Couleurs et saveurs

Hier soir j'ai invite mes amies peintres a diner. Pour une derniere soiree ensemble, avant sans doute quelque temps. Pour l'occasion nous nous sommes debouche une bouteille de Saint Emilion de 1990....Un regal !

Bon que dire apres ca...heureusement le diner etait a la hauteur ! ;-)



J'avais fait du pain et de la tapenade pour l'aperitif.
Ensuite on a enchaine direct sur le plat principal, le wok de quinoa/lentilles aux epices car je voulais leur faire decouvrir le quinoa.
Je l'avais bien reussi, les saveurs explosaient dans la bouche c'etait genial...
verdict: je crois que mes amies sont conquises !

Pour finir j'avais fait une tourte aux noix de l'Engadine.

je vais mettre les recettes bientot...mais je peux deja vous dire une chose: cétait delicieux !

J'ai meme eu des cadeaux... qui seront parfait pour de prochaines photos: un joli plat neerlandais...et une superbe tasse ..orange (couleur des Pays-Bas)

Merci les filles ! J'ai passe une une excellente soiree.

"No smell" challenge

What ? yeah I know this title is a bit weird.. It could look like I wanna say I am normally cooking smelly things...but well it is something a bit different.

This evening I invited a nice colleague for dinner...but he can not smell (il n'a pas d'odorat).
So my challenge is to cook a dinner using a lot of different colors (even if we will eat with the candles ...well, just because there is no other lights in my living room...what are you gonna imagine!) and different textures, and still different sort of spices...

So here is the menu:
Apero: tapenade on whatever bread I will find I did not find my favorite one...and it is wednesday after work..I did not have time to bake one...
then a salade with tofu cubes from Clea cuisine

chicken curry with rice with spices


and in dessert.... florentins ;-)

I will come to update the recipes soon as well.
Now have to start cooking.

preparation of the tofu. They have been marinated the whole afternoon in soja sauce + garlic + ginger...and are now ready to be recovered of sesame seeds.

saturday evening

argggggghhhh I was writing for more then 10 minutes when my firefox crashed...grrrrrr..
OK I'll come edit this post ASAP to rewrite all what was lost..

So..here it is:

Saturday evening I invited some colleagues of mine: nice Dutch ladies !
I served them tapenade as appetizers

then a salade with mango: I used two types of salad: normal one and "rucola" which is a bit more spicy and gives a nice contrast with the sweetness of mango that I had baked quickly in honey. I seasonned with a vinaigrette made with balsamico, honey and olive oil and add some sesame seeds on top.
For the main dish I made something "simple" because I love the simple taste of fresh salmon just baked in the oven with "fleur de sel de Guerande" and rosemary (=romarin). I served it with rasped carottes and endives stirred fried in olive oil. A nice side dish that I stole from my flatmate: the contrast between the sweetness of carottes and the little bitterness of endives is great !
To finish I served fennel cookies. You can see the recipe on Clea's blog biscuits vanilles aux graines de fenouil. I put too much rice milk and then add some flour...so they were tasting a bit like some kind of typical Saint Nicolas cookies... I do not have a picture of them as my roomate finsihed them before I had chance to take one... but I baked some again the next day...with the right amount of rice milk and here is how they look like.


They were tasting different...though they were both good ;-)