MEATBALLS IN MEAT AND BROCCOLI

INGREDIENTS

30 g (½ cup) panko
45 ml (3 tbsp.) Milk
160 g (2 cups) broccoli florets
454 g (1 lb) minced meat (veal mixture, beef and pork)
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 clove garlic, minced
Salt and pepper

PREPARATION

Place rack in center of oven. Preheat oven to 230 ° C (450 ° F). Line a baking sheet with foil. Lightly oil. Book.
In a large bowl, combine bread crumbs and milk. Soak 5 minutes.
In a food processor, finely chop the broccoli and add to the bowl with the breadcrumbs. Add remaining ingredients. Salt and pepper and mix well with your hands.
Form four large meatballs and place on the plate. Bake about 30 minutes or until meatballs are cooked and golden.
Serve with spaghetti with tomato sauce.

Goat terrine with peppers and tapenade

• Preparation time: 30 minutes
• Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients (4 people):

- 650 g of fresh goat cheese
- 37 cl heavy cream
- 130 g tapenade
- 2 red peppers
- olive oil

Preparation of the recipe :

Preheat oven to 180 ° C (gas mark 6) and put the peppers in the oven for 30 minutes.
Them out and seal in a plastic bag until they are cooled.
Peel and remove the seeds.
Mix the cream and the goat.
Line a mold with cling film.
Prepare the dish, alternating layers of pepper, tapenade and goat cream.
food cover film, pack well together and put a weight on top.
Refrigerate at least 24 hours before serving sliced.

Fish Pie (traditional English dish)

• Preparation time: 60 minutes
• Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients (serves 6):

To mash (mash potatoes)

- 1 kg of potatoes

- 2 tablespoons heavy cream

- 20 cl milk

- 200 g grated cheese (cheddar or gruyere failing)

- Salt, pepper and a tablespoon of powdered nutmeg

For the fish based preparation:

- 2 salmon steaks, boneless

- 2 or 3 pavers colin (depending on size)

- 2 pavements of haddock (smoked if possible)

- 300g peeled large cooked shrimp

- 2 cubes fish stock

- 1 lemon

- 1 bunch of parsley

- 1 teaspoon of saffron

- 1 kg of fresh spinach leaves

Preparation of the recipe :

• Fish:

- Cook the spinach for 10 minutes in a pan with a little water, not fat (well monitored, spinach absorb much water). Reserve.

- In the fish stock, poach all the fish until they are all cooked, adding the lemon juice, parsley, cut into pieces and saffron.

- Once the fish is cooked, remove the broth and arrange them into pieces (rather large) by mixing in a fairly deep dish with shrimp.

- Take some fish with parsley broth (very eyes this should cover the fish in the dish), about 50 cl, put it back on the heat and add flour to bind it and make a sauce. To taste; add salt and pepper if needed.

In cover the fish, then sprinkle with spinach.

• Mash potatoes:

Prepare a very thick puree with potatoes, milk, heavy cream, nutmeg and grated cheese; salt and pepper.

Spread mashed potatoes in the gratin dish on the fish. Sprinkle with grated cheese.

Broil in oven until the dish is golden brown (about 15 minutes, but it depends on the oven).

Serve immediately.

remarks:

This is a recipe that an English grandmother gave me. It adds boiled eggs into pieces between the fish layer and the layer of mashed potatoes, but the dish already seems pretty stodgy like that! It is a traditional English dish that allows you to eat a lot of fish to children.

Yogurt cake

• Preparation time: 15 minutes
• Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients (4 people):

- 1/2 packet of baking powder

- 1 pot of natural yoghurt (cl = 20)

- 1/2 rapeseed oil pot (cl = 10)

- 2 granulated sugar pots

- 3 flour pots

- 2 eggs

- 1 lemon zest

Preparation of the recipe :

Mix just the ingredients one by one in the order above.

Pour batter into a buttered cake pan.

Bake at 180 ° C (gas mark 6) for 30 minutes.

Check for doneness with the tip of a knife (it should come out clean).

