Mini Crustless Mixed Vegetable Quiche

Quiche is a well known French dish, an excellent street food to enjoy warm when the weather is chilled. Quiche can be prepared very much well at home, as this dish calls for simple ingredients. Here in Paris, storebought quiche have pork in them, hence i dont grab them from stores as they are seriously very easy to bake out with any meats or vegetables of our choice. Though i have already posted varieties of quiche in my blog, so many variations do exists. From crust to crustless, quiche can be baked within few minutes at home. Even a kid can bake out some fabulous quiche with an adult's help.

Galette de Sarrasin/French Eggfree Buckwheat Crepes

Do you know buckwheat crepes are quite popular in Brittany region of France?. You might have heard lot about the popular Crepes served either with sugar, jam,nutella or sometimes flambée but savoury crepes do exists in French cuisine. Traditionally called as Galette de Sarassin, this thin crepes or pancakes are seriously very hearty and gluten free. Just milk, oil, salt, all purpose flour and buckwheat flour is quite enough to dish out this delicious crepes. Eggs are used in this crepes, but i skipped it. Buckwheat crepes are easily made at home as much as like usual crepes. These crepes are usually served as savory one either with ham, cheese or egg with cheese in it. If you are visiting Brittany region, you will definitely cross many roadside vendors and popular restuarants serves these savory crepes even late in nite.

Vegan Pissaladière/Vegan French Onion Pizza

Pissaladière is a French style of pizza which have its origin from Nice in Southern France. The dough used usually for making this dish is a bread doughwhich is rolled bit thicker than the classic pizza Margherita. And the topping consists of caramelised onions, black olives and anchoives. It is served as an appetizer and its traditionally cooked and sold early each morning around Nice. Pissaladière is a French style Onion pizza which can be enjoyed as a main dish or an appetizer depending upon how they are served. The main ingredient for preparing this aromatic pissaladiére is slow cooked onions, gently fried until they are soft, sweet and caramelized. Traditional Niçoise Pissaladière calls for anchovies,and my today's post is a Vegan Pissaladière. Vegan Pissaladière is definitely a fabulous treat for vegan lovers.

Soupe de Lentilles/French Vegan Lentils Soup

Soup is quite a comforting meal for me and most of our dinner calls for soups and salads. Soup will definitely please your hungry tummies easily. I just love to dish out some quick soups with loads of vegetables and legumes. One of our family favourite is always French lentils soup. Usually prepared with le Puy lentils, these gluten free and vegan soup will definitely makes your tummy happy. Definitely a satisfying bowl of this soup  is totally hearty and healthy. Rich in protein, this vegan bowl of soup is quite a filling soup if you are in diet. Extremely easy, this soup can be prepared even in advance if you feel lazy to cook after your hectic day. Indian pressure cooker works awesome to dish out this soup. However preparing this soup in a large pot also works prefectly if you want to make this soup in traditional way.

Apple & Chocolate Chips Cream Tart

Tart is a open top baked dish prepared with a pastry base. The pastry base usually used for making a tart is always shortcrust pastry and the filling may be sweet or savory. But somehow modern versions of tarts do exists with biscuits, fruit-based or sometimes with custard. Most known tarts include Treacle tart, meringue tart, tarte tatin and bakewall tart. However some easy versions of tarts do exists, yes simple jam tarts are quite easy to bake and to enjoy if you have short crust pastry sitting in your fridge. Tart is one of our favourite dessert after a meal, especially when tart is prepared with fruits.

Vegetable Cheese Galette

Galette, its a French name for round pastries, the crust of the galette can be either puff pastry sheet or else the buttery pie crust. Usually prepared with sweet filling, Galette can be prepared with a savory filling as well. Galette calls for simple pie crust and the crust can be prepared very much easily with simple ingredients. I usually prepare this pie crust at home, but this time i went with store bought pie crust as a packet of the pie crust was sitting in my fridge. Trust me this galette is super easy to bake, filled with lovely medley of colourful vegetables, this fantastic galette is definitely a healthy dish to fill some hungry tummies.

Pumpkin & Sun Dried Tomatoes Pain D'epi/Pumpkin Wheat Stalk Bread with Sun-dried Tomatoes

Pain d'épi is known as the wheat stalk bread which calls for an impressive twist on the classic French baguette. Epi de Blé is the name given to the bread which looks like wheat stalk or the ears of wheat. This bread is often baked during special holidays and celebrations, this bread calls for an easy preparation and sounds almost like French baguette. Apart from cutting the dough to resemble as much as like wheat stalk, this bread calls for easy ingredients. Since its fall season here, pumpkins are showing their head in farmer's market. Obviously i want to try this famous French bread with those fall fruit.Pain d'epi is definitely a piece of art to shape and bake at home.

Custard Powder Yogurt Cake

Yogurt cake is a popular French sponge cake i usually bake at home with usual ingredients. This cake is a fantastic spongy cake, which suits absolutely prefect for a teatime snacks. And this cake is very easy to prepare as its needs a simple yogurt pot. Yes a storebought yogurt pot is quite enough to measure this cake. Its almost like our Indian 7 cup cake, a traditional sweets we make during Diwali festival. And this cake is completely butter free, oil and yogurt replace very well butter in this cake. I have baked couple of yogurt cake with different variations and here comes an another trial. Yes my today's post is definitely a new try for me as i included vanilla flavored custard powder in this yogurt cake.

Creamy Potato Gratin

My kids are great fan of gratins, obviously gratins have their important place in our weekly menu. Since they love gratins with any vegetables, i do quite often with mixed veggies, but last week my younger one asked me for his favourite potato gratin with loads of cheese.Hence i prepared this alluring creamy potato gratin for our dinner. This gratin makes a super filling meal, when served with a grilled meat or grilled fish, you can have a wholesome and complete lunch or dinner. But i served mine with a simple salad and we had a super filling dinner.