Here is a special kind of parsley which is called "Giant Parsley" It comes from Italia !

PARSLEY

How can you cultivate parsley plants ?

Parsley is an aromatic plant which is biennial. It continues to grow during 2 years. Therefore, it takes 2 years to have seeds from the plant.

You have 2 ways to cultivate parsley

- You can plant it directly in the soil in March
- You can also plant it in a little jar in January

It is really simple to cultivate it. To have parsley during all the year, follow the instruction :
On January, plant the parsley in a jar (about 8 cm of diameter) and water it regularly to humidify the soil. Eventually, be careful at the frost and to avoid it, insolate the vegetable.

The main diseases are the red-brown and mildew but if your parsley is diseased you should cut it and plant other plant because it’s more profitable. ; )

TOMATOES

Hothousing: tomatoes growing

With easy growth, tomatoes can’t be ignored in the kitchen garden or on your window.
Tomatoes just need a rich soil and high duration of sunshine period.

It’s easily grow on a jar, just a window box is quite enough for that.
Just on your balcony

Show: need few hot(keep from cold); and sunshine
Soil: fertile ground and drain

Sow? Too EASY

Sow tomatoes’ seed in the window box filled of soil mixed to mould,
Then put the all in your greenhouse.
When the first leaf appears, put each plant individually in the window box.
As it’s growing up don’t leave it untreated. Bring Supply of fertilizer .

Culture

To water regularly for a good growing of fruits.

Leave over than 10 cm between each plants,
Plan stakes (desinfected) of 1 meter of height, link with wire.and then you can tie tomatoes stem.

Leave water when fruit become red, to ensure better perfume.

Then enjoy the fruit of your garden!
Possibly use the following recipe.

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But, seriously, do you really think that we should kill an elephant and taste his hoof ?

Just for a BLOG ? LOL (= lot of laugh) ... !

However that may be, we decided to show you the best way to succeed in doing easy meals.

That is why, our choice has been arrested on that magnificent photo :

Well, bye bye the hoof and...welcome to the tasty GAS-PA-CHOOOOOO SHOOOOOWWWW ! ! ! (Wow...)

Indeed, today we are going to present you the GASPACHO RECIPE that will never go out of fashion !

Here are the INGREDIENTS for 8 persons : WE ARE HUNGRY !

- 1 cucumber

- 1 red pepper

- 1 green pepper

- 1 kg of tomatoes

- 4 cloves of garlic

- 1 onion

- bread without the croust

- 2 spoons of olive oil

- 1 spoon of vinegar

- salt

- pepper

- an half glass of white wine

PREPARATION

1- Cut the tomatoes in pieces. Do the same thing with the cucumber, the peppers (red and green), the garlic and the onion.

2- Add salt, pepper and olive oil. Once the preparation is mixed, it has to soak 2 hours in the fridge.

3- During this time, take another salad bowl and put all the bread without the croust, an half glass of white wine, 1,5 litre of water and some shallot. Mix all this combination.

4- After 2 hours, get out your preparation in the fridge and put it into a blender with the content of your salad bowl.

5- Adjust the seasonning as you want, stir and serve it iced.

ENJOY YOUR MEAL ..............................................

SMOOTHIE !

For the end of winter, we propose you an excellent concoction which it is called SMOOTHIE.

Ingredients for two glasses :

- two kiwis
- two yoghurts
- honey (two table spoons)
- parsley
- four ices
- milk

Preparation :

Firstly, peel and cut the kiwis in little pieces, place them in a blender with some leaves of parsley (rich in vitamin C), two table spoons of honey, two yoghurts, 20 centilitres of milk and four ices.

Secondly, mix all and now you have your fabulous smoothie !

SAVOUR IT !

LIVE COOKING !

Potatoes salad : LIVE COOKING !

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Have a look and try to do the same !

It is Christmas' time. Do you have any particular recipe ?

This is a typical French meal from the north.
Cheap but sophisticated !

The slipper of Maroilles with leeks

Ingredients

250g of leaf of brick
120g of Maroilles
100g of better
5 leeks
4 teaspoons of cumin
Pepper and salt

Preparation

Cut the roots of leeks and take off the first level of leaf.

Cut also the green leaf.

Cut finely the leeks and wash it.

After that you allow to simmer gently with 30g of better during 20 minutes.

During this time, in a bowl, dissolve the rest of better.

Take off the rind of maroilles and cut little pieces.

Preheat the oven (180°C)

When the leeks are meltings, take a leaf of brick and spread butter on it.

Then put one spoon of leeks in the left corner of the leaf and one piece of maroilles.

Now you can close the leaf as if it was a triangle.

When all your preparation is ready put it in the oven during 10 and 15 min. It has to be crispy.

MMMMmmmmmmmmhhhh

How do you cultivate leeks ?

There are different varieties of leeks. It depends on size, date of collect, temperature…
Generally, you plant it during spring and summer. You can collect it during winter.
You need to space the different young plant about 10 cm. The plants have to be watered often.
After 3 weeks, the plant can earth up.

What kind of problem can you meet ?

A war with worms can occur…. But no problem, you just have to put 2 or 3 peppercorns in the hole wherein you planted your leeks.
If your leeks are suffering from the rust, don’t worry. Use the “mancozèbe” which is an organic fungicide.

The Maroille in the north culture

The Maroille was created in the 7th century AD in Avesnois. People who come from the north are very attached to this cheese. The latter smells enormously. People are really proud of their cheese and proclaim it : maroille from the north is like beer for Germans.
North without Maroille is nothing. Indeed, with the movie “bienvenue chez les Ch’tis”, you can appreciate a man eating Maroille on a slice of bread soaked in a cup of coffee. Is it a stereotype ? Maybe...