Enjoy!

remarks:

You can replace the lemon with a packet of vanilla sugar. I recommend yogurt as velvety yogurt or other liquid (Bulgarian, ...).

Fish with butter and lemon

Ingredients:

¼ kilo fish fillet.

¼ cup white grape juice without sugar.

Clove garlic, crushed.

3 tablespoons butter.

3 tablespoons lemon juice.

2 tbsp chopped parsley.

2 tbsp paprika.

Teaspoon lemon humans.

¼ teaspoon dried basil.

Lemon slices.

Salt and black pepper.

METHODS:

Preheat the oven at a temperature of 200.

Sauced fish with salt and black pepper and paprika.

On medium heat Melt 2 tablespoons of butter and then slide the fish on both sides and then lift the fish aside.

Add the remaining butter, then add the garlic and turn it over for a minute.

Add grape juice, lemon juice, parsley, basil, salt, black pepper, paprika and lemon and preached my heart for 5 minutes.

Add the fish and lemon slices.

Place the pan in the oven for 15 minutes.

Presented with white rice.

multicolored tomato mozzarella as burger

• Preparation time: 15 minutes
• Cooking time: 0 minutes

Ingredients (for 3 people):

- 1 mozzarella ball
- 3 tomatoes of different colors
- Basil leaves
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 pinch of pepper

Preparation of the recipe :

Cut the mozzarella into slices.

Wash and cut the tomatoes into thick slices.

Prepare a dressing by mixing oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.

Arrange the tomato burger starting with a red slice of tomato, mozzarella and a washer, a colorful slice of tomato, mozzarella slice and repeat 3 or 4 floors. also intersperse basil leaves. Sprinkle burgers with a vinaigrette and sprinkle with some fresh basil leaves.

The real Tartiflette

• Preparation time: 15 minutes
• Cooking time: 60 minutes

Ingredients (4 people):

- 1 kg of potatoes
- 200 g of smoked bacon
- 200 g chopped onions
- 1 Reblochon well done (when pressed on the side of Reblochon, the finger has to sink a little)
- Oil (2 tablespoons)
- Garlic, salt, pepper

Preparation of the recipe:

Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes, rinse well, and dry in a clean cloth.
Heat oil in a pan, to melt the onions; Then add the potatoes.
Brown all sides of potato cubes, add the bacon and finish cooking.
On the other hand, scrape the crust Reblochon and cut it in two (or four). Prepare a baking dish by rubbing the bottom and sides with garlic.
Preheat oven to 200 ° C (gas mark 6-7).
In the baking dish, pour a layer of potatoes with bacon, have over half of the Reblochon, and again potatoes.
Finish with the rest of Reblochon (crust to potatoes) and bake for about 20 minutes.
Watch carefully, to prevent the cheese makes too much fat.
Recommended wines:
Vin de Savoie or Vin Apremont kind of Seyssel

Skewers of chicken marinated with mint

• Preparation time: 10 minutes
• Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients (serves 6):

- 1 kg of chicken escalope
- 10 beautiful fresh mint leaves (or more)
- olive oil
- 1 white onion
- 2 bell peppers (green and yellow for color)
- salt pepper
- Juice of half a lime

Preparation of the recipe :

Cut chicken cubes (about 2 cm square). Finely chop the onion with mint.
If a blender is available, put the mint, peeled onion, 1/2 lemon juice. Otherwise, you can pound in a mortar or chop with a knife.
Add olive oil, salt and pepper and mix well. Be careful not to turn into mayonnaise requires that the mixture is smooth and fluid.
In a bowl mix chicken and marinade. Chill for an hour.
Cut squares of peppers. Remove the marinated chicken and prick the meat on skewers with peppers.
Cook on the grill about 15 to 20 minutes turning often.
Enjoy your meal!!!
remarks:
The amount of olive oil is to be based on your judgment. It's a small dish invented on the run but that has wreaked havoc! With tabbouleh it's great.
Recommended wines:
a rosé (Languedoc)

Fried steak skewer

• Preparation time: 25 minutes
• Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients (for 4 skewers)

- 350 g of ground beef

- 3 potatoes

- 1 onion

- 1 egg yolk

- 1 tablespoon tomato paste

- A few sprigs of parsley

- 1 pinch of salt

- 1 pinch of pepper

Preparation of the recipe :

Peel onion and finely chop.

