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2May/100

Breast of duck with figs

Main course for Julie's birthday.

Ingredients:

  • one duck breast
  • one apple
  • 6 figs
  • 2 soup spoons of honey
  • 2 soup spoons of soy sauce
  • 2 soup spoons of balsamic vinegar
  • some rosemary
  • rose, white and black pepper
  • some butter

Duck breast:

  1. Preheat a fryer.
  2. When the fryer is really hot, reduce the flame (it should be almost at the minimum) and put the duck breast into the flyer, grease on bottom.
  3. Leave it for around 30 minutes, removing the grease as it liquefies.
  4. Turn the duck breast around a few times so it browns a little.

Accompaniment:

  1. Pour the honey and soy sauce into a fryer, add the spices and rosemary, mix. Start cooking over low heat.
  2. Once the honey has melted, put the figs into the fryer. Let them cook for about 10 minutes, turning them over regularly.
  3. Remove the figs, add the vinegar and leave it on the flame for at most one minute. The sauce should boil, but it must not caramelise.
  4. Cut 6 slices from the apple, remove the pips.
  5. Put the butter into a frying pan, melt it, then cook the apple slices for a few minutes. Remove them and place them on kitchen paper.

Putting it together:

  1. Cut a few slices of duck breast.
  2. Place 3 apple slices in the plate.
  3. Place one fig on each apple slice.
  4. Pour some sauce over the figs and duck breast.
1May/100

Mille-feuilles d’aubergines à la provençale

Starter for Julie's birthday.

Ingredients:

  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 rather big aubergine
  • pine nuts et pistachios
  • 2 shallots
  • some basil
  • quite a lot of olive oil

 Preparation:

  1. Preheat the oven to 210°C.
  2. Slice the aubergine (slices should be about 5mm thick), add salt and pepper, and pour some olive oil. Put them in the oven for 15 minutes.
  3. Put the tomatoes into boiling water for about 20 seconds, cool them with water, then peel them and dice them.
  4. Put about 40mL of olive oil into a frying pan, add the tomato dices, sliced shallots, fine-cut basil, pine nuts and pistachios. Cook until you obtain some sort of paste (10 minutes, give or take). WARNING: near the end of the process, there's a high risk of projections!
  5. Use the aubergine slices from (1) interleaved with a tea spoon of paste (4) to create the mille-feuilles. With the ingredients above, it's usually possible to make 4 mille-feuilles with 4 slices of aubergine each.
  6. Leave it for a while then store it in the fridge.

Pour a tea spoon of olive oil on each mille-feuille just before serving.

1May/100

Tea creams

Dessert for Julie's birthday.

Ingredients:

  • 180 g sugar
  • 2 whole eggs
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 500 mL milk
  • some tea

Preparation:

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
  2. Boil up the milk, turn off the heat, then leave the tea to infuse in the milk for about 15 minutes.
  3. Mix the sugar, the eggs and egg yolks. Whip the mix.
  4. Coat the inside of 6 small recipients with butter.
  5. Mix the result of (1) and (2) while whipping profusely. Pour the mix into the recipients.
  6. Cook in the oven using a water bath for about 35 minutes.
  7. Wait until it cools.
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