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Like Kids In A Sweetshop

17 Sunday Jan 2021

Posted by RosieJoseph in coming home, Food in Ireland, Ireland, Irish Adventures, new adventures, New Paths, Recipes, The continuing adventure

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food from home, Irish beaches, Irish Food, loving Ireland, Soda Bread, White Pudding

From the moment we arrived in Ireland and we went into Aldi for essentials (we know how to live), like milk and bread, because of the bank holiday the next day, we have been like kids in a sweetshop that has long been closed to us. Since then we have been enthralled by what is available and at the price of things. I can honestly say, as someone who has lived in both countries; Ireland is cheaper than France!

So on that short trip into Aldi (remember cats and dogs in the car) we found ourselves running round going ‘Bloody hell! Look at the price of that’, or ‘Really? Is that all it is? Or ‘Oh my God mince pies! We came out with milk, bread, biscuits, jammy cream biscuits, mince pies, Quality Street, tomato soup, oxtail soups (I cannot tell you how much I detested French soup, and was craving cream of tomato and oxtail soups) toilet rolls and strawberry cider (I know but essential for RD after the journey from hell!)

Since then the love affair with produce has continued: crumpets, baked beans, steak (so cheap), rashers of bacon, not round slices, sausages, cakes, black and white pudding, meat pies, fresh vegetables, so expensive in France, especially scallions, and celery that we love. I have actually got RD to eat fresh veg every day! We could not have afforded those items in France. Soda bread, mango chutney, lamb shanks, lamb chops, suet for dumplings…..

Irish Soda Bread

When you move country you have to basically rebuild your basics again: flour, salt, cornflour, ketchup, Nacho chips, sugar….it gives you a heart attack when you pay the bill! But …it’s all part of the adventure. Who ever knew that food shopping could be such fun?

We’ve calmed down now, thank God! And thank God we take the puppies for a walk every day or we wouldn’t be able to get out of the house!

Walking the beach, in the mizzle

When we lived in France we loved Brie, Olives, garlic, I will always love garlic and probably blow the Irish’s heads off with it! But make no bones, you always miss food from ‘home’, and trust me, you always will.

Good job we’re ‘home’ then! Lots more to come folks. You want to hear what we’ve bought next!

Rosie

Wiglet on The Beach as the Sun Sets

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Le Soiree part II: It all went well

14 Saturday Dec 2019

Posted by RosieJoseph in a sense of community, Food in France, Friends, laughter & giggles, My home, People, Recipes, The continuing adventure

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canapés, chilling, Christmas decorations, Christmas in France, cucumbers, embroidery, Friends, gifting, good times, Relaxing, salmon and fish eggs, sparkling wine, taking time, vintage Karen Millen

We had a lovely evening, just as everyone predicted we would. Our French friends loved our decorations and how we had arranged our house. It is common here to sit at a table rather than comfy seating, and when they saw a little seating area in the window, where we sit so often looking out at the view they were enamoured.

I made canapés with a lovely tuna ready made mix that I found in a local supermarket (good old Aldi) I added some fish eggs and cucumber and the women of our group loved it. Cucumber is not often served here and I explained that in the UK it is very popular.Nadia and Martine loved it but Marc and Michelle were mot so keen. But the tuna was very popular, I was chuffed when they asked where to buy it.

The other plate is canapés of cream cheese, salmon and fish eggs, again very popular. But the most popular were good old cheddar cheese and silver-skin onions on cocktail sticks. So seventies!

I also did a few canapés Anglais, with cream cheese and marmite all for our friend Virginie, she and I have decided that she has English blood as she loves all English food.

When I moved over here I brought with me some expensive beautiful clothes, you know the type: you ones you always aim to get back in to one day! But over the past few months I have let so much go, and realised they were too beautiful to languish in my cupboards. Last night I showed them to Nadia and asked if she would like them. Bless her she tried them on and looked stunning. I rescued my Karen Millen vintage jacket from the wardrobe and she loved it.

I would rather give such beautiful things to a lovely person such as her than sell them to people who will want them for nothing. I am so pleased she liked them, it made my night.

I love our friends, we had an evening of sparkling wine and whiskey (traditionally French), good chat snd lots of laughs as always. It reminded me again that I shouldn’t let the language get to me, I can speak some French, and when with good friends language no barrier. I am not ready to leave yet.

