A perfectly pink duck breast

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I watch a lot of cooking program: Top Chef, Master Chef, Hell’s kitchen… In all a this cooking program the finish to cook the meat in the oven. Even when the meat is just roasted. Well, they are perfectly right! I sealed the duck breast for 3-4 minutes on each side, beginning with a very

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Cake au yogurt

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Inspired by Clotilde, this is my own version of her yogurt cake, with few added ingredients and baked many many times. Ingredients 250 g full fat plain yogurt 100 g ricotta, or fromage blanc or quark 2 eggs 100 g melted butter 100 g sugar 250 g flour 1 chemical yeast for cakes For a

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Chocolate brick

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I know this blog is beginning to look like a chocolate blog, but with 2 little kids around me all the time, chocolate it’s just what you need (and crave) after a long exhausting day! Ingredients 150 g chocolate 250 ml double cream 50 g butter 100 g petit beurre (or other kind of thin, dry,

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Gravadlax

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Gravadlax sounded like the perfect recipe to come back writing on this blog. I have the great fortune to have found a wonderful fishmonger at the Saint Louis (in Alsace, France) market on saturdays morning: she has everything fished, nothing from farms, and most of the fish is from French part of sea and ocean.

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Roasted tomatoes

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Inspired by Jamie Oliver and Amanda Soule, with the last tomatoes I’ll find at the local market, what a better way to use them if not simply roasted in the oven? You can have them as a side dish, or blend them and use it as a sauce or for the pizza. Ingredients 1 kg

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La rentrée: back to post

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The move and the new life took a considerable part of my time. And I’m not yet completely adjusted to the new situation. But, hey, I live in France! That’s the best part of it! Baguette at every corner, usually accompanied by eclair or other bakery goods! Fromage blanc (a sort of very rich greek yogurt, velvety

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Redcurrant and peach muffins

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Or better, home grown redcurrant and local peaches! When we moved in this house, one of the main plus was the garden. Coming from a 80square meter appartement in a big city, we need a real change. And so we choose a little village and a big house with a garden. And with the garden

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Vive la France!

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Our life is changing. We are in the middle of our big great move to France! We are going to live in a 1.000 souls village in South Alsace, near the Swiss border. We always dreamed to go back to live in France, expecially now that we have 2 small children. So here we are,

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Greek cake with spinach and feta

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I love Greece and every year, when summer comes, I think about it and how much I would love to go back! So I try to sunken myself in Greek recipes! This combination, feta cheese and spinach, just scream Greece, and the fillo pastry, with its crunchiness is perfect! Ingredients 1 pack frozen fillo pastry,

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Hummus

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A simple, yet satisfing and quick arab metze. It’s always worth a try! Ingredients 400g cooked chickpeas (canned chickpeas are ok, as long as you rinse them before use) 1 garlic clove (more if you dare!) 2 tablespoons tahina (or tahini, a sesame seeds cream, widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa) Juice of

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