Nuggets

The other day I had a food related revelation, as I was looking through the net as usual for new recipes, I found a few on how to make nuggets (yet another American recipe… I should consider moving there ^^).

Since I have seen on T.V. a documentary on how nuggets were made, I have decided to make them myself, and never ever ever buy nuggets again (do you know all the stuff they put in them?) but to be honest mine tasted good but looked awful!

And I realized it was because you should blend the meat first so that it creates a kind of stuffing! It’s a simple idea but yet it never crossed my mind!

In order to make them (for two) you’ll need:

-          2 chicken breasts

-          Grated cheese (about 3 handfuls)

-          Salt and pepper (and now this song will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day…)

-          1 egg

-          flour (yes, I’m really precise today!)

-          breadcrumbs

-          flaxseed

In your blender, put the chicken breast, the cheese, the salt and the pepper (you can add other spices if you want to like curry powder or paprika). Well then obviously blend!

Then with the stuffing you have obtained, make about 12 nuggets.

Roll each one of them in flour then in the egg (that you’ll have previously beaten) and eventually in the breadcrumbs (which could be mixed with flaxseed).

Heat some oil in the pan and dip fried them!

(I added some vegetables to ease my conscience :P)

Bon appétit!

Cookies

Yuk, to start with this blog I may not have chosen the appropriate recipe, as I am going with a traditional American one: cookies!

Feel free to yell at me if you find my recipe off the chart.

First, to release some of my pressure let’s not call them American cookies, but just cookies… because I have never eaten real American one (I know, that’s a shame) .

Basically for this recipe, I used my favorite technique, a.k.a. “what do I have in my kitchen so that I don’t need to go back to the supermarket” (you will quickly figure through this blog that I am kind of lazy…). Well, luckily that day I had a lot of things and thus I decided to make cookies with white and dark chocolate chips and nuts!

To make 20 cookies, you’ll need:

-          75g of butter

-          100g of dark chocolate

-          50g of white chocolate

-          1 egg

-          70g of sugar

-          120g of flour

-          1 tbsp of cornflour

-          50g of nuts

-          ¼ tsp of baking powder

Pre heat oven to 180 °C  (=350 F°)

Use a microwave to make the butter and the hot chocolate melt

Mix the egg and the sugar together and add the melted butter and chocolate.

In another bowl whisk together the flour, the baking powder, the cornflour and the salt. Stir it into the previous mix.

Then add the crushed nuts and the white chocolate chips (I use my blender to make them)

Drop the cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheet (they should be slightly separated) and bake them 12 minutes.

Then you’ll have to wait at least two hours before eating them, in order to let them dry.

hello!

Hey, welcome to my brand new blog!

My name is Julie (yes.. I know the name of the blog gave that away), I am 26 and I love cooking (big surprise too).

I do not pretend to be an expert, far away from me that idea, I just want to share some of my recipes and good tips with you, and also learn more about the fabulous art of cooking through other blogs! Because, after all, food is all about sharing!

As you may have noticed, English is not my first language, I am French but I’ll try my best to write clearly. This blog is also a way for me to improve my skill in the art of mastering this beautiful language. Feel free to correct me or to yell at me if I make awful mistakes  :P

I hope you’ll enjoy my little blog as much as I enjoy searching the internet for new recipes and places to eat or to buy things food related!