A delicious way to prepare your barbecued chicken, fast cooking and amazing taste! Because of the marinade, you will have to start 24 hours in advance. For this recipe you will need: 1 chicken prepared in “Crapaudine”, find it here For the marinade: 1 tsp of sweet paprika powder 1 tsp of ground cumin 1…
Flattened or Crapaudine chicken technique.
In this page, I will show you how to prepare a chicken “crapaudine” style, this allows a fast and easier cooking on the barbecue. This technique is, for exemple, wildly used in Portugal for the preparation of the Peri Peri Chicken, a very popular dish. Warning: We are talking about flesh and bones here, some…
Spring Nectarine tart
For this tart I used Nectarines, but you could easily use peaches, plums, apricots… for those who started with the rhubarb tart, you will see that it is sensibly the same recipe. So, for this other no fuss, no muss, no nonsense recipe… …You will need: The brioche dough from this recipe For the nectarine…
No fuss, No muss Rhubarb Tart
Ah…. spring… time to get the best fruits and vegetables around, time for the fantastically versatile Rhubarb. Rhubarb is classified as a vegetable, is used in recipes like a fruit and is mentioned in herbs and roots books… but never mind it tastes good and that’s what we like. For this down to earth, no…
Brioche dough… for Brioche and fruit tarts…
This dough will make a nice brioche for breakfast, sliced with a thick layer of butter and home made jam it is delicious! But it can also be used as a base for a fruit tart… You decide…. but anyway is good! Be aware though, this dough needs a lot of resting time even though…
Nectarine, honey and thyme yogurt
This very refreshing summer desert, is a simple treat. Done in a few minutes, good looking and delicious. Here is the recipe for four persons You will need for this recipe: 4 home made yogurts (or natural greek yogurt) 4 nectarines 6 tbsp of fragrant honey 1 tbsp of fresh thyme leaves Equipement: 4 margarita…
Empañadas de queso y camarones
Cheese and shrimps empanadas For 6 to 8 persons, About 2 hours cooking included For this classic central and south American delicacy, you will need: Ingredients for the dough: 4 cups of flour, plus more for dusting 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoons salt 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold butter, cut into small pieces 1…
Pulled pork sandwich with Coleslaw
For 4 persons you will need: A pulled pork recipe like this one; Caribbean Pulled Pork Creamy Coleslaw 4 hamburger buns 1/2 stick of butter 12 Jalapeño slices en escabeche 1 Onion The method: As your Caribbean Pulled Pork is keeping warm in your slow cooker and your Creamy Coleslaw is in your refrigerator, warm up…
A simple but delicious Potato Purée
Let’s go back to basics, what is more simple and delicious than a potatoes purée? The potatoes where introduced in Europe in 1534, but in those days, the variety was barely edible, it is only in 1769 that after some research Antoine Parmentier, by order of king Louis XVI, managed to really introduce the potato…
Original French Dressing recipe “Vinaigrette”
I have seen anything and everything on the net on how to supposibly make a vinaigrette, some recipes have lemon juice, some add sugar, some use olive oil, I even read a recipe with some water inside…. so let’s get back to basics, here is the no nonsense, back to basics, real French dressing recipe……
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