- Au Petit Poucet → charcuteries
- Érablière du Coeur Sucré → produits de l'érable biologiques
- Gourmet Sauvage → produits sauvages
- La Manufacture → gins
- La Veillée → bières de microbrasserie
- Miel de la Garde → miels biologiques
- Pascal Le Boulanger → boulangerie
- Tabarnasco → sauces piquantes
- Tribe Kombucha → kombucha
Ingrédients
- 400 g + 75 g d'eau pour le bassinage
- 450 g de farine de blé T65
- 200 g de pépites de chocolat
- 45 g de poudre de cacao
- 20 g de sucre
- 10 g de sel
- 5 g de levure fraîche
Instructions
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Peser les ingrédients, et les rassembler dans la cuve du robot. J’ai ici pris l’habitude de commencer par verser l’eau de coulage plutôt que la farine, ce qui permet au mélange de se faire correctement sans avoir à aller gratter la farine au fond de la cuve.
Verser donc l’eau, ajouter le sucre et le sel, puis la farine et le cacao et finir par la levure. -
Frasage de 4 minutes en première avec tous les ingrédients puis en 2ème jusqu’à ce que la pâte se décolle des bords de la cuve. La matière grasse contenu dans la poudre de cacao ne favorise pas le développement du réseau de gluten. Il faut ici bien veiller à laisser la pâte prendre de la force, ce qui demande un peu plus de temps que pour une pâte à pain classique. Je dois compter 10 à 15 minutes avec un KitchenAid. Si vous passez trop vite à la suite, la pâte sera vraiment coulante et sans force, et très difficile à travailler par la suite.
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Quand la pâte forme une belle boule qui se décolle des bords de la cuve, ajouter l’eau de bassinage en 2 ou 3 fois, en laissant le temps à la pâte d’absorber l’eau entre chaque ajout.
Il ne reste qu’à incorporer les pépites de chocolat, et contrôler la température de la pâte qui doit être au alentours de 23°C. -
Laisser pointer 1 heure à température ambiante, faire un rabat et placer au frigo jusqu’au lendemain.
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Le lendemain, diviser en 6 pâtons de 200g environ et bouler la pâte encore figée par le froid. Laisser détendre une vingtaine de minutes avant de façonner en forme de petit bâtard. Replier le tiers supérieur, retourner le pâton et replier le tiers inférieur, souder les bords avec la paume de la main.
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Ensuite il faut compter 1h de pousse avant d’inciser la pâte et de mettre au four. Préchauffer à 250°C une demi-heure avant la cuisson et enfourner 12 minutes.
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Laisser refroidir sur une grille.
Très bon.
Par contre, en relisant la recette, je me suis rendu compte que je n'ai pas suivi les étapes à la lettre.
C'est probablement pour cela que j'ai eu du mal à mettre en forme mes pains.
Il va falloir que je teste à nouveau.
Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47
The Long Apprenticeship
At forty-seven, Kurt Vonnegut published Slaughterhouse-Five. He had been a struggling writer, a car salesman, a PR man at General Electric, and a failed playwright. He had seen war firsthand, lived through firebombs, raised six children (four of them adopted after his sister's death), and produced a shelf of novels that garnered little attention. Then suddenly, almost accidentally, he became one of the most important American voices of the twentieth century. When people recall Vonnegut now, they picture the wry, cigarette-smoking humanist, the man who wrote about time travel and Dresden and the strange species of Tralfamadorians. But in 1969, when Slaughterhouse-Five came out, he was not young, not new, and certainly not destined to succeed. He was forty-seven.
Why does this matter? Because we live in a culture obsessed with precocity. We valorize the twenty-two-year-old founder, the thirty-year-old Nobel laureate, the poet who dies before publishing her second book. To be forty-seven in America often feels like you are past your prime, coasting toward irrelevance. And yet Vonnegut’s story punctures this narrative. It raises the uncomfortable, thrilling question: how much can be done late, when everyone thinks the window has closed?
American culture has always been suspicious of age. Fitzgerald made it clear in This Side of Paradise - the whole point was to capture the fleeting brilliance of youth before it calcified into routine. The Beats chased a similar myth, a reckless vitality that had to burn out quickly. Silicon Valley today has its own catechism: Zuckerberg’s infamous line, “Young people are just smarter.” It’s the same fetish, rebranded.
But history doesn’t quite bear this out. Galileo was in his forties when he published his most radical works. Thomas Paine was forty when Common Sense reshaped political thought. Susan B. Anthony was fifty-two when she cast her first illegal vote. The assumption that genius peaks young has always been a convenient myth. It flatters the ambitious and terrifies the hesitant. It also blinds us to the fact that many of history’s breakthroughs came from people who had been around long enough to see patterns others missed.
Vonnegut is a particularly vivid example because he had already failed. He had written science fiction for pulp magazines, novels like Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan that earned him modest attention but little money. He was not a wunderkind. He was a midlist author, typing away between family obligations and day jobs. By the logic of our culture, he should have given up. Instead, he wrote the book that only someone with his scars, his age, and his accumulated oddities could have produced.
There is dignity in failure, especially prolonged failure. Consider Melville: forgotten after Moby-Dick, reduced to writing insurance reports, rediscovered decades later. Or Emily Dickinson, who failed in the most invisible way: unread in her lifetime, her poems quietly fermenting in a drawer. Vonnegut’s failures were of a different sort - his books did get published, but with disappointing results. He was a writer who could fill a shelf in a used bookstore, gathering dust beside more fashionable authors. But that experience mattered. Slaughterhouse-Five is not a young man’s book. Its humor is laced with bitterness, its form is fractured by time, and its philosophy is resigned rather than triumphant. Only someone who had seen things fall apart (repeatedly) could have written it.