I am tired now, and allowing myself a weekend off. Why Not? My house is sparkling, so here is to an afternoon of embroidery and writing. Perfect.

Rosie

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Understanding yourself

02 Wednesday Oct 2019

Posted by RosieJoseph in Change is a coming, Dream, Making our own way, My home, Recipes, The adventures of living life in the French countryside, The continuing adventure, The seasons

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Autumn day, chemins, Damp autumn days, fresh air, letting go, life showing the way, listening, overgrown, understanding

 

‘The great and fierce mystic Willliam Blake said : “There is no greater act than putting another before you.”

This speaks to a selfless giving that seems to be at the base of meaningful love. Yet having struggled for a lifetime with letting the needs of others define me, I’ve come to understand that without the healthiest form of self-love – without honouring the essence of life this thing called ‘self’ carries , the way a pod carries a seed – putting another before you can result in damaging self-sacrifice and endless co-dependence. ‘

From the Book of Awakening Mark Nepo

I always say on my other blog how I believe that it is essential for people to find themselves and not let others define them. I need to listen to my own words. I am going to do my best to post on this blog at least every other day to share my journey over the past few weeks with you; including the messages that life has sent me along the way.

But to start with I am going out in the garden today. I am not posting my other blog to various Facebook sites, or promoting it at all. I am taking a ‘time out’ from Social Media today and over the next few days I will explain why.

But for now I will say that I have not slept well over the past few nights, with no particular thing on my mind. The book is selling, wonderful people are contacting me to say they have it; H has work, best it’s been for a long time; but I know it is my mind that is keeping me awake! And I know why.

So without further ado this is currently what our chemin looks like:

 

Seriously if we don’t work on it we will not be able to walk up it! So on this damp and cloudy autumn afternoon I am going out in the garden with H (he has a week off before more work) to help him; because he cannot do any particular heavy lifting and because I need to get out in the fresh air and away from my book. I need to practice what I preach for a day: and let life show me the way!!

More to come

Rosie

 

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The Anti-Gaspillage

28 Thursday Feb 2019

Posted by RosieJoseph in Food in France, Recipes, Simple things, The adventures of living life in the French countryside, The continuing adventure

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brussel sprouts, bubble and squeak, budgeting, cauliflowers, curry, feeling happy, French law, fruit snd veg, Gaspy’s, making ends meat, mushroom bhaji, mushrooms, no waste

This is the content of an anti-gaspillage box that are available from Lidl in France at certain times of the day and week.

The term means anti-waste, and in France it is illegal for the supermarkets to throw food away, they have to give it away. So today I got all of these vegetables for 1€!

Known as a Gaspy they box up fruit and veg that is going out of date, and leave them at the front of the shop for sale. The boxes are made up of different things, and I chose this one because it had five bags of brussel sprouts (or choux de brussel) in it. I love brussels (yep you heard it here!) I love them in roast dinners, I love them in bubble & squeak, a dish that was made up in WWII to use up leftovers from a Sunday roast. My mum used to make bubble & squeak with mashed potatoes and brussels, all mashed up together and the fried in a pan to make it crispy; served up with a runny fried egg on top that runs through it as you cut it open, it is divine! And cheap!

The other reason that I chose this box is because it has 6 boxes of mushrooms. I have learnt to make a mean mushroom bhaji, with fresh coriander, so I plan to make a huge one at the weekend and freeze it. Tonight we are having a burger with a topping of mushrooms fried in butter and black pepper.

For 1€ I got all that plus 2 cauliflowers and 2 lettuce. They are all edible, just need to be used up quickly. If I had paid full price I would have paid nearly 22€ (for a rural, farming country vegetables are not cheap in France). A massive saving.

Over the weekend I will mostly be blanching, and freezing, and cooking curry!

I like Gaspy’s!

Moisy

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Sweet Chilli Sauce and Mexican Chicken

19 Sunday Nov 2017

Posted by RosieJoseph in Food in France, Recipes, The continuing adventure

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BBQ Sauce, Cayenne Pepper, Chilli Sauce, Chilli Sauce Recipe, Doritoes, Indian Chutney, Mois Mexican Chicken recipe, pepper and onions, Piment Paste, Sweet Chilli Sauce, To cook bags, Witchy Poo Cook

Hi to all

As promised here is my recipe for this wonderful sweet chilli sauce – and, yes, I did make the one in the picture! There has been a delay because I made another batch using cider vinegar instead – as recommended on a FB site, to see if that worked as well as Rice Wine Vinegar  which can be more expensive. Sadly it did not and I have tweaked it again today so that I can use it in some of my recipes. Anyhoooo here we go ……..

