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Continue readingSpring rolls, or “gỏi cuốn,” originate from Vietnam and are a delightful burst of fresh ingredients. These tasty treats feature crispy vegetables, aromatic herbs, and can include shrimp, pork, or chicken, all wrapped in delicate rice paper sheets. To elevate their flavor, serve them with a delicious dipping sauce, such as the renowned peanut sauce or the classic nuoc cham. What makes these rolls so appealing is their lightness, freshness, and versatility. Allowing them to be customised to suit everyone’s taste. Today, I’m excited to share with you the recipe by chef Gordon Ramsay, taken from his book “Ultimate Cookery…
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Continue readingToday I share with you a dish that I particularly love, “Moroccan Stuffed squids with rice” with its spicy tomato sauce. A recipe full of Moroccan flavours. I had already shared a “stuffed squids with quinoa and shrimp”. But today is the one that mom made for us, it’s really delicious. The squid is tender, the stuffing is just sublime and perfectly flavoured with the Chermoula, I’m not even talking about the spicy tomato sauce. You can use the tomato sauce to cook prawns with chermoula (at home we call it pil pil, nothing to do with the “Prawns Spanish…
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Continue readingWhen I first got my hands on this amazing book “invitation d’un pâtissier voyageur” I naturally started to flip through it. When I came to this recipe “ saumon sauvage Canadian : wild canadian salmon”, I just had to stop. Not just because the picture of this cake is sublime – it’s also the case for all the pictures of this book from the first page to the last -. But because I love salmon in all its forms, and this recipe combines all the ingredients to make it the perfect loaf cake. It has fresh and smoked salmon, green olives, emmental cheese, spring onions and…
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Continue readingMoroccan cuisine is rich of seafood dishes given its long sea coasts along the Mediterranean and Atlantic. These dishes can be prepared in a variety of ways depending on the region. So today I share with you a dish not as well known as tagine, couscous or the famous pastilla, but which is still a very popular dish in Morocco: « Stuffed calamari in tomato sauce ». When I was living with my parents, we usually enjoyed this dish during the weekend. Sometimes we made paella, or seafood tagine like : « Moroccan sardines & burnt aubergine balls tagine » or « oven baked fish with Moroccan Chermoula ». We usually use the calamari but…
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Continue readingFirst thing that comes to your mind when you think of Spanish food, is the « paella ». For me it brings out summer memories, it’s a dish that brings family and friends together. There are several varieties, the most common are « paella de marisco » seafood paella, and « paella mixta » mixed paella combines meat, seafood and vegetables. Some recipes contain chorizo or sausage, if you want to prepare an authentic one and not disappoint the Spanish people, please avoid the chorizo and the sausage. My favourite is seafood, I used prawns, squid, and cooked mussels (I kept the cooking water). To make…
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Continue readingThe tagine is a staple of Moroccan cuisine, simple to make, healthy and above all delicious. The recipe I share with you today is a sweet – savory tagine of salmon with sweet potatoes. This kind of sweet and salty fish tagine is very well known in certain Moroccan coastal towns. More precisely the towns of Safi and Essaouira which are known for their “Tfaya” fish tagine. The « tfaya » is a kind of confit prepared with raisins, caramelized onions with honey, all flavored with cinnamon and saffron. It is usually used as a garnish for couscous and meat tagine. How to make today’s dish? It’s best…
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Continue readingThe sardines balls tagine is one of the most popular dishes in Morocco. Especially in the coastal towns of the kingdom. To keep the meatballs tender, we add rice to the sardine kefta. But in the recipe I’m sharing with you today, of Jewish origin, we’ll add grilled eggplant. Not only the meatballs are very tender, but the smoky taste adds a special note to this delicious dish. The sardine balls are cooked in a slightly spicy tomato sauce (or not according to taste). You can very well add vegetables such as carrots, potatoes or peppers. This traditional dish is tasty, easy…