And maybe this is why age can produce greatness. Youth thrives on conviction; age is forced into complexity. Vonnegut could not tell a clean story about Dresden. He knew memory was fractured, that trauma distorted time, that irony was the only language left. His narrative jumps back and forth through decades, between planets and battlefields; because that was the only way to be honest.
Middle age is rarely glamorous. Dante placed himself “midway in our life’s journey” in the dark wood, lost and confused. The Greeks had their crises too - Solon supposedly argued that you could not call a man happy until he died, because only the full arc could reveal whether fortune had spared him. At forty-seven, Vonnegut was in that territory. He had no assurance his career would matter. His books were not chart-toppers. He was supporting a sprawling family on uneven income. He had lived enough to know the absurdities of both war and corporate America. Out of that stew came Slaughterhouse-Five.
This matters; because middle age is often treated as decline, the moment when one’s creativity has been used up. Neuroscience papers are circulated to show how fluid intelligence peaks in your twenties, how mathematicians do their best work before thirty-five. But there is another kind of intelligence: crystallized, layered, associative. The ability to see connections across disciplines, to synthesize long experience into something new. Vonnegut’s novel is precisely that kind of synthesis: war memoir, science fiction, satire, elegy.
Vonnegut’s war had always haunted him. As a young soldier, he was captured in the Battle of the Bulge, held in Dresden, and survived the firebombing by hiding in a slaughterhouse basement. It took him decades to turn this into art.
Some traumas resist immediate rendering.
Primo Levi needed years before If This Is a Man could be written. Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy required the hindsight of the 1990s to reimagine the First World War. Vonnegut’s forty-seven-year-old self could finally write what his twenty-five-year-old self could only (and barely) endure.
Slaughterhouse-Five is not cathartic. It does not end with redemption. The famous refrain - “So it goes” - is less about acceptance or closure, than about repetition, about the endless cycle of death. The book offers no comfort, but it does offer recognition.
That recognition is the work of age.
Life, all this living, all this striving is a long apprenticeship that cannot be compressed. Some writers learn style and voice quickly; others take decades. Henry James distinguished between the “young genius” and the “late bloomer,” but suggested both paths were legitimate.
Vonnegut’s early books were uneven, witty but scattered. He had not yet found the tone that made him distinctive. By the time he reached Slaughterhouse-Five, he had rehearsed irony, satire, science fiction tropes, and autobiographical fragments enough times to finally bring them together. Forty-seven was not late; it was right on time.
Chartres was not built in a decade. The Parthenon was rebuilt multiple times. Sometimes greatness takes patience, not precocity.
Why does our culture cling to the idea that if you haven’t made it by thirty, you won’t? Part of it is economic: industries want to exploit youthful energy at low wages. Part of it is romantic: the myth of the prodigy is more cinematic than the tale of the slow grinder. But part of it may also be anxiety about mortality. To celebrate the late bloomer is to admit that our lives can change radically past middle age, which is destabilizing. If anything can happen at forty-seven, then perhaps we cannot measure ourselves against arbitrary deadlines.
Vonnegut mocked all deadlines. He wrote about time as non-linear, about events existing simultaneously. In Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim comes “unstuck in time.” That phrase could apply to Vonnegut himself: his career looked like a sequence of failures until it suddenly wasn’t.
We are all unstuck in time.
Our successes and failures do not unfold in neat order.
Sometimes they arrive decades late.
Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was forty-seven when he wrote his masterpiece. And this fact should unsettle us! It should challenge the myth that our best years are always early. It should remind us that the middle of life can be fertile, that failure can ripen into art, that age can distill experience into something no youth could mimic. To be forty-seven is not to be finished. It may, for some, be the very beginning.
Ingredients
- 3/4 Cup milk
- 1 Cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 6 tablespoons margarine
- 1/4 Cup sugar
- 1 package dry yeast
- 1/3 Cup flour
Instructions
- Warm 3/4 Cup milk and 6 Tablespoons margarine until margarine melts. Set aside to cool.
- Mix 1 Cup flour, 1/4 Cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 package dry yeast.
- When milk-margarine mixture is cool enough to touch (need not be cold) add to dry ingredients and beat.
- Add 1 egg, 1/3 Cup flour and beat again.
- Add enough flour for dough (this is the hard part it will be very stiff for mixing), dump out of bowl and knead. (Keep adding a little flour as you knead as it becomes too sticky), about 10 minutes.
- Put in greased bowl, cover with towel and set aside to double (usually about 1-1 1/2 hours). Then punch down and knead again. Shape into loaf and put in greased bread pan. Let double again. Bake in slow oven (325-350 degrees) about 30-45 minutes until brown.
Vraiment intéressant !
Ingrédients
- 100 g de farine de châtaigne
- 100 g de farine de blé ou de seigle (ou de farine de riz pour une recette gluten Free)
- 150 g de lait (soit 0,15 l)
- 200 g de miel de châtaignier
- 50 g de sucre roux
- 60 g de beurre
- 1 paquet de levure chimique
- 2 à 3 cuillères à café de mélange d’épices
- 100 g de fruits confits ou secs
- 1 cuillère à café de vanille en poudre
- 2 cuillères à café de bicarbonate alimentaire
Instructions
- Faites chauffer le lait avec le miel de châtaigne, le beurre et le sucre.
- Dans un saladier, mélangez les deux farines, la levure, les épices (avec du miel de châtaigne, optez pour 2 cuillères à café !) et les fruits secs.
