LEFTOVER LOVERS

I had pastas leftovers from the day before, and there weren’t enough pastas for 2 (because yes I always cook for 2!) so I decided to cook a lot of vegetables with it and it turned out to be really good!so here is the recipe:

2 carottes

1 leek

1 onion

2 Paris mushrooms

1/4 of a chinese cabbage

1 zucchini

Leftover pastas

1/2 a chicken stock in a glass of water

1 little spoon of soja sauce

Some sesame oil

Olive oil

Put some olive oil in a stove, let it heat, then put all the vegetables in order of time cooking so first the onion, second the carrots and the leek, third the zucchini and the chinese cabbage and finally the mushrooms. Add again a bit of olive oil so the vegetables are quite soaked. Let it cook slow fire.

When everything is quite cooked, prepare a hot glass of water where you’ll put 1/2 a chicken stock,a spoon of soja sauce, and some sesame oil. Turn on strong fire wait a minute and put your glass of sauce in the vegetables. Let it cook as long as it takes to get all the flavours mixed and if you want the sauce to be thicker add a spoon of flour.

When vegetables are ready put the leftover pastas in the stove and there you go, healthy and delicious food is waiting for you to be eaten.

You can add whatever spices that you like and do this with different vegetables, up to you and your tastes!

I got to work for two days in a bakery!That was nice seeing all this beautiful pains au chocolat, croissants, brioches and nice pastries (note to myself:never work in a bakery for a long time, would become a lot bigger by tasting everything…) Anyway.

At the end of the day, the unsold food has to go in the rubbish, that is the law (I find it quite unfair especially when you think about all the people needing food). So instead of seeing this mess with my own eyes, I choose to take all the leftover buns!

They have dried for 3 days and so that recipe came up to me!

French Pudding(or viennese buns pain perdu cake):

5 or 6 viennese buns from any kind (pain au chocolat, brioche suisse, brioche au beurre, croissant)

50cl of milk

2 eggs

10 grammes of vanilla sugar

30 grammes of white sugar

So, so!Cut all the viennese buns in pieces in a big bowl. In another bowl, mix the milk, the eggs, the sugar and whip it.

Put the milk mix in the buns and mix it all until it becomes kind of homogeneous. Let it all rest for 20 minutes and then bake it in the oven thermostat 8 for 30 minutes(that’s with my old oven, so watch it every 10 minutes to see how it works with your oven ^^)

Get the cake out of the oven and you’ll have a wonderful pastry!You can cover it with english cream or maple syrup if it’s not enough sugary for you.

First, I’d like to introduce you to my little french kitchen (yes, most of french kitchen in old towns are really small), to visualize where things happen!So this is where I cook,where I sing sometimes,(and dance also…^^), where I’m going to try to make some good food and also once a week where I’ll be making a dish out of leftovers. Hope you’ll enjoy!