There seems to be a hole in my kitchen counter. But not in my heart. Today is Monsieur Titi and my 15th wedding anniversary. M. Titi reminded me of it at the beginning of the week. I can never remember the date unless I look inside my wedding band. We aren't doing anything special but I did make a dessert (recipe below).
The hole in my kitchen is because our stove-top induction table (table de cuisson induction) started shorting the kitchen out last weekend. Monsieur Titi spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to take the stovetop out so that we could get it repaired.
As these sort of stovetops are quite expensive (in France between 700 and 1000€), we decided to see if this one could be repaired first. It's gone off to the appliance doctor and we're waiting for his call with the estimate.
Now I'm trying to figure out main dishes to make using only the oven or our handy plancha. If you have a good casserole recipe, I'd love to have it. Sadly, most of the recipes I have for the oven are desserts. Here's another recipe for you to try out with all these wonderful fruit.
Clafouti aux Prunes (Plum clafouti)
This recipe can be done with just about any fruit. Choose the liqueur or alcohol that you use to marinate the fruit to compliment the flavor.
Ingredients:
750 grams of fruit (here plums -- mirabelle)
2-3 Tablespoons of alcohol or liqueur (I used a mirabell "goutte" meaning "drop" which is distilled fruit alcohol)
100 grams flour
A pinch of salt
4 eggs
150 grams sugar
75 grams butter
40 cl. milk
25 grams sugar for topping
Wash and pit the plums. Put into a bowl and stir in the alcohol. Let marinate for 2 hours or overnight.
Heat the oven to 180°C or 360°F. Melt 50 grams of butter and set aside. Use the rest of the butter for the pan. Sift the flour and salt together in a large bowl. Make a little indentation and put in the eggs. Mix thoroughly then add the melted butter and sugar. Mix again thoroughly. Add the milk in slowly, then fluff up the mixture using a wire whisk. The more air in the mixture, the better it will be.
Put the plums in the pan with any juice. Pour the mixture carfully over the fruit so as not to move the fruit around. Bake for 30 minutes, take out and sprinkly the sugar over the top. Return to oven for another 15 minutes. The clafouti will be very fluffy but will sink down quickly. Eat after it's cooled down.
35 comments:
Happy Anniversary to you and M. Titi! I'm noticing a definite theme with desserts lately- plums! You seem to have quite the supply. ;-) Hope the induction top can be repaired btw.
I hope you both have many more happy anniversaries...and that the hob conducts itself with more tact than to break down at anniversary time in future.
Happy Anniversary!!!
Thanks for the delicious Clafouti
Sorry to hear about the stove, but look at it this way? Perfect excuse to just eat dessert for every meal then!
Bonne chance! Hopefully they can fix it.
salut Dedene , ce plat doit être délicieux, je vais l'essayer.bonne soirée.
mon épouse te salut aussi j'ai oublier de l'écrire au précédent commentaire.
Congratulations. My 29th anniversary on Saturday but one of us will be in France and the other in the UK:-(
Appliances are very expensive here! Hope you can get it fixed. Diane
Hope your stove can be repaired. Meanwhile, cold soups like gazpacho and bbq'd food. Better yet, take yourselves out on the town for a few meals. Nothing makes you appreciate your own kitchen than "having" to eat out.
Happy Anniversary!
Merci' bien for the clafouti recipe.
Congratulations to you and M Titi on your Annniversary. Bless you both. I'm sorry to hear about your stove problems. Hope they're fixed quickly. And YUM to the Plum pie. Have a great weekend. Jo
Happy anniversary to you an M. Titi. Félicitations!
As for your stove, quelle domage! I hope it doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to get it back!
Happy Anniversary! 15 years is something.
And I can't believe stove tops are that expensive! Have you tried looking at a certain Swedish mega chain?
Happy Anniversary to the both of you! Your clafouti looks delicious! I have a lot of frozen cherries and guess that would work. good luck with your stovetop!
Joyeux anniversaire de mariage <<< I hope google was right, but just in case Happy Happy Anniversary ^_^ wishing u many more happy years.
As a kid my mum used to make Shepard's pie, or chicken casserole. You could also bake a lot of stuff, I normally cook my steak, fish etc in an oven.
Happy anniversary! I don't think in France people make as much fuss about it as they do in the US. But it is still nice to remember and do something special.
Joyeux anniversaire de mariage !
Dommage qu'on soit si loin, mon Chéri aurait pu t'avoir une plaque de cuisson avec un bon prix.
Mr Titi pourrait peut-ête t'en offrir une neuve pour cet anniversaire, non!
