Childhood recipes...

What’s cooking in Pauline-Cuisine ?

Last week, I went to a street market with a friend, it is an amazing place to be because you can buy any bowl of fruit for only £1, the game is to find the merchant that will give you the must heavy bowl for this price. I have enjoyed the experience and I have bought vegetables and fruits. The only problem with these fruits and vegetables is that you need to use them quite quickly, there are not like the one that you bought in English supermarket.

I have chosen to buy apples because I was in the mood to do an apple pie. So, I have baked a thin apple pie with nuts. I have only used few apples, so I decided to bake the apples with sultanas in the oven. I remembered eating it when I was a child and I remind that it was really tasty because the apple is smooth inside not as compote but almost. I baked these apples and I found again this a little taste of my childhood, so nice, so delicious :) Try this quick recipe and don’t hesitate to post a comment.

I was in mood of cooking my childhood best food this week, so I decided to try Goat cheese and ham puff pastry. It is a quite easy thing to find ready to eat in France but it is not as common as in London. Except for lunch at Waitrose. But I was fed up to eat them because there are full of white sauce and they didn’t contain enough bacon and cheese on it. For the first time, I decided to do a Goat cheese and ham puff pastry for a dinner. It is quite easy to do, I have done my own light white sauce, and I suppose it was the part the most longer of the process to cook this recipe. The taste was wonderful; I like the mix of goat cheese and cured ham. I have done a big goat cheese and ham puff pastry and I have served it as a main course with a salad with walnuts.

I wish a good week and tasty edible experience.

See you next week with a recipe for your daily lunch box.

Quiche, quiche, quiche....

Whart's cooking in Pauline-Cuisine?

This week,  I was a little bit lazy, so I didn’t spend a lot of time in my kitchen. Nevertheless, I have kept trying to eat healthy food, so I have opted for quiches. This week, I will share with you one of my new quiche recipes: quiche of leeks.

Since several weeks, one of my colleagues eats quiche of leeks that came from a famous French bakery in London. That quiche always smells really good. So I decided to give a try in doing mine at home.

I did a first one but I was not convinced by the taste :(, so I did a second try with my quiche basis and grated cheese. The second try was a success and it was really tasty. The quiche of leeks is not the fastest quiche to make because you need time for cooking leeks but that worth it and it is a great alternative to the quiche Lorraine.

I really enjoy making and eating quiche, so I have built a large choice of recipes. If you are like me or if you want to cook something good in a few minutes, let’s have a look to my various quiches recipes: salmon quiche, quiche with Roquefort and walnuts, courgettes quiche, quiche with leeks and goat cheese or a quiche with spinach and goat cheese.

Amazing choice !! and the value added of those quiches is that you can easily freeze them for eating later. So, it is not rare that during the weekend, I cooked several type of quiche or a lot of small of one type and I froze them for eating all along the month. The tip is to cook the quiche in an individual portion, that is better when you de-freeze them and re-heat them on the microwave or in the oven.

Enjoy your quiche experience!

See you next week with the recipe of the light version of a traditional French dessert: Crème brulée.

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.

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