Winter Salad with a Goat Cheese Mousse

Recipe 3/120

Sorry it's been a week or so, I swear I have made multiple recipes I just haven't had the resources to post them on the old blog since I got rid of my phone like a grandma. My grandma side has been showing more than usual the past couple weeks. I'm teaching myself to crochet right now & I've spent so much unnecessary time in Michaels. But this is a good thing because the more time I spend in Michaels the more I realize I don't NEED most of the things I'm carrying.

I need to make the liver salad but once I do I am done with salads!! It's been an amazing journey through the salad section & I feel like a better person now because of it. Salad has changed my life for the better. We'll...Rachel Khoo's version of salad.

Rachel Khoo is a genius because she saved the best salad for last. It's called salade d'hiver avec une mousse au fromage de chèvre (winter salad with a goats cheese mousse) I could literally eat this salad for a year & be completely okay with it. The cheese is a homemade mousse & the carrots & apples are roasted in the oven which goes amazing with the apple cider dressing. Most of her salads are cooked which is probably why I suddenly love salad.

-Priscilla

Warm Potato & Apple Salad

Recipe 2/120
Today I made salade tiède de pommes de terre et pommes avec des miettes de boudin noir (warm potato & apple salad with blood-sausage crumbs). I ran into another problem today because someone ate my sausage... That's what happens when you live in a household that lives on grass. So I replaced the sausage with ground turkey.
If you know me then you know that I've been a freak about food since the age of 13. I went from reading the nutritional facts on everything to living a paleo lifestyle to living a vegan lifestyle to being a raw vegan. Yeah. That's fruits, veggies, nuts & seeds & you can't cook any of it. There were times that I craved cooked cabbage but I wouldn't eat it because the cooking process removed nutrients. Soo completing this challenge will be a struggle for me, but a delicious struggle nonetheless.
This recipe was my first challenge considering I hadn't consumed a potato in years. But I sat down & I ate the dang potato & to be honest, I enjoyed the dang potato...& the other elements involved with it.

-Priscilla

Puy Lentil Salad

Recipe 1/120
People, I was tremendously blessed today (no offense to Rachel Khoo). I'm completing this challenge beginning to end & to my luck, the first recipe was salade de figures et firs de volailles (fig & chicken liver salad). I was hesitant but in honor of the challenge, I was going to make it & try to enjoy it. I spent some lovely time at the Findlay Market with Portia getting to know the butchers & praise the Lord, everyone was out of chicken liver!!! Apparently some guy came & bought out all of the chicken liver from each stand. What are the odds? So I decided to make the next recipe (because I had to honor the challenge) & come back in a few days for the chicken liver...

Sidenote, there is an exhibit right now across from Findlay Market called "Eggs" & it's definitely worth checking out. Me & Portia both bought an egg & each egg had a task inside that we have to complete. For example, hers was "order a refill for someone," & mine was "ask a kid to draw a masterpiece for you to hang on your fridge." I'm trying to show Portia that Cincinnati is a good place because she is a little scared. So this was one of those moments of pride in my community. 

Back to the subject, I ended up making the second recipe which is lentilles du puy avec un fromage de chèure, betteraues et use vinaigrette d'aneth (Puy lentil salad with goat's cheese, beets, & a dill vinaigrette). This sounds better than the chicken liver but still doesn't sound delicious. Once I tasted it I immediately felt bad for doubting Rachel Khoo. It was radical. Now I'm a little excited for chicken liver salad...emphasis on little.

-Priscilla

Little Paris Kitchen by Rachel Khoo

Hey guys!
I recently went down to Franklin, Tennessee to spend time with family & get some much needed shopping done. While we were down there we visited Gray's on Main which is my all time favorite restaurant (that I have been to). I ordered the scallops which came on 3 separate small sweet potato pancakes & were drizzled with a raspberry glaze. I was SOO inspired. I'm working on recreating the dish & I'll let you know when I think it's good enough to share.

We spent some time in Nashville & I got an iced coffee at the Frothy Monkey which was the most radical place I have ever been. Then we went to Whites Mercantile which was so cute. I was going crazy over everything I couldn't afford. I came across this cookbook & once again, I'm inspired. I'm making it a goal of mine to cook through the cookbook. 120 recipes. Classic French Dishes. Beginning to end. & I'll blog about it in the process. Maybe I should also blog my weight fluctuating.
Or not.

I'm starting tonight so wish me luck. (:

-Priscilla