Miam le clafoutis au pruneaux. J'aime assez ceux à l'abricot, c'est bon aussi.
Habebi, thanks! Yup, it's plum season, but they aren't ripening like they should. I don't think I'll make jam though.
Fly, thanks so much! We got around the stove by doing baked potatoes and grilled duck.
Goddess, nice to hear from you. Glad you liked the receipe.
Crazy, We still haven't heard from the appliance doctor!
Simo, je vous remercie, toi et ta femme.
Diane, Happy Anniversary to you! A 29th is a real accomplishment.
Lakeviewer, Good idea going to restaurants. We are invited to dinner on Sunday.
Jo, thank you! As there's not much gluten in the clafouti, you could probably make one to enjoy.
Rob-bear, thanks, and me too. If the repairman wants more than 150€ we'll just buy a new one.
Megan, No, I didn't think about Ikea. I'll have a look. Which anniversary is coming up for you?
Pam, absolutely cherries would make a wonderful clafouti. Tell me how it turns out.
Chell, thanks and that was perfectly written. Fish, that's a good idea for the oven!
Nadege, I think that you're right about not really making a fuss here in France. We don't usually celebrate unless it's a milestone.
Claude, Merci! Je ne savais pas que ton cheri travaillait dans l'éléctromenager. Ca doit être très pratique!!
Très juste, un clafouti aux abricots serait super!
Translation of Claude's message:
Happy wedding anniversary! Too bad that we live so far apart, my man can get appliances for good prices.
Monsieur Titi could maybe give you a new one for this anniversary?
Yummy, the clafoutis aux pruneaux! I like clafoutis with apricots too.
I hope that you had a good anniversary celebration together :)
Yes, the heart matters a lot. If you were not happy,those years would have not flown by!I should know;I've seen 20 years of mariage leap by!
Hoping the the appliance Doc will fix the ailing stovetop.Yes those are costly!We have just a non induction one.
Happy weekend and see you soon!
Happy Anniversary Dedene.
I celebrated mine on the 18th of August. Looks like August is a good month for weddings.
Congratulations! 15 years is quite an accomplishment! Jean and I will celebrate the big #1 this fall. :)
Congrats.. Wish you many happy years together
Happy Anniversary!
And I got nothing for you as far as recipes ... I'm not the best cook!
Here's hoping the stovetop can be repaired!
I think this problem officially allows you to live off of desserts until the stove top is fixed :)
Happy Anniversary to you both! May there be many more to celebrate too!
Expensive things this induction hobs, mine broke this year (just a few months out of warranty as well!) and is was so expensive to get repaired that I didn't bother. Did you know that the repairs aren't guaranteed so if they go wrong again in a few months then you're snookered? It may be worth checking out whether your repairs would be guaranteed before accepting the devis!
A belated Happy Anniversary to you and I am sorry to be late. I'm trying to limit my online time and I'm drifting a bit with people's news.
I've got a very similar hob to this one in the French house. It's too high tech for its own good really - I'm sure mine is going the way of yours.
Happy anniversary. You can cook lots of quick dishes in the oven, like chicken fillet in foil with wine/herbs/mushrooms. Same with fish fillets. Hope induction hob repaired soon though. Must be difficult without for veg, rice etc. I do bake suitable vegetables in oven too, brushed with oil.
Plum dish sounds delish.
Happy Anniversary! I'm always in danger of forgetting mine... not that I don't know the wedding date, more that I don't usually know what day it is. The clafouti looks yummy :)
I shall be trying that clafoutis - and I do hope they can fix your hob
And, how are the repairs coming along?
Good luck with your cooktop. Here's a recipe a friend gave me that Old Dog and I like very much:
Vegetable Quiche:
4 eggs
1.5 cups small curd cottage cheese
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
2 cups cooked, chopped broccoli
1/2 cup finely chopped red pepper
1/4 - 1/2 cup chopped onion
Mix all ingredients. Spray pie plate with cooking spray and pour egg mixture in. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes, or until center is set. (Usually takes a little longer than that for us.) Wait 10 minutes to cut.
P.S.: Any word on the stove repairs?
Phooey! The repair guy called today and said that fixing the stove top would be more expensive than buying a new one. So we are off to shop for a new one as of tomorrow. I'm sure this won't get settled for a week or two yet.
Quelle domage, pauvre Dedene. The stove top can't be fixed economically.
If that happened to me, I would be really "cheesed off."
If that happened in France, would it be «Quelle fromage»?
Hope tomorrow's shopping trip isn't to brutal on the pocket book.
Cordially congratulations and Happy Anniversary to both of you!
Oh your poor burners... you will have to eat lots of cakes, muffins and brownies... grin.
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