Posts tagged vegetable
Tomato and onion Tart Tatin
Dec 29th
Here is a savory tart tatin both simple to perform while being very tasty
Ingredients for 4 people :- 1 Ready-rolled puff pastry
- 10 plum tomatoes cut into 2
- 1 onion, thinly sliced
- brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 20 g butter
Preheat the oven gas mark 6 (180 ° C). Arrange tomatoes, cut into 2 on a baking sheet in single layer, bake 20 minutes in theoven until they are tender and golden.
Cook the onion with butter until it turns light brown, add 3 tablespoon caster sugar and balsamic vinegar, cook until the onion caramelize.
In a pie plate place a disc of greaseproof paper (the diameter of the mold), oil More >
Frenchy’s Vegetable Soup
Dec 22nd
A few days before Christmas, you’d better eat light and warm. Here is an example of a french “potage” you could do with seasonal vegetables.
Ingredients for 4 people :- 3 leeks
- 3 potatoes
- 4 carrots
- 1 turnip
- 1 onion
- 50ml olive oil (1 3/4 ounces)
The recipe is quite simple :
one : Peel vegetables and cut into small cubes. two : Brown the onion in olive oil. three : In a pressure cooker, More >
A la soupe !
Dec 16th
In French they are called “soupe”,”potage”, “velouté” (cream soups) or “consommé”. They can be served hot or cold.
They are conventional, more creative or with an exotic touch. They are simple and pleasantly sophisticated.
They are salty or sweet. In short there is something for every tastes, for all desires and all occasions.
Soup, More >
The Patty-Pan
Dec 11th
Mostly white but also yellow, green or variegated. It has the shape of a corrugated beret. Its taste resembles that of cooked artichokes. Little History : The squash plants are native to Central America. The Indians ate the squash with corn and beans for a very long time. After discovering the New World, More >
Eggplant
Dec 11th
The eggplant is a fruit of the nightshade family, as well as tomato and potato. It’s consumed before full maturity, because in point, his bronzed skin contains a bitter flesh.
Originally from India where we can still find all varieties of colors, in the 15th century it came More >
The Leek
Dec 8th
The leek which is a member of the onion family comes from central Asia and have been eaten since the dawn of time. The leek was likely cultivated in Egypt where it had been known in earliest Biblical times. It was also planted by the Indians More >
The Turnip
Dec 5th
The turnip was first sown in the New World by the French explorer Jacques Cartier in what is now Canada but this root has been used as a vegetable for human consumption since prehistoric times.
Description :Turnips are cheap, nutricious and easy to grow.
Season : Septemer to February.
Nutritional value More >
