niedziela, 19 maja 2013

Bake with me!

So I start to cook! Today I would recommend you a really nice and quick recipe for madeleines - a real french cookies!  It's a traditional small cake from Commercy and Liverdun, two communes of the Lorraine region in northeastern France. Enjoy!

My own work! :)




Ingredients:
- 120g (1 cup) flour + some for sprinkling forms
- 100g butter + a little to grease the mold,
- About 1/3 cups of milk,
- 100g (1/2 cups) sugar
- 2 eggs,
- 1 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- Almond extract / vanilla

Created by:
1) melt butter in a saucepan or microwave and let cool.
2) fluff eggs with a fork or whisk in a small bowl.
3) In a second bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and sugar.
4) Once cooled, add the butter and egg into the flour, pour the extract and mix thoroughly with a whisk.
5) Add enough milk to the batter was not too thick and not too thin, I added 1/3 - 1/2 cups of milk).
6) Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for an hour.
7) Set the oven to 200C.
8) Prepare the form.
9) Fill it up to three quarters of each form (better a little less).
10) Bake 10 min at 200C, then reduce temperature  to 180C and bake for another 10 min.


Bon appetit!

poniedziałek, 13 maja 2013

French time!

Cooking!

I love to eat. It is obvious, everybody love to eat. Especially a really good food. When I was at Erasmus, in Brittany (Bretagne) in the north of France I had an opportunity to try a wery diffrent kind of dishes. Brittany offers a wide range of fresh seafood and fish, especially mussels and oystersPancakes and galettes are the two most iconic Breton dishes. The pancakes, made and served with butter, are eaten for dessert or breakfast, and the galettes are usually salty and made with buckwheat. They traditionally replaced bread as basic food and they can be served with cheese, sausages, bacon, mushrooms or eggs. At first time, for me it was awful to try all sea food, by finally I done it! And I can say, that I really like shrimps and mussels St. James. The traditional drink of Brittany is cider. Brittany is the second largest cider-producing region in France. It's soo delicious! I really love Brittany!

For me France means cuisine!



 Snails - you can buy it everywhere!

My beloved shrimps - obligatory for an apperitif!

I try really hard to do galette :)

poniedziałek, 6 maja 2013

In a lift... and problem with accent.

Hey, after a little break here I am!

So, today when I was going in a great hurry to our English classes I took a lift... yes, our department lift. I came in, after that, normally, the doors was closed aaad - I was in total darkness! It was not comfortable, the lift wast illuminated only by the little red light of the current floor. It was a little stressful and very long journey! And you? What was the most stressful to you last time? I recommend you a brillinat film, that takes place in a lift. I love english humor and as we know, a problem with the lift does not have to be the most important :)




To chill you, I just read, that Daft Punk prepares a new album! Listen :)