Mandarin Cake
A mandarin cake with a very strong mandarin taste that it’s easy to make! Give it a try and you will be pleasantly surprised!
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A recipes blog that includes calibrated recipes for one person. You will find recipes that are light and easy to prepare at home and have fun even when you are single or alone. Try them and you will be surprised!
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Roast Pork à la française
This is a very French and extraordinary roast pork with an extraordinary and light sauce! It’s cooked on top of veggies (carrots, onions and garlic) with white wine, thyme and bay leaf :-) Thanks to its way of cooking, it’s moist and tender and above all easy to make! It really worth the detour!
Porcini Soufflé
A wonderful French soufflé with porcini mushrooms! It also has some French Comté (or gruyere) and some smoked bacon for more flavor! It’s simply wonderful and very good even the day after!
Christmas poultry with truffle and a filling with bacon, star anise and orange
A Christmas poultry with some truffle and with a wonderful filling made with smoked bacon, star anise, orange and hazelnuts! It’s simply beautiful and really tasteful!
Greek Christmas cookies with honey and spices (melomakarona)
The melomakararona are traditional Greek biscuits that are served during Christmas in Greece! Everybody in Greece stresses on how to soak them into honey but this recipe is simple and straightforward! Nothing to fear and the result is extra good and tasteful! They are flavored with cinnamon and cloves and the honey is simply amazing! On top you will find some walnuts for some extra flavor and taste Give them a try, they are very unusual but so good!
Endive (chicory) Velouté with Curry
This is a simple velouté made with chicory (or endives), potatoes and some curry! It’s so delicious and easy to make that it will keep you company during winter ;-) But if you chill it, you can have if as a cold soup as well during summer ;-)
Classic Recipes
Lamb shoulder the Moroccan way by Paul Bocuse
This lamb shoulder comes from the great French Chef called Paul Bocuse who was elected the best Chef in the world by Americans! It’s cooked into a paste of spices (paprika, cumin, curry) with rosemary or thyme and garlic! At the end of cooking, it’s glazed and caramelized with a mix of cooking juice, beer and honey! It’s perfect for a dinner with friends or even for you alone!
Splendid Pineapple!!!
A delicate and quite easy dessert with pineapple cooked in the oven and a lemon cream called chiboust :-) It also has a lemon crumble made with almond power with gives it a little bit of crunchiness! It’s really good and worth the effort!
For Beginners
Roast pork with Worcester sauce and honey
This roast pork with potatoes has a wonderful sauce made with Worcester sauce, honey and Xérès vinegar (or any other red wine vinegar) and wins the 1st prize in our heart because we love it so much! Rosemary and garlic give their special taste that goes really well with the rest of the ingredients! Give it a try asap because it’s really good!
Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie
A cookie that can be split in portions? Yes, this giant cookie can be split and we reduce the total fat so there is even more pleasure! Give it a try and get one bite at a time! It’s even better!
Food from Around the World
Maryland Fried Chicken
An American fried chicken not as usual! Why? Because it’s cooked slowly into clarified butter and this makes all the difference! It comes from an old recipe in an old book that it’s not forgotten after all! Try it, you worth it!
Old Fashioned Apple Pie
An old fashioned apple pie with two layers of pate brisee and this changes everything! It’s a classic American pie! Enjoy!
Going Out
Chagall at work
An Art exhibition not to be missed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. I you like Chagall, you should definitely visit the exhibition because beauty and precision are married in a universal dance!
Dazzling Van Gogh!
It’s all about an Art exhibition with exceptional paintings and drawings by Vincent Van Gogh the last 3 months of his life. It’s simply dazzling!
Between us...
solofood.fr: the book
solofood.fr the book, because it’s good to have another medium for solo food’s recipes !
The shop
Découvrez la boutique de solo food chez society6 avec une multitude de tirages et d’objets artistiques populaires ! Mais aussi 2 livres pour solo food comme vous les trouverez en ebooks sur amazon kindle!
Dimitra
My name is Dimitra and I am the person behind this blog!
I hope that you are going to find some happy moments here because small things in life count the most!
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