 

 

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So let’s Witchy poo….

You will need

At least 5 cloves of garlic chopped finely (I use a food processor and always have a stock in the fridge – I do live in France!!)

1 cup of water

3 teaspoons of cornflour – or cornstarch for those in the USA and Canada

4 tablespoons (perhaps more after tasting) of sugar

1/2 cup of rice wine vinegar

soya sauce

Ginger – again about a teaspoon but you may add more after tasting

AS ALWAYS MY MOTTO IS YOU CAN ADD BUT YOU CANNOT TAKE AWAY……..

Paste of Piment (or red chilli peppers) – the paste you can buy is better because if you chop the chilli’s you do have the skin to contend with but I have made some today doing just that and it is good!!

You may want some garlic powder as well again up to you I add some though.

Put the water and the vinegar in the pan and add the sugar and obviously put the heat on.

Stir until he sugar has dissolved to make sure that it does not burn.

Add the soya sauce, the ginger, the garlic and the chilli paste and stir away……..until it starts to come to the boil.

Then put a small amount of water in to cool slightly and add the cornflour mixed with a small amount of cold water and add to the mix and stir away. Now it should start to clear as it thickens if it doesn’t add some more water and you may need some more sugar. Hey presto you have chilli sauce the Witchy poo way.

 

Mexican Chicken

One of our favourites – cheap and tasty…

You will need

A to cook bag (although you can cook in a pot or tagine)

Onions – as many as you want to bulk it out with

Peppers

Chilli sauce – see above

BBQ sauce

Hot pepper sauce (if you like hot stuff like me!)

Put the chicken breasts – or legs or whatever you want – into the bag with some chilli sauce, hot pepper sauce, onions, peppers, bbq sauce – basically everything!!

Then put it it in the oven on about 180 Gas mark 6 and let it cook for at least 45 mins. Serve with rice, chips, whatever and some Doritoes (other tortilla chips are available)

Yum!!!!!

Also folks for those who like Indian Chutneys – which are hard to get or expensive in France – get some rhubarb jam, or some fig jam and add some piment de cayenne to it – *red chilli paste for my other readers not in France* and seriously you have a good chutney man!!!

That is it from the Witchy poo cook today – hope you enjoyed…..

As always please share

 

Moisy

 

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The Witchy Poo cook – a requested recipe

07 Saturday Oct 2017

Posted by RosieJoseph in Food in France, Recipes, The continuing adventure

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I would like to welcome all of my new followers- loving that you re loving the blog. So I have a recipe section you may want to look at and here is another.

So no photos for this  one my friends because this has been requested by my dear friend Karen before she dies from eating too much chicken parmejano (see recipe for new readers it is available.) I suggested this to her the other night and she asked that I post it. Here goes……

Ingredients

Chicken (yes we do eat a lot of chicken!)

Chorizo – for us the stronger the better but that is a personal choice

Peppers – green and red as always depends on how much you are cooking or if you really like peppers!

Onions

Smoked paprika – I know this is difficult to get in France so I improvise with BBQ sauce (trust me it works)

Paprika (yes you do need both!)

Garlic granules

salt (you need salt to cook food folks, if you want it to taste good!)

Honey/BBQ sauce I tend to use a little of both

Olive oil

Calimari

You will also need an oven pot that ideally can be used on the hob and in the oven. If not cook in a saucepan or wok and then transfer to an oven dish with a lid.

 

Let’s Witchy Poo….

Chop up the chorizo into pieces of whichever size you like and add to pot on the hob with a dash of olive oil and some garlic granules.

Stir until the chorizo has started to brown (I cannot stand soggy chorizo!)

Remove from the pan into a dish leaving the residue of chorizo and oil in the pan.

Cut up your peppers and onions (don’t slice the onions rough cut them)  I use loads because they caramelize in this dish but it is up to you.

Add the peppers and onions to the pot and some more olive oil, the paprika, smoked paprika and garlic and salt. Stir and monitor until they all start to soften. (As always I don’t give exact measurements that is why I am called the Witchy Poo cook TASTE is the key, taste your food as you cook it!)

Remove the softened peppers and onions and put them in the bowl with the chorizo.

