My banana-chocolate

Delicious receipt of banana-chocolate cake only for you

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• sugar (brown sugar) 130g
• 50g of flour
• 1/2 yeast sachet
• butter 150g
• black chocolate 150g
• 10 black chocolate squares
  
• 1 banana

Receipt:

Preheat the oven (180°c). Mix eggs with sugar, add the flour and mix again. Put the chocolate with the butter in the microwaves. Incorporate the butter-chocolate melted in the preparation. Add slices of banana and the black chocolate squares. Pour the preparation in a cake pan (butter it and add some flour) Let cook the mixture approximately 35 minutes. It is necessary to remove the pan when the cake is tepid then let it cool at ambient temperature. Personally I advise you to taste this cake with homemade chantilly

Tags: cake, banana, chocolate, brown sugar, flour, butter

Restaurant: Les délices d'Aphtodite

A small Greek restaurant not far from the Latin Quarter, forget the kebabs, chips, Coke and other white sauces !!! We are very far from the ordinary Greek, the price is there for you to recall it for you go there follow the guide. I highly recommend Pikilias to you, the reception is warm and elegant and finally the wines are very good! A must

Tags: restaurant, Greek, Pikilias, kebab, Paris

My receipt of fajitas

My first tests for the fajitas were limited to buy a prepared sauce… But it is not really funny thus I created my own receipt :

Ingredients:

• 3 onions (average)
  
• 1 large green pepper
• 2 tomatoes well wall
• 2 limp of tomato puree (2*70g)
• tabasco (for those which like)

Receipt:

Cut onions in very small pieces. Put some olive oil on the bottom of a large pan, add onions and make them bleach. During this time, cut tomatoes and sweet pepper in very small pieces… Add to onions, and to let it on the fire during a few minutes. Add the tomato puree finally, cover and let cook a good 10 minutes. Your sauce for the fajitas is ready.

Good appetite

Tags: fajitas, tabasco, tomato, green pepper, onion, mijoter, napper

Rollmops and its vegetables

Small fast meal but so good
The reverse engineering is very simple (for 2 people):

• a box of rollmops
• a half cucumber
• 2 tomatoes
• a small green pepper
• a carrot

Peel and cross with love: here it is ready… You can also prepare a small sauce containing soft white cheese, of a little dill and wine vinegar. Good meal

Tags: rollmops, cucumber, tomato, carrot, kitchen

Joost: the P2P TV

You probably know Kazaa and Skype… Imagine that their creators started to work on a new service … According to you which will they choose? The TV!!! Thus the old project known under the name of “Project Venice” is beginning its as Beta version under the name of Joost and like many Beta project, you are recruited either directly or by sponsorship the quality is rather good
The interface looks like an application written in Flash or something from the Internet world, but it does not look like an interface the Windows world. A little annoying at the beginning but you will quickly enjoy the interface.
For the moment there are only few channels… But it is a version beta, I guarantee that when the system will be more widespread, many advertisers will want to take benefit from this new service… Moreover I wonder what that will happen when each one will be able to create its own contents and to upload it in the system… It could be the end of VOD
of course you will have to wait sometimes… and especially at the beginning… but as a whole, it is largely possible to watch an emission without too much annoyance…
On the other hand, I do not know very well which software of compression they use, but it is a greedy resource: knowing that I have Pentium M (1,4GHz), that I have just launched Windows and that the only launched program is Joost (made abstraction of MSN and others…) I have an average consumption of my processor of 70%!!! On the other hand the use of the network remains suitable… I wonder well how that workss… I believe that I will have fun in the following days… and will watch series

Tags: joost, Venice Project, Kazaa, Skype, sponsorship, Flash, Windows, VOD, compression

Richard Stallman and