Thursday, 29 December 2011

After parties dessert: fruits soup !

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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.
    apple and rhubarb soup


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….

Thursday, 22 December 2011

Need idea for Christmas Eve appetizers?

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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.  
    apple and rhubarb soup


I wish you nice Christmas parties.

Monday, 19 December 2011

Spotlight the Butternut

Hi everybody,

This week, I would like to spotlight the Butternut.

Soup of 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.

    Butternut
     
Small cauldron of orange vegetables    

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.

 

Saturday, 17 December 2011

About me

Passionate with cooking, I would like to share my cooking secrets with you. That why, I begin this blog and I launched my own website: www.pauline-cuisine.com. The goal of this website is to give you some easy French recipes for cooking every day, the more toward other website is that I provide some pictures in order to illustrate all recipes.

Perheaps, you ask to yourself, why have I launched my website? Because it is really fashion. Not completely but more because I am really passionate for cooking and for the first time, I have the time to share it with you.

Who I am? I am a young French woman “freshly” arrived in London one year ago. Even if, living in London was something I always wanted to experience, the first months were quite hard to cope with. Indeed, I was not aware of such cultural and food differences between France and England, especially for brands sold in supermarkets. But passionate with cooking, I immediately decided to cook in the French way, and re-create my Petty France inside London. It was tough to find at the beginning the right products to make my recipes because either I could not find them or they were by far too expensive or branded in a different way.

My passion for cooking was born when I started studying at university. I was alone and as for all other students, I first looked at the ready-made meals but this quickly became a nightmare. I then decided to cook by myself and tried to re-create the flavours and tasted of my childhood, when my mother was cooking. I created my own recipes through the books, my Mum’s advice and my friends’ suggestions... and I decided to write down all my food secrets in a pink notebook.

Enough about me, it is time to open my pink notebook and to share my cooking secrets with you.