Easy Sweetened Pop Cakes

If you like small funny desserts try the recipe.

Ingredients and kitchen tools for 18 Pop cakes :

3 cups Leftovers cake
1 cup soft Butter
1 small glass of Milk
Colored Sugar
Sprinkles
Powdered Sugar
2 Tbs White chocolate (to maintain stick into Pop cake)
1 bowl for the preparation
Small ice-cream scoop
1 small bowl for the white chocolate
Lollipop sticks
1 glass for the milk
3 cups
5 small glasses

Directions :

Put leftovers cake into a bowl and crumble it
Mix melted butter and crumbled leftovers cake
Make small balls with your hands or with a small ice-cream scoop
Put 2 Tbs white chocolate into a small bowl and microwave it 1 mn
Dip the sticks into melted white chocolate and insert into Pop cakes
Put Pop cakes on sticks into small glasses and put them 1 hour into fridge
Meanwhile prepare the glass of milk and put the colored sugar, sprinkles and powered sugar each other in one cup
Remove Pop cakes from fridge
Dip Pop cake one by one first into milk and then into one decorating supply
Replace into small glasses
And... It is ready!!!!

Tips, Comment, Ideas...

Tip 1: You can melt more chocolate and use it to cover pop cakes. In that case you don't need milk.
Tip 2: You can do it with dark chocolate
Comment 1: Caramel is a good idea but not easy to make!

Any suggestion? you can write it down and comment below.

Tomatoes Beet and Burrata

It's time to make my favorite summer salad! Burrata which is Mozzarella di Bufala is one of the delicious cheese to prepare with tomatoes and beets.

Ingredients for one plate :

1 or 2 best quality tomatoes
1 small beet cooked with leaves (IBS: low in FODMAP in small quantities)
¼ Burrata (Mozzarella di Bufala)
Za'atar
Basil
Olive oil ½ spoon
Balsamic vinegar ¼ spoon
Salt and pepper

Directions :

Peel tomatoes and beet
Slice them in small part
Present them in a nice plate
Add ¼ Burrata
Sprinkle a pinch of Za'atar on Burrata
Prepare the dressing with olive oil, Balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper
Decorate with beet leaf and basil.
Put into fridge 1 hour
Pour the dressing on tomatoes and beets sliced, before serving.

Tips, Suggestions, Advices...

Tip 1 : If you don't find Burrata try to buy the best Mozzarella in your groceries store

Puff Pastry

Puff pastry frightens many bakers. For sure, one needs to leave enough time to prepare it.
It takes just a few strokes of the rolling pin to spread the dough and mix the butter with the moistened flour to create the puff pastry. Try it. It's fun!

Ingredients :

3 3/4 cups sifted flour
1 1/2 cups butter at room temperature*
1 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups ice water
4 sticks unsalted butter

Directions:

Moistened flour:
Add sifted flour and salt to mixer (with mixing paddle or dough hook) and pulse adding small amounts of water at a time. We want to form a crumbly loose ball. Do not over mix because that will toughen the dough.
Or by hand:
Make a fountain or a mountain of the sifted flour. Add salt around the outside and then make a hole in the center from top to bottom. Slowly add small amounts of water to the flour, pinching with your fingers or gently mashing with a fork until you can form crumbly loose ball.
Wrap the dough in parchment and then put it into a plastic bag. Let it rest in fridge for 20 min.
Making the dough:
Roll the dough into a square.
Place the rolling pin on the diagonal leaving the center intact and roll to the corner. Repeat it in each of the four corners. (see diagram) 
Wrap the butter. 
Step 1: Roll dough into ½-inch thick rectangle and fold it into thirds. 
Make a one-quarter turn and repeat step one. 
Rest the dough in fridge for 20 min.
Repeat step one two more times.
Rest dough again in fridge for 20 min.
Repeat step one two more times.
It's done!

Tomato pie

Easy to make and so good. Big success guarantee!

Ingredients :

• Serves 4 to 6 persons:

½ cup of unbleached white flour

½ cup of soft butter ( I like Kerrygold)

½ cup of grated Parmesan cheese

¼ cup shredded black olives

3 or 4 tomatoes

2 Tbsp Dijon mustard

2 or 3 branches of oregano

Black pepper

10x10 parchment paper

Square 10X10 baking pan

Directions :

Preheat the oven 430°F

Wash your hands

In a medium bowl, mix together with a fork or your fingers: flour, soft butter, grated Parmesan cheese and shredded black olives to obtain a loose compact dough.

Place the dough on parchment paper.  

Spread the dough with your fingers or roll out with a rolling pin. Make a square to fit the 10X10 pan.

Spread Dijon mustard on the dough.

Wash tomatoes and chop them.

Arrange tomatoes on dough.

Finish with black pepper and oregano.

Bake for 35 minutes.

The smell will get you started!!!!

Suggestions, Ideas...

Tip 1: Prepare extra dough and put the leftover dough in a plastic bag (BPA free) and put in freezer to make a second pie the next time.

Tip 2 : Spread the leftover dough on parchment paper before freezing it. Spread the dough with your fingers or roll out with a rolling pin. Make a square to fit the 10X10 pan and roll the dough and the parchment together into a spiral. It will be ready faster next time.

Tip 3 : The black olives can be replaced with green olives

Lentil salad with Kimchi

Lentils, which have a low glycemic index, are a good source of protein, fiber, minerals and antioxidants. This succulent salad is served cold or slightly warm. Walnut vinegar brings an indefinably special flavor to the combination of kimchi, turmeric, cilantro and walnuts. No substitutions.

