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the umpteenth playing of "Chicken Assassin of Vero, version" just a little more bon vivant "(understanding "version-ethylico exhilarating")









Who has not heard about the chicken who Tue Véro ?! I saw him repeatedly interpreted (the time when shy, I did that "move" every day on blogs!), First by my Turtle and other blogs which unfortunately I can not remember more accurately .. I reached a new syndrome blogosphere: the "blog but what is it that I found it ????!" And of course, just like syndrome "oh but who played in the film??" It prevents me from completing my daily tasks, and makes me jump, unexpectedly, "AHH BUT YES !!!!!", scary friends and colleagues (well," colleagues ", that word will quickly disappear from my daily vocabulary, J - 3 ...).

So here's a little interpretation of this chicken alcohol kills really a wonder ... who loves BBQ, and already feels nostalgic for a summer fleeting at best.

Where I got this inspiration ethyl? My mother goes every year in Guadeloupe and Martinique (for professional reasons, yes ma'am!) And brings me back some wonders from there ... (Winter, pods of vanilla to die, and especially especially true of cocoa monstrous, and I forgot! To finish off, many spices!) Among the surprises, also contained a bottle of rum to the wonderful Nuts Coco.

And Rum Coconut n'enchantait person at the parental home. "To drink like that is disgusting ..." and other sentences given me warning! No, I could not let this sacrilege, This rum is just wonderful!

So here I am in search of the Holy Grail-Version-Chicken on Vero blog.
Hers was much more attractively colored than mine, so I wonder where is the error (at the same time, many argue that it is trying to get the same result as a wonderful cook!) .. I think I should exaggerate a little more about the marinade!
But the result was great, the taste is indescribable! And key added by the Coco-Rum is sublime!
An unparalleled softness!
It remains for me to thank for that far Vero wonderful recipe!

I transcribed the recipe, advising you still refer to its (wonderful) recipe on his (breathtaking) Blog

Magic Ingredients:
- A chicken (for me only the thighs, a little sad though)
- In light soy sauce
- A
onion - 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp S. sugar
-
grated ginger - 1 tsp S. peanut oil.
- The Claire's Touch: A glass of rum in the coconut ..

Vero recommends cutting a whole chicken. That day we were only three, my daddy chose only buy chicken legs .. where my photos little variety! I nicked the thighs by the good advice of the Pro, and this idea is wonderful ... she lets slip the marinade and onions to the inside of the thigh ....( I still saliva)

Prepare the marinade with soy sauce, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar, ginger grated onion and two cloves of mashed garlic, and finally 1 tablespoon of peanut oil.

Marinate chicken thighs for about 2 hours.
Prepare the fire, (there Vero drop the chicken pieces on embers) I put it on the grill .. I have not dared to the flames (and, frankly, my daddy told me it was not possible, I did not understand anything! therefore wise, I wonder if you would filed the chicken pieces as shown on the coals?!, thank you!)

There I brushed the marinade on the chicken during cooking!
result pfiouh few words to describe it.
I did not take pictures of the dishes, full of mini thesis writing I did was fragrant rice that day! (And I rushed to take some photos before spinning devour all that!).

The photos are not terrible terrible, but I still want to show you this little indulgence!



Ah .. I forgot! yes I have taken the plunge "Stéphane Glacier ".... small macaroons Matcha, ma-gni-fi-that-ing good, delicious! By cons, not enough "bloated" for my taste, so, I have not made the star of the post .. it comes, it will come! I want to thank énooormément, once again, Sugar Bubble Bulle for all his advice (they will even better off next time!)!
I still leaves a little proof:

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Variations on the Kir Royal. Risotto of Tiramisu, through the Duck. Biscotti della Nonna I

... Or How to Find a pompous title for recipes that do not revolutionize the Planet of gastronomy, but who marry perfectly, certainly, coming almost to create the illusion that a chef's inspiration has struggled that day!

The incipit? Well it will the incipit of two posts that want a little alcohol ... is it the need to celebrate in advance the almost-end of the course (7 days if you do not count the weekend festivities ^^)?, ahead at the end of the tests of "Bar" friends Future Lawyer? Wanting to be in paradox with the businessmen who go to bed very early and without a "small glass" between acolytes? Ah! Perhaps the paradox with my diet the last two days: metro-boulot-migraine-soup-Actifed-sleeping?

Would I take note of my tendency liquor in my recent kitchen "kitchen" is also summarizing the weekends - this job is definitely not for me! (Leave me the thrill of naivety to believe that, even where Prof, I have time to cook every day!).

I have a feeling of repeating myself, I asked this rhetorical question. And the best answer is to say that we will fight to keep this time to cook! (Well, for the politically incorrect, I heard Xavier Bertrand (eager to add adjectives but I restrain myself ..) that he "loved to read, but he had absolutely no time". A writer on the board said "mistake" or perhaps "serious default". Thanks to this writer which I unfortunately kept a better visual memory than registered!

Daily Recipes? Duck Breast with Raspberries and Champagne Risotto ( no it is not false advertising! Raspberry champagne + = Kir Royal Raspberry) followed by a Kir Royal Tiramisù .

