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Pancake batter, a super simple recipe

Whether you are a child or an adult, a pancake party allows you to bring a festive touch to a breakfast, a snack or a dinner.
And to prepare a pancake batter, the basic ingredients are very simple: milk, eggs, flour and possibly sugar for pancakes for dessert.

Basic pancake batter recipe

Ingredients for pancakes for dessert for 5 people:

• 200 g of fine flour
• 50 cl milk
• 3 eggs
• 40 g melted beuure
• 40 g sugar
• if you have: a pinch of vanilla powder

Preparation in 15 minutes
1. Melt the butter (without cooking it).
2. In a small bowl, beat the eggs and mix with the sugar.
3. Heat the milk with the vanilla or just cool it if you don't have vanilla.
4. In a large bowl, pour the flour and gradually add, stirring in the center, in a well, the egg + sugar mixture.
5. Gradually add the milk and the melted butter to the whisk, taking care not to make lumps.

advice : Let your dough rest for about an hour, so that the flour starch mixes well and makes your pancakes very soft.

Quiche, an easy basic

Ingredients for 6-8 people

• 1 shortcrust pastry (see our recipe for homemade pie dough on video below)
• 200 g smoked bacon
• 4 eggs
• 25 cl milk
• 25 cl of fresh cream
• 1 pinch of nutmeg
• Butter
• salt pepper

Video for shortcrust pastry (the recipe in details here):

Video by Claire

Preparing your quiche in 15 min, cooking 30 min
1. Butter your pie pan or line it with baking paper. Darken your mold with the dough (to crumble, spread the dough). Set aside in the refrigerator.
2. Preheat your oven th. 8 (220 ° C).
3. In a large bowl, beat your eggs with the milk and the cream. Add the pinch of nutmeg. Pepper. Salt lightly (your bacon is already salted).
4. In a skillet, brown the bacon in a little butter. Then absorb the excess in paper towels.
5. Garnish your pan with the pie crust of bacon and pour the egg machine.
6. Cook at th.8 until the top takes a nice golden color, then lower to th.6 (180 ° C) for the rest of the time. In total, cooking for 30 min.

advice : Know that this recipe is that of our friends from Lorraine, who do not put cheese. But you can add a sachet of grated Gruyère or Comté cheese to your device.

To vary the pleasures, replace the bacon with other garnishes: sautéed leeks, Roquefort, ham, nuts, cooked chicken, broccoli …
Be careful, if you opt for tomato or zucchini, think that these ingredients will make water. It is therefore recommended to cook the bottom of the pie a little beforehand.

The omelet, the quick recipe when time is short

Perhaps you would say that nothing is simpler than an omelet, however, you can really pimp our basic omelet recipe (as for quiche): with sautéed potatoes like in Spain, with cheese, aromatic herbs, ham, mushrooms, sautéed peppers …

The advice of the late great chef Joël Robuchon to make an omelet:
> Count 3 eggs per person (yes! In any case, eggs are excellent sources of protein).
> Always use a wooden spatula. Especially if you want to make a rolled omelet.
> Pour the device from your omelet (beaten and seasoned eggs) when the butter in your frying pan: it must be seared. Then reduce the heat.
> Mr. Robuchon prefers to use a whisk, but there are "chapels" of supporters of the fork to prevent the eggs from rising too much.

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Potato and leek gratin, for a change from the Dauphinois

Ingredients for 4 people

• 8 medium firm potatoes, Charlotte type
• 200 g heavy cream
• 50 cl milk
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 pinch of nutmeg
• Butter, salt, pepper

Preparation about 25 min, cooking 50 min
1. Wash, peel and cut your potatoes into thin rings.
2. Preheat the oven to th.5 (150 ° C).
3. Cut the leeks into large rings, and wash them.
4. In a frying pan with a nice knob of butter, sauté your leek rings, salt, pepper, stir well then lower the heat and cook for another 5 min covered, making sure it doesn't stick.
5. In a large bowl, season the cream with a little nutmeg, salt, pepper.
6. Butter a gratin pan, arrange a layer of half the potatoes, then another layer of half the leeks, pour half of your cream, and repeat the operation with the rest.
7. Cook 45 to 50 minutes.

Advice :
> To prevent your gratin from drying out, place it in a dripping pan with water.
> You can replace the nutmeg with four-spice.
> To learn more about potato varieties, see our article

The top soft lemon cake our internet users love

Our forums are full of good ideas, and several lemon cake recipes coexist. Several recipes require ingredients that are not always available: icing sugar, Greek yogurt, shelled almonds … We therefore opted for the simplest recipe for lemon soft cake, which seems to be unanimous. That of Alpaulina, who has seen it on many blogs.

Ingredients for 6 to 8 parts

• 130 g sugar
• 120 g flour
• 80 g butter
• 4 eggs
• 2 lemons (2 zest and 2 juices)
• 1 sachet of baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• Optional: 1 tsp of baking soda

The preparation
1. Preheat your oven th. 6 (180 ° C).
2. Separate the whites from the egg yolks, set aside the whites. In a large bowl, beat the yolks with the sugar until the sugar melts and the mixture froths a bit.
3. Grate the zest and squeeze the lemons. Add to the sugar + eggs.
4. Melt the butter without cooking it.
5. In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt and possibly the bicarbonate. Dig a well and add the melted butter gradually without lumps.
6. Beat the egg whites and fold them gently with a spatula into the flour and butter mixture.
7. Butter and flour a cake pan, and pour the device.
8. Bake for 25/30 min.

advice : the original recipe indicated 20 min of cooking, but our internet user reports that it was not enough in his oven. So we recommend that you check the cooking with the tip of a knife if it comes out clean or not.

Prepare this cake with your children, and use a mold with a nice shape, like this one, which you can buy online without going out, 14.99 the set of three super pretty molds.