Ingredients :

1 package of cooked refrigerated lentils (around 1 pound) or canned cooked lentils.

1 rounded tbs. of Kimchi

1/8 tsp. of Turmeric

10 cilantro leaves

1 minced shallot

1 tbs. chopped walnuts

1 tbs. walnut vinegar 

1 tbs. olive oil

1 tsp. flaxseed oil

Salt and pepper to taste

Directions :

Cutting cilantro leaves into very small pieces with a scissors.

Combine all the ingredients, except salt and pepper in a pretty salad bowl. Stir in salt and pepper just before serving.

As an option you can also serve it in an attractive plate as an individual course.

Carrots, turmeric and cilantro in orange juice

You love carrots and orange juice? Try that recipe and give me your comment and your own recipe.

Ingredients per person :

Carrots 2 or 3

Flaxseed oil 1 tsp

Orange juice 1 Tsp

Cilantro 1 tsp

Turmeric ½ tsp

Salt not too much

Pepper 

Directions :

Put oil in a pan and add carrots, orange juice and cook 30 minutes. Add cilantro, turmeric, salt and pepper stir to warm them. Taste and serve warm with chicken or fish.

Delicious and good for health!

Cacao pasta salad

This is a very uncommon recipe. I found cocoa pasta in Boston and I bought 3 packs. Unfortunately the store is closed. When I am out of stock I am going to try a recipe by myself and I'll post it. 

Chocolate pasta can be ordered on line. I know it is expensive so I suggest you to find a recipe on line to make pasta before I give you mine. 

Ingredients :

Cocoa pasta from Hotel Chocolat or homemade

Vanilla Custard 2 cups

Raspberries 1 or 2 cups

Small Chocolate chips 1 cup

Small Marshmallows 1 cup

Leaves of Mint

Directions :

Cook pasta in big quantity of water following the direction on the package

Leave pasta cooling after pour it in a nice dish

Add custard, 2/3 cup of raspberries, 2/3 cup of chocolate chips, 2/3 cup of small Marshmallows and mint cut with scissors (keep few nice leaves).

Mix the ingredients together and refrigerate 1 hour

Before serving garnish with raspberries, chocolate chips, small Marshmallows and mint remaining

Ready to serve original and delicious!

Kale salad

           

   

Ingredients :

Kale 10 leeves

Beets 1 or 2

Cranberries ½ cup

Greek yogurt 1 cup

Seeds (sunflower, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds...) ¼ cup

Nuts ¼ cup

Roasted bread 1 cup

Orange zest 1

Orange juice 1

Lemon juice 1

Olive oil 1 or 2 spoons

Vinegar 1 spoon

Salt

Black pepper 

Za'atar ½ spoon

Few cranberries and seeds to decorate the salad

Directions :

Wash and cut kale in very small slices. Put them in a bowl adding beets cut in cubes, cranberries, seeds, nuts, greek yogurt, olive oil, vinegar, orange zest, za'atar, pepper and salt. Mix the ingredients. 

In another bowl ( nice for serving) put roasted bread cut in cubes. Pour orange and lemon juice. Add the others ingredients and finish with few cranberries and seeds.

Before serving mix the salad. 

You can prepare it just before eating or the day before.

Winter tutti frutti salad

Very easy to make, this salad is a huge vitamines source.
The quantity of the ingredients depend of the size of the salade you want.

Ingredients:

Blueberries

Crumbled cookies ( for this recipe I added dried waffles and amaretti but you can put other cookies. Flavor will be different.) (FODMAP and gluten free : coconut cookies)

Apples in lemon juice (FODMAP free :Bananas)

Clementines in small pieces

Kiwis in small pieces

Small marshmallows

Oranges peeled and cut in rounded slices 

Directions:

Make it in a very beautiful jar. 

Pineapple pie and coconut oil

Ingredients :

For sweet dough

1/3 cup of coconut oil

3/4 cup of unbleached all purpose flour

2/3 cup whole-wheat flour

1 egg yolk
2 spoons of water (if the flour is too dry)

2/3 cup of brown sugar

For garnish

1 pineapple sliced

1 egg

1/2 cup of sugar

1/4 cup of lime juice

Directions :

Put flours and coconut oil in you mixer and mix with whisk K

Add sugar, egg and mix to obtain smooth dough

Spread and roll the dough on parchment paper, forming a disk (size of your pan)

Put the dough in the pan and refrigerate time to prepare pineapple

Preheat the oven thermostat 350 ° F

Cut and peel the pineapple in slices

Cut slices in half height

Spread pineapple forming a rosette on the dough

Beat the egg with sugar and lime juice

Pour the batter over the pineapple

Bake 40 minutes.

Ideas, Tips...

Tip 1: Put the pie in the lower level of the oven for 10 minutes. Pie will be better cooked below.

Tip 2: If you are gluten intolerant use gluten-free flour: rice, chestnuts, quinoa...

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Parmesan Scones

Ingredients for 16 small scones :

5 teaspoons baking powder

3 cups all-purpose flour or whole-wheat flour

1/2 cup Parmesan

1 egg

3/4-cup butter

1 cup half and half cream

Pepper

Prep 5 min

Cook 15 min

Directions :

Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).

In the mixer bowl, combine first baking powder then flour, Parmesan, melted butter cold, the egg beaten and cream. Mix and knead them briefly to get dough.

Roll dough out into a thick round. Cut into 16 wedges, and place on baking sheet or pan.

Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

You can serve them with smoked salmon, tomatoes salad... or make them smaller for one mouthful.