Christmas Starters

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Nearly at Christmas, my head is full of ideas for cooking an unforgettable Christmas dinner for my three guests. I have already bought in France a Foie gras, and now I am looking for a nice way to present it, but one more time I have a lot of ideas and I can’t decide which ways is the best… one more week to decide…. but can’t wait for a magic Christmas :)

For this countdown to Christmas, I will share with you two nice starter with salmon. Salmon again, yes of course, since I go to the fresh fish market every month, I cook a lot of salmon. These two starters are easy and quick to prepare. There are beautiful in a table display.
The first starter is a simple smoked salmon canapé with soft cheese and drill or lump roe. The second starter is a verrine with salmon and the greek preparation Tzatziki, that is really fresh and the fact to add lump roe in it add a nice color touch. I really enjoy these two starters, try them and don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

In another background, a daily recipe, because yes we are going to Christmas really quickly but we still need to eat on a daily basis, here it is a quick soup recipe: courgette soup, a nice green color with a tasty soft taste.

I wish you a happy Christmas, see you on the 30th for a new recipe of homemade yogurt.

Have a nice weeks.

Risotto with cabbage

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This week, I share with you a new Lunch box: Risotto with cabbage. That is a really tasty and quite easy to do.  Try it and add a comment to the page.

When I was a child and I lived in the North of France, usually on December 6th, we celebrated Saint Nicolas, it is quite similar as Santa Claus. For celebrating him, we offer each other chocolate and a typical brioche: a coquille. So, this year, I wanted to recreate this party atmosphere at home, but I didn't find any coquille in various French bakeries, so I decided to do mine. I took my usual brioche recipe and when the dough was ready, I formed the brioche. It was delicious :)

In another topics, I want to share a cooking experience that I had few weeks ago. I am always curious about what’s new and I discovered the Gousto offer. That is a grocery bags that you can receive each week and it contains all the ingredients for making 3 selected recipes. The concept is really nice, a little bit expensive if you have already the habit to cook. I have enjoyed my cooking experience with this Gousto offer: an easy way to prepare fresh dish, learning tips and discovering new recipes. I let you discover this offer with my article and pictures of my homemade dishes.

Have a nice week and see you next week with a tasty soup: soup of Courgette.

Bread with chestnut flour

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This week I would like to share with you a delicious cooking experience. As you probably know, I love doing my bread. Bread is an important part of my food, I was disappointed when I arrived in London by the bread, and when I have finally found “real” bread the prices are far too expensive for eating my everyday baguette.  I have taken the habit to make my bread two times a week but sometimes I fed up of the routine recipes. So last week, I have tried bread with chestnut flour. The taste was really great, I ate it for breakfast with some Nutella, in order to underline the delicious taste of chestnuts and nuts. The chestnut flour was a great discovery. I hope you will enjoy the recipe.

The chestnut flour was really new for me and I have no idea to buy it until…. I received my “Recreation Gourmande” box. What is that? It is an attractive and new concept of cooking box. I enjoy the concept of receiving monthly surprise box filled with new or unknown products. Moreover, I love receiving parcel and discovering products, so I was instantly attracted by “Recreation Gourmande” box.

 

I took the opportunity to come back to France for my honeymoon for ordering one box. I was so excited when I received the email that said that I am going to receive it. My parents received it few days after the email. For me, it was like Christmas when I arrived in France: a white parcel waited for me. I opened it quickly and I discovered a lot of different products. I was surprised to find chestnut flour, curry salt or figs chutney… and tasty little biscuits: “les petits mulots”. These biscuits were smooth and on the middle of them there are pieces of creamy gingerbread. It was nice to eat them when I was continuing to discover the products. I have appreciated to find recipes in order to help me to use some products. But as I like to cook, I have tried to use the products on my cooking experiences; it was on that way that the chestnuts flour arrived on my bread last week.

For this chestnuts bread I share with you a new shape, crown bread.

Have a nice week and see you next week with a lunch box recipe: cabbage risotto.

Mini Chocolate mousse

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I was a bit late in my weekly edito, but I am quite busy for the moment.