Chop up your chicken breasts and add them to the pot with some more olive oil, paprika, and smoked paprika and stir until they have changed in colour (it is not essential to brown)

Add the peppers and chorizo back to the pot, add some more of all your spices, and for those who like it a bit hotter you can add some Cayenne pepper. Stir it all in and add the BBQ sauce.

Put the lid on the pot (or transfer to the oven pot with the lid) and put in the oven on 150 degrees about a gas mark 5, for about 40 mins. Keep  your eye on it so it does not dry out and about 10 mins before it is cooked add the honey (taste it before it may be sweet enough).

Now I used to stir prawns into this dish about ten minutes before the end and it is a lovely addition. But now I batch cook and I don’t like re-heating prawns. So I serve with some fried calamari on top, because the two flavours just complement each other perfectly. Then I serve with crispy roast potatoes and a green salad (add some crusty bread as well as the sauce is beautiful.)

So away you go – another recipe for the weekend.

And please folks, if  you have tried any of my recipes please let us know how you got on on the blog so that other followers can read it – we are nearly up to 200 now!!!

I know I have been a busy girl!!

 

Moisy

 

 

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The Witchy Poo Cook Rich’s Friday night kebab

15 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by RosieJoseph in Food in France, Recipes, The continuing adventure

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As promised, yes I know over a week ago, the Witchy Poo Cook is back just in time for Friday dinner. For those who are health conscious look away now!!

Since moving to France Rich and I are often shocked when we think how much we used to spend on takeaways. In England (and other countries) it is so easy to get a takeaway, delivered to you door so you can have a few glasses of wine and not even have to worry about driving to collect it; you can just call them any time and one will be delivered, some takeaways delivering until four in the morning!!

But not in France!! Oh no!! Not in the rural area where we live. In addition the only type of takeaway you tend to be able to get delivered are kebabs and pizza and only until about eight or nine in the evening. There is no culture here of getting pissed and then stuffing your face!! So as Rich and I do like to have a few wines in the evening I have taught myself to cook most takeaways at a fraction of the cost. So look out for more but today we are going to be cooking my husbands favourite…. Friday Night Kebab.

The ingredients you will need are…..

Chicken breasts – depending on how many you are catering for.

Kebab meat – if you want the kebab in the picture. You can buy doner kebab meat in most supermarkets over here and probably can where you live. Personally I find it better because it tends to be cut thinner and it is mainly for Rich as I used to eat chicken kebab, but each to your own I am going with the picture.

Olive oil

Onions

Wheat tortilla’s

Chilli sauce (whatever you prefer, I go for sweet chilli, Rich goes for burn your arse hot!!)

The Spices – Salt, paprika, garlic granules, ras al hanout  (morrocan spice), you can also add some tajine spice if you don’t have ras al Hanout, cumin, coriander (the dried green leaves are best but whatever you have will work.)

The salad – All the usual suspects, tomatoes, but lots of cucumber, lettuce and onion.  You will also need some lemon juice and vinegar – to get that authentic takeaway wilted salad my husband craved!!

Let’s Witchy Poo…

Cut the onions into slices and add to a frying pan with olive oil. Let them sweat and and then add a dash of all of the spices – yep go for it.

You will have to keep them moving now and probably add some more oil.

Slice the chicken into small slices, or larger and break up in the pan.

Add the chicken to the pan with the onions once the onions have started to brown, and then guess what? Add some more spices, don’t forget the salt!! Again you will need to add some more oil.

Stir away and let the chicken brown. Then put into an oven dish and into the oven on 150 or gas mark 4.

Now for the kebab meat…

Repeat all of the above except add kebab meat. Simples!! But if you want it to come out like my photo then I let the kebab meat really cook and brown, and  then I add it to the same oven dish as the chicken and put it back in the oven for about twenty mins whilst I cook our chips in our Actifry (see there is something healthy in this!!)

Prepare the salad next as you have to ensure it has marinated, so add it all to a bowl and add salt, lemon juice and we add red wine vinegar (not a lot as you don’t want a massive puddle in the bottom of the bowl!)

Once the chips are almost becoming crispy put the wheat tortilla on the plate and add the salad, and then the meat, and then some more salad.  It’s done!!

But if really want it to taste like a takeaway turn the oven off and then put it back in the oven so that the salad starts to wilt, just like it does when it is delivered. I know how sad are we?!!