- Incorporez le mélange liquide dans le saladier et mélangez le tout jusqu’à obtenir une pâte sans grumeaux.
- Enfournez ensuite pour une heure à 155°C dans un four à chaleur tournante préalablement chauffé.
- Sortir du four dès que la cuisson est terminée et laisser refroidir avant de démouler sur une grille.
Il est très bon, très moelleux. Malheureusement, les épices cachent trop le gout du miel et de la farine de chataigne.
INGRÉDIENTS
Pâte
- 70 g (1/2 tasse) de farine tout usage La Merveilleuse
- 2,5 ml (1/2 c. à thé) de poudre à pâte
- 0,5 ml (1/8 c. à thé) de sel
- 110 g (1/2 tasse) de sucre de canne
- 1 gros oeuf, battu (55 g)
- 30 ml (2 c. à soupe) de margarine végétale, fondue
- 30 ml (2 c. à soupe) de boisson végétale, au goût
- 5 ml (1 c. à thé) d'essence de vanille
Garniture
- 240 g (3/4 tasse) de sirop d'érable
- 55 g (1/4 tasse) de sucre de canne
- 2 gros oeufs (110 g)
- 35 g (1/4 tasse) de margarine végétale
- 30 ml (2 c. à soupe) de farine tout usage La Merveilleuse
- 2,5 ml (1/2 c. à thé) d'essence de vanille
- 1 ml (1/4 c. à thé) de sel
- 65 g (2/3 tasse) de pacanes, hachées
Instructions
Pâte
- Préchauffer le four à 150 °C (300 °F). Huiler un moule carré de 20 cm (8 po) et déposer un papier parchemin au fond.
- Dans un bol, mélanger la farine, la poudre à pâte et le sel. Réserver.
- Dans un moyen bol, combiner le sucre, l’œuf, la margarine, la boisson végétale et l’extrait de vanille. Mélanger le tout à l’aide d’une cuiller de bois jusqu’à ce que le mélange soit lisse et crémeux.
- Ajouter le tiers des ingrédients secs à la fois en mélangeant entre chaque addition, jusqu’à l’obtention d’une pâte homogène.
- Répartir également la pâte dans le moule et placer sur la grille centrale du four afin de précuire pendant 15 minutes, sans plus. Retirer du four et réserver.
Garniture
- Verser le sirop d'érable dans une moyenne casserole, incorporer le sucre de canne et amener à ébullition. Laisser mijoter à feu doux pendant 5 minutes. Retirer du feu et laisser tiédir pendant 30 minutes puis préchauffer le four à 230 °C (450 °F).
- Après le temps de repos du sirop d’érable, verser doucement les œufs sur le sirop en battant constamment à l'aide d'un batteur électrique.
- Incorporer la margarine végétale, la farine, l'extrait de vanille et le sel et battre, toujours à l'aide d'un batteur électrique, jusqu'à l'obtention d'un mélange crémeux et onctueux (environ 3 à 4 minutes).
- Verser sur la pâte pré-cuite et parsemer le dessus de pacanes.
- Cuire sur la grille centrale du four préchauffé tel qu'indiqué au point 1 pendant 10 minutes. Baisser ensuite la température à 180 °C (350 °F) et poursuivre la cuisson pendant 15 à 20 minutes. Les carrés seront prêts lorsqu'ils seront bien dorés
- Si la croûte semble manquer légèrement de cuisson mais que le dessus est bien cuit, simplement couvrir d'un papier parchemin pour les 5 dernières minutes de cuisson. Cela permettra à la croûte de bien cuire sans trop griller le dessus.
- Laisser refroidir complètement avec de couper en carrés.
Ingredients
- 750g full-fat cream cheese (at room temperature)
- 240g caster sugar
- 20g chocolate powder
- 150g dark (70%) chocolate
- 3 whole eggs (at room temperature)
- 300ml double cream (at room temperature)
- 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 2 tsp whisky (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 230°C (450°F).
- In a bowl, beat the cream cheese and caster sugar using an electric hand mixer until smooth.
- Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition until fully combined.
- Gradually pour the melted chocolate into the double cream while mixing. Stir in the whisky at
this stage. - Pour the chocolate-whisky cream mixture into the bowl with the cream cheese mixture and
blend everything together. - Add the salt and cocoa powder, then mix until smooth.
- Line a 20cm springform pan with parchment paper. Pour the batter into the pan and gently tap
it on the countertop a few times to release any air bubbles. - Bake the cheesecake uncovered for 35 minutes, or until the top is slightly charred. Avoid
opening the oven door during baking. - Once the cheesecake has cooled for 3 to 4 hours, serve or transfer it to the fridge.
Ingredients
COOKIES
- 110 g butter
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 100 g dark brown sugar
- 1 egg (57-60 g with shell)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 230 g all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon instant espresso powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
MASCARPONE CREAM
- 180 g mascarpone cheese
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 90 g confectioners sugar
- 20 g agave or honey
- 120 g heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder for dusting
Instructions
COOKIES
- Melt the butter in the microwave or in a small saucepan over low-medium heat. You don’t want it to bubble, so as to not lose any of the liquid in the butter. Pour the melted butter into a big mixing bowl and let it cool down to room temperature in the fridge. Takes about 20 minutes.
- Once the butter has reached room temperature add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and with spatula whisk it together for 1 minute. Alternatively, mix it together in a stand mixer using the paddle attachment.
- Add the egg, vanilla extract and mix it in until combined.
- In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, instant espresso powder and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and with spatula mix it together until just combined.