Last week, one of my trainee at the office had finished her time at the company, so I wanted to cook something for her goodbye “party”. I had no idea at the beginning because I wanted to do something pretty and convenient to travel because I need to take the underground everyday for going to work. So, I opted for mini chocolate mousse. For a nice presentation, I used disposable shooter glace and add some sugar sparkles on the top of the chocolate mousse. Everyone at the office enjoys it. It was the right size and the strong chocolate taste was really good. Try it and add a comment to the post.

Another cooking experience was last Sunday; I have done my Sunday feast with Carib Gourmet. It took a long time to prepare but it is worth it and it was a success. We have welcomed 14 guests and it was enough for having a good ambiance at the table. Our guests were happy about the food even if there are too much food to eat. I have enjoyed this experience and I am proud to have done it. At the end of the feast, each guest received a goodie bag which contained tasty Congolais. They brought them at home like a little present. I was happy to receive the next day some text (from friend) which said there were delicious. If you want to try to cook some Congolais, don’t hesitate to try my recipe on the website and leave comment.

I wish you a nice week.

See you next week with the recipe one my main dish at the Sunday Feast: Tartiflette “à la mode” Créole.

Sunday Feast on November 18th

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A big and really important event will arrive in a few days on my short Pauline-Cuisine life. I will cook a full of flavour dinner with Carib-Gourmet, on November 18^th at the School of Wok (London). We have worked hard to find some typical dishes and high quality ingredients for preparing this 6 courses feast.

The last two months were entirely dedicated to find high quality products. For my smoked salmon starter, I went to the fish market early on the morning (at 4.00 am, really early :)). I have tasted various smoked salmon and took in consideration the large offer of fishes. Now, I have stayed with the idea of a smoked salmon starter but I let me the choice to add something to my starter regarding to what I will find on Saturday 17^th. At the Sunday Feast, you will eat fresh and tasty fish, so book your seat.

For my new style Tartiflette, I went to France for buying delicious and creamy strong mountain cheese: Reblochon. I have tasted an unknown Christmas ham that comes from Caribbean islands. I have discovered this amazing ham thanks to a friend. It is like a smoked gammon with a spices taste and it is quite difficult to describe this full flavour ham. That adds a huge value-added to the traditional taste of the Tartiflette. Are you curious? , come and feast at the school of Wok on the 18^th.

If you are sweet teeth like me, I will serve a delicious dessert: tasty crêpes with exotic filling as pineapple or guava jam. For an even tastier dessert, I will serve a homemade mango whipped cream. Do you have taste something like that before? Your stomach would like to taste, don’t wait and book a seat to the French Carribean Sunday Feast.

Join the French Carribean Sunday Feast, an unique event where Traditional French Cuisine will meet Créole Cuisine.

Book your seat here.

Lunch box: fresh salad with prawns

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This week, I will share with you my last salad lunch box. Indeed the days become colder and colder and I caught the flu this weekend, so I am not in mood to create salad. This week, I give you the recipe for doing a colourful salad with prawns for your lunch box.

I created this lunch box because I was fed up of salad with chicken or bacon and I wanted to innovate a little bit with seafood. In fact, when I went to the fish wholesale market two weeks ago, I was really surprised by the good quality of the fish for such a small price. That encourages me to do more things with seafood.

Talking about the wholesale market, I tried with a friend this weekend, the fruits and vegetables fruits market but I was really disappointed. First of all, it was quite far from the underground. Secondly, it was really dangerous to walk on this wholesale market because of the pallets trucks that they went everywhere really fast for transporting huge amount of fruits and vegetables in order to put them into trucks for supermarkets. I suppose, you have already guessed what is the third point, we can’t buy under 4 or 5 kilograms of fruits or vegetables, so it is too big for us. And sometimes, the fruits are not really fresh so we need to use them quickly if we buy it.  

Finally, we have only bought cherry tomatoes and pineapples. With pineapples, I used one part for doing my multi exotic fruits dessert and with the other part, I tried to do my first jam but it is not a really success. The taste is really good but the texture is not what I want, so I will try it again before sharing with you the recipe.

