Apricot treat and homemade yogurt

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Sorry for my absence from last week but I was badly ill and I couldn’t go out to my bed and cook, so no new recipes went on going and all my grocery that I have ordered became out of date, so that is a pity, no strength for cooking and no food. I am a little poor thing :)

Anyway, as I had difficulty to eat, I focused on what I like the most and guest what! That is the sweet food. In my bed, I though about something that I usually saw in a famous French bakery in London: that is apricot in puff pastry. So I just try to imagine how to do it, I saw a friend to eat it so I had an idea of how to do it. When I feel a little bit better, I went out my bed and I defrost a puff pastry dough. When the dough was ready, I have prepared a frangipane and I took some apricots in a can and I began to do this little sweet thing. It was really delicious and I feel a little bit better after eating it. The frangipane was perfect with the apricot and you can choose the size of your dough in function of as sweet tooth as you are. Take the opportunity of the weekend for trying this quick and delicious treat or dessert.

The second recipe that I wanted to share with you is the one of homemade yogurt. I enjoy doing my yogurt and manage all the various taste of them. When I have checked my website two weeks ago I saw that I didn’t share with you the simple homemade yogurt, the one that you need for doing the yogurt cake with chocolate touch, so it is time to share with you this recipe. And if you have bored of the natural one, don’t hesitate to try the Homemade Guava yogurt or the Homemade Pineapple yogurt.

I wish you a nice week and see you next week with new recipes a little bit more Asian.

Childhood recipes...

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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.

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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