Category Archives: Recipes

Smoked salmon, Pan-fried Duck Liver, Beetroot compote

Again a super recipe for you to do and very easy.

I tried something similar during my last vacation in France and I wanted to share it with you, also I just make sure that is fully Primed for your healthy 2015 🙂 .

You can easily find all ingredients here around.  It is a beautiful dish that can be served for appetizer and you can serve a nice bowl of assorted green salad on the side.

This beautiful dish is available under Primed dishes at Brasserie CiÇou.

Ingredients:

45 grams Smoked Salmon
30 grams Foie Gras
50 grams Beetroot
3 ml Olive oil
1 gram Micro Arugula
1 gram Iodized Salt
.5 gram Pepper
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Primed Christmas Cake

Primed Christmas Cake

Christmas Cake is a tradition in many countries but the store bought one can often have an ingredients list as long as your arm. That would be fine if they were all Primed, quality foods that fueled your mind and body well.

Unfortunately these days food like substance manufacturers include substances to do the following:

(1) Enhance the shelf life of the product (means many added chemicals and other nasty substances);
(2) Try and get you addicted to their product (by adding sugar where it is not necessary is a classic ploy to dupe consumers);
(3) Try and stimulate your appetite so you eat more by including gluten where it is not necessary. Then you eat more of their product; and
(4) Make the product as cheaply as possible so they will use whichever supplier gives them the least price with no regard to how these products are farmed.

Bottom-line is that if you chose to buy any packaged goods you should check the ingredients list and avoid when you see MSG, gluten, sugar, fructose and any ingredients of which you do not know. Compare this to fruits and vegetables which do not need an ingredient list!

Please see our Primed Christmas Pudding made with only Primed ingredients so you will not inadvertently harm yourself or your family with nasty chemicals and other food like substances.

Ingredients:

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zest and juice of one orange and one lemon (we zest from our frozen peels as shown below)
2 cup raisins
1 cup dried apricots
15 dried prunes
4 ripe bananas

1 cup crushed walnuts
1 cups almond meal
1 and 1/2 cups of coconut flour (please click here to see how cheap and easy it is to do yourself)

6 eggs

1 cup red wine

2 teaspoons all spice mix
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon concentrated natural vanilla extract
salt pinch

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Method:

1. Soak all these ingredients in your red wine over night: zest and juice of one orange and one lemon, 2 cup raisins, 1 cup dried apricots and 15 dried prunes

2. After soaking your ingredients in your red wine over night transfer to a pot and bring to boil quickly before turning heat down and allowing to simmer for 8 minutes remembering to stir occasionally. Then set aside and allow to cool down.

3. Mash your bananas and then whisk in your eggs. Then add your spices to this mixture and stir in.

4. Add your stewed fruits into your egg, banana and spice mix.

5. Now add your coconut and almond flour as well as your crushed walnuts.

6. Grease a cake tin (or individual muffin trays) liberally with butter.

7. Set your oven to 350 degrees and once that temperature is reached place in your baking tray once all your combined ingredients have been lovingly placed inside.

8. Allow to cook for 20 minutes.

9. After 30 minutes remove from oven and once cooled remove from tin or muffin tray.

10. Serve with a nice heavy whipped cream (never the chemical laden light/lite one).

Additional

1. There are many other excellent Christmas Cake recipes with a favorite of my friend Ellen and I being www.wholefoodsimply.com

15 Days Till Christmas – Learn a New Recipe

15. Learn a New Recipe

Cooking can be very therapeutic as you get a little “me time” as you slice and dice your vegetables.  It can also be a way to bring families together as you all pitch in and help create a great dish to eat together later.

Why not challenge yourself and try a new recipe you haven’t done before?  You could try Ratatouille, Chef Cyrille’s wonderful Bouillabaise or even his exceedingly popular Primed Carbonara Pasta made with Squash (not pasta!).

Chef Cyrille cooking late lunch

In the picture above Chef Cyrille is cooking another great dish, but for his family this time and not guests at his Greenhills located Brasserie CiCou.
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Primed Roasted Bone Marrow with Parsley Garlic Butter Sauce

There are many great reasons to eat Primed Bone Marrow, but the one I like the most is because it tastes great.   Bone Marrow can have a subtle, creamy nuttiness, sometimes a bit sweet and delicious with a pinch of sea salt or a Parsley Butter as shown below.

Other super reasons to eat Bone Marrow are because it is packed with vitamins and minerals and is a rich source of very healthy, rich fats.  It also contains iron, phosphorus and vitamin A. Need more reasons to eat Bone Marrow?  Well, it is also an amazing muscle-building, cognitive-boosting and joint-nourishing food.

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Ingredients:
350 grams Mayura bone marrow
100ml cream
3 grams Rock Salt
1 gram Pepper
20 grams Parsley Butter

Ingredients for Parsley Butter:
50 grams Curly parsley
180 grams butter
20 grams garlic
7 grams almond flour
10 grams mustard
4 grams salt
1 gram pepper

Procedure:

1. Clean/ trim the meat from the bone marrow

2. Season with rock salt and pepper

3. Place the bone marrow on a tray and put it inside the oven for 8 minutes at 350 ˚Fahrenheit (176˚Celsius) until the marrow can be pierced by a thermometer or reached its internal temperature of 145 ˚Fahrenheit (62.8 ˚Celsius)

4. The parsley cream sauce: In a sauce pan, warm 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of parsley butter season with salt until the cream is hot.