This weekend, I have also organised a little diner and I have tried to do new things. I tried to do an exotic whipped cream. In fact, since I discovered the exotic fruits, I want to incorporate them in a lot of my traditional French recipes, in order to change a little bit the taste and add sun at the table. I will share with you this recipe of mango whipped cream this week (just let me time to take the picture and create the article).

I wish you a nice week and see you next week with an amazing recipe: French Chocolate Macarons with Guava filling.

Recipe of the week: Multi-exotic fruits dessert

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This week, I would like to share with you one of my new favourite dessert. I am actually a very sweet teeth and I enjoy eating desserts. Unfortunately, sometimes I don’t have enough time to elaborate them thankfully for my waist :).

So, I took the decision to read my various cook books and magazines in order to try to find quick and healthy desserts to do after my working day. I am not easy to satisfy so usually I take a recipe on a book and I amend it when I do it. Sometimes it is a success such as my new exotic recipe: Multi-exotic dessert, and sometimes it is a disaster as this weekend with a pear ice cream with chocolate chips without ice-maker. Let’s forget this disaster and focus on this tasty new recipe: Multi-exotic fruits.

It is a delicious mix of Mango, Pineapple and Passion fruits. But it is not a simply compote, I add some congolais in the bottom of the ramequin (it was an idea of the cookbook). The coconut flavour adds another tasty and delicious touch to this dessert. I served it two weeks ago to my guests, and they were glad to eat it with congolais and vanilla ice-cream on the side.  Try this recipe and don’t hesitate to let a comment.

I realised this recipe for my business partner: Carib Gourmet. The one with I will cook the Sunday feast on the 18th of November. For this occasion, she created a nice cartoon of us. I let you enjoy this funny drawing.

If you are like me, you enjoy dessert and colourful dessert is like a bonus for your dinner, I encourage you to try my little exotic range of dessert recipes: Panna Cotta with Exotic Fruits, Mango and coconut dessert and Passion Fruits cheesecake….

I wish you a nice week. See you next week with another lunch box recipe. I suppose that will be the last one because it is a cold lunch box with prawns, and the weather will become cooler and cooler.

Recipe of the week: Colourful Lunch box

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This week I would like to share with you my Saturday morning experience. I went with a friend to the wholesale fish market in London. It was amazing to see all these fishes and seafood, some were alive. I went at 6.00 am because it closes at 9.30 am, you need to wake early for taking the opportunity to see this huge fish market, but that is worth it. When I went I was not sure about what I was looking for and I was afraid of the selling quantity. But my fears are now all gone. I bought very fresh salmon filets, scallops and smoked salmon. I have already frozen my scallop and a part of my salmon filets. The other part, I used for doing my first homemade nigiris, it was really tasty. I know it is not French, but sometimes it is quite nice to switch to another type of Cuisine.

On the same subject on Sunday, I was to the Sunday feats of Budaya Kuisina (from Innovative Baker and Cheap Eats Blog). I ate tasty food and it was nice to just sit and wait for the food coming. I really appreciated a Tapioca brown cake (I really need to find how to do it) and an amazing salad which mixed cucumber and mango.

With all this weekend discoveries, I have a full of new ideas on my mind and I can’t wait to come back home and have time for doing some cooking experience and share with you my discoveries.

About discovery, this week, I will share with you one of my new lunch box: colourful salad. It is really easy to do and it is nice to see, and of course, tasty to eat. I let you enjoy this new recipe for putting sun in your lunch break. Don’t hesitate to comment the recipe.

As a real French girl, I always do bread for eating lunch box, I need my bread at each dish. It is why I take time to elaborate each of my bread recipe. So, with this recipe, I recommend you the whole beer bread with airy breadcrumbs.

I wish you a good week. See you next week with a sweet recipe: multi exotic fruits dessert.

Recipe of the week: Stuffed Tomatoes

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This week was really busy and I had not enough time to cook, so I am a little bit frustrated. Anyway, I was busy because I promoted my company and my participation to the future Sunday Feats on Tuesday. Indeed, I will participate, with my business partner: Carib Gourmet, to the Sunday Feasts by Edible Experiences. The goal of this event is to give the opportunities to passionate cookers to cook for around 30 people each Sunday from September to October.  So, I will cook on the 18th of September at the School of Wok in London. If you would like to taste a French-Caribbean feast, don’t hesitate to book a seat. If you would like to know more about these Sunday Feats, don’t hesitate to read my article about it: From Pauline-Cuisine's home Kitchen  to School of Wok’s Kitchen.