- Using a 2 tbsp/ 1.3 ounce cookie scoop, scoop out 11 cookies and place them on a tray lined with baking paper. Then roll them between your hands into a ball. Place the prepared cookies in the fridge to set for 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven at 180ºC / 355ºF and prepare a baking sheet with baking paper. Place 6 cookies per baking tray and bake one tray at a time for 10-11 minutes.
- Once baked, let them cool down on the baking tray for 3 minutes as they still will be soft when they are done. After they have cooled down a bit, use a spatula to lift them onto a cooling rack and let them cool down completely.
MASCARPONE CREAM
- In a medium bowl with an electric mixer or in a stand mixer using the whisk attachment, whip together all of the ingredients until it reaches stiff peaks and it holds its shape. If making ahead of serving, place in the fridge, covered by plastic wrap, until ready to assemble.
- When ready to serve, add the cream to a piping bag fitted with a piping tip e.g. Wilton 2A. Pipe the mascarpone cream on top of the cookies in a swirl, starting from the middle and moving outwards. Add a tablespoon of cocoa to fine mesh sieve and finish the cookies with dusting of cocoa powder.
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Ingredients
- 500 grams ground beef
- 18 strips of streaky bacon
- 50 grams grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 egg
- 75 ml milk
- 50 grams breadcrumbs
- 2 tablespoons Italian or french herbs
- 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
- 5 tablespoons your fav BBQ rub
- 5 tablespoons your fav BBQ sauce
Instructions
- With the exception of the bacon, BBQ rub and sauce, throw everything in a bowl and mix it up well until you have a smooth paste.
- Roll them into little meatballs, roll them through your BBQ rub and roll a piece of bacon around it.
- Use a toothpick to secure it into place.
- 40-45 minutes on the BBQ at 110-120 degrees (indirect heat). The more smoke the better. It will create a nice red smoke ring and amazing taste!
- Then turn them around, glaze them with your BBQ sauce. Another 40-45 minutes.
Ingredients
- Waxy potatoes
- 2 knobs butter
- Demi glace
- 4 sprigs thyme
- 2 cloves garlic
Instructions
- Peel a couple potatoes and trim both sides.
- Then if the potato is big enough cut it in half.
- Now cut the slices with a round cutter.
- Keep the trimmings for another recipe.
- Submerge the rounds in water and rinse them till the water is clear.
- After that dry them on some kitchen paper.
- Then pour some oil in a frying pan and pan fry the potato rounds with some salt.
- Once golden on one side turn them around and add some knots of butter.
- Pan fry till both sides are nice and golden and keep turning them if necessary.
- Now add some demi glace till the potatoes are halfway submerged and also add 4 sprigs of thyme and 2 cloves of garlic that are cut in half.
- Now cover the potatoes with some parchment paper and let them cook on a medium low heat for around 10 to 15 minutes.
- Once they’re cooked gently turn them around, turn off the heat and let them cool down for another 10 minutes.
- Then transfer the pommes fondant on a tray and glace them with the demi glace we just cooked them in.
- Now they’re ready to be used.
- You can keep them covered in your fridge for a couple of days and reheat them in an oven at 150 degrees Celsius for around 5 minutes.
- Don’t forget to give them a quick glaze before serving them.
- They’re great with a beautiful duck breast, some green asparagus and a tarragon sauce.
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Ingredients
Cookie crust
- 250 g graham cookies or Digestives cookies
- 2 tablespoon dutch processed unsweetened cocoa powder
- 75 g butter
Cheesecake filling
- 250 ml strong black coffee
- 1 tablespoon Amaretto optional
- 600 g cream cheese
- 165 g mascarpone cheese
- 150 g powdered sugar
- 1½ teaspoon vanilla paste
- 360 g heavy cream (380 ml)
- ½ a pack of lady fingers
Topping
- 230 g heavy cream (250 ml)
- 2 tablespoon powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla paste
- dutch processed unsweetened cocoa powder for dusting
Instructions
Cookie crust
- Start by brewing the coffee for the ladyfingers.
- Pour it into a shallow bowl and optionally mix in Amaretto.
- While preparing the cheesecake let it cool down on the kitchen counter.
- In a food processor, blend the graham cracker or digestive cookies and cocoa powder until a fine sand-like texture.
- Melt the butter.
- Add the melted butter to the food processor and blend it together with the blended cookies.
- In a 23 cm/9-inch springform add parchment paper.
- Add the cookie crumbs and press the cookie crust down with the bottom of a glass, so it’s well packed together and flattened out.
- Place it in the refrigerator while preparing the cheesecake filling.
Cheesecake filling
- With a hand mixer or in a stand mix using the paddle attachment, cream the cream cheese for 1 minute on low speed.
- Add the mascarpone, powdered sugar and vanilla paste and mix on medium/high speed until smooth, about 1 minute.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl and at low speed let it mix until everything is combined, about 30 seconds.
- Scrape down the bowl again and add the heavy cream and whisk it until it can hold a stiff peak.
- Add half of the cheesecake filling into the springfom and with an off-set spatula even out the cheesecake filling.
- Dip the lady fingers into the coffee once on each side.
- If they are coated more than once, the lady fingers will hold too much coffee and there is a chance that coffee can leak out from the cheesecake when it’s resting in the fridge.
- Lay the lady fingers in straight lines.
- You’ll have to cut the lady fingers to fit the cheesecake (see the photo above in the blog post).
- Then add the other half of the cheesecake filling and with an off-set spatula even it out.
- Cover the springform with cling film and place it in the refrigerator for a minimum of 8 hours.
