“Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves....
...This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth."
"What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly...
...two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about...
...adventures.”
― Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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We all need a lift & a distraction. This calls for a recipe.
Chicken with Preserved Lemon and Olives
Few ingredients, easy to throw together, this flavorful dish tastes as good as it looks.
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INGREDIENTS
1 preserved lemon
1 fresh lemon for finely grated zest (optional) & 2 tablespoons juice
@ 6 tablespoons (40 grams) flour seasoned with salt & pepper
1 chicken cut in pieces or 2 leg/thigh sections & 2 breasts
A few tablespoons olive oil
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1 onion, trimmed, peeled, chopped
1 garlic clove, peeled & chopped
½ cup green olives, soaked in cold water for about an hour
½ cup (125 ml) water
Salt & freshly ground black pepper
Cut the preserved lemon in half & then each half in 2 or 4 wedges. Set aside.
This recipe for choux pastry is slightly different than the one I posted this week: the addition of milk makes a more deeply golden, crisper pastry which stands up to a cream filling better. But use either. Filling recipe follows.
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INGREDIENTS
Handful slivered blanched almonds
1/3 cup (80 ml) milk 1/3 cup (80 ml) water
5 tablespoons (70 grams) unsalted butter
1 tablespoon (10 grams) white sugar
1 large pinch salt 4/5 cup (100 grams) flour
2 large eggs
Powdered sugar for serving
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Preheat oven to 300° (150°C). Line a large baking sheet with parchment or oven paper.
Place the milk, water, butter cut in cubes, the sugar & salt in a pot and heat over high heat. Bring to the boil & allow to boil for about 3 seconds.
Recipes for Cream Puffs (choux à la crème) or Éclairs:
Vanilla Rum Pastry Cream
Chocolate Pastry Cream
Coffee Pastry Cream
Chocolate Glaze for Éclairs
Follow the directions I posted yesterday for my dad’s choux. Make them larger or smaller, as you like. Or...
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If you want to make éclairs: spoon the choux dough into a pastry bag fitted with a plain, 3/4 –inch (20 mm) wide tip. Holding the pastry bag at a 45° angle from the baking sheet, pipe/push out even, regular tubes of dough 5 ½-inches (14 cm) long (or shorter and wider by
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pulling the tip away more slowly as you squeeze out dough), slicing the end away from the tip with a sharp knife. Leave space all around the éclairs as they puff up & spread while baking.
These recipes are for half batches so you can create 2 different flavored cream
Mon petit choux is a french term of endearment, like "my little cream puff". Profiteroles, as most of you know, if a simple choux pastry (a puff), sliced in half lengthwise, filled with a scoop of ice cream, top replaced, and served drenched in warm chocolate sauce.
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1/ this recipe is simple and simply the best.
INGREDIENTS for my dad's light & airy choux
1 cup (250 ml) water
8 tablespoons (115 grams) unsalted butter
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup (140 grams) flour
4 large eggs
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Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°). Grease a large cookie sheet or line with oven-safe parchment paper (I always use parchment).
In a large saucepan, over medium heat, heat the water, butter & salt until butter melts & the mixture comes to a boil.
This is the best coffee cake you will ever have. Quick, easy, marvelous. Our favorite treat that I've been making for eons.
Light & fluffy cake, not too sweet, a crunchy streusel topping
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studded with mini chocolate chips & chopped pecans or walnuts.
Change it up by adding or replacing chips & nuts with flaked coconut, slivered almonds, or fresh cranberries.
Ready? It's Sunday so you should bake.
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INGREDIENTS streusel topping
2 tablespoons (30 grams) cold unsalted butter
2 tablespoons flour
5 tablespoons brown sugar, I use granulated/Cassonade or packed brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ to ½ cup mini-chocolate chips (I personally prefer ¼ cup)
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