Recipes from France

For me, one of the joys of reading other people’s blogs about their lives in France is to taste, in a virtual sense, some of the delicious food that they describe.

So many of the blogs I look at are full of great recipes!

I sometimes put on 2 kilos just reading them!

I thought it might be an idea to review some of those great recipes here, on a weekly basis.

However, I’m not going to pick them myself; I’m going to leave that up to the readers of A Taste of Garlic and the creators of the recipes themselves.

I shall review one great recipe from a Life in France blog every Sunday and, obviously, I shall link back to the original site so that readers can find out where the recipe came from.

So, if you have a blog and have a great recipe that you would like to share here, please let me know.

Or, if you have discovered a great recipe on a blog of the sort that I review here, please let me know and I’ll get in touch with the blog owner to ask permission to re-publish the recipe here.

Please get in touch at… contact@aTasteOfGarlic.com

This week’s recipe comes from Rosie at Rosie’s Kitchen.

I’ve not reviewed Rosie’s Kitchen yet but I did review her other blog, An English Rose in France on the 29th of December 2009.

This is what Rosie has to say about her recipe….

Usually, about once a week, I buy bread for the animals.  This is called Pain Dur (Hard Bread.)

Normally I but this from the bread shops; I get a bag of stale baguettes and other bread.

I grind a couple down for bread crumbs for use in the kitchen and the rest I feed to the chickens, ducks and turkeys.

Sometimes I buy from the supermarket;  this can be a mixed load of bread stuffs, occasionally pain au chocolate, croissants and Swiss fruit cakes.

The load could include fruit cakes and grain breads as well, the beauty of the supermarket breads is that they are normally in date.

Today I bought a bag of bread from Intermarche, nearly all sliced loafs and dated 25th August, today is the 23rd, so I’m making bread puddings, 1 sweet and 1 savoury. I’ve also put 4 loafs in the freezer for another day, the rest in the animal feed store.

Just because you don’t have all the ingredients listed here shouldn’t necessarily stop you from cooking this.

This recipe calls for sultanas and dates, after it was cooked I realised I had a couple of bananas;  I would have liked now to have done banana and date, maybe you could try cooking that.

Let me know how it turns out.

OK. Glass of wine in hand, the recipe…..

Rosie’s Bread and Butter Pudding

Ingredients :

Sliced bread (enough to put 3 layers in your dish.)

Butter for spreading

Seedless dates, chopped

Raisins and sultanas

4 eggs

450ml milk

2 tablespoons sugar

Vanilla essence

Ground hazelnuts.

Method :

	Butter bread both sides, I keep the crusts on (according to my mother keeps your hair curly), remove stones from dates and chop.
	Put a layer of the buttered bread in an oven proof dish, spread the dates over the bread, then put on another layer of bread and put sultanas and raisins on top of this.
	Cover with last of the bread.
	Beat eggs, sugar and milk together, add vanilla and pour over your pudding, pressing the bread down to help soak up the milk, its important the top layer gets some of the milk, add more milk if necessary. sprinkle with hazelnuts and a little sugar and bake, for about 15 mins till golden brown at 200c.

I reviewed An English Rose in France back in December 2009.

Rosalyn is one of my neighbours in down-town Southern Brittany and I used to work at the same abattoir as her husband Paul and their two sons Mike and Dan.

Rosalyn and Paul are friends of George East, the bearded vest wearing local author whom I interviewed all those yonks ago.

But, please don’t let that put you off!

Rosalyn writes about life on the Half Acre Farm, her animals, her family, cooking and, of course, her new grandson – the incomparable Kenzo!

Why not pop down and say hello to Rosie’s Kitchen?

I’m sure you will find plenty of other recipes to try out!

Thank you very much Rosie’s Kitchen, for this week’s recipe.

Watch out for something equally lip-smackingly  delicious next week!

All the best

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1 Comment

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  By Roz, September 6, 2010 @ 7:04 pm

  What an excellent blog, must go and look.

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