So let's get serious!
- Duck Breast with Raspberries Classic
if any, this little gem of sweet and salty is still not always successful!
It was particularly good!

For 4 guests (and not one to scream, if it is sissy, "yuck no sweet salted ")
- Two beautiful breasts (I love the color!)
- A basket of beautiful raspberries
- raspberry vinegar
- A small pot of cream, 20 cl
- 100 grams of sugar-salt
, pepper.
- a little butter

First prepare the raspberry sauce:

place in a saucepan the sugar, vinegar (about 5 tablespoons, I'd say) and raspberries. I want to prevent for smell: the smell of this mixture is unique and quite pungent, but do not fear, the cream will soften us all!
We must reduce this mix ... fifteen minutes I would say.
I keep the sauce as is, with the grain ptits raspberries (mmmmh).

Cook the duck breasts in a pan-super-stick, no oil nothing .. who said that I do not cook "light"?! Fifteen-
dixhuitaine minutes! Unfortunately I have to cook the duck - and all other meat-long enough for the pleasure of the king, uh my mother and to the chagrin of my father and myself, true fans of "rare"!

Then try to keep warm to complete the preparation!
So there you have deglaze the cooking juices, with our little vinegar sauce rich! once deglaciated, we add the cream, mix everything, and add a little butter.



And that's it!

- Risotto with Champagne-
Nothing very complicated! in timing, prepare the risotto just after the little sauce as a risotto will be ready in about twenty minutes, just like his buddy the breast.
- 250 grams Arborio rice
- An onion
- Champagne (2 glasses ....)
good - the very good olive oil ...
- salted butter
- salted boiling water.

Slice the onion finely, fry in a pan adapted to a knob of butter and two tablespoons of olive oil, when golden, add the rice, make "toast" as we say: they should become translucent - the all over fairly high, and mix well. Once
"translucidisés" add the champagne and twirling to all! the scents are great, the taste did not speak. I let "evaporate" the first glass of champagne and adds another two or three times, sometimes: D. ..
Once the desired amount of Champagne - or permitted - absorbed, add a little boiling salted water (the real recipe for risotto would we will put the broth, but I think with the experience - I have a dual Bachelor Master risotto, it lost the taste of champagne!).
was allowed to absorb the salt water, and over again (never too much water, imagine the loss if we were to remove a bit of broth-magic!) It is better to try several times.
When finished cooking, add a knob of butter, turn it all ... mix well. We can sprinkle of Parmesan or pecorino. I do not have to put "out of stock available" - I can not tell you the sadness! but it was lighter and the taste of champagne was more pronounced!
I therefore tend to advise you not to wear!



- The Tiramisu Kir Royal -
pull me: literal translation. Me back the morale, translation practice.
Yep, nothing like a little mascarpone cream to any morale bravest sulky!



So what does a Kir Royal?! biscuits roses de Reims (for color!) are soaked in a Kir Royal: champagne-creme de cassis. Failing to find blackberries, I chose raspberries, and frozen to my dismay (for the duck they were fresh, but on Saturday evening, no market available ptit village .. SOS Market More ... that had frozen on the shelf, and I refused to base my tiramisu only two to three hours on Sunday morning - or perhaps get up at dawn to the market ^ ^!)

- and half a packet of biscuits Pink
Reims - the rest of the bottle of champagne (but for the timing, the tiramisu is done before, so say less than half the bottle of champagne)
- the creme de cassis
- 80 grams of sugar
- 250 grams Mascarpone
- 3 eggs.

Prepare Kir Royal Giant: crème de cassis - Champagne and have it Soak the biscuits roses de Reims, ten by ten.
Arrange a layer at the bottom of a mold or a large dish as you like!

Prepare the custard: Beat egg yolks with sugar, add the mascarpone. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt and add to the mix. Here is the small cream
mascarponée.


Pour half the cream over the soaked biscuits. Having
above a layer of raspberries or blackberries (not frozen, I beg you!)
Repeat the process with biscuits, cream and raspberries and blackberries would be loved.

Here!
It seems to me that I had a little inspiration from a blend between Régal of August (Verbena-Raspberry tiramisu) and a ticket of former Turtle including me learned the trick "breaking biscuits roses de Reims, putting them in a freezer bag, and from above, without warning, with a rolling pin to make a very nice dust cookies set decoration on top of fruity tiramisu!

Ahh you're a mentor or you do not!

much for these small variations! The most striking? Risotto with Champagne sauce Breast raspberries! Et. eat a little fresh raspberry behind .. Divine ...
Regarding crazy things I acquired the splendid "A Love of Food" by Stéphane Glacier. Will I finally take the plunge on Sunday ?!...
Continued in the next episode!

