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Parisian fondue (fondue with chicken breast)

24 fév

Fondue is always appreciated during diners with friends and family. It is easy to cook, as everybody is responsible for its own food and entertaining. The most famous type of fondue is the cheese one but try this yummy chicken version, you will love it!

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Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 3 minutes per piece
Difficulty: Very easy
Ingredients for 4 peole:
- 1 fondue pan of oil
- 400 gr of chicken breasts
- 1 bowl of bread crumbs
- 2 eggs

Fill in the fondue pan with oil and eat it until it is hot but not boiling.
In the meantime, cut the chicken breasts into small dices.
Prepare a bowl of bread crumbs and one with the eggs beaten.

Put the fondue pan in the middle of the table and give a fondue stick to each guest. Put the meat, the bread crumbs and the eggs on the table.
Each guest will have to put a chicken dice on his stick and deep it first in the eggs, then in the bread crumbs, and finally cook it in the oil.

Enjoy and remember: the one who is loosing the meat on his stick as a trick!!

Tip: you can skip the eggs and deep your meat directly into the bread crumbs.
You can do this recipe with chicken or turkey breasts equally.

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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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Valentine’s Day special dinner recipe: Prawn pasties

13 fév

Tomorrow it’s Valentine’s Day. If you are still looking for a recipe to impress your lover, try this French recipe! Prawn pasties are as sophisticated and tasty than cheap and easy to make! Have a lovely time with your lover :-)

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients (for 2 person):
- 100 gr of puff pastry
- 200 gr of prawns
- 1 onion
- 2 tomatoes
- 10 cl of double cream
- 1 pinch of vegetable brawl
- Fresh parsley
- Salt, pepper

For the pasties: unroll the puff pastry and cut it into squares. Put it in the oven thermostat 200 degrees for around 15 minutes, until the pastry raises.

For the sauce: cut the onion into thin slices and fry it in a pan with a bite of butter. Peel and cut the tomatoes into dices, and add them to the onion. Add the prawns, and cook for around 6 minutes before adding the cream. Season with salt, pepper, and sparkle the vegetable brawl on the sauce. Cook for 4 more minutes.

Once the sauce is ready, cut the pastries in half and pour the prawns sauce in the middle.

Tip: you can replace the prawns by king prawns, scallops or mussels.

Dress: Gerard Darel

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Christmas biscuits / Christmas sablés

21 déc

These Christmas biscuits / sablés are as easy to bake than to eat! And they are also fun to make alone or with children and friends! I hope that they will help creating a warm and Christmasy atmosphere inside your home!

Preparation time: 1 hour 30 minutes(10 minutes for the dough, then 1 hour rest in the fridge, and 20 minutes for making the biscuits)
Cooking time: 10 minutes in the oven thermostat 180 degrees
Difficulty: Very easy
Ingredients (for around 30 biscuits):
- 500 gr of flour
- 180 of sugar
- 2 eggs
- 250 gr of butter
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar

Leave the butter out of the fridge for at least 30 minutes (better 1 hour) so it softens. If you don’t have time, just put it for 2 minutes into the microwave.

Mix all the ingredients together: flour, eggs, sugar, butter and vanilla sugar. Start with a spoon, and then mix the dough with your fingers to make it homogeneous. It needs to be a bite sticky not too much! If it sticks too much on your fingers, add a bite of flour.

Put the dough in e fridge for one hour so it will become more compact and easy to spread.

Put some flour on the table and spread the dough. It should be around 3-4 millimeters high. Take some cookie cutters and design some Christmas figures on the dough. Christmas trees, reindeers, snowmen, leave your imagination decide!

Put the little figures in a pan go into oven and cook for around 10 minutes thermostat 180 degrees (when the figures have a goldy color, they are ready!). Enjoy and have a Merry Christmas!!

Tip: you can decorate your Christmas sables with jam, icing or chocolate…. And don’t hesitate to change your cookie cutters to serve them also outside the Christmas period, they are too good to be eaten only once a year!!

Dress: Primark

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