venerdì 12 dicembre 2014

Le croque Monsier! It's a toast??!!


I always surf the web searching for new recipes. I recently inscribed to Jamie Oliver's food channel and discovered a brilliant french guy, Alex, who is lovely and makes delicious and easy recipes taken from the french cuisine, but not only. His channel is "French Guy cooking" , amazing and he speaks a lovely english with a french accent, simply irresistible! (https://www.youtube.com/user/FrenchGuyCooking)
Amongst the several recipes, I found out this one which is so easy to make, very fast and child's proof.
I would simply call it a toats, but en francais c'est mieux! Le croque Monsieur.
I needed something fast to eat for lunch as I was in a hurry and I didn't feel like preparing a complicate meal. So I followed Alex's recipe with a touch of mine.

Take 2 slices of white bread
a bit of butter
ham
gruyere or any cheese you like
a toaster

I put some butter on both slices of bread: this makes the slices moist and super crunchy. Put first one slice of cheese, then the slice of ham (be generous, but not too much) and again a slice of cheese.
Put it in the toaster for around 3 minutes.
When it's done, Le croque will be crunchy, golden and delicious. Kids will love it, and it's perfect for football fans' dinner with a fresh glass of beer.

Come on, try it and to watch the recipe, please click the link below!



Bye Bye




Oat flour Crêpes!


Do you buy healthy foods that you don't eat then? I do, and oatmeal is one of those.
So my question was "what can I do with the oatmeal now?". The answer came quickly: "you can transform oatmeal into flour and make Crêpes!". Let's do it, it's so easy and quick.
With the food processor, transform oatmeal into flour. The same process can be used with rice to make sweets or cakes.
Once the flour is ready (few seconds) you can put in a bowl around 
50 gr. of oatmeal flour,
1 egg, 
10 gr of sugarcane, 
100 ml of milk and a pinch of salt.
Stir well and let it set for around 30 minutes in the fridge.

In a 20cm pan put some butter to grease it, and then place 2/3 spoons of the crepes mixture and cook it until the crepe is done.
With this mixture you can obtain around 6 crepes according to the size of the pan you use.

Once the crepes are ready, you can eat them with some marmelade (as I did) or with chocolate or some fruits. It's up to you.

I will aslo try a salted version of these delicious crepes!

Bye Bye!