Decoration
- Move the cheesecake to a serving dish.
- Whip together heavy cream, powdered sugar and vanilla paste until stiff peaks.
- Add it on top of the cheesecake and place it back in the refrigerator.
- Once ready to serve, dust it with cocoa powder.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds fresh rhubarb stalks, trimmed and chopped into 1/2-inch pieces (about 6 cups)
- 1½ cups filtered water
- 2 high-quality Earl Grey tea bags
- 3½ cups granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Prepare for canning: If processing for shelf stability, wash 4 half-pint jars and lids in hot, soapy water. Rinse well. Keep jars hot in simmering water or a 225°F oven until ready to fill. Place flat lids in a small bowl and cover with hot water to soften the sealing compound.
- Extract the rhubarb juice: In a large, heavy-bottomed stainless steel or enameled cast iron pot, combine chopped rhubarb and water. Bring to a gentle simmer over medium heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, until rhubarb completely breaks down and becomes soft and pulpy, about 15-20 minutes. The rhubarb should easily crush against the side of the pot.
- Infuse with Earl Grey: Remove pot from heat. Add tea bags, cover, and let steep for exactly 6 minutes. This timing extracts the bergamot flavor without becoming bitter. Gently remove tea bags without squeezing them, as this would release bitter tannins.
- Strain the mixture: Place a dampened jelly bag or several layers of cheesecloth in a large strainer set over a deep bowl. Carefully pour the rhubarb mixture into the jelly bag. Cover with a clean kitchen towel to protect from dust, and allow to drip for at least 4 hours or preferably overnight in the refrigerator. Do not squeeze the bag – this ensures crystal-clear jelly. You should get approximately 3 cups of strained juice.
- Measure the juice: Pour the strained juice into a liquid measuring cup to confirm the yield. You’ll need exactly 3 cups for the recipe. If slightly short, add water; if extra, reserve for another use.
- Prepare for cooking: Before cooking the jelly, place 2-3 small plates in the freezer for testing the gel set later. If processing for shelf stability, fill your water bath canner with water and begin heating to a boil.
- Cook the jelly: Pour the measured juice into a clean, wide, heavy-bottomed pot. Add sugar, lemon juice, and salt. Stir over low heat until sugar completely dissolves. Increase heat to medium-high and bring to a full rolling boil that cannot be stirred down. Boil vigorously, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching, until the mixture reaches 220°F (104°C) on a candy thermometer. This typically takes 10-15 minutes.
- Test the set: To confirm setting point, place a teaspoon of hot jelly on a chilled plate and return to freezer for 1 minute. Push edge of jelly with your finger – if it wrinkles and doesn’t immediately flow back, it’s ready. If not, continue cooking for 2-minute intervals, testing after each.
- Skim and fill jars: Remove from heat. Skim off any foam with a metal spoon. Ladle hot jelly into prepared hot jars, leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Wipe rims with dampened clean paper towel to remove any residue. Center lids on jars and apply bands, tightening just until fingertip-tight.
- Process (optional but recommended): Place filled jars in water bath canner with simmering water. Ensure jars are covered by at least 1 inch of water. Bring to a full rolling boil, cover, and process for 10 minutes (adjust for altitude if necessary). Turn off heat, remove canner lid, and let jars sit for 5 minutes before removing to a towel-lined surface.
- Cool and store: Allow jars to cool undisturbed for 12-24 hours. Check seals – buttons should be depressed and not flex when pressed. Store sealed jars in a cool, dark place for up to 1 year. Refrigerate any unsealed jars and use within 3 weeks.
- Enjoy the set jelly: For the fullest flavor development, wait at least 24 hours before opening your first jar. The jelly is beautiful on buttered toast, scones, or paired with sharp cheeses.
Vraiment intéressant pour savoir comment faire des tiroirs.
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Ingredients
- Flour - 700g
- Water - 500ml
- Salt - 25g
- Olive Oil - 30g
- Active Dry Yeast - 1 tsp
Instructions
- Mix the yeast in the water and add half of the flour, mix until it reaches a creamy consistency.
- Add the remaining flour, knead till absorbed.
- Add the salt, knead till absorbed.
- Add the oil, knead till absorbed and let rest covered for 10 minutes.
- Fold the dough on itself for 3 times every hour and then place on and olive oiled baking sheet.
- Press down with fingers and let it rise another 30m.
- Press down with your fingers again.
- Add a solution of water and oil on the focaccia and some flaky salt.
- Bake at 450F for 16-18m and enjoy!
Très bon !
J'ai du ajuster le temps de cuisson car elle était vraiment trop blanche au bout des 18 minutes. Je pense que je l'ai mise presque 30 minutes pour avoir une belle coloration.
Ingredients
- 280g bread flour
- 33g sugar
- 5g salt
- 30g soft unsalted butter (dough)
- 4g dry instant yeast
- 15g eggs
- 145g milk
- 125g unsalted butter (roll-in)
Instructions
- Make the dough, chill in the fridge overnight.
- Laminate with 1 double and 1 single fold, roll into rectangle with sides 8.6x6.7 inches/22x17cm.
- Divide into 8 pieces, stack them, laminate, and roll.
- Bake at 375F for 22-25 min.
Ingredients
Sweet stiff starter
- 30g starter
- 90g bread flour
- 40g water
- 15g sugar
dough
- 230g bread flour
- 20g sugar
- 4g salt
- 1 egg (55g)
- 110g milk
- 20g butter
Cocoa paste
- 10g dark cocoa powder
- 15g water
Instructions
- Prepare sweet stiff starter and use when it triples, about 7-8hr at 27-28C.
