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Salmon Spread Recipe : Rillettes de Saumon

Salmon rillettes

 

We should eat salmon at least once a week. But if you do so you must eat only wild caught fish.Never farm raised. I love Terri’s Popa ” Alaska’s Nature’s Seafoods” fish and seafood. You can find her and her family selling the best fish from Alaska at Temecula Farmer’s Market [...]

French easy watercress soup. Soupe de Cresson

watercress soup

Watercress soup

 

This soup is so easy to make and fast too. American do not use too much watercress in their cooking/ eating. It is surprising since it is similar in nutrition and cancer fighting as kale. But if kale has an hard texture and pretty hard to chew on and eat raw watercress [...]

Make your own quiche and a cooking segment on San Diego News 6

Mini Quiches

This morning I was at San Diego News 6 TV studio to do a cooking demonstration. Since I had only 5 minutes I decided to make mini quiches. As you know three ingredients are necessary for quiches: pie crust, savory custard and fillings of your choice.

You can see my demonstration “on [...]

Easy French Dessert : Galette des Rois or Kings Cake

galette des Rois Frangipane pie French Tradition

Galette des Rois Kings Cake

Kings Cake for snack

This is my kids’ most popular and favorite dessert  or as today snack. This is a fancy snack made of almond meal, sugar, butter and eggs wrapped inside a light puff pastry.

La galette des Rois is [...]

Easy healthy Recipe: stuffed cabbage leaves and bulgur with almonds

stuffed cabbage leaves

I was never too fond of cabbage when I was young. But I loved my mother’s whole stuffed cabbage. The first time she made it she complained how fastidious and long it was to make.  You need to open the cabbage leave by leave and then fill it with stuffing and [...]

Secret of a very easy French dish : leek and onion quiche

A dish made in 45 minutes, easy to make, delicious who can satisfied your entire family? What is it are you asking? Quiche! Of course. With a salad or a soup on the side this is the perfect lunch or dinner main dish. In France,every woman has her own twist when making quiches. She can [...]

Easy Recipes: cooking with French cheeses

Tartiflette cheeses recipe

When my sister and myself stay at my parents’ house in the Basque country we usually take turn cooking the lunch or diner meal. We are all crazy about great cuisine and cooking in the family so there is always a new dish we learn from each other. Cooking in my [...]