Wakame Seaweed salad

It is healthy and smell like ocean. I am a coastal girl. I love sushi, and the wakame salad often served. I made my own little wakame salad after I bought a very cheap bag of dried wakame in a Asian store.
Recipe is coming

Langues de chat

An easy classic that use all your left over Egg whites.
I am not comfortable yet with pastry bags so, I simply used a teaspon to drop and slightly spread the dough to form circles.
Recipe is coming

Rousquilles from Perpignan

My younger brother is born in Perpignan, France. He is our African-Catalan. I was missing him so I made these cookies, because he loves them. Now,Ismael likes them too.I still need to perfect the icing of this cookies
The Recipe is coming

le goûter- snack time by Ismael:Strawberry cake.

Well, it is easy to cook, eat and cook some more. However, it is hard to blog about it, and take decent pictures.Kudos to you all for keeping in up with amazing recipes and scrumptious pictures!!!  It is an extra step that we are still practicing. We will get there with time. So please bear with us!

Here a piece of Strawberry cake that survived us, I was going for an express Frasier.I did a regular genoise-sponge cake using the terrific recipe from Une plume dans la cuisine .We used a leftover, reddish pink fondant that  we made for his birthday. For the filling, I mixed a warmed homemade strawberry jam with creme fraiche, vanilla extract and fresh strawberry. Voila!!!

For the cake genoise/sponge cake

-4 eggs

-1  cup of flour

-3/4 cup of flour

-1 tsp of Baking powder
For the filling:
-1 cup of warm strawberry jam
-1 cup of creme fraiche
-1 cup of sliced fresh strawberry
-1 tsp of vanilla extract

Napa cabbage salad with warm turkey bacon

Napa Cabbage salad with warm turkey bacon  is my latest favorite salad because my son who does not like cabbage loved it. Then I did confess that it was cabbage!!! Easy and fast.
Here my recipe:

• 3 tablespoons light olive oil,
• 4 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 1 medium minced onion
• 6 tablespoons of green onion
• 3 tablespoons finely chopped chives
• 4 cup Napa cabbage, cored and thinly sliced crosswise 
• 8 slices of package of Turkey  bacon 
• Ground Black Pepper and salt to taste

Place finely shredded cabbage in a large bowl
Sauté onion  in a tablespoon of olive oil until soft.
Add bacon to onion  and cook until bacon gets crispy.
Add green onion and chives.
Add rice vinegar  to the pan, warm up  for a minute.
Pour the warm dressing on cabbage and mix well. 
Season with salt and pepper.

Enjoy!

Toasted Almond biscuits

Here an adapted recipe of Martha Stewart-Wholemeal-Almond Biscuits
But I saw the pictures first on J'en reprendrai bien un bout...
I had some organic whole meal pastry flour  and ground almond.
If a recipe calls for brown sugar and almond, I am all in.


* 1 cup ground blanched almonds that I toasted 
* 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
* 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface
* 3/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
* 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold, cut into pieces
* 1 tsp of vanilla extract, one pinch of salt

1.  Mix flours and brown sugar. Add butter mix with fingers until mixture resembles coarse meal. 
2. To shape dough into a ball and vanilla extract and one tablespoon of cold water if needed then wrap in plastic.
3. Refrigerate until cold and slightly firm, no longer than 30 minutes.( I forgot about it for 1h30)
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll out dough on a lightly floured work surface to cut out circles (According to Martha more than 1/4 inch thick)
5. Space them  apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Bake cookies until edges are golden brown, about 20 minutes in my oven. Let cool on baking sheets on wire racks. Cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature.

Cooking Nomads Verdict:
They taste really nutty almost like honey roasted almonds, but a little too sweet for me. I did put too much brown sugar but a perfect reason to have a  lemon green tea without sugar!!! They are cute, and a nice way to use wholemeal flour.
Next time :1 cup of wholemeal flour, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, and toast my almond a little longer, for a darker brown finish. I will use this recipe to experiment with others flavors and flours, and less sugar. 

Baked Hasselback potatoes

My first attempt to Hasselback potatoes adapted from Angie Tee seasaltwith food blog.These potatoes look fancy, cute and delicious. It is a great alternative for French Fries lovers.I used Yukon Golden potatoes next time I will the russet potatoes. I made a  Nappa cabbage,red lettuce salad and Thin beef steak for dinner.

Ingredients
8 Medium Size Potatoes
3 Cloves Garlic, thinly sliced
4 Tbsp Olive Oil
10 g Butter
 Salt
Ground Black Pepper
Ground Thyme
Ground Oregano

Method

Preheat the oven to 220˚C (425˚F). Put the potato on a chopping board, flat side down. Start from one end of the potato, cut almost all the way through, at about 3 to 4 mm intervals.

Arrange the potatoes in a baking tray and insert the garlic in between the slits. Scatter some butter on top of each potato. Then drizzle the olive oil and sprinkle some salt ,black pepper, thyme, oregano.

Bake the potatoes for about 50 minutes or until the potatoes turn crispy and the flesh is soft.

The Nomads Café:

Dinner: Swedish potatoes with Chinese salad

Version  Française:
Ma première tentative de pommes de terre Hasselback adaptation de la recette d' Angie Tee sur Seasaltwithfood. Ces pommes de terre sont jolies et délicieuses. C' est une excellente alternative pour les amoureux de frites maison. J'ai utilisé des pommes de terre à chair jaune.
J'ai fait une salade de Chou chinois- laitue rouge et steak  pour le dîner.


Ingrédients
8 pommes de terre de taille moyenne 
3 gousses d'ail, émincées 
4 c. à soupe d'huile d'olive 
10 g de beurre
 Salt, Poivre noir du moulin
Thym moulu, Origan moulu

Méthode 
Préchauffer le four à 220 ˚ C (425 ˚ F). Mettez les pommes de terre sur une planche à découper, côté plat vers le bas. Débuter  a bout de la pomme de terre, coupé presque tout le long, à environ 3 à 4 mm d'intervalle. 
Disposez les pommes de terre dans une plaque de cuisson et insérez l'ail entre les fentes. Mettez un peu de beurre sur le dessus de chaque pomme de terre. Puis arroser d'huile d'olive et saupoudrez de sel, poivre noir, thym, origan. 
Cuire les pommes de terre pendant environ 50 minutes ou jusqu'à ce que les pommes de terre soient croustillantes et  la chair soit cuite.