Chop the parsley.

Mix the minced meat with egg, parsley, onion and tomato paste. Mix. Salt and pepper.

Shaping a dozen small slightly flattened meatballs.

Book.

Preheat deep fryer to 160 ° C.

Wash and cut the potatoes into slices about 1 cm thick. Take 12 beautiful washers and resize all the same size and same shape with a cookie cutter.

Dip potatoes in the fryer and cook 10 minutes.

Increase the temperature of the fryer to 190 ° C and immerse the potatoes in the fryer for 5 minutes of cooking.

Remove the oil potatoes and place in a bowl covered with a paper towel.

Fry the mini steak in a pan with a little olive oil.

On spikes to skewer, alternate the "fries" and steak. Serve hot.

Bananas bacon

• Preparation time: 15 minutes
  

• Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients (serves 4): 

- 4 bananas (ripe but still firm)
- 8 mint leaves
- mustard
- 12/16 bacon slices about 2 mm

Preparation of the recipe :

Moutarder slightly the inner curve of bananas, there place 2 mint leaves and coat the banana 3/4 slices of bacon.
Place on the grill until the bacon is grilled (count 7 mins).
remarks:

This preparation can be done at the stove, but bacon is grilled least.

Bolognese lasagna

• Preparation time: 45 minutes
• Cooking time: 90 minutes

Ingredients (serves 8):

- 1 package of pasta lasagna
- 3 yellow onions
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 celery stalk
- 1 carrot
- 600 g ground beef
- 800 g tomato puree
- 1 glass of water
- 20 cl of red wine
- 2 bay leaves
- thyme
- basil

For the bechamel sauce:

- 100 g flour
- 100 g unsalted butter
- 1 L of milk
- 3 pinches of grated nutmeg

For the topping:

- 70 g grated cheese
- 125 g parmesan
- Soft butter

Preparation of the recipe :

Slice the onions. Crush the garlic cloves. Finely chop carrots and celery.

Saute garlic and onion in a little olive oil.

Add carrot and chopped celery branch and then the meat and sauté.

After a few minutes, add the red wine. Cook until evaporated.

Add the tomato puree, the glass of water and herbs. Add salt, pepper and simmer on low heat for 45 minutes.

Prepare the béchamel: Melt the butter, then remove from heat, add the flour all at once.

Return to heat and stir with a whisk until a smooth mixture.

Add milk gradually. Stir constantly until the mixture thickens.

Then, flavor with nutmeg, salt and pepper.

Cook for about 5 minutes over low heat, stirring. Book.

Preheat oven to 200 ° C (gas mark 6-7).

Oil the lasagna dish. Ask a thin layer of béchamel then: sheets of lasagne, bolognese, bechamel and parmesan, and this 3 times.

On the last layer of lasagne, put only béchamel and cover with grated cheese. Sprinkle a few knobs of butter.

Bake for about 25 minutes of cooking.

Blanquette of veal easy

• Preparation time: 15 minutes
• Cooking time: 120 minutes

Ingredients (4 people):

- 1 kg of veal stew
- 1 chicken stock cube
- 1 vegetable stock cube
- 2 or 3 carrots
- 1 large yellow onion
- 1 small can of mushrooms (cut)
- 1 small pot of cream
- Juice of one lemon
- 1 egg yolk
- Flour
- 25 cl of white wine
- salt pepper

Preparation of the recipe :

Brown the meat in a mild butter until the pieces are well browned.
Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of flour. stir well.
Add 2 or 3 glasses of water and stir.
Add 2 bouillon cubes, pour the wine and cover with water.
Cut the carrots into slices and chop the onions then add the meat and mushrooms.
Simmer over low heat about 1:30 to 2:00, stirring.
If necessary, add water occasionally.
In a bowl, mix cream, egg yolks and lemon juice. Add this mixture at the last minute, stir well and serve immediately.

Remarks:

Serve with rice. very simple recipe!