Add the chips and chilli sauce of your liking and munch away……..

If you want to make something different you could substitute the kebab meat for mincemeat and cook it with the spices until it is brown and crispy!!!

Yum……..

Enjoy and can I ask if you have tried my recipe’s then please give some feedback to the blog readers – I know some of you have so give it a go. Also please share and rate I want your feedback good or bad.

 

Have a lovely weekend

 

Moisy

 

 

 

 

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The Witchy Poo Cook- Karen’s chicken Parmejano

03 Sunday Sep 2017

Posted by RosieJoseph in Food in France, Recipes, The continuing adventure

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Before I start this blog this is my foray into recipes, as suggested by some of my readers and my editor friend Karen. So I would really appreciate your feedback and if you could rate the posts using the star rating system at the top of each blog. Thank you in advance….. on to the post…….

During Karen’s visit (see post from August) we decided that my method of cooking is very Witchy Poo, (or when I am dancing twitchy poo!!)  I add a bit here, and a bit there, a bit of this a bit of that and voila!! I come up with something good to eat. So I will henceforth call myself the Witchy Poo Cook when it comes to the recipes I post on my blog.

So lets start with Karen’s favourite we are going to call it Karen’s Chicken Parmejano because she made me cook it for her twice!!

You will need:

Chicken breasts (obviously!!)

Olive oil (preferably with garlic infused but it doesn’t matter)

My previous recipe of chopped up garlic and parsley

Some garlic granules (yes there is lots of garlic involved here!)

Salt and pepper (again this is obvious but, just in case)

Basil (fresh preferably)

Sugar (three to four teaspoons)

Mozzarella (2 balls, don’t buy the expensive one folks, you are using it for cooking after all!)

Two tins of tomatoes and a carton of passat – but this is dependent on how much sauce you want and how many people you are catering for; we like loads of sauce so if we were cooking for four for example we would use two tins of tomatoes and two cartons of passat, and perhaps add another ball of Mozzarella, get it?

A lidded pan that can be used on both the hob and in the oven preferably, but if you don’t have one then cook it up and then transfer to a lidded oven proof casserole dish once the preparation on the hob is complete.

And last but never least (given the name of the dish is Parmejano!) Parmesan cheese

So….

Let’s Witchy Poo:

Put the oil in the pan and if it does not have garlic in it add at least half a bulb of garlic (yes half a bulb folks I live in France!!) If you have made up my wonderful parsley and garlic mix then add a couple of tea spoons of that as well. Make sure it is a good glug of oil.

Let it all start to brown

Then add the tomatoes (chopped up) and passat.

Add salt and pepper, some more parsley and garlic mix, the sugar and sprinkle garlic granules in as well.

Stir it!

Taste it!! Add more of whatever you feel is necessary. Always remember, as my mum used to say, you can always add but you can’t take away!!

Then after about 5 mins break up leaves from at least half a basil plant and stir in, let it all simmer for another five mins.

Remove the sauce from the pan into a jug.

Heat the oven to 150 degrees (about gas mark 5 I think but you will need to look it up as I don’t have a gas oven!)

Chop your chicken into small pieces.

In the same pan, and this is very important: With the residue of the sauce remaining in the pan, add another glug of oil and garlic, and parsley.

When it starts to sizzle add the chicken and it is important to make sure that the chicken browns because this adds to the flavour of the dish.

When the chicken is brown add the sauce back to the pan and stir. (if you have to transfer to an oven proof lidded pan now is the time to do it before you add the sauce back to the dish.)

Turn off the heat to the pan.

Break up the balls of mozzarella and plop into the pan all over the dish.

Liberally sprinkle Parmesan all over the top.

Put the lid onto the pan.

Put it into the over for about 45 mins.

Serve with pasta and a further liberal sprinkling of Parmesan, a green salad, and crusty bread to soak up that lovely sauce.

An alternative could also be to cook the chicken breasts whole (one for each person) and then follow the recipe in the same way, but this time serve with crispy roast potatoes, sprinkled with Parmesan, a green salad and crusty bread.

You could also serve with garlic bread, look out for my recipe for that in the next few weeks.

Enjoy

Moisy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Coleslaw and the best addition for sooo many things Italian!!

04 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by RosieJoseph in Food in France, Recipes

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I know what does Coleslaw and Italian have to do with France?

