Lunch box: salad with 2 cabbages

What’s cooking in Pauline –Cuisine?

The sun is back and that is a great news because the salads are back too. This week, I have enjoyed cooking fresh lunch boxes and eat them in the office’s terrace. Yes, I need to confess that I am really lucky to have this terrace which allows me to have sun bath during lunch time. Salads are perfect match with that. As I would like to celebrate sun, I wanted to create something new to eat. I had a quick review of some cook books, I picked up some idea of dishes and idea of sauces, then rushed to my kitchen in order to create my new lunch box: salad with 2 cabbages.

I am not a huge fan of cabbages but this mix of colors is so attractive. The crispy of the cabbage, fresh raped carrots and beansprot is so delicious. But the “must have” of this salad is the sauce.  I was fed of the basic vinaigrette but I was too tired to do a complicated sauce. So the fact to use lemon juice instead of vinegar was really great idea. The mix of mustard + lemon juice is so tasty that you don’t need to add pepper or salt.

For sure, I will eat a lot cabbages salad as I like the texture and the mix of colors add a joyful touch to my lunch break.

I wish you a nice weekend.

See you next week with a quick and delicious chocolate dessert.

Pork chops with caramelized peaches

What’s cooking in Pauline-Cuisine ?

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

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.