Recipe of the week: Multi-exotic fruits dessert

What’s cooking in Pauline’s Cuisine?

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: 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.