- Mix everything except butter till dough comes together and is strong.
- Add butter gradually and knead until fully incorporated and dough achieves window pane.
- Split dough into two equally
- Add the cocoa paste to one of the dough and mix to combine
- Rest the dough for 15mins
- Roll out the two dough and stack one on top of another with 1/3 offset
- Make a single fold and chill in fridge for 15mins
- Roll out the dough into rectangle
- Roll up from one end to another (like rolling Swiss roll)
- Score the dough and place into greased tin (20x10x10cm)
- Proof 3.5-4hr at 28C or until dough fills 90% if the tin
- Egg wash (optional)
- Bake at 180C for 40-45mins
These fluffy sweet potato buns are the perfect vehicle for any type of burger or sandwich! They are incredibly easy to make and stay soft for days. Recipe makes 6x4.5” burger buns best for 8oz burger patties.
Ingredients
- 450g bread flour
- 120g whole milk
- 160g mashed sweet potato
- 25g granulated sugar
- 9g kosher salt
- 7g instant yeast
- 2 large eggs
- 60g unsalted butter
Instructions
- Cook a small-medium sized sweet potato until it can easily be pierced by a fork. Let cool, then measure out 160g and mash until smooth
- To the bowl of a stand mixer, add the mashed sweet potato along with all other dough ingredients except for the butter. Using the dough hook attachment, mix until the dough comes together. Then add the butter a few pieces at a time and knead until smooth
- Shape the dough into a ball, place into a bowl, cover, and let rise for 1-2hrs or until doubled in size
- Divide the dough into 6 equal sections and shape them into balls.Then gently flatten (either using your hands or a rolling pin) so they are about 4-4.5” in diameter
- Cover and let rise for ~30mins-1hr or until the dough has grown in size and fills up the ring molds
- Preheat the oven to 350F, brush the top with egg wash, sprinkle with sesame seeds (optional), and bake for 22-26mins or until deeply golden brown
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Base Macaronnade Amandes & Noisettes
Ingrédients
- 80 g de blancs d'oeufs (= 2 gros blancs)
- 50 g de sucre semoule
- 60 g de sucre glace
- 40 g de poudre d'amandes
- 30 g de poudre de noisettes
- quelques noisettes hachées
Instructions
- Préchauffer le four à 200°
- Poser le cercle à entremets (24cm de Ø) sur une plaque à pâtisseries recouverte d'une feuille de papier cuisson.
- Monter les blancs d'oeufs en neige et les serrer avec le sucre semoule.
- Dans un saladier, mélanger le sucre glace avec les poudres d'amandes et de noisettes. Ajouter la meringue et mélanger délicatement à l'aide d'une maryse pour ne pas la faire retomber.
- Verser l'appareil dans le cercle à entremets et bien l'égaliser à l'aide d'une spatule. Saupoudrer de noisettes hachées.
- Cuire 10 min à 200°
- Retirer du four et laisser tiédir sans toucher.
- Une fois le biscuit refroidi, le décoller délicatement du cercle et le réserver dans un récipient hermétique pour éviter qu'il ne dessèche.
Fondant aux Pommes poêlées
Ingrédients
- 1 kg de pommes
- 50g de cassonade
- 1 sachet de sucre vanillé
- 2 cuillères à soupe de Calvados
- 40g de beurre ½ sel
- 3 œufs
- 6cL de crème liquide
- 1 cuillère à soupe de fécule
Instructions
- Baisser le four à 180°
- Éplucher et couper en morceaux les pommes (sucrées, acidulées et croquantes: j'ai utilisé des Melroses).
- Les faire caraméliser avec la cassonade, le sucre vanillé et le Calvados.
- Ajouter alors le beurre mou et coupé en parcelles.
- Couvrir et laisser cuire 15 à 20 min.
- Découvrir et laisser refroidir.
- Dans un saladier, mélanger les œufs entiers avec la crème, 2 cuillères à soupe du jus de cuisson des pommes et la fécule.
- Égoutter les pommes et les répartir dans le moule à génoise (22cm de Ø), recouvrir de l'appareil.
- Cuire 40 min à 180°.
- Laisser tiédir et démouler délicatement. Réserver sur une grille et au frais.
Sablé Breton
Ingrédients
- 60g de sucre semoule
- 30g de jaunes d’œuf (= 2 jaunes d'oeufs)
- 70g de beurre ½ sel
- 95g de farine
- 4g de levure chimique
Instructions
- Blanchir les jaunes avec le sucre au fouet et incorporer le beurre très mou.
- Ajouter la farine tamisée avec la levure chimique en mélangeant le moins possible, on obtient une pâte assez collante.
- Entreposer 30 min au réfrigérateur, la pâte va se raffermir et sera ainsi plus facile à étaler.
- Abaisser la pâte au centre du cercle (20cm de Ø).
- Cuire 25 min à 180°, le sablé doit rester blond.
- Laisser refroidir.
Mousse au Caramel & copeaux de chocolat
Ingrédients
- 100g de sucre en poudre
- 20g de beurre salé
- 8g de gélatine en poudre (= 4 feuilles)
- 20 + 40 cL de crème fleurette
- 50g de copeaux de chocolat noir
Instructions
- Ramollir la gélatine dans un grand volume d’eau froide.
- Mettre le sucre dans la casserole et le laisser cuire "à sec" en caramel en remuant de temps en temps pour éviter qu'il ne brûle.
- Le décuire avec le beurre coupé en parcelles et les 20 cl de crème. Remuer, incorporer la gélatine ramollie et essorée et laisser chauffer quelques minutes encore sans cesser de remuer.
