My version of french peas.

I began reading american blogs 4 years ago.
And I discovered that there were a lot of culinary expressions with "french" : french toast, french fries, french dip sandwich (I discovered it very recently - 1 day ago !) and french peas.

French toast, in french, is called "pain perdu", that we could literally translate by "lost bread".
At the origin, it was just a way to use the yesterdays' bread, instead of throwing it in basket.

French Dip sandwich : I totally ignore why american people call it like that. I discovered this in the the girl who ate everything' blog, yesterday.
If someone can explain to me, I'll be happy to impress people, the next time I'll have a dinner.

In the real "Petits pois à la Française", you have to use lettuce with. But, to say the truth, cooked lettuce don't make my mouth water. 

So, I do almost the same, without the green salad. If you want to taste, you can do it ! Just add some lettuce slides crude, when you'll add peas.

You'll need :

• 500 or 600 grammes of frozen garden peas
• 1 slide of bacon
• 4 white small onions (if you don't have, you can use regular onion)
• 1 cup of chicken stock
• Butter and olive oil.

Step 1 :
In a large pan, let melt a knob of butter with 2 tablespoon of olive oil. Oil will avoid butter to get burned.

Step 2 :
Cut the onions in small slides and make them cook until they become golden.

Step 3 :
In the meantime, cut the bacon.

Step 4 :
When your onion is golden, add the bacon. Make it cook a little while (5 minutes), except if you like it a little bit more grilled.

Step 5 :

Pour the chicken stock cup. I use powder chicken stock. But take the one you use to cook. Even if you prefer vegetable stock, no problem.

Step 6 :
Pour it in the pan, with frozen peas. Let it cook for 15 minutes, with a lid, on a low fire.

After 15 minutes, take off the lid and let the peas cook 5 minutes more, to make the water evaporated.

It's done !
Here's my daughter's plate.