Onion Soup, French style

A simple recipe today, something typically French.




Ingredients
* 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
* 3/4 pound onion, halved and thinly sliced*
* 1/4 teaspoon sugar
* 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 3 1/2 cups of beef broth
* 1/4 cup dry white wine
* 4 slices French bread
* 1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese


Preperation
1. Heat oil in saucepot. Add onions. Cover and cook over low heat 15 minutes. Uncover.
2. Add sugar and cook over medium heat 15 minutes or until onions are golden.
3. Add flour and cook and stir 1 minute. Add broth and wine. Heat to a boil. Cook over low heat 10 minutes.
4. Serve soup and top each plate with bread and cheese.

Fruit salad

Today's a simple fruit salad. Ok, I know this is fall but there were exotic fruits at the deli...




Ingredients
Pineapple juice
Kiwi fruit
Strawberries
Grapes
Melon
Oranges or clementines

Preparation
1. Place all the fruit in a big bowl
2. Pour some pineapple juice on the fruit
3. Stir gently until evenly combined. Serve immediately for the freshest taste.

Chocolate cake !

Today's recipe was chocolate cake.. I felt like I deserved it :)



Ingredients
225 g of sugar
200 g of flour
1 tsp of Baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
50 g of cocoa powder
1 cup of boiling water
110 g of margarine
2 eggs

Preparation
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C
2. Slowly pour boiling water on the cocoa powder in a bowl. Keep stirring until it is smooth
3. Leave to cool.
4. Beat together the margarine and sugar and gradually beat in the eggs.
5. Mix flour, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder together. Then mix 2. and 5. into 4.
6. Pour into a greased tin and bake for about 45 minutes
7. Add a toping of your choice !

Epigrams of Lamb

Last week, my butcher had some epigram of lamb in his shop and it said "very tasty". Great... that's just what I need, so I bought a piece.

It's a fairly fatty piece of lamb that's really thinly sliced. Preparing was very very simple and quick. It was delicious ! Try it out yourself. Here is an idea of what it looks like

Ingredients per person
1 slice of epigram of lamb
Salt and freshly ground black pepperolive oil

For the marinade
Olive Oil
Thyme
Coriander
Anything else you like on lamb

Prepartion
Covered epigram with Olive Oil
Rub epigram with herbs
Cooked in oven using the grill : 5 minutes on each side

Enjoy !