As I promised in my August newsletter and in my last edito, this week, I will share with the recipe of Stuffed Tomatoes. It is one of my favorite dishes. It is not hard to do and I give in my recipe the recipe for doing your own stuffing. You can do it in a large portion and freeze it for eating after. Stuffed tomatoes are really nice for dinner and it is good for your lunch box, so it is worth the time spending to do it. Moreover, it’s a seasonal recipe, so enjoy it :)

Don’t hesitate to leave some comments about this recipe.

If you like tomatoes, you can also serve them as a starter with this easy recipe: tomato-mozzarella salad.

I wish you a nice week with tasty cooking experiences.  See you next week with a lunch box recipe: colorful lunch box salad.

Homamade Guava yogurt and Fried Beef with Red chilies

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10 months after the official birth of Pauline-Cuisine, I decided to renew it with a new design, themed categories and friendly navigation way. I let you discover all these new things such as a button that allows you to print the recipe, new sharing buttons…

Let’s discover, enjoy and comment everything. Don’t hesitate to contact me by email in order to give me your feedback about this new website and the different things that you would like to have for becoming an addict to my delicious and easy recipes website.

The main objective of this website is to share with you my easy French recipes, I know I missed it these last few weeks but I didn’t forget you and I will give you 2 new recipes for this week:  Homemade Guava yoghurt and Fried Beef with chilies.

The Guava jam is another delicious discovery from Petite Douceur, a self employed girl that is specialized on creating jam with exotic fruits. After the Pineapple jam (here is the recipe of Homemade Pineapple Yoghurt), I have enjoyed this tasty, exotic and innovative jam. Petite Douceur Guava jam is really fabulous with homemade yoghurt… I will enjoy it until clearing the pot and order a new one of course :)

The second recipe: Fried Beef with red chilies is an outsider recipe on my website. But it is too difficult to live in London and didn’t try to do some oversea recipes. I am a huge fan of this dish when I eat in a Chinese restaurant. The first time, I was really impressed by the way to serve this dish, still sizziling. So, I decided to recreate this delicious dish in my “Cuisine” and share with you my recipe. It is great, I let you try it and let post comments about it.

At the end, I would like to spotlight my News department, where I will post articles regarding my cookery discoveries. For my first article I chose to speak about a new bilingual magazine: Fricote; from Fricote magazine to making my homemade "Jaffa Cake". I let you discover it, and don’t hesitate to share some ideas about it.

I wish you a nice week. See you new week with a delicious seasonal recipe: Stuffed Tomatoes.

Passion fruits cheesecake

Hi everybody,

It was a long time without news, but I was quite busy with my wedding (a really wonderful day) and my new job and first job in London. This weekend, it is the first time when I can sit down enough time for sharing with you two new recipes: Light passion fruits cheesecake and Endives salad with walnuts.

When I tried a cheesecake for the first time, I was really disappointed by the taste. It was a pity because it is quick to make but you have to cook in the oven for 50 minutes. After this first disappointment, I let it down the fact to make some cheesecake. But it was really hard in England; most of the cakes are cheesecake. I decided to give me another try. I added some flavor to the yogurt, added a crispy biscuit and a passion fruits topping. The result was amazing. I did these small cakes for my last guests and they enjoyed it. Try it and post a comment.

The second recipe is a starter. I fed up of soup; indeed the last days were really hot. I am now in the mood to create new salads as a starter or as a dish. Moreover, now, I am back to work and I need to prepare my lunch box every days. So, I will nearly post a lot of fabulous and tasty recipes for doing fresh lunch box for your summer lunch at work.

I wish you a nice week and successful cooking experiences. Don’t hesitate to comment the recipes or ask for more details.

See you next week with special BBQ recipes with my favorite sweet and sour chicken skewers and grilled eggplant.

