Lunch box: Salad with Chaource

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This week I would like to share with you a great salad. I know that we are still in Winter but sometimes eating a great salad helps me to feel sunny. When I served this salad last week, all the guests have highly appreciated it, so I decided to share with you this Salad with cheese and vegetables. That is a perfect recipe for lunch box as well.

I cook lunch box on daily basis. Sometimes, I feel tired of my old recipe, so I spend a lot of time on my cooking books and magazines but sometimes the magic doesn’t appeared :(. So last week, as I usually do one lunch box with salad, I had no inspiration for my weekly salad. I looked in the fridge and I decided to let my imagination goes. I had some Chaource leftover, I really like this cheese but the problem is that he becomes old really quickly, so it is good to put it in a salad. In order to make a festive salad I decided to defrost some figs.  At the end, I made dried bread in the oven in order to make handmade croutons. The result was a smooth mix of sweet and sour flavour.

I let you try this tasty recipe and don’t hesitate to add some comments.

Have a nice week and see you next week with another delicious recipe.

Fresh salmon salad

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The cold days are settled and I will need to find and experiment new recipes for cooking hot dishes. But before sharing with you hot lunch boxes, I would like to give you my last summer recipe. Why, I am still in summer because I went on holidays most part of September. So this week, I will share with you a salad with fresh salmon for your lunch box.

I went to the fish market one week ago and I bought my favourite enormous piece of salmon. It is always surprising to see how big a salmon can be and how fresh it is when it is bought from the market. On my way back, I was thinking about cooking it and I remind one of my day out when I went to the restaurant where I took a salmon salad, I was surprised that the salmon was fresh and not smoked as usual.  So I decided to cook a salad with fresh salmon. As the baby vegetables were discounted, I decided to add them on the salad. The result was really nice and colourful but the most important is that was really tasty. No question, I will cook it again, no matter if we are in winter… there are heaters at the office.

I hope you will enjoy cooking this salad with fresh salmon. And promise I won’t let you down as I have done it in September.

Lunch box: fresh salad with prawns

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This week, I will share with you my last salad lunch box. Indeed the days become colder and colder and I caught the flu this weekend, so I am not in mood to create salad. This week, I give you the recipe for doing a colourful salad with prawns for your lunch box.

I created this lunch box because I was fed up of salad with chicken or bacon and I wanted to innovate a little bit with seafood. In fact, when I went to the fish wholesale market two weeks ago, I was really surprised by the good quality of the fish for such a small price. That encourages me to do more things with seafood.

Talking about the wholesale market, I tried with a friend this weekend, the fruits and vegetables fruits market but I was really disappointed. First of all, it was quite far from the underground. Secondly, it was really dangerous to walk on this wholesale market because of the pallets trucks that they went everywhere really fast for transporting huge amount of fruits and vegetables in order to put them into trucks for supermarkets. I suppose, you have already guessed what is the third point, we can’t buy under 4 or 5 kilograms of fruits or vegetables, so it is too big for us. And sometimes, the fruits are not really fresh so we need to use them quickly if we buy it.  

Finally, we have only bought cherry tomatoes and pineapples. With pineapples, I used one part for doing my multi exotic fruits dessert and with the other part, I tried to do my first jam but it is not a really success. The taste is really good but the texture is not what I want, so I will try it again before sharing with you the recipe.

This weekend, I have also organised a little diner and I have tried to do new things. I tried to do an exotic whipped cream. In fact, since I discovered the exotic fruits, I want to incorporate them in a lot of my traditional French recipes, in order to change a little bit the taste and add sun at the table. I will share with you this recipe of mango whipped cream this week (just let me time to take the picture and create the article).

I wish you a nice week and see you next week with an amazing recipe: French Chocolate Macarons with Guava filling.

Passion fruits cheesecake

Hi everybody,

It was a long time without news, but I was quite busy with my wedding (a really wonderful day) and my new job and first job in London. This weekend, it is the first time when I can sit down enough time for sharing with you two new recipes: Light passion fruits cheesecake and Endives salad with walnuts.

When I tried a cheesecake for the first time, I was really disappointed by the taste. It was a pity because it is quick to make but you have to cook in the oven for 50 minutes. After this first disappointment, I let it down the fact to make some cheesecake. But it was really hard in England; most of the cakes are cheesecake. I decided to give me another try. I added some flavor to the yogurt, added a crispy biscuit and a passion fruits topping. The result was amazing. I did these small cakes for my last guests and they enjoyed it. Try it and post a comment.

The second recipe is a starter. I fed up of soup; indeed the last days were really hot. I am now in the mood to create new salads as a starter or as a dish. Moreover, now, I am back to work and I need to prepare my lunch box every days. So, I will nearly post a lot of fabulous and tasty recipes for doing fresh lunch box for your summer lunch at work.

I wish you a nice week and successful cooking experiences. Don’t hesitate to comment the recipes or ask for more details.

See you next week with special BBQ recipes with my favorite sweet and sour chicken skewers and grilled eggplant.

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