Apple Cherry Pie ~ French Mother’s Day

❤ Today is French Mother’s Day aka “La fête des mamans”. Also, when fresh fruit are in season there is nothing like making your own pie filling. So here is a yummy recipe with cherries from my garden and ‘I heart U’ pie crust. Sending love to all the mummies up there ! ❤

 

Ingredients:

• 1lb cherries, pitted
• 2 apples, pilled, cored and cut into fairly small pieces
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 egg wash (to brush the crust)
• 2 pie dough*

Utensils: 

• parchment paper
• 9-inch dish pie plate
• cookie cutter in heart shape

For a homemade dough:

• 3 1/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1 + 3/4 sticks of butter, softened
• 13 tablespoons water
• 1 pinch of salt

Method:

1 . For the dough:  Combine flour and salt in a medium bowl. Cut in the softened butter with your pastry blender (or fork if you don’t have one) until mixture looks like crumbs. Stir in enough water just until flour is moistened. Divide the dough in half and shape each into two balls. Wrap each in plastic food wrap and refrigerate for at least 25 minutes.

2 . In a medium bowl, combine the sugar, apples and cherries and  gently toss until well coated.

3 . Preheat oven to 400F. Place parchment paper at the bottom of your 9-inch deep dish pie.

 

4 . Roll out one disk of dough on lightly floured surface into 12-inch circle. Place dough into  9-inch deep dish pie plate and refrigerate.

5 . Once the second crust is rolled out on a floured surface, lightly pressed with an inverted pie plate (of about the same size) onto its surface to see where the edges of the crust are going to be.

6 . Then, cut out alternating rows of hearts with the cookie cutter. Make sure to save the cut-out heart pieces. They will be going along the edge of the crust.

7 . Take the first crust out of the refrigerator. Add the filling of apples and cherries.

8 . Lift the second crust pie and slide it off the top. You can gently pick it up and readjust. Line the heart around the edge, and brush the whole surface with the egg wash.

9 . Bake for 45 minutes. Cool pie at least 20 minutes before serving

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Homemade Falafels

Today’s recipe is homemade falafels. The traditional recipe uses dry chickpeas. If you wanted to make falafels today, you would have needed to soak the chickpeas  overnight. Umm not great. The things is yesterday I felt like doing falafels for dinner with the fam since we had some tatziki and blinis in our fridge. So yes it won’t be the traditional recipe as I used canned chickpeas but it was still delicious !

For this recipe you will need a lot of herbs, cilantro and parsley – fresher your herbs, taster the falafel will be. I have fresh parsley and cilantro in my garden (thanks dad) and so it was even more exciting to make this recipe !

Bon appetit !
Mathilde xx

Ingredients:

• 1 15oz can garbanzo beans
• juice of half a lemon
• 1 cup of chopped parsley
• 1/2 cup of chopped cilantro
• 1 teaspoon red pepper powder
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 small onion
• 2 garlic gloves
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• canola oil, for frying

Method:

1 . Drain the garbanzo beans from the water and dry them completely.

2 . Transfer the garbanzo beans along with the parsley, cilantro, onion, garlic, cumin, salt, baking powder and lemon juice to a food processor. Process the mixture just until the ingredients are minced but not pureed – You still want it to have tiny chunks of chickpeas running through your mixture.

3 . Transfer the falafel mixture to a bowl and add the flour. Squeeze the falafel mixture into 1.5-inch balls.

4 . Heat an inch of oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat. When the oil is ready, place the falafel balls into the oil. Let it cook for about 2-3 minutes on each side (until golden brown).

5 . Reserve in a bowl cover of paper towel to absorb the extra oil.

 

Olive and Bacon Savory Cake

Hey guys,

I am back with this new summery recipe. For starters or appetizers,  there is nothing like a savory cake! This recipe is super easy but really good !

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 1 pinch of salt
• ground pepper
• 1/3 cup canola oil
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 cup Parmesan cheese or Gruyere
• 2 cup diced bacon or diced ham
• 12 ounces can pitted green olives, drained

Method:

1 . Preheat oven to 400°F. In a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder, eggs, salt, pepper and canola oil.

2 . Mix well, then add milk, grated cheese, green olives and bacon.

3 . Cover a cake pan with parchment paper and pour in the mixture.

4 .   Bake for about 45 minutes. Let cool for 15 minutes, and serve warm or cold.

Pour la version française, c’est par ici