Cassoulet De Fruits De Mer

Salut,

French cuisine. Yes, this is a recipe from Brittany, France and mon mari has made a cassoulet de fruits de mer few weeks ago. It would be easier if we call seafood gratin but since the recipe is a French recipe, so let's just call it what it is.

Brittany also known for its seafood and most of the fresh seafood dishes is fairly simple to prepare. Frozen seafood is good but for the recipe like this, fresh seafood is better. Here's the recipe.

CASSOULET DE FRUITS DE MER

Ingredients:

200g fresh fish fillet
200g fresh prawns
100g scallops
100g squids or mussels
1 shallot, sliced
1 carrot, sliced
1 cup mushroom, sliced
2 tablespoon butter
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon flour
1/2 cup bread crumbs
Salt and pepper to taste

METHOD:

- To prepare the sauce, melted butter in the saucepan.
- Add flour and stirring occasionally while pouring the milk.
- Season with salt and pepper and stirring for one more minute. Set aside.
- Heat little oil in another saucepan and fry shallot until fragrant.
- Add carrot and mushroom and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Add fish fillet, prawns, scallop and squids or mussels.
- Season with salt and pepper and cook the seafood for another few more minutes.
- Preheat the oven 200°.
- Pour the seafood mixture into buttered baking dish and pour the sauce on top.
- Sprinkle with bread crumbs on top and bake for 30-40 minutes.
- And voila, bon appétit!

Haw Flakes Cake

Bonjour,

July is here, the summer begins and holiday season already starting and many people intend to go travel everywhere within the country or abroad. We have decided not to travel this summer but we just have a great place to go, especially on summer weekends.

This week I'm planning to make a few cakes since one of our friends will visit us this weekend and I managed to bake the first cake this morning, haw flakes cake. I get haw flakes sweets from Asian grocery stores here. Pretty simple to make and this cake does not disappoint me. I made half a recipe of the cake to test it and I love it.

HAW FLAKES CAKE

Ingredients:

325g butter
250g sugar
300g flour
6 eggs
1 teaspoon vanila extract
100g haw flakes, finely chopped

METHOD:

- Preheat oven 180° and prepare baking pan.
- Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time and continue by adding vanila extract, keep stirring the batter.
- Add flour and haw flakes, stir until evengthing is well combined.
- Pour batter into baking pan and bake for 45-50 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
- Instead of baking, steaming also works for this cake.

Happy baking!