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.

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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