5. Ready to serve.  Bon appetite!

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This great Primed Dish of Roasted Bone Marrow with Parsley Garlic Butter Sauce is available at Brasserie CiCou in Greenhills.

Try my Chicken Liver Pate served with Baby Raddish as a starter first though as it is wonderfully nutritious and tasty as well.

CiCou-Chicken Liver Pate with Raddish

The CiCou Chicken Liver Pate is full of great healthy fats and the very nutrient dense internal organs that are a vital component of a nutritious and balanced diet.  The Pate is also available from the Brasserie CiCou stall at the Salcedo Market every Saturday morning.

CiCou at Salcedo

Do you like Bone Marrow?  Please let us know your favorite way to eat your Bone Marrow. Thanks.

The Secret to Making a Great Omelette by Chef CiÇou

So many people ask me how to do an omelette, “the rolled one“. That’s not an easy one, and you need a lot of practice. The good thing is that eggs are not so expensive so you can practice if you really want to learn.  I remember where I learned how to do this omelette, this was 29 years ago when I was just a simple apprentice, just a baby in the culinary world. But I was so lucky that I started at the best at that time, the Ritz Hotel in Paris.

I learned when I was at the “Entremetier” (this is a section in the kitchen which takes care of all the hotel’s breakfast, especialy all egg cooking, soup and potage, as well as all garnishes for all a la cartes of the hotel and its room service). It’s a busy section in the kitchen and a very important one!

When you are only 16 years old and when you do more than 100 covers in the early morning for the breakfast service in a short time, I tell you, you do a lot of omelettes, so you learn fast because you don’t want to miss an order and people usually in the morning are always in hurry! (I have a lot of stories about this fantastic learning place “the Ritz Hotel” but that is for another post).

Making a good omelette needs a nice presentation, and you need to make sure the egg is not overcooked, not too colored, not too undercooked and still smoky hot when the client will eat it! You need PRACTICE… a LOT of practice.

So here some of my tips for you to get a nice omelette at home.
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Primed Mousse of Papaya and Saba Bananas infused with Cardamom and Kaffir Lime Leaves

Our Primed Mousse has been one of our popular recipes as it is a perfect snack and great for dessert too. Whilst extremely nutritious it also has a natural sweetness from the prunes.

This new Primed Mousse is less sweet but equally nutritious with fabulous health benefits from the papaya, saba bananas, mineral and vitamin dense spice cardamom and kaffir leaves. It is also delicious, refreshing and great sprinkled with crushed nuts.

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Danish Pickled Cucumber and Pickled Ginger Recipes – Good for Gut Health

Pickled vegetables like kimchi, cucumbers and ginger are probiotics that can aid the health of your stomach. They make for delicious snacks or additions to salads and side dishes to your main meal. Here are two of my favorite pickled dishes.

Primed Danish Pickled Cucumbers

I was born in Auckland New Zealand and was adopted to a couple living in Hong Kong when I was 1-month old. My new Dad was an Aussie and my Mum Danish. This is where I learned to appreciate many Danish dishes such as Frickadella, Red Cabbage and Risalamande.

I will start with one of the simplest Danish dishes from my childhood that is also one of the tastiest. Danish Pickled Cucumbers are a great side dish to chicken, pork and beef, goes well in a salad and is a nice snack with julienne carrots. I prefer it on top of our Primed Tuna and Squash Patties.

Just as an aside, I only found out I was adopted when I was 28 years old!
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Primed Dark Chocolate Brownie

Who doesn’t love a good quality chocolate brownie? Our whole family does but we make ours with Prime ingredients to make it a treat that is good for you in the right quantities.

There are many health benefits to Dark Chocolate such as being high in antioxidants; high in minerals like magnesium and iron; is an anti-inflammatory; helps liver function, reduces blood pressure; and minimises the risk of cardio vascular disease and stroke.
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Primed Carbonara Squash Pasta

Carbonara Sauce, who does not like this classic sauce? I am sure that no one I know doesn’t enjoy the smokiness of the bacon, the earthy flavors of the mushrooms, the richness of the cream, egg and Parmesan!

All of these flavors make one of the most famous worldwide dishes …. oops did I forget to mention the pasta? Yes I did, because today it is a carbonara without the pasta. I am making it primed for you guys.

Carbonara without pasta is a dream come true for those people who want to avoid pasta?

Please, let’s get ready in your kitchen, it’s going to be fun.

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Primed Daikon Rice and Squash Rice

Here are two easy and beautiful recipes to substitute for your rice.

Rice is not one of the ingredients that is part of my Primed Lifestyle. I am seeking to eat more quality proteins, fruits, vegetables, eggs, nuts, seeds and healthy oils.

Rice was quiet easy for me to stop eating as back in France the only rice that we are eating is more as a cold salad during summer. Rice in France is not like here Philippines, where it is important during a meal, which is why it is so difficult for a Filipino to cut down and totally stop eating.

That is why I came out with these two recipes using daikon radish and squash. Daikon is a very good vegetable used in Japanese and Korean cuisine, is only more or less P 60 per kg, is easy to peel and with this recipe, easy to prepare. The squash is very good as well.

A vos fourneaux (Get cooking)!

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