Soup of watercress

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I took the opportunity that we are still in January for wishing you all the best for 2015. I hope this new year will be full of blossom and tasty discoveries.

Usually, people like to take some resolutions in order to make a good start but so few succeed to maintain them. So in order to help the one who decided to cook more often, you will love this website and the fact that most of the recipes are easy and quick to prepare. This week recipe is one of the simplest; I will share with you the cooking recipe for making a soup of watercress.

In fact, for a couple of year now, a soup for dinner appears as the perfect menu after a long day at work. That is really easy to do; you can even take your shower/bath when it is cooking. This dinner is super healthy and perfect for a good night sleep. The challenge is to find a couple of new soup for adding variety all along weeks of cold winter. For finding inspiration, I decided to go back to my childhood and the various soup that my mum does, and the one that came straight away to my mind is the watercress soup. At this time, it was a kind of festive soup as the watercress was not as easy to find as the one in the UK. My mum used to buy it at the food market and usually it was hard work to wash it. Completely different in UK where you have it ready to use which make the watercress soup like something easy to do and tasty to eat as often as I want.

Have a good week and don’t hesitate to comment the recipe and make some tasty amendments

Pumpkin and sweet potato soup

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I hope you had a nice Halloween party with scary pumpkin and delicious black and orange cakes.  Last Saturday, I planned for the Halloween party to cook a creamy Halloween soup. However, my husband had an idea on his mind, and he stole the lovely pumpkin that I had bought for carving it. It was the first time that he did it and I was really impressed by the result.  On the middle of the party, the sharp of the pumpkin has changed because of the heat, but no worries, my husband had done to the pumpkin a “facial surgery” and the pumpkin was great all the party long.

Even if the Halloween pumpkin was nice, I had no more of it for cooking my soup. So I bought another one and when I was in the grocery shop, I decided to buy a sweet potato as well. The taste association was really great and it was a nice amendment to my last pumpkin soup. So I share with you this pumpkin and sweet potato soup with you. It is really easy to do. The most difficult thing is to peel the pumpkin but after it, let’s cook for 30 minutes and your soup is nearly ready, so delicious for a winter dinner.

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

Pancakes and Crêpes :)

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When I was on the underground this afternoon (on Monday) for going back home, I discovered that tomorrow is the Pancake day, so nice .

A new occasion for cooking my favorite dessert: pancakes/crêpes, a new one because in France, we celebrate on February 2nd La Chadeleur where we cook crêpes. So I have decided to share with you different recipes of Crêpes: buckwheat pancakes, sweet pancakes and light crêpes. All versions are really tasty and take the opportunity of this day to test several recipes. In order to avoid the common, but really tasty and enjoyable, filling of chocolate or jam, try to do your own whipped cream. Which taste do you prefer: vanilla, mango or chocolate? It is time to go shopping for buying flour, eggs, sugar and milk and cook tasty pancakes, so delicious  

For the other days of the week and with the frozen weather, you can opt for a soup. This week, you can try the soup of mushrooms and chestnuts . My auntie gave me this recipe and I have tried it after Christmas when it was easy to find chestnuts. This soup is really delicious and innovative. After tasting various way of serving it, I recommend to serve it in “verrine” as a starter instead of a big bowl as I have pictured it.

I wish you a good week and a lot of edible experience. Don’t hesitate to post comments on the recipes and help me to improve my cooking recipes.

See you next week with a tasty leek pie, so convenient for your lunch box.

Christmas Starters

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Nearly at Christmas, my head is full of ideas for cooking an unforgettable Christmas dinner for my three guests. I have already bought in France a Foie gras, and now I am looking for a nice way to present it, but one more time I have a lot of ideas and I can’t decide which ways is the best… one more week to decide…. but can’t wait for a magic Christmas :)

For this countdown to Christmas, I will share with you two nice starter with salmon. Salmon again, yes of course, since I go to the fresh fish market every month, I cook a lot of salmon. These two starters are easy and quick to prepare. There are beautiful in a table display.
The first starter is a simple smoked salmon canapé with soft cheese and drill or lump roe. The second starter is a verrine with salmon and the greek preparation Tzatziki, that is really fresh and the fact to add lump roe in it add a nice color touch. I really enjoy these two starters, try them and don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

In another background, a daily recipe, because yes we are going to Christmas really quickly but we still need to eat on a daily basis, here it is a quick soup recipe: courgette soup, a nice green color with a tasty soft taste.

I wish you a happy Christmas, see you on the 30th for a new recipe of homemade yogurt.

Have a nice weeks.