Cosmo Cooking

The best way to obtain a good recipe is to get one of your friend’s favorites. Or even better, when your friend even got it from a good friend. When my friend started backing this pie, in fact he started with la haute cuisine expérimentale. Though he abandoned now the experimental adding of tuna to random recipes, you might find that this recipe is one of those classic recipes, of which the simplicity is its strength. I can almost refer to the Minimalist who is the expert in making beautiful things with a minimal amount of … Continue Reading

Ingredients

• 300 gr dark chocolate
• 100 gr milk chocolate
• 200 gr butter
• 200 gr sucre
• 150 gr flour
• 200 gr walnuts
• 5 gr baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 125 ml crème fraiche

Preheat the stove on 180 °C and grease the cake mould with butter and flour. Melt only 200 gr of the pure chocolate with all the milk chocolate and butter. Mix the eggs with the sucre and add a little salt. Add the molten chocolate butter and mix it. Sift the flour and add it to the mixture. Preserve 12 good walnuts and break the others and mix them through. Put the cake for 30 minutes in the oven, … Continue Reading

Ingredients

• 200 gr flour
• 6 pears ‘Conférence’
• 1 roll puff pastry
• 4 tbsp honey
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 200 gr goat cheese
• 50 gr pistachios

Preheat oven to 180 °C. Peel the pears and remove the heart and seeds and cut into small cubes of about 1 cm. Cut the goat cheese into rounds regular approximately ½cm thick. Crush the pistachios with the flat side a fairly large knife.

In a skillet, warm oil and honey on a low heat. Add pears and pepper, stirring constantly, and let them color the preparation over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes.

Cover the pie mould with paper and butter it lightly. … Continue Reading

The province of Québec, Canada, will always have a place in my heart to keep. Travelling is great, but even better is to make yourself at home in a foreign country. So my stay in a wonderful Québecois family in 2001 brought along not only lasting ties to this wonderful place, but also great recipes. This is the famous tomato tart of grandmother Margot. It surprises with an interesting mixture of ingredients that combined result in a unique taste. As with most family recipes, the amount of ingredients is not fixed and you can dose them according to your taste. … Continue Reading