- Laisser tiédir.
- Fouetter les 40 cl de crème en chantilly pas trop ferme, juste de quoi obtenir un bec souple.
- Incorporer 2 c à s de crème fouettée à la sauce caramel et remuer sans précaution pour détendre l'appareil. Ajouter le restant de la crème fouettée et l’incorporer cette fois-ci délicatement à l’aide d’une spatule.
- Ajouter finalement les copeaux de chocolat.
Montage
- Positionner le cercle à entremets sur un plat de service.
- Placer en 1er la base macaronnade aux amandes & noisettes, recouvrir du fondant aux pommes poêlées et finalement du sablé breton.
- Couler la mousse au caramel & copeaux de chocolat.
- Lisser et réserver au frais 4 à 5 heures.
- Décercler le plus délicatement possible et décorer (fils de caramel & disques de chocolat noir).
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- 2 cups of flours (white wings all purpose flour)
- A pinch of salt (local brand)
- ½ tablespoon of baking soda (local brand)
- 1½ tablespoon of olive oil (Colavita extra virgin olive oil)
- ¾ cups of warm water
Instructions
- Pour dry ingredients into the bowl.
- Stir them evenly with a spoon for around 30 seconds
- Use the same spoon add olive oil
- Use the same cup for adding 3/4 cup of water.
- Stir the mixture lightly with the spoon till it looks like breadcrumbs.
- Knead the dough to a ball
- Put in the remaining bit as you fold the dough.
- Wet your hands and rub the surface gently.
- Set it in the bowl for around 15 mins at room temperature.
- Divide the dough to 6 equally sized balls.
- Pour extra flour on the top left hand corner of the board.
- Dust your board, roller and hands with flour.
- Knead the dough slightly flat.
- Put it on the board.
- Roll it towards and away from you.
- Dust a bit of flour then flip the dough.
- Turn it 90 degrees so you always roll along the shorter side.
- Keep doing that till you reach the desired thickness
- Get your pan over the high heat, no oil required.
- Put your palm on top, If you feel hot air over, turn it to mid strength.
- Lay the rolled dough on the pan flat.
- Flip when you see small bubbles (within a minute usually)
- Take the tortilla out, put in a dish.
Facile et rapide à faire. Il faut que j'améliore ma méthode de mise en forme. Mes tortillas étaient un peu trop épaisses. Par contre, c'est nettement mieux que ce qu'on trouve à l'épicerie du point de vue des ingrédients.
Plan de préparation pour le Mont Blanc
Chaque année, des milliers de personnes tentent cette ascension du Mont Blanc technique pour atteindre les 4810 mètres d’altitude. Gravir le sommet de l’Europe est un rêve pour nombreux d’entre nous.
Mais le Mont Blanc est surtout un objectif sportif exigeant qui nécessite d’une préparation sérieuse.
En effet, ce n’est pas une course facile, et où l’on se doit d’être endurant et bien acclimaté.
La météo est un facteur qui influe beaucoup sur la course. Les températures y sont négatives, et lorsque le vent et la neige s’invitent, la course prend une toute autre dimension.
Nous vous avons donc préparé un plan de préparation sur 9 semaines afin d’arriver en forme pour réaliser ce sommet !
La préparation physique
Faire le Mont Blanc implique d’être endurant (pour encaisser les 8/10 heures de marche qui vous attendent) et d’avoir un bon cardio.
Il vous faudra donc au minimum, une fois par semaine, courir ou faire 2 heures de vélo.
Vous pouvez reposer sur ce plan :
Semaine 1
Course à pied : 30' footing
Marche (optionnelle) : 30' marche active
Course à pied : Alternance course à pied / marche -- 10' de marche (accélérer progressivement) suivi de 6 fois 2' de course entrecoupée par 1' de marche de récupération
Semaine 2
Vélo (au choix) : 1h30 de vélo de route ou 45' VTT
Course à pied : 30' footing
Randonnée : Randonnée si possible, sinon footing d'1h
Semaine 3
Marche (optionnelle) : 30'
Vélo : 1h vélo de route
Course à pied : 1h de footing dont 5x (1' plus soutenue + 1' allure modérée)
Semaine 4
Marche : 15'
Course à pied : 1h de footing
Randonnée : Randonnée avec nuit en altitude si possible (nuit en refuge aux alentours de 2000/2500 mètres) ou footing de 2h30
Semaine 5
Vélo : 2h30 route et 1h45 VTT
Course à pied : footing 20' + 2x7 accélérations en côte pendant 1' (récupérer le temps de la descente) et 2' de repos.
Randonnée : Randonnée si possible sinon footing d'1h30
Semaine 6
Course à pied : footing 1h
Vélo : 3h route et 2h VTT
Course à pied : Échauffement 20' suivi de 3x5' plus soutenu (récupération 2' entre chaque 5') suivi de retour au calme 10'
Semaine 7
Vélo : 1h de route
Course à pied : 1h de footing
Randonnée : Randonnée si possible sinon footing d'1h30
Semaine 8
Marche : 30'
Course à pied : Footing 20'
Semaine 9
Semaine d'acclimatation
Semaine 10
Ascension du Mont Blanc
Attention ! Ne vous surentrainez pas, l’idée n’est pas d’épuiser votre corps.
Vous pouvez envisager entre deux et trois entraînements par semaine mais il faut y aller par paliers : si vous n’avez pas l’habitude de faire plus d’une séance de sport par semaine, ne passez pas directement à trois entraînements par semaine.
