confiture de melon et cardamome (melon and cordamom spread)

Cest ma premiere confiture .Jai essaye la recette du blog ``Cake in the city`` et je dois dire que c`etait reussi et tres rapide a faire .
Vous pouvez voir la recette sur ce blog .Je remercie l`auteur de m`avoir fais decouvrir cette recette .




This is my first spread .Ihave tried the recipe from the blog ``Cake in the city``and I must say that it was a success ,it was also a very fast recipe.
You could find the recipe on that blog . I thank the author that made me discover such a recipe .

Cuisine marocaine (Fatema Hal )

Voici mon dernier livre de recettes .cest un livre de Fatema Hal en version anglaise .Ilya plus de dix ans j`avais cette femme a la Tv ,elle montrait une recette que je fais regulierement depuis (recette du Zaalouk )
J`ai envie d`essayer quelques tajines et les faire connaitre au public americain aussi .


This is my new recipe book ,it has been written by Fatema Hal .I had seen her on french Tv (when I was still living in France ) she was showing how to make Zaalouk(an eggplant dish) .Fatema Hal has a Morrocan restaurant in Paris named ``la Mansouria``.
I wanted to buy this book as i want to cook some tajines and have my American friends taste North African cuisine .

Clafoutis aux cerises (cherry clafoutis)

Préchauffer le four th 7 ou 180°

Tapisser 6 petits moules individuels de cerises denoyautees .
au couteau pour ne pas les écraser.

Dans un bol:

- Mélanger de la farine ( 100 g )
-sucre ( 50g )
- 2-3 œufs entiers ( 3 )
- Ajouter le lait (+ ou - 25cl )
jusqu’à obtenir un mélange un peu
plus épais qu’une pâte à crêpes.
- Verser la pâte sur les cerises.

Mettre au four pour environ 35 Minutes

Au bout d’une vingtaine de minutes
faire fondre quelques petits morceaux de beurre ( salé ) sur la pâte
et saupoudrer de sucre ,celui ci va carameliser


English version:

preheat your oven 350degrees
pour your cherries (without the pits) in 6 little creme brulee dishes

in a bowl mix :
100gr of flour
2eggs
50gr of sugar
25cl of milk

pour all this onto the cherries and bake for 35min but around 20minutes of baking add some butter ontop of the pie and sprinkle some sugar .The sugar is going t o be caramelized.

White chocolate and lime muffins (muffins au chocolat blanc et citron vert)

Ingredients:

90gr of sugar

180gr of flour

1pack of baking powder

2eggs

120ml of milk

75 gr of melted butter

zest of a lime

80 gr of white chocolate chips

In pan (Iuse the Kitchen aid )mix your flour sugar ,a baking powder and the zest of the lime .

In another pan add melted butter (let it cool) ,milk and eggs mix them togeter . Then add all this to the first pan .

Pour the dough into a muffin pan then sprinkle with white chocolate chips (u could also add them to the dough

Bake for 15 to 20min until golden (350 degrees F).

you could also use orange and chocolate chips ,Ithink that the taste will be great .

In order to see the pictures better click on them .I apologize my camera does not do good close ups .

Mango Lassi

Ingredients:
serves 4
1 1/4 cups plain low fat yogurt
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 1/4 cups of water
2 tablespoons of fruit puree ( I used fresh mangos that I have pureed myself )

Place the yogurt in pitcher ,whisk until frothy .Add the sugar .
Pour the water and the fruit ,and continue whisking for two minutes .
Pour the Lassi into serving glasses and serve chilled .


Version francaise :
1 1/4 bols de yaourt nature
1ca s de sucre
1 1/4 bol d`eau
2 cas de puree de mangues (jai utilise de la mangue fraiche que jai reduis en puree e n utilisant un mixer)

Mettre le yaourt dans une grande carafe et fouettez jusqua ce que ca paraisse ecumeux.
Versez l`eau et les fruits and continuez a fouetter pendant 2 minuntes .
Versez le Lassi dans des verres et servir frais .Vous pouvez decorer dune feuille de menthe .