Showing posts with label mushrooms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mushrooms. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 April 2014

Mushrooms pasta with pesto and walnuts

What’s going on in Pauline-Cuisine?

First of all, I would like to wish you a great Happy Easter. The perfect time of the year for eating chocolate without thinking, I hope you find your chocolate eggs on the garden, I have already ate them :)

This week, I would like to share with you a new recipe: mushrooms pasta with pesto and walnuts that I created after spending some holidays in the mountains. In fact, two weeks ago, I was on holiday with my family in a small ski station: Aussois near by the Italian border. The weather was really nice and it was quite relaxing to have a break over there where the time seems to have been stopped. As I am not a huge fan of ski and snow, I decided to have a look at the village and try to find mew cooking products. It was quick mission as the shops are not always open and are really small. I ended my walk on the small mini market near by the hotel and I finally found an attractive product: mushrooms pasta.

Back to London, I planned to give a try to this product. As I like to cook chestnut mushrooms, I decided to cook this pasta with tasteful kind of mushrooms. When I was cooking the chestnut mushrooms, I was not really convinced about the recipe that I have imagined. So I looked around in my kitchen in order to find the magic ingredient which suits with my idea of the recipe: I decided to add pesto and walnuts. And on top of that, I added some small pieces of dried Italian ham. The smell in the kitchen was really great. The taste of the mushrooms pasta is not as strong as I imagine, it was quite discreet but the recipe is really delicious and easy to make.

I wish you a good week, see you next with another delicious recipe.

Sunday, 23 February 2014

Savory cake: Turkey, cheddar and fresh mushrooms

What’s going on in Pauline-Cuisine?

This week, I would like to share with you another recipe that could fit as a lunch box or main course, even as a starter for welcoming your guests. I will give you the recipe of a delicious savory cake with turkey, cheddar and fresh mushrooms.

Last weekend, I was thinking about my lunch box timetable and I was quite fed up of my weekly quiche. Even if I have a large variety of quiches and dough for quiches, I wanted something different. I was thinking of an alternative when I just thought about a dish that I like to cook when I was student or when I organized finger food diner in Paris for my friends. This savory cake is easy to do, hard to fail and it always makes a good impression. The original recipe was made with Italian ham and white wine but as I am not really keen in using alcohol, I decided to amend the recipe. Moreover, I replaced the Italian ham with turkey as the Italian ham is quite hard to slice in the cake. When I made the recipe I was a little bit worried about the size of the Turkey bits, I didn’t want them too big because it will be hard to eat as a savory cake is quite compact, I decided to make small square pieces and it works really well. The cake was airy and it was really tasty.

I encourage you to bake this delicious savory cake with turkey, cheddar and mushrooms as it is really tasty for your lunch break and easy to prepare. Don’t hesitate to comment the recipe.

Have a nice week and see you next week.

Friday, 6 April 2012

Recipe of the week: Chicken and mushrooms with Béchamel

Edito 06/04/12
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.
    apple and rhubarb soup

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