This green couscous salad keeps its promises, you get different shades of green and as a bonus different textures, soft broad beans, crunchy green beans and bursting capers. every bite is a surprise. i got the idea from the new-zealand cook annabel langbein. the green couscous salad makes friends easily, you can serve it with lamb chops, grilled be

June was cold and rainy and i begged for summer, so now that i am sweating because of a heat wave, i cannot really complain. you can imagine how difficult that is. so i decided to make the best of it and to put my ice cream machine that was starting to collect some dust to good use and i made some pineapple rosemary sorbet. now i know it does sound

Our july 2012 daring cooks’ host was sarah from all our fingers in the pie! sarah challenges us to learn a new cooking technique called “cooking en papillote” which is french and translates to “cooking in parchment”. i like this technique a lot but sometimes while being very healthy papillotes can turn out to be a little bit on the bland

Pour mon thanksgiving léger et oriental je vous propose en plat un filet de dinde à la harissa cuit en papillote sur salade de boulghour, herbes, butternut et grenade. dig in! comme dirait les américains. ingrédients pour 2 pers 2 filets de dinde 1 c à c de harissa 2 c à s de vin blanc jus et zeste d'un demi-citron 125 gr de boulghour 2 c à

Pour terminer en beauté mon thanksgiving je reste dans l'esprit ottolenghi avec sa recette de cookies aux cranberries et chocolat blanc. faites-les vous n'allez pas être déçus. ingrédients pour 20-24 biscuits 90 gr de farine 1/4 c à c de sel 1/2 c à c de levure chimique 100 gr de beurre 1 c à c d'extrait de vanille 110 gr de cassonade (25 g

Summer time is salad time! and this italian salad with zucchini, carrots and lots of fresh basil is one of my favourites. because of its ingredients i call it zucaba salad, if you come from great britain feel free to change the name to coucaba. whatever you call it, it is delicious and goes with everything. for other salad ideas check out the lets

Tous les chocolats du calendrier de l'avent ont disparu et le jour du réveillon est enfin arrivé. si tous ces petits chocolats vous ont mis en appétit et que vous ne voulez pas vous passer de chocolat ce soir, je vous propose des truffes au chocolat blanc et pamplemousse. c'est une recette de la pâtissière géniale kate zuckerman. le pamplemou

You can travel by taking an air plane, a bus, your car, the train... or by opening madhur jaffreys cookbook "curry, curry, curry". she has compiled more than 200 curry recipes from all around the world. this time i decided to go to thailand to try out the thai pork satay. it was absolutely delicious, even though i had to do it without coriander roo

Our daring cooks’ september 2012 hostess was inma of la galletika. inma brought us a taste of spain and challenged us to make our very own delicious paella! i made a paella with squid ink, squids and shrimps. i found the recipe in the amazing cookbook "a platter of figs" from david tanis. it doesn't look very tempting but it is delicious and the

My relationship with pasta salad had a rough start. the first time a pasta salad crossed my path was at a student party, the pasta was way beyond all-dente and drenched in store bought mayonnaise, the few defrosted peas that were added to this mix couldn't save it. well, i drank a lot of beer that night. for a long time i didn't want to have anythi