Claudia&Julia's blog

Today we bring out heavy artillery! Surely with a delicious and vicious chocolate coulant, or with a recipe as easy and quick as mug cakes, you will succeed on a daily basis... Or when you have guests at home! These are two very easy but super successful recipes that you can prepare in the beautiful Le Creuset mini-cocottes.

Many of you wanted to have a cocotte sponge cake recipe again. We had already done some in them, and they are so fantastic that we have not been able to stop repeating them. Today's is brought to us by Rosa (Pemberley Cup&Cakes), and yes, it is as delicious as it looks. To enjoy!

As many of you want new ideas to get the most out of mini-cocottes, we went to Stéphane Poussardin's Atelier, who, apart from being a friend, is a private chef and always gives us great ideas. On this occasion, we asked him to prepare some recipes that were very easy to prepare and very successful.

There was a frying pan that I had always seen at my parents' house. I remember we used it often but I never asked where it came from. I saw it among other pans and thought it was one of those eccentricities of my mother, another "pot" who knows where it had come from...

I am convinced that you will love today's recipe: delicious cheeks made in cocotte, without many complications but taking advantage of all its flavor!

Today's is an ideal recipe for day to day: An original recipe without complications and with a lot of flavor! Patri, from Sabores&Momentos, brings it to us, and I'm sure you'll love it.

Today I bring you a healthy and delicious recipe from one of my favorite media chefs, Jamie Oliver.

This spaghetti recipe is from her latest book: Healthy recipes for every day . I confess that I have all of Jamie's books, and I love the kind of cooking she does, practical and full of spices and suggestive aromas... that is precisely what you will find in her latest book: many healthy dishes full of flavour, with the added value that many of her proposals are vegetarian.

I have always been in favor of preparing some appetizers when having guests over. In many cases, they can be prepared a little in advance, which allows you to be with the guests when they arrive, and I think that is a great way to start a lunch or dinner. If the group is large, I suggest you also serve a welcome cocktail or punch, it is ideal to break the ice!

We love to get the cocotte going! Cooking in it has nothing to do with complicated recipes, but delicious! The recipe that Beatriz brings us today, from To Be Gourmet, is ideal: pork tenderloin with cider vinegar, a recipe that has minimal complications in the kitchen, but with which you get a tender and tasty meat that you will love.

You will agree with me that one of the things we have seen all our lives in the drawer of our parents' house is the corkscrew - that little kitchen utensil that seems to be immortal. In the same way, when you buy one, you hope that it will last the same time in your drawer, and that it responds to aspects as important as being easy to use, that it does not require force -and that it does not need skill either!- and that it takes cap in perfect condition. That is why it is important to know the options, and choose well.

Luisa, whom you know from the Cooking with my Carmela blog, invites us to prepare a delicious chicken lasagna, which will surprise you with its easy preparation and original presentation. I assure you that your guests will love it!

Virginia, author of the gastronomic blog Sweet&Sour, invites us to prepare a delicious shortcrust pastry pie with a combination that you will love: goat cheese, walnuts and pear. The preparation is simple and the results exquisite. You can't miss it!