Greek Salad

Summer time, this is a thirst quenching salad... Very light with cucumber, olives, tomatoes, feta and hint of pepper. So refreshing.
Eating greek salad reminds me of Bulgarian Shopska Salad. Frankly between Greek Salad and Shopska Salad, I prefer the latter. I'm not a big fan of vegies nor salads. But I could wallop these salads every day.

Here is something simple from the kitchen:

Moules à la crème

I found a supermarket catalogue in my mailbox yesterday. And lo-behold, there is the picture of mussels (moules). Five months in the land of moules frites for sure I have tried them the first month I am here. But after a while I kinda forgot about it. Now I suppose the season is back (as claimed the catalogue). I had this craving to eat the mussels.
For those who do not know me, I am nuts for seafood.
It is kinda sad that there is no wet market new my appartment. I missed Nancy's Market.

Here is what's cookin' in the kitchen today:
Moules à la crème
I had them with some pommes croquettes



And after the big attack....

Inside nyanya's fridge

This time round.. fruits of the season: cherries, red and white grapes :D
yummy!!!

Curry Udon

Location: My kitchen, XL

Friend of mine just shared her recipe of curry noodles (you know who you are ;) )
So I gave it a try last weekend. I bought fishballs from the asian supermarket, and calamar too.
As for the calamar, I covered them with eggs and flour with some spices (my own original recipe), then deep fried.
I use the japanese Udon because I like this fat white type of noodles more than any kind of noodles. Of course it is very difficult to choose from all different types of noodles that they sell at the asian supermarket. There is one long aisle just different type of noodles.

This is the Udon.


This is bowl of Udon and curry with fishballs and tofu.


Top it with deep fried calamar.


Sluurrppsss!!

au Chocolat Frappé

Venue: La Gourmandise, rue des Ponts, Nancy.

It has been long time that I want to put up the review. Just could not find the good time to snap the pictures. This place is a chocolate shop but they put some tables inside it.

My friends and I call this place 'Chocolat Frappé' because I introduced them to this place where you can get chocolat and café frappé. It is very rare in France to find place such place. As we all know, french is very strict of café and chocolat. Those starbucks frappés are known in France as coffee with lotsa ice water.
Anyway, I like frappés,and I've discovered this place some years ago. This is as good as frappé that you can get.

Anyway, other than frappés, they have desserts which are called l'instant Américain, l'instant Quebecois and l'instant Croquant. Each has different combinations of toping and ice creams.

We used to have this as our dessert at lunch time :D
This is one of the all-time favorites: l'instant Américain.
It contains vanilla ice cream, white chocolate ice cream, chantilly, chocolate sauce, and... warm chocolat brownies.. mmmmm

Acardi Cafe, Brussels

Location: Galerie du Roi, Brussels

This cafe is at the tourist spot in Brussels, and yet it has the right price for everything served there.
I took cafe frappé and it costs me 3 euros. The savoury tarts or quiche are big parts too. I played save, so I ordered omelete hihihi... But next time for sure I will try the quiche.

The mint tea (with fresh mint leaves!) is 2 euros. The desserts there are amazing. If you like fruit tarts, then this is the place! For 4 euros you will get a big part of tart. Yums!!!

Mint tea and Tatin chaude avec glace:




Tarte aux framboises meringue:

Smooth the smoothie

Something new in the kitchen peeps!!!!

I passed by lots of juice bars and healthy bars around here. So I had the urge to do it on my own. It is much cheaper too...
A colleague told me about smoothie with Spinach. I looked up on Youtube (yeah so long Google), for spinach and smoothie. Amazingly I found a lot of videos on how to spin the vegies in the blender!

So I have been experimenting on Spinach and different kinds of fruits combo.

For tonight, I tried with these ingredients:
Spinach, Freshly squeezed Orange juice, Banana, Strawberry Yodrink



Here is the result! I like the foam built on top of it.
OK so it does not look that appealing. The green color is something that you have to deal with when you are using green leaves.
But the taste... amazing!!!! It does not have the taste of spinach. From my experience, banana has a strong taste. So basically it tastes the sweet of banana and orange juice. I added the yodrink in order to make the smoothie a bit thicker.
Leave it in the fridge so that it is cold a bit, and then sip it away!!



I don't eat spinach, in fact I hate it.
But I just finished this glass which contains about 100g of raw spinach!
What a great way to get vegies in your body! :D