Taste Like Blood When Cough But No Blood

Then the last time the pictures without comments is the north of Thailand where we did a trek in the north of Chiang Mai in the jungle. Since I am round - express in Bangkok to get my passport with my visa for India and we left for Laos the next day. Once crossing the border we took a boat, apparently dangerous on the Mekong, it's true that it is better not drop if PCQ is basically one ends, but hey it saves us time and we did well. Then arrival in Luang Prabang, a small town but 2nd in the country, but fortunately it is very tourist low season so it was very quiet two days rest before returning to the discovery of non-tourist towns and villages in north east countries. And we are today Phonsavan. Note to Laos was bombed more that Japan and Germany combined pd 2m hardly the world by those crazy Americans who sought Viets ... so there is always grenades and other missiles that are about 50 dead and many more injured every year. The villages that we went through are extremely poor and lost in the mountains, (and yet there are still more lost to the north) but people seem happy, they are relaxed and smiling, hospitable, kind, despite all miseries that whites have done them, including French. Finally, always beautiful life lessons difficult to synthesize in qq lines. But it's a great country that asks only open to tourists for its development.

Pain In The Back Left Side Above Waist

. True, the tasty, the unique, "but Nonna, how are you doing this?!"

After these tests I like to think that Asian "processing " (yes it is up to date ..) in light of your lovely comments, I return in full in the tradition rital!
unfortunately I could not sing the famous couplet "Extra virgin olive oil", much to my chagrin, but you try to find a small precept in the matter, anyway!
After the tiles of childhood (adapted deliciously fashionable flowers by Pernette ) and shortbread with jam raspberry and blackberry Monique , so much better trained than mine (little like saying "so best wraps;)) here are the cookies my grandmother, quince jelly. The must still remains to vary the pleasures and stuff them with jam or jelly different!
fond of anecdote! My grandmother, Chief cook for about 1935, at a time when the terminals SOS "pastry" or "sandblasted" Herta did not exist, prepared five to six pastes " biscotti" for the house fairy loaf of the day! She sold all 1,000 lire (which would correspond to about 3 francs just before the changeover to the euro).

As for cookies themselves, I am sorry to inform you of vagueness room who will rule on the next line of the ticket ... believe this to be family ...

For a couple of cookies (+ two mini format, I realized, not without upset my grandmother, rather adept at "sacred plastered" as "mini-bites").
- 2 eggs (obviously raised outdoors, try to advocate on our plates too!)
- 200 grams of butter
- 180 grams of sugar
- 400 grams of flour
- 1 packet yeast
- a pinch of salt .


crazy Preheat to 180 degrees.
Pour the flour on the work plan
The secret is to cut the butter into the flour (to which you add the yeast) and "rub" softly (I admit the operation rather difficult to describe), the butter should not be too hot or melted! When
you feel that you "keep the good end" (that little feeling artistic: it takes form oohh !!!!) add sugar (ooh it still takes a little more shape!) mix well with hands for 4 hours. (- I could not help myself! Little "silly").
Truce of nonsense, the mixture still lasts long enough, be patient for a beautiful dough! I do not give you the basic tips on kneading, roll a patisserissage etc. .. I trust you;) (and admits to some difficulty in describing these processes if .. visual !)
And strength ... you hold in your hands the elite pastry , the Miss World 2007 ... Beato-silly smile on you, do you let go. You do not know what to do, and then your grandmother tells you "you're gonna format yes?! . Here, obviously, you think it should be a sacred head!
Then for the formatting, is simple: a glass for all round cookies, a bottle cap of water holes for cookies! For my "mini-bites" a shot glass and the hole a "détronçonneur" apple!
Then we place the biscuits on a plate containing (At least I used three), and hop the first batch for 10 minutes. Just look at the aspect - awfully inviting - to know the heat! Be careful not to overcook them so they do not have the annoying habit to break!
The operation is repeated with the other plates.

Rest dressing: it takes a cookie all round, a spoonful of jam (your choice) that is available at the center of the biscuit over a diameter barely larger than the hole, so that both cookies join!
And voila! For early finish, sprinkle with icing sugar! There is
that you join, if you followed it all! ;)

Morality is simple and nothing better for a small coffee!

I wait for the next weekend looking forward (not just for the hell out of business;)), but mainly because my next cooking class traditional (informal workshop cakes my grandmother!) N is none other than the "rumen focaccia! Focaccia = Romanian ... ever tasted, but to see the smiles marveled at my mother and "woah" of rital, I feel that I'll share this course with you!

Milena Velba & Friend

Northern Thailand Thai

Curtain Holdback Installation

Here I am in SE Asia. Since the last time I passed through Hong Kong, it was really cool, a city that moves well, has everything you need (even deserted beaches, I have proof) ... My memory card does not work, I can not put pictures of top HK but ct. Then a flight to Thailand, a stroll of two hours and I found my buddy Ollie of Sydney (see picture) who will accompany me to SE Asia. So first evening of Thai bars, ts cool. The next joy ride in Bangkok, temples, canals, c a very nice city. September 1st, day of travel with the normal birthday and more. I am the luxury of dress shirt plus 2 and 2 ties, all tailored for less than a shirt from Zara in France, plus great service ... Indian Style. And tonight I found a friend in London and we all went out, ts very nice. Transportation yesterday and today we rented bikes to stroll around in Sukhuthai, former capital of Thailand, ct top too. Here, just happiness.