Don’t hesitate to share your cooking experience on www.pauline-cuisine.com.

Recipe of the week: Salmon quiche

Hi everybody,


I am quite overbooked this time and I try to keep time to upload my website but it is tricky. Anyway, this week, I will give you the recipe of salmon quiche. It is a really easy and tasty recipe.

I discovered this recipe when I ate a dinner at a friend's home in Paris. She cooked this pie because she enjoys salmon and she cooked salmon in so many different ways. When I came back home, I tried to reproduce the taste and now I have the habit to cook this pie when I have some guests. Indeed, it is easy to eat because you can eat it with fingers, you can reheat it easily... It is a perfect recipe for lunch box too.

I enjoy the taste of salmon; it is one of my favorite fish, so I tried a lot of recipes with it. But sometimes it is not a success but sometimes is really nice and I share the recipe with you. If you are a regular visitor of my cooking website, perhaps you have already tried one of my salmon recipes. Did you post a comment?

If you are a new visitor, I encourage you to see my two others salmon recipes: the posh salmon toast (really nice for appetizers, it is fresh and the guests enjoy eating it) and the salmon in parcel (nice and light recipe, perfect dish for romantic dinner or treat for yourself).

I hope you will enjoy my new salmon recipe: salmon quiche. Try it and don’t hesitate to comment it.

See you next week with a fabulous bread recipe on Pauline-Cuisine.com

Recipe of the week: Chicken and mushrooms with Béchamel

Hi everybody,

What’s new in Pauline-Cuisine this week?

This week, I give you the recipe for a Chicken and mushrooms with béchamel “gratin”, it is a really French recipe and it is easy to do and tasty to eat. In this recipe, I give you the recipe for doing your homemade béchamel. I remember, when I was a student in Grenoble, my mother gave me a recipe for a dish with béchamel and she said me, buy a can of béchamel, it is easy to use and you can’t failed the recipe. But, when I wanted to buy the Béchamel in the supermarket, I didn’t find it, so I asked to a vendor and she replied me: do it yourself. But, I had no idea of how to do a béchamel, so I decided to cook something else. Then, I visited a friend in Germany and she explained me how to do a Béchamel for her lasagna, I discovered that it is so easy to do it. And now, I do my Béchamel homemade and I can decide the quantity of butter or the amount of cream that I want.

At the end of the week, it will be Easter and I would like to give you some chocolate recipes for making your own Easter chocolate, but I am not as good as I want for doing it. I hope I will improve my technique and try to be ready for the next Easter. Meanwhile, I went to France the last weekend, and I found a great book about Easter chocolate, I hope it will help me. Unfortunately for the moment this beautiful book is still on its bag, I don’t have enough time to try it, but I will try to find time until Easter because I have some desserts to prepare for a friend who invite me at a Easter party. Anyway, for Easter, you can make the chocolate and coconuts mousse, it is so delicious and it is different to the traditional Easter chocolate.

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

Teddy bear cakes and spinach pie, Miam :)

Hi everybody,


This week I give you two new recipes: French gingerbread teddy bear with creamy chocolate and Spinach and goat cheese pie.

I created the French gingerbread teddy bear because I wanted to participle to a French blog contest. The only condition for participating is to respect the theme that is about teddy bear. When I saw the contest, I said to me, I had to participle; it is a new challenge to achieve. So, I went straight away to do shopping in order to find a teddy bear mould but I failed, thankfully eBay provided it and I ordered it. When I began to create the recipe, I had one thing on my mind, I wanted to have a creamy chocolate inside of my teddy bears cake; whereas, I had no idea about the taste of the other part of the teddy bears. I looked around my kitchen and I saw French gingerbread powder that I have made on Christmas. I decided to use it because it is so uncommon to use it in cakes. Here the French gingerbread teddy bear with creamy chocolate was born and I love both the taste and the aspect. Thank to this contest.

The second recipe is a Goat cheese and spinach pie. When I follow my statistics about my visitors, I find that most of you have tried to do the Goat cheese and leeks pie, so I decided to give you another pie with goat cheese. I really enjoy eating goat cheese, but it is not as common in London as in France. Anyway, I love cooking goat cheese and I like finding healthy thing so I mix healthy spinach with creamy goat cheese. It is so delicious and you can eat it hot or cold, so convenient for lunch at the office.

