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spetember 2nd, 2012

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Preparation:15 minutes.
Baking 1 hour

Preheat the oven to 300 F°.
Mince a garlic clove. Slice a zucchini. Cut a tomato into four pieces. Pour olive oil into a baking dish. Add the vegetables and sun-dried olives.
Mix the chicken pieces in another dish with olive oil, the garlic, basil, herbs de Provence.
Add the mix above the vegetable and bake half an hour.
Remove from oven.
wet the vegetable with water.Add chicken and vegetable bouillon concentrate. Bake another half an hour.
If the chicken is not brown enough, broil 5 minutes.

Add vegetable lasagna on a plate. Reheat in a microwave oven.
Add salad, Feta cheese, olive oil, vinegar.
Add the baked vegetable, add the chicken.
Serve...

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As often, it is when you have things left in the fridge that you don't want to lose that you are the most creative.
I had this time a big piece of cabbage I have bought to make an Thaï recipe with a wok. What could I do with this piece of cabbage that was drying in the fridge days after days ?

I don't remember exactly how, but I thought to the choucroute... except I had no ham, saussage, etc.
No problem, the choucroute in fact goes very well with the fish. I could even say, it goes better with fish than with ham or saussage because the choucroute is cooked with white wine that goes better with fish than with meat...

I decided then to make a meal with a piece of Haddock I had also in the freezer and the cabbage as a choucroute.

1. It was really good
2. I was so proud to have made my own choucroute (first time of my life, I always have bought it in can). It is actually VERY easy to make.

I can't prevent myself to display two pictures of the choucroute making (did you know it is cooked with a cinnamon stick?) ...

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I like to bake chicken with peppers. Halfway baking, I always add bouillon and thanks to the peppers, the baking juice tastes like magic.
Add cream or yogurt to this juice and you will have a delicious sauce...

I accompanied the chicken with a beet tartar that is, as the beef tartar, very spicy, because I added red chili powder and as for a real beef tartar, Worcestershire sauce.
The two recipes went well together, giving a spicy meal..

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2 slices of smoked salmon
1 avocado
3 tbsp of cottage cheese.

the titillating part of the dish comes from the condiments:

• Red onions, lemon juice, capers, for the salmon
• Minced chives upon the cottage cheese (a reminder of the french "cervelle de canuts"...)
• Yogurt sauce for the arugula and the avocado.
  In a blender combine greek yogurt + water + chives + lemon juice + Xeres vinager + french mustard (no oil!)

Simple, easy to make, tasty, and, last but non least, healthy!

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Or the picky eater revenge...
When I was a child, and I guess all the children are always the same, I hated:

• Haddock
• Beet
• Spinach, even if my mother almost succeeded in making me like spinach (thanks Popeye...)

Today, I had a great meal eating all these ingredients. As always, everything is in the condiments and the way of cooking...

To make this meal, I used two different recipes one of my creation for the fish, another one for the beets (from my little brown and green veggies secret book).
the common point of these two recipes is that they both use tarragon, so they perfectly go together...

Smoked salmon & tomato salad

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July 20th, 2012

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Tonight, a quick healthy salad:
Smoked salmon, tomatoes, Feta cheese...

the titillating part of the dish comes from the condiments : red onions, lemon juice, capers, and cream. Simple, easy to make, tasty, and, last but non least, healthy!

Cold veggie lasagna with cheese salad

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July 20th, 2012

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Today, for lunch a Feta, Parmigiano, arugula, red pepper, basil, sun-dried olives salad accompanied with a piece of the carbs free vegetarian lasagna I cooked yesterday. Great moment under the sun :-)
this is my recipe of the carbs free vegetable lasagna (no meat, no carbs, only veggies!).

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You want to eat healthy and cook amazing recipes? You want to eat clean and be able in the same time to surprise your hosts when you receive?
This is for you!

I had this idea, first, because I found a recipe of coconut eggplant caviar in my veggies book. But in the same time, I was planning to make a low carbs eggplant bread using yogurt and no flour.
Suddenly the two ideas merged and I saw the coconut eggplant bread. I had also realized recently that coconut is quite genuine fat so that it can be used in a low carbs diet!



