Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Help ! I need somebody ...

Dear friends, dear readers, dear lonely visitor, dear YOU ! 
This post, much more than all the previous post, is for YOU ! 
I need YOU !


Super dupont. French version of  Uncle Sam ! 

Here what I bought some month ago, in july, during the American Week, in my supermarket : 


I bought it because it's a typical american product, here, in France. No one eats it.
And now, I absolutely don't know what to do with it ! 

Of course, I found a lot of recipes with it.
But I'm looking for a REAL recipe, a recipe you, friends, reader or visitor, use to bake to your children your family or even just for you. 
And as always, please, something easy. Now you know my blog. 

A lot of recipe use chocolate too and as I'm totally crazy about M&M's, I think this weeding could work. 

So, today, I'm appealing you : please, help me and write me YOUR usual recipe in comments sections or in my mail address : axellethefrenchcook@gmail.com

I don't promise I will bake it all. I'm not saying there will be a winner ! 
I'm just asking you for help. 

Thank you so much for your participation ! 

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Zucchini and rice gratin, with some language lessons !

When you're studying languages, as I did, and when you're a teenager, as I was, the first things you learn about those new languages are rude words.

And how to say "I love you," ok.
It can help.

But learning bad words is so fun ! And most of all, a swearword seems much more light in another language than in our. As if it had less impact.

And as I was a very fun teenager, my first goal beginning a new language, was to learn a maximum of rude words.
I'm pretty good in arabian, thanks to my mother and my uncles.
I'm good enough in spanish, thanks to a trip in Spain, years ago.
I'm a huge professional in Italian, of course ... thanks to my life over there and thanks to a teacher that we loved a lot and used to teach us those kind of words.
She used to say we had to know the real language and not the one of books.
"Oh, please, students ! Don't forget that "puttana" (bitch) is a real insult ! Never use it ! Most of all against a woman, of course ! Did you hear me ? Right ? ... But don't forget : "Puttana" takes 2 T ...".
She was a great teacher.

Strangely, one language resisted me : Russian. I've learned how to say I love you, of course (pronounced "ia tiebia liubliu"), but I never knew a bad word.
Now I realized it, I'm calling for help :
If one of you knows a bad word or two (or more) in Russian, please, tell it in comments. I would be glad to learn it.
Because I'm a fun adult.

So, you can now guess that I know of lot of rude words too in english.
If you want me to teach you some french bad words, you can ask too in comments section ! I'll be glad to increase your vocabulary.

And today, I just want to show you how to cook those fucking zucchini once again.

I'm just so fed up with zucchini ! Being creative with zucchini is, for sure, easy. But, in gratin, with cream, curry, onion, grilled ...etc, zucchini stay zucchini !
And at the moment, this is the last recipe I'll post with this vegetable because I WON'T EAT IT ANYMORE FOR YEARS !
But at the moment, here's a good and fast recipe with zucchini again.

You'll need :
  • 4 fucking zucchini, so ...
  • 1 white leek
  • 1 egg
  • 1 onion
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 20 centiliters of milk
  • 100 grams of rice
  • Olive oil and herbs of provence
  • Grated cheese.
Your oven must be preheated at 180°C (350°F / Th 6)


Step 1 : 
Make brown onion and garlic on a low fire, with a pinch of salt. 

Step 2 : 
Meanwhile, cook your rice.

Step 3 : 
When your onions are a little bit golden, add leek and let it cook until it comes fluid.

Step 4 : 
Then those famous zucchini ! High the fire and let it brown for 10 minutes or so. Add one tablespoon of dry herbs.


Step 5 : 
Whisk egg, milk and a little bit of nutmeg, if you have. 


Step 6 :
Arrange zucchini in a oven pan, add cooked rice, stir all this.

Step 7 :
Finally, pour your egg mixture and sprinkle with grated cheese.


Step 8 :
In the oven for 20 minutes.

That's it ! It doesn't look very tasty, but it is. Maybe it would be better with béchamel, if you want to try it !

Recapitulative :
  • 4 fucking zucchini, so ...
  • 1 white leek
  • 1 egg
  • 1 onion
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 20 centiliters of milk
  • 100 grams of rice
  • Olive oil and herbs of provence
  • Grated cheese.
Your oven must be preheated at 180°C (350°F / Th 6)

Make brown onion and garlic on a low fire, with a pinch of salt.

Meanwhile, cook your rice.

When your onions are a little bit golden, add leek and let it cook until it comes fluid.

Then those famous zucchini ! High the fire and let it brown for 10 minutes or so. Add one tablespoon of dry herbs.

Whisk egg, milk and a little bit of nutmeg, if you have.

Arrange zucchini in a oven pan, add cooked rice, stir all this.

Finally, pour your egg mixture and sprinkle with grated cheese.

In the oven for 20 minutes.