Greens and nuts are good for you!

Greens and nuts are good for you! Not new, I know. I don’t pretend to be a dietician. Greens bring such a diversity of flavours and forms and nuts are quite filling and crunchy and versatile.  Anyway, you probably don’t need much convincing.

Poelee of italian pine mushrooms and greens

I did not go unfortunately in the Blue Mountains or Bellanglo State Forest to pick italian pine mushrooms this year.  If anyone lives that way, I would love to know if they are still in season and if the bushfires have affected the areas of growth!  You can find those mushrooms at small markets or some vegetable stores like Harris Farm in season sometimes.

They are great in risotto and in vegetable stir fries with butter and garlic. Whatever you do, don’t forget the butter and the garlic! Check HERE for the recipe I posted.

The key in sauteed vegetables is to not hesitate using garlic and butter and to add the vegetables according to their cooking time.  Using nuts to complement the dish adds a little complexity and crunchiness.  You can also add a little chili.

peas brocoli pine mushrooms
Poelee of italian pine mushrooms, peas, brocoli and chestnuts, here served with drilled pork chops

Chocolate and nuts toasted muesli

This is my second muesli recipe. The first was with dry fruits and nuts (HERE), this one is chocolate and nuts (HERE).

nuts and chocolate toasted muesli

Next week

Next week, I will post this recipe, my own brownies recipe. Yum! I made that recipe one day super quickly for some friends.  A good brownie for me needs to be soft and gooey in the middle, not too sweet and quite chocolatey.

chocolate and nuts soft brownies

my news? gnocchi week

Hello! My news? I am back populating this blog with recipes.  This week is gnocchi week.  And no, I did not stop cooking, more that I did not have the time to organise the photos and write up of the recipes.  Today baguettes and chicken liver pates are flying out the door.

Fabienne breadnbutterkids

And we are on chocolate hangover (for a few days at least) a bit before Easter due to family birthdays.

This one below was a trial from Pierre Herme’s book  “Le Larousse du Chocolat“.

It is an hazelnut daquoise (i.e.hazelnut meringue biscuit) with a rich chocolate filling.

Our finding: very good albeit in quite small quantities. The filling was too much chocolate to our taste. It looked good anyway!

Daquoise au chocolat Pierre herme

Recently I discovered ricotta gnocchis. gnocchi and roasted vegetablesWe were already doing regulalry (works well with left over mash) some potato gnocchi (that makes me realise that I need to take some photos next time), now we are also into ricotta gnocchi. Yum, we love them. Easy, quick, good! Try it out HERE.

For the potato gnocchi, you will have to do with my notes for now! See you for now.

potato gnocchi recipe
For now, you will have to do with my notes