetables will accompany very well your meat or poultry. Don’t hesitate to try it this week:

I wish you a happy week and a nice race for making Christmas gifts.