It was time to try another delicious Chinese recipe. And the choice fell on this quick, easy and surprisingly delicious chicken dish, the Gong Bao chicken (gong bao ji ding). The dish is named after a Sichuan governor in the late Qing Dynasty, Ding Baozhen, whom he says he enjoyed it very much. In English...
I’m back to Shanghai, to my kitchen, to my gimcrackery. And after a month of absence I let you imagine the chaos and things to do to resume the rhythm, to give back a kind of cadence to everyday life. Time to play in the kitchen is reduced to the bone. But not for this...
While I was looking at a piece of left-over pastry, wondering in what to transform it, they jumped out: delicious chocolate dumplings! They’re a simple but irresistible idea to reuse the shortcrust dough that has certainly remained in the freezer from the december biscuits.
Without doubt these leeks and hazelnuts muffins will end up in a buffet or a festive table … I love savory muffins. They are good on their own, with cheeses, cold cuts, dips, they are always good and they fill that hole on the table that would otherwise remain empty.
Crunchy and irresistibly scented with coconut, cinnamon and rum: the coconut biscuits are sweets that I prepare very often. Perfect to dunk in milk for breakfast, in a cup of coffee or in a glass of liqueur wine after dinner, like the cantucci.
