Olive green and bacon's cake (Cake aux olives vertes et lardons)

My daughter loves horses. 

She would like so much to practice ! But my husband doesn’t want. 

He had a very a bad feeling with horses…

When he was 10 years old, the horse he was riding, decided to go back to stable, without taking care at all of the young boy on his back !

It happened to me almost the same thing, when I was 16 years old.

I was imagining myself, riding romantically, with hair in the wind, on a wonderful and savage black horse …

My horse was white, she was not savage but she ran so fast that my hair really flied in the air.

The biggest problem was I didn’t ask her to run ! On the contrary, I just wanted her to stop. 

That’s what I was yelling hysterically, when she decided to follow another horse group who were coming, full gallop, on the opposite track, while I was holding the reins madly, trying desperately to stop her. 

A friend told me :

“How did you want her to stop ? You terrified her ! There was an abominable  yell on her back, and she didn’t know how she could get rid of it !”

… Well, if there was someone who were terrified, I promise, it wasn’t her !

Ok, my scream can be frightening, I admit …

I have to say that I haven’t a “Dior scream”, sophisticated and refined … I’ve got a discount scream. My screams are close to the ones, I’m sure, prehistoric men voiced, when they were hunting mammoth. 

Something very guttural and primitive. 

But, when you are on a horse, who runs like if his tail was burning, you really don’t care to shout like Maria Callas !

Well, that’s the reason why my husband decided that horse riding was almost as dangerous as climbing and explained to my daughter, that she will ride when she’ll be 18 years old and out of home !

No way to make him change his mind.

So, my daughter tried some other activities: ballet dance, gymnastic, track athletics, tennis, guitar … without finding the sport she could like more than 3 months.

Last year, finally, she began Street Dance. And it was a revelation for her ! She’s very talented and she takes a lot of fun. 

As I like to dance, she convinced me to give a try and I’m practicing African dance since 2 months.

To dance on African rhythm, you have to be as supple as a liana.

… At the moment, I’m as supple as a baobab… Well, it's African too, but …

In French, we’ve got an expression who says that “to be ridiculous won’t kill you”.
It’s true … If not, I would be dead.

My daughter dances each monday afternoon from 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm and I try to move my body the same day, from 9pm to 10pm. 

Well, all this story (promise, I won’t do it again ;)), just to tell you that, on Monday evening, diner must be quick and easy to do ! 

That’s the reason why, I’ve cooked this green olives and bacon cake. With green salad. 

You'll need :

• 200 grammes of flour
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 10 cl of neutral oil
• 10 cl of milk
• 100 grammes of gruyère or cheddar (I just used 50 grammes because my husband doesn't like cheese. You can even not use it.)
• 150 grammes of green olives pitted. 
• 200 grammes of bacon (or lardons)
• Some pepper (on the picture, there's salt, but I didn't use it. It was salty enough with bacon and olives)

Your oven must be preheated at 180°C (350°F / Th 6)

Step 1 :
Cut your bacon in pieces and let it brown, in a pan, without any fat content.

Step 2 : 
When it's golden, throw it away in colander to eliminate the fatty.

Step 3 : 
In a bowl or in your processor, stir together flour, baking powder, eggs, pepper and oil.

Step 4 : 
When it's done, pour the milk. Stir again.

Step 5 : 
With a spoon, add and mix cheese, olives (rinsed and strained) and bacon.

Step 6 : 
Butter and flour a pan cake and pour the mixture in it. 

Step 7 :
You'll have to cook it in two times.
After 20 minutes in the oven, to prevent it to burn, cover it with an aluminum sheet. 

And let it cook for 20 minutes more.
After 40 minutes, it's done !

Bon appétit ! 

Recapitulative : 

• 200 grammes of flour,
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder,
• 3 eggs,
• 10 cl of neutral oil,
• 10 cl of milk,
• 100 grammes of gruyère or cheddar,
• 150 grammes of green olives pitted,
• 200 grammes of bacon (or lardons),
• Some pepper.

Your oven must be preheated at 180°C (350°F / Th 6)

Cut your bacon in pieces and let it brown, in a pan, without any fat content.

When it's golden, throw it away in colander to eliminate the fatty.

In a bowl or in your processor, stir together flour, baking powder, eggs, pepper and oil.

When it's done, pour the milk. Stir again.

With a spoon, add and mix cheese, olives (rinsed and strained) and bacon.

Butter and flour a pan cake and pour the mixture in it. 

You'll have to cook it in two times.

After 20 minutes in the oven, to prevent it to burn, cover it with an aluminum sheet. 

And let it cook for 20 minutes more.

After 40 minutes, it's done !