Homemade pastry and pasta

Two easy recipes! One for the sweet tooth, and one for the healthy ones!

For the "petite tarte avec des fraises et crème fraîche au citron" (sorry, it sounds so much better in French) you will just need the puff pastry you want to use, depending on how many pieces you want to make. Cut the pastry into squares or whatever figure you want to make and make sure to cut the edges and "paste" them on to of the base pastry with a little bit of egg yolk. Once you have all the little pies ready, put them in the oven (220°C) for about 20 minutes.

While there are in the oven or cooling down you have enough time to make the whipped crème fraîche make sure it is well chilled, use a chilled metal bowl and beaters or whish and simply whisk or beat until soft peaks form and it attains a thickened yet lightened texture that allows you to dollop it nicely. You can add some powdered sugar, add the quantity that you like. You can add, just as I did, the lemon zest of one or two lemons to give it an extra fresh taste.

Just put it all together, adding on the top a sliced strawberry and you will hopefully enjoy this small pastry with a cup of tea or coffee!

This week I had the time to cook a very easy-to-make pasta dish with green beans and soy sauce. It is this easy to make:

While the pasta is being prepared, cook the beans until they are soft. Drain them and fry them with some soy sauce and garlic until they are crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. You can also just fry them without cooking, that is totally up to you! Once the soy sauce has been absorbed by the beans, add a complete egg and stir fry it (just like a scrambled egg). Add the cooked pasta, some philadelphia cheese and cream, to make it, well, creamy...if you are a sesame seed lover you can add some of those, fried or just raw, which will just give that extra taste.

Easy? I think so! 

I hope you enjoy this two very easy recipes!