Have a nice week and don’t hesitate to try and comment the recipes.

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Salmon baked in foil and Lemon meringue tart, miam!!

Hi everybody,

What’s new in Pauline-Cuisine.com?
This week, as every Wednesday, I will give you two new recipes to try and comment: salmon baked in foil and lemon meringue tart.

I love salmon with dill, in particularly when it is cooked in a foil. I recently heard that is harmful to use aluminum foil so I advise you to use baking parchment. My first fear in using this type of paper is that juice can go off the foil but not at all. Even if, it still quite hard, for me, to make a nice paper parcel, the taste of this recipe is as good as cooked in a aluminum foil. So, I adopt baking parchment for my health. What is the next harmful thing?

The second recipe is less healthy that the first one. Since a few months, one of my friends gave me some dessert challenges. That is not I haven’t enough idea because I am sugar tooth, but I love achieve her challenge and discover new taste or new ingredient. So, when she asked me for a Lemon meringue tart, I was pleased to compete for this challenge because since a few years, this type of tart is a failure for me because I didn’t succeed in the meringue. But this time is old time now. My last lemon meringue tart was perfect, my guests enjoyed it and they were very impressed. I hope that you will have a same success when you will try to do it. I advise you to follow carefully the recipe and try it more once if the first one is not perfect. If you are afraid of the meringue, you can replace it by a chocolate drawing top, that is as good as meringue and this version is quite light toward the meringue one.

Have a nice week and don’t hesitate to try and comment the recipes.
Don’t forget to change all your clock on Sunday.
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Recipes of the week: Couscous and Panna Cotta with exotic fruits

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This week is a big week because I will share with you two recipes that were born after meeting great people. The first cooking recipe is a Couscous with vegetables and dried fruits that I discovered during a friend’s birthday party; the second one is a Panna Cotta with exotic fruits that I created after meeting a Caribbean girl.

Let's talk about the Couscous with vegetables and dried fruits. I discovered this amazing sweet mix when I went to a Moroccan restaurant for a friend’s birthday. When I ate the dish in a fabulous Moroccan ambiance, I thought I had to try to do the same thing in my kitchen. So, when I came back, I bought some dried fruits, check in my freezer if I can add more fruits and I create this recipe of couscous with vegetables and dried fruits. The value-added of the recipe is that you can easily bring it at the office for lunch. Reheating this dish is really easy and it is tasty.

The second recipe was born from another big meeting. A few months ago, I went to a meeting with a lot of young entrepreneurships in order to increase my networking and try to find some answers and tips for settling my catering business in London. I met at this evening a person who have settled a business that sale some Caribbean food (here her great website www.carib-gourmet.com). She asked me if I can create some recipes with Caribbean food. At the beginning, I was quite afraid because I really don’t know about this type of food. So, I went to the supermarket and I grabbed some Caribbean fruits and I tried to create something nice. In the same time, I discovered the Panna cotta. I heard a lot about it but I have never tried since that moment. It was a pity because it tastes really nice. So, I decided to match my Panna cotta discovery with these Caribbean fruits and the result was amazing: strong and sweet taste with a really beautiful presentation. I advise you to try the Panna Cotta with exotic fruits, it is really good and fresh for dessert.

Have a nice week and don’t hesitate to try and comment the recipes.
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Baked potatoes and soup for winter time

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What’s new in Pauline-Cuisine?

The cold weather is back. These last days, the sun shined and the temperature was really nice, like we were in spring time. But, since Sunday, rain, grey sky… were back. So, I put a new soup online: a creamy soup with vegetables, in order to warm up your diner. In this soup, I put swede, a vegetable that I discovered a few weeks ago and the taste is quite different toward the usual vegetables, so I tried it and in soup it was really good, but just in small portion. Try it and comment it.

