Cordon bleu

Cordon bleu is one of the french food's name that everyone know. But what is it? It's chicken breast, ham, cheese put together and fried in a pan! How good?! Make cordon bleu and mash potato and you will be making the perfect kid meal!

Ingredients

• 4 slices of chicken breast
• 4 slices of ham
• 4 slices of mozzarella
• Flour
• 1 egg
• salt & pepper
• Breadcrumbs

Methode

1. A work plan, have your turkey cutlets on which you will put ham and cheese and then close it. 
2. Then prepare the breading by putting in a plate the beaten egg (salt, pepper) and in another one the crumbs. Flour first cordon bleu to make the egg stick on it. Then move the it in the egg (both sides) and then in breadcrumbs (both sides). 
3. Heat a good amount of oil in a pan. On high heat, color a side for a minute, then reduce the heat for about 3-4 minutes depending on the thickness of your chicken breast. Then repeat on the other side. Colour high heat and cook at a lower heat. Remove with a spatula and place on paper towels.

 

Sorry for the pictures...

Stuffed potatoes

This is a peruvian recipe that I love. I don't like when food is too spicy so I reduced the quantities. It's sticky and leave your hands dirty but it's totally worth it!

Ingrédients

• 5 large potatoes
• 500g of beef minced
• 1 onion
• 1 handfull of minced parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon of curry
• 1/2 teaspoon of paprika
• Salt & pepper
• Flour
• 1 egg
• Breadcrumbs

Methode

1. Cook the potatoes untill they are very soft, drain, peel and smash them.
2. While you are doing that, cook the beef minced and the onion (cut in little squares) in a pan with a little bit of butter/oil it depends on what you prefer. Add the paprika, salt and pepper and keep it on the side.
3. In the mash potatoes, add the parsley (very thin minced), curry, salt and pepper. Mix it together. Then, make a ball of mash in your hand (big as a handfull), make a hole in the middle and stuff it with the beef minced preparation. Close it and squeeze it softly as I show you on the pictures. Put flour on it and repeat untill you run out of stock!
4. Heat your pan with vegetable oil. In a plate,  pour the beat egg and in another one the breadcrumbs. Dip the ball on the egg and breadcrumbs and cook until both sides are light brown/gold.
5. Serve with a salad.

Enjoy!
Xx

Snickers Pop Corn

For Valentine's day, we decided not to go in a busy restaurant or to buy presents but to have a horror movies night (concession from me!) and to eat junk food! The recipe coming is very sweet and rich: do not eat too much and brush your teeth twice after it !

Ingredients:

• 1 bag of microwave pop corn
• 1 cup of salted butter
• 2 cup of brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of maple syrup
• 3 snickers

Methode

1. In a pot, melt the butter and brown sugar together.
2. Then add the mapple syrup (you can replace it by corn syrup) et the snickers slice.
3. Let it melt on a not too hot pot. 'Cook' the pop corn: follow the indications on the box.
4. Put it in a large bowl and pour the sauce on the top. I recommend you use a spoon to eat it!

Just to show you that i'm the only person that can fail microwave pop corn!!


Enjoy!
Xx

Nouilles chinoises sautées au wok / Stir fried noodle

I love, love, love eat Asian food, but I'm so bad at making it! But with this recipe it's taste good and isn't too hard to cook it :)

Ingredients

• 3 packs of noodles
• 2 bowls of boiling water
• 1 red capsicum
• Handful of mushrooms ( any that you like)
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
• 1 ts of olive oil
• A pinch of sesame
• Handful of fried onions

Methode

1. Put the noodle in the boiling water for 2 to 3 minutes. 
2. In a wok pan very hot, add the olive oil end the chopped vegetables. After 10 minutes, add the noodles that will have been drained ahead, the sesame, soy sauce and fried onions.
3. Let it cook for 5 more minutes and serve.

Enjoy!
Xx

Blueberry pancakes

Pacakes are yummy: too-good-and-too-caloric! In Australia, they are pretty confused between the words "crepes" and "pacankes". The difference is that the pacakes are thicker and smaller than the crepes. The taste pretty much the same, exepted that crepes are lighter so you can eat more of them!

I didn't want to bother you with a basic pancakes recipe so i picked a blueberry one. You can also find very good chocolate or honey one.

Ingredients

• 1&1/2 cup of all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup of caster sugar
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt
• 3/4 cup of milk (plus extra for later)
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon of oil + extra to cook
• 1/2 cup of fresh blueberry
• Maple sirup
• Butter

Methode

1. Whisk together first four ingredients; make a hole in the center.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together milk, egg, and oil; add to dry ingredients, stirring just until moistened. Gently, pour the blueberries in.
3. Pour about 1/4 cup batter for each pancake onto a hot, lightly greased pan.
4. Cook pancakes until tops are covered with bubbles and edges look cooked, turn and cook other side. Serve with maple syrup.

Enjoy!
Xx

Mini chocolate trifle

Hello! After this little break, I'm coming back with an individual, cold and easy to make desert.

But first, I was very busy last week because we were doing renovations in the new flat, and cooking in the dust isn't the best! And, I can now show you a part of our new kitchen which soon, will be in the DIY section.

I wanted to make this desert after i tried to make a chocolate cake in a can. It's supposed to be a high cake that you can decorate very prettily:) But with me it overflowed everywhere and was stuck in the can... A disaster! But i kept the chocolate cake who was ugly but delicious.

The good thing with this chocolate trifle it's that you can make it ahead and stock it in the fridge. You can also make the chocolate cake ahead and freez it. Just don't forget to defrost it few hours before you start making this.

Ingredients

• 1 chocolate cake
• 110g of chocolat
• 1 heavy cream pot
• 1 small greek yogurt pot
• 10 cl of milk

Methode

1. Crumble the entire chocolate cake and place it in the bottom of each glass. Melt 90g of chocolate and mix it with the milk.
2. Pour that into the glass. Mix chocolate cake's crumbs with half of the cream and jalf of the yogurt until light and smooth. Pour in the jar.
3. Combine remaining cream and yogurt together  and add to the glass. Then repeat layers from the begining all the way to the top.
4. When you reach the top, with a vegetable piller, grate the left over chocolate and set as decoration. Store it in the fridge.

Enjoy!
Xx

Baked Sandwiches

Hummm... It's coming on theblogosphere, very quick and easy to make, everyone have the stuff at home: it's the sandwiches baked!
You can fill it with any ingredients. Today bacon and cheese, tomorrow proscuitto and parmesan or tuna & pickles.

Ingredients

• 6 to 8 slices of white bread
• 20 cl of milk
• A pinch of salt & pepper
• 6 slices of bacon
• 4 slices of cheese (your favorite)
• 3 eggs

Methode

1. Preheat the oven 180°
2. In a mixing bowl mix well the eggs, the milk, salt & pepper.
3. Cook the bacon in a pan.
4. Place the white bread slices on the bottom of the cake pan and ensure that you are covering the whole bottom. It's possible at this step to spread cream cheese on the bread slices.
5. Add the bacon cut on pieces and the slices of cheese. Pour a part of the mixture on it and keep adding bread, bacon, cheese... All the way to the top!
6. Pour the most part of the mixture on the top of the last slices of bread.
7. Bake for 35 minutes.

Enjoy!
Xx