Ne négligez pas le renforcement musculaire. Vos muscles vont être mis à rude épreuve !
Vous pouvez faire, 30 minutes par semaine, des séries d’exercice comme la chaise contre un mur, des fentes, des squats. Par exemple, vous pouvez faire des séries de 6x20” (récupération : 10 secondes entre).
L’acclimatation
Il ne faut surtout pas négliger l’acclimatation. Même avec une super préparation physique, si votre corps n’est pas habitué à l’altitude, le Mont Blanc pourrait être difficile à atteindre.
La réaction à l’attitude est très aléatoire, et imprévisible.
Le Mal Aigu des Montagnes (MAM) peut survenir avec des symptômes de vertige et de grande fatigue. Cela pourrait vous contraindre à faire demi-tour et renoncer au sommet.
Il est donc important, si possible, pendant votre préparation, de faire des randonnées en altitude (et si vous pouvez, avec des nuits en refuge aux alentours des 2000-2500 mètres d’altitude).
Dans tous les cas, il est très important de faire plusieurs courses d’acclimatation la semaine précédant l’ascension. Le Bureau des Guides d’Annecy vous propose des stages d’acclimatation sur 5 jours avec l’ascension du Mont Blanc sur les derniers jours :
La récupération
Une bonne préparation passe par une bonne récupération. Beaucoup d’idées fausses reposent sur le fait qu’il faut en faire beaucoup pour être au top de sa forme. FAUX !
Les muscles ont besoin de se régénérer et il est important de bien récupérer après votre séance. Si vous avez fait une séance la veille, l’idéal est de vous laisser un jour de repos (pas de séance), mais où vous pouvez privilégier la marche pour une récupération active. Par exemple, prenez les escaliers plutôt que l’ascenseur. Sans faire de séances de sport, vous aurez quand même bougé dans la journée et vous aurez donc évacué les toxines présentes dans votre corps.
Les clés de la récupération :
- Le sommeil
- L’hydratation
- Les étirements
- Une bonne alimentation (afin d’apporter à votre organisme les nutriments qu’il a perdu pendant l’effort : glucides, protéines, lipides et tout autres minéraux…)
L’alimentation et l’hydratation
L’alimentation et l’hydratation ont un rôle important dans votre objectif, qu’il s’agisse de pendant la préparation ou du jour J.
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QUELQUES JOURS AVANT L’ASCENSION :
Avant l’effort, privilégiez les sucres lents (riz, pâtes, pommes de terre, céréales…). -
PENDANT LE JOUR J :
Il est important de se ravitailler pendant l’ascension pour éviter les coups de mou.
Pendant, prenez des sucres rapides présents dans des pâtes d’amandes, de fruits, de barres de céréales, de compotes à boire pour les efforts.
S’hydrater ! Une déshydratation de 2% génère une baisse de performance physique de 20%
L’effort long que vous allez fournir nécessite d’avoir assez d’apports pour tenir. Il est nécessaire de s’hydrater très régulièrement, avec si possible une boisson isotonique (vous pouvez en trouver chez les marques Aptonia de Decathlon, Isostar…).
En effet, une eau plate ne vous apporte pas les ressources (vitamines, minéraux) perdues au long de votre effort.
- TOUT AU LONG DE VOTRE PREPARATION :
Il est important pendant votre préparation d’alimenter votre corps en lipides, qui sont des véritables ressources pour les efforts longs. Il s’agit de graisses animales (dont il ne faut pas abuser) et végétales (huile d’olive et de tournesol, fruits secs…).
Il est également important de nourrir vos muscles grâce aux protéines, présentes dans les viandes blanches, le poisson, les oeufs, le fromage etc…
La préparation mentale
« Quand la tête va, tout va ! »
Pour atteindre un tel objectif, vous pouvez également travailler sur votre mental. Cette course est loin d’être facile et il faut se préparer à vivre des instants de cette belle aventure plus difficiles et épuisants, voire gérer des conditions imprévues.
Les moments plus difficiles peuvent engendrer du stress. Or, le stress crée des tensions musculaires et est très énergivore. Il est donc important d’apprendre à maîtriser ses émotions, son stress et d’apprendre à améliorer sa concentration.
« Je ne peux pas », « Je n’y arriverais pas », « Je n’en peux plus », « C’est trop dur ».
Le corps ressent ce que l’esprit pense. Ce dialogue interne négatif entraîne un état physique de plus en plus négatif. Il faut donc savoir prendre conscience de ses pensées négatives pour les transformer en pensées positives.
Faire des exercices de visualisation :
- Se placer dans un état d’esprit positif et de confiance en vous.
- Visualiser le fait que vous allez faire Mont Blanc : cela paraît peut-être bête, mais visualiser un évènement vous permet de l’encrer dans votre esprit et votre concentration sera davantage présente.
- Avoir des situations de référence dans des situations plus complexes (comment dans le passé, en moment de difficulté, j’ai géré mon stress et réussi à passer ce cap ?) et modifier son monologue interne négatif (« Je n’en peux plus », « Ce n’est pas possible ») en positif (« Je peux y arriver »).
Il est nécéssaire d’apprendre à se connaître afin d’appréhender ses faiblesses, difficultés pour pouvoir anticiper ses réactions le jour J.
Et surtout, ayez confiance en vous : sentez-vous prêt, évitez de ressentir des craintes.
Une dernière chose.. Assurez-vous à la veille de votre départ d’avoir fait un check sur tout votre matériel pour ne pas avoir de stress de dernières minutes.
Alors, bonne préparation, et rendez-vous sur le toit de l’Europe !