Daring Bakers: Cinnamon rolls

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I have to say I love Cinnamon rolls. In general. Always. They are good, that’s it!
And then I saw this month challenge of the Daring Bakers I was happy, really!
You have to know that every daring baker take turn to host the monthly event. So every month we have a different host (this month is Marce!). The fact is that most of the hosts are Americans, so the recipe they give us are with American ingredients. And as we cannot all be Julia Child, and adapt the whole French cuisine to the American public, I sometimes have problems with the ingredients. Basic ingredients are simple to find, but for example you have to bear in mind that the average plain American flour has more gluten than the average Italian one. Or that yeasts are different.
This month the recipe was featuring a instant yeast, that, in fact, it must be different from the one sell in Italy. Because that’s the only reason I can give to the facts that my rolls were good, but not really puffy… Maybe with fresh yeast would have more soft…

But I loved them anyway! And I had fun, that’s for sure, and even all the people that ate them had fun!!!

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Guinness chicken

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Ireland.
My first encounter with an English spoken country was Ireland, in 1992.
And it was even my first vacations with friends, without my parents. It was one of the most amazing experiences I ever had: being a teenager, in a foreign country, in one of the most amazing and lively European capitals, very different from now days Dublin (I mean, Dublin is still an amazing city, but completely different!). And, of course, my first encounter with beer. But Irish, black, thick, tasty beer: Guinness.
Even today, 15 years later, every time I take a sip of Guinness, my memory goes back at those days. And I feel 18 again (well, I was still 17 that summer, but I never told it to the bartenders!)…

Chicken breast, in stripes
Guinness

Marinate the chicken breast stripes in the Guinness for few hours. Grill the chicken pieces and serve it with a nice salad.

Simple, quick, satisfying…

Magic Tajine, on the table, who is the fairest one of all?

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Magic Tajine
: Over the seven jewelled restaurants, beyond the seventh pan, in the kitchen of the Seven Chefs, dwells Piperita, fairest of them all.
Queen [of food bloggers]: Piperita lies dead in the forest [you wish!]. The Envy Bloggers have brought me proof. Behold, her heart.
Magic Tajine: Piperita still lives, fairest in the land. ‘Tis the heart of a pig you hold in your hand.
Queen [of food bloggers]: The heart of a pig! Then I’ve been tricked!

Oh, yeah! You’ve all been tricked!
I haven’t post much in the last weeks, but I’m still here! Alive and kicking!
I’m just trying to recover form a very busy period, and a rather wild week-end!
But many days ago, I’ve cooked this quick tajine, mixing up two different recipes, so, here it is, thou magic tajine! So magic that I’m trying to remember how I did, but, nope, sorry, it’s hiding any memory of it!

Lamb
Peppers
Potatoes
Onions
Olive oil

Spices: cumin, cinnamon, saffron, chilli pepper

Sesame seeds

Supposedly, I’ve stir-fried the minced onion in not so much oil, added the lamb, in bite size, then the spices, then the diced vegetables. Sure I added a glass or two of water, and I let everything cook…
I added some sesame seeds, just to have a “nice” picture…
Supposedly…

Maybe the Envy Bloggers have taken my brain…
;-)

Another part of it: wines!

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Of course, having a husband sommelier, we couldn’t, by any possible mean, skip the French wine cellars! Those in the picture is just a little taste of the many we visited… And the many bottle we tasted and bought!

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Chateau La Reyne.jpg

Brumont wines.jpg

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La Ferme de Gagnet Armagnac.jpg

Pays Basques vineyards.jpg

Chateau de Crouseilles.jpg

Domain Lapeyre.jpg

Jurançon vineyards.jpg

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Banlyus vineyards on the hills of Collioure.jpg

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