And to be fully exotic, why not to accompany all this with a yogurt mint sauce... et voilà :-)
I pushed the idea as far as adding chopped coconut onto the eggplant bread...

Broiled lamb ribs with thyme, vegetable lasagna

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Today, I had a delicious moment eating this broiled meat with thyme accompanied with a carbs free vegetable lasagna.
this is my recipe of the carbs free vegetable lasagna (no meat, no carbs, only veggies!).

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This is a story of a bad idea. Not for the salmon, neither for the cottage cheese, the yogurt sauce and the chives used both in the yogurt sauce and upon the cottage.
No, the bad idea was for the curious green sandcastle you can see on the picture.

I found the idea in the veggies secrets book. The idea was to beat cream and to fold it with mashed avocados. This was much too fat and hardly eatable. I have 4 other left in my fridge. I will use them to make sauce when I cook salmon or other fishes...

Baked vegetable and Feta millefeuille

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July 19th, 2012

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I notice that a lot of the recipes already posted take time to be made. So, I am planning to post a set of recipes really easy to make.

This one for example.
15 minutes of preparation, cooking, one hour,
all the ingredients in the pious tier of the michi's ladder...

I will post the complete directions very soon...

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This is a variant of the Cajun chicken I have made with a wok, but I definitively prefer oven cooking...
So, here is the oven recipe...

Vegetable tian and Feta cheese

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If you have cooked a tian and want to prepare a very quick meal.
Just add Feta cheese, olive oil on the Feta, a few leaves of basil, a few sun-dried olives. That's it...
this is my tian recipe

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July 16th, 2012

I saw this in a blog. It is a dish served in a famous vegan restaurant at LA, madeleine bistro.

I did my best to reproduce that I have seen on the picture, and I am not too disapointed about the result.
I maybe will never be able to check if the taste is approaching. One sure thing, if I have the chance to go to LA one day, I will go to this restaurant...

With this dish, I improved my recipe of beet tartar. I took the one of Jean Georges that is really near from those of the beef tartar, and I added lemon juice and tarragon.

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This is SO good !
Sometimes eating healthy is frustrating. It is like something is missing...
For this meal, no.
It seems to be long to be prepared, and it is, a little bit, but think. Even if it takes 45 minutes for preparing, you will have done 6 meals with only 45 minutes of work.
You can keep it 4- 5 days in the fridge, and the more you wait, the better it tastes.
You can freeze it and you will be happy to have it the day you want to eat healthy and have no time at all to prepare something...

If one wants the complete recipe, ask me by comment, but, roughly, there is:

• A layer of eggplant. Not precooked as often told in the Moussaka recipes. But I removed the bitterness using the salt trick.
• A layer of home made tomato sauce. I mix the sauce in a blender in order the layer to be thin. Added basil leaves
• A layer of cottage cheese yogurt sauce to replace the Béchamel that is the awfull thing for the diet in the common Moussaka. I also put crumbs of Feta cheese in this layer
• A layer of zucchini.
• A layer of raw spinaches. I didn't boil them neither as often asked and it was even tasty!
• Another layer of tomato sauce
• Another layer of cheese sauce with Feta crumbs
• Baked it 45 min at 400 F.

Cottage cheese and peppers salad

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1 put one or two slices of Serrano ham or Serrano ham substitues (Bayonne, Ardennes) in the plate (vegetarians skip this step only)
2 Put the arugula leaves
3 Cut the cherry tomatoes in two pieces and place them.
4 Pour sun-dried tomatoes and their oil on the arugula.
5 Pour the sun-dried olives and their oil on the arugula.
6 Add Feta or Mozarella di Buffala .
7 Pour Balsamic vinegar
8 Add Parmigiano on the arugula
9 Cut the cives into small pieces
10 Add the cottage cheese
11 Place the cut cives on the cottage cheese

The steps 1 to 8 are my basic salad. It's a very quick and easy recipe and it's delicious. All ingredient are from the pious tier of the michi's ladder except the ham but you can remove it.
Today, I made two changes:
I added cottage cheese with cives. Try it, it is delicious.
I had also cooked peper left from the Cajun chicken I made for lunch so I added them also...

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10 minutes for preparing this meal. I had all already, the veggie lasagna, tomatoes, Feta cheese, and the beets salad left from lunch.