The second recipe is a winter one again: French baked potatoes. Living in London and cooking a lot, gave me a problem; my food shopping became more and more heavy, so I decided to use the delivery system. But that is not as convenient as I guessed. In fact, it is quite difficult for me to choose my fruits and vegetables online. So, in my last delivery, I ordered some potatoes, on the picture of the website, they seemed to be small but when they arrived, they were really big. It was a problem for cooking what I had planned for the week, so I decided to change a little bit my schedule, and I cooked French baked potatoes. It was really delicious. In United Kingdom, the English people like Jacket potatoes but they don’t have this nice cream with chives sauce for pouring this potatoes, it was a pity for me. I decided to stop to be frustrated, now I cook my French Baked potatoes. Enjoy them.

Have a nice week. If you want more French recipes, don't hesitate to visit Pauline-Cuisine.com.

Spotlight on the Quinoa

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What’s new in Pauline-Cuisine?

This week, I would like to spotlight the Quinoa. I discovered this cereal in France, when I was in Paris. A friend of mine said me that she ate it because it is full in protein. I decided to try it because in my lunch box, I had some trouble to cook meat, in fact it was not good to re-heat it. But I was disappointed by the taste. So, I gave up. But when I arrived in London, I had so much time for cooking and I would like to try again this cereal. Despite I dislike the taste when it’s hot, I really enjoy it when it’s cold. I decided to create a starter with that, like a big rice salad, I did a “Verrine” of Quinoa with vegetables. If you are not convinced yet to try Quinoa, another big advantage is that it is easy to digest because it is gluten free. Enjoy this starter.

The second recipe of this week is Chicken with white sauce (Poule au Pot). It is a really traditional French dish. Historically, all French people ate it when Henri IV had the power. So, it is a really old dish. It is really tasty and warm for winter time. Try it and don’t hesitate to comment it.

Have a nice week. If you want more French recipes, don't hesitate to visit Pauline-Cuisine.com.

Donuts of Carnival and Pears pie with almond, Miam!

Hi everybody,

This week is special in France because it is “Mardi Gras” (I think I can’t translate properly but it is like “Fat Tuesday”). It is like Halloween, everyone can wear costumes. This is a big celebration for children and mothers can cook donuts and sweet pancakes. In order to help you for cooking fancy cakes for “Mardi gras”, I give you the recipe for donuts of Carnival.

This week is quite special too, because I give you two desserts recipes. In fact, I enjoyed cooking desserts. I always did when somebody invites me in a home party. Last week, we were invited at a big winter buffet, and naturally I was involved in at the dessert level. I know that it was a buffet when a lot of people can come and eat, so I can’t make glass because I have not got enough for it. I decided to cook a big pie but I prefer little things, it is more difficult to do but the result is more appreciable. I opted for small pears pie. I wanted to impress the guests, I didn’t want to do some simple pears pie like I did with thin apple pie with nuts. So I cooked nice pears pies with almond powder and cinnamon topped. The result was beautiful; it was like I bought it from a bakery. The taste and the aspect are both wonderful and I felt really proud of it. Try it and I hope you will enjoy it.

Have a nice week. 
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Verrine of Beetroot and Bread with nuts...

Hi everybody,

A new week and two new recipes in Pauline-Cuisine.com.

The first one is a Bread with Kamut flour and hazelnuts. The second one is a beetroot and soft cheese glass for creating nice appetizers.

These last days were frozen, I hate cold weather. In order to avoid a big winter depression, I cook a lot of hot dishes for warmed me. I love soup as you have probably noticed it, but when I cooked and ate soup, what I enjoyed the most is Bread. Bread is a passion for me and I always try to find new recipes, improve them … This week, I give you the recipe of a Bread with Kamut flour and hazelnuts. I gave you the recipe of a Bread with Kamut flour a few weeks ago. I like Kamut flour and the value-added is that is good for health thank to the vitamins. So I decided to improve the recipe and try to reinforce the healthy part of this bread, so I added some nuts. The result is wonderful, try it and adopt it.

The second recipe is not a hot appetizer but it is a seasonal appetizer: beetroot with soft cheese in a glass. It is a colorful starter with a nice taste, that is quite rare in that season. You will impress a lot your guests with this easy recipe. That can be a idea for your St Valentin Dinner.

Have a nice week.