Well many moons ago someone, whose feedback I welcome and value, suggested that I give out some recipes for the food that I have learnt to cook in France; it was in response to my blog about how I can really cook now because I have had to learn to improvise, and work things out  for myself, to achieve the food that we like and miss from when we lived in the UK, but none of it is French!! (For those who wish to view this have a look in the food in France category of my blog. Anyway, I digress….)

There will be recipes for Mois’s  Chinese (yes you can get it over here, but we are working on a budget) Mois’s kebab, spicy chicken burgers,  Mois’s Italien – get it!! I see adverts on the TV and think mmmm that looks nice and then I work out how you could make them and add my own spin. For example the paprika burgers that are being advertised on UK TV at the moment (yes we have satellite!) but look out for that recipe because I have again added my own spin. We are trying them tomorrow.

I have always been able to cook, I am not committed to cooking, would not want to enter Masterchef of anything like that, but I have always understood cooking, and for me it is all about the taste. So if you want to follow the recipes that I am going to blog about be prepared, there will be not exact measurements, because you have to taste your food as you cook it, so just follow the ingredients and make it to how you like it.

Here we go…

Coleslaw – or should I say the American kind?!

A dear friend of ours dished us up this coleslaw one day and Rich, who is not a fan of coleslaw, nommed it (that is Essex for ate it all and more!) We both loved it and the recipe is simple:

White cabbage, cut as thinly as you can – think about it you don’t want great big hunking bits of cabbage in your mouth! Put the cabbage in a large bowl that gives you enough room to stir it around for when you add the sauce.

The Sauce:

Mayonnaise

Dijon Mustard

Rice wine vinegar

Sugar.

Basically put the ingredients (not the cabbage) into a bowl and mix it together until you get the flavour you like, some may like more sugar, some may like more mustard whichever way you like it, but trust me it is gorgeous.

Then look at your cabbage and decide if you have made enough of the mixture to cover the cabbage, and then add to the mixture and make some more because you can bet your bottom dollar you haven’t!!

Add the mixture to the cabbage and make sure all of the cabbage is coated.

Simples!

Nom away…….

 

The best mixture ever for Italian dishes.

So as always I was watching TV and I cannot take credit for this, the great chef Michelle Roux Junior gave me this idea. He said that the mistake people make with garlic bread is that they do not add parsley. Yep parsley!!

You will need at least two bulbs of garlic – seriously it is not garlic bread without garlic.

A large bunch of parsley that is as deep a green as possible.

Buy a what is called in France a Hatcher – basically a blender.

Put the peeled (I feel I have to say this as I know that some people will just take things literally) garlic into the hatcher/blender with the parsley; you may have to do this in batches so make sure you have garlic and parsley in together not individually or they will not blend well. Then hatch/blend away.

You can put this mixture in containers in your fridge and then add it to butter (a lot of butter! Garlic bread without butter is NOT garlic bread) in a bowl and put it in the microwave. Once the butter is melted stir the mixture and then spoon over your cut bread, wrap in tinfoil and put in the oven on about 180 degrees for about 15 minutes and nom, nom, nom,nom…..

But I did not stop there, I added fondant cheese (the most wonderful ingredient I have found in France and more of that in future recipes!) to the mix loading the bread and voila! You have cheesy garlic bread.

Then I thought to myself that mixture would be great added to my spaghetti bolognaise, parmejano chicken (my recipe for that is on it’s way), you add it to roast potatoes the list is endless. I have even made a flavoured oil with it – look out for my oils later.

So go on I dare you this weekend – give it all a go, and please ….. let us all know how you got on I really want to hear you comments.

Happy cooking

Moisy

 

 

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  • Food in France
  • Food in Ireland
  • For the live of dogs
  • France
  • Friends
  • Galavanting
  • Gamping
  • Goodbyes
  • Ireland
  • Irish Adventures
  • Irish Scenes
  • laughter & giggles
  • Learning and Evolving
  • Making our own way
  • mental health
  • Mountains in Ireland
  • My family and other furry creatures
  • My home
  • new adventures
  • New Adventures
  • New Paths
  • People
  • poignancy
  • Recipes
  • Reflections
  • renovations
  • Saying Goodbye
  • serendipity
  • Simple things
  • sunrises and sunsets
  • The adventures of living life in the French countryside
  • The background story
  • The continuing adventure
  • The good life
  • The good, the bad and the ugly.
  • The seasons
  • Us

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