21 avril 2009
Petit sejour a Trou d'Eau Douce
Kitesurf a TDD
B. is away visiting a friend tonight & I am on my own... but I must admit actually that I quite enjoy being by myself sometimes. B. insisted that I invite a friend, but I didn't feel like it. I rather felt like having a relaxed evening, baking some cantucci, watering my veg garden, exercising a lil & watching a fleur bleu movie with a plateau tele made of a risotto au fromage blanc & potiron, with a side salad of rocket from the garden, & a cantucci for dessert. Now with all this food I think I've eaten too much & am now drinking an ayapana herbal tea to digest before going to bed!
Sejour a TDD
I wanted to share some photos of the family' week-end in Trou d'Eau Douce. My uncle J. & his family were here for a short holiday & so we spent a few days with them, enjoying the reunion, the sea & wind for B.'s kitesurf, the nice walks on the beach, the swimming, the reading... & the long meals of course {despite the fact that every meal was taken 3 hours late & was an opportunity for the aunties to argue about trivial subjects!}
There're some more pix & recipes to come soon, till then patience & thanks for reading!
12 mars 2009
Petit week-end cocooning...
Time went by so quick. Days have been flying. I've been meaning to write about my week-end since...well the week-end. So tonight with a sky filled with lightning and beautiful colors... With kitten Ticoulou purring on my laps... With my lists scribbled down for my busy day tomorrow & my trip this week-end... Here I am with a few images & inspiration I wanted to share from our week-end.
A picnic in our garden for a Saturday'lunch made of a salade de chèvre chaud grilled on apples & topped with crushed pistachio, served on a bed of lettuce & green beans...concocted by B. Then followed by a peaceful lil nap in the shade of a mango tree...
Later on, a cooking'session for the dinner with our friend B. Roast chicken stuffed with lime & lemongrass, roasted with plenty of veggies {potatoes, sweet potatoes, celeriac, green leaves, onions...}& basted with olive oil & white wine... A few pots de crème au chocolat & a la vanille made the day before, were just perfect for our dessert.
Petis pots de cremes choco-vanille
Salade de chevre chaud
And for Sunday'teatime, a craving for chocolate & an urge to use those sad bananas nearly going bad inspired me to bake our new favorite tarte aux sablés bretons chocolat-bananes ! {which I'll tell you about next time ok}
So a perfect weeky, just as we love '
03 mars 2009
Holidays' program
The program was written on a lil blackboard in the kitchen:
- play with Ticoulou {our new kitten}
- climb the hill {we see from our window)
- do some baking/cooking
- do some gardening
...
& everything was done with my bro D. & sis T. who were here for 2 days!
Muffin'baking
We baked some fruits des bois muffins with white chocolate icing, which I'll be able to share with you because for once I wrote down the ingredients & mesures! Moelleux a point... The alliance of the fruits acidules & sweet milky bar were simply srumptious! 
Pasta'chef
Later on, it was B's turn to take over the kitchen & concoct some pasta with a pancetta, mushroom & onion' sauce, sprinkled with parmeggiano & basil, & followed by a watercress salad. Mmmm... a delight!
Apart from cooking & eating, we of course played & stroked our kitty, climbed our hill, walked through the fields of sugar cane & filled it with laughs, mowed the lawn & planted some rocket...!
For approx. 12 Muffins aux fruits des bois & glacage au chocolat blanc:
Ingredients pour les muffins:
1.5 c.a c. levure chimique
100 gr farine bise
100 gr farine blanche
2 oeufs
100 gr beurre
125 gr cassonade
100 gr fruits des bois
60 ml yaourt nature
un peu de lait {optionnel}
Pour le glacage:
100 gr chocolat blanc
1 gousse de vanille
Marche a suivre:
- Prechauffer le four a 180 C
- Melanger la levure + les farines + puis le sucre
- Faire fondre le beurre
- Battre les oeufs + les melanger au beurre
- Ajouter le yaourt + les fruits rouges + {un peu de lait selon la consistence voulue}
- Garnir un moule a muffin (ou des petits moules en papier) de la preparation + enfournez pendant 25 minutes
Pour le glacage:
- Faire fondre le chocolat blanc en morceaux au bain-marie
- Y rajouter l'interieur de la gousse de vanille
- Glacer les muffins immediatement a l'aide d'une spatule
- Les decorer de quelques copeaux de chocolat blanc
+++ Les deguster le jour meme pour plus de moelleux!!
