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Vegetarian spring rolls

16 jan

I love Asian food, that is why I wanted to share with you this spring rolls recipe. This is a vegetarian version of spring rolls, with only vegetables inside, but feel free to add chicken breast or prawns. The cooking time of the spring rolls is quick so the more important thing is to cut the ingredients into thin slices otherwise there are going to be too hard.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 4 minutes each
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients (for 15 spring rolls):
- 15 rice leaves
- 2 carrots
- 1 courgette
- 5 mushrooms
- Fresh parsley or coriander
- Ginger powder, coriander powder, paprika
- Salt, pepper
- Oil

Heat some water in a bowl.
In the meantime, peel the carrots, courgette and mushrooms and cut them into thin slices. Put the vegetables into a bowl and mix them with the spices and the fresh coriander or parsley. Season with salt and pepper.
Once the water is hot, dip on rice leaf into it to make it soft. Put the rice leaf on a plate and place the vegetables stuffing in the middle.
Refold the left and right extremities of the rice leaf on the stuffing. Then refold the back extremity on the stuffing and roll the rice leaf with the stuffing inside until the bottom.
Repeat the rice leaf stuffing operation until you are running out of stuffing.
Once all the spring rolls are ready, fry them into a pan with a bit of oil.

Tips: Try to eat the spring rolls rolled into a leaf of salad and a leaf of mint, and dip them into soy sauce. It’s delicious!
Special note for my friend Jephtee: if Iliana can do it, you can do it ;-)

Celine’s top: Mango, earrings: Obama silver from Erika Pena. Iliana’s dress: Orchestra

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Tomatoes and basil bruschetta

05 juin

Another non french recipe on My French Cooking!! Well, for my defense, this recipe is very popular in South of France, even from Italian origins :-) And with the return of sunny days, this is a fresh and tasty appetiser, perfect among salads and grilled meat.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Difficulty: very easy
Ingredients (for 2 bruschettas):
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 slices of bread
- 1/4 garlic glove
- 4 fresh basil leaves
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- salt, pepper

Toast the bread.

In the meantime, cut the tomatoes into small dices and put them into a bowl. Add the garlic sliced, the basil leaves thinly cut and the olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.

Put the bread on a plate and set on it the tomato mixture. You can decorate with a basil leaf.

Tip: Leave the tomatoe mixture to rest for 30 minutes to give time to the flavours to mix together.

Top: Mango, skirt: H&M, nail polish: Maybelline, earings and bracelet: Pierre Cardin

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My French Cooking: the Spring/Summer book of recipes now available

15 mar

You are a French cooking lover and you would like to try French recipes at home?
You like cooking but you don’t always have the time or the desire ?
You are not really good at cooking and you don’t like cookbooks, as all you find in them are complicated recipes with uncommon ingredients?
Well, “My French Cooking”, the book, is made for you!

My French Cooking”’s book is full of simple but tasty French recipes, for everyday cooking or special occasions. In this Spring/Summer edition, you will find a selection of French appetizers, main courses, deserts and drinks perfect for warm and sunny weathers!

All the recipes are coming along with simple explanations and graphs that recap the instructions. In this book, you have all the ingredients to please yourself and your friends and relatives!

The book is composed of the following sections:
- Let’s start with an aperitif
- So quick !
- Cooking in anticipate
- Tea time
- Sunny day !
- Guess who is coming?
- Sweet addiction
- What about a drink ?

To order it and receive it in PDF version, to print at home, just click on the following link. It will direct you on PayPal where you can process with the payment safely. Don’t forget to leave us your email address so we can send you your copy. Price: €4,50.


For more information, do not hesitate to contact us on : info@myfrenchcooking.com.

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Olive oil toast

27 sept

This is the most simple recipe in the world…. but not the less tasty! I have to admit that I love these olive oil toast and I make them every weekend for the « apero time » :-)

Preparation time: 3 minutes
Difficulty: Very Easy
Ingredients (for 1 person):
- 1 slice of bread
- 1 table spoon of olive oil
- A pinch of salt

Put the bread on the grill or in the toaster for 2 minutes.
Spread the olive oil on top of the bread.
Sparkle a pinch of salt.
Well, that’s it! Try it and you will be an olive oil toast addict!

(Top: Bershka, jeans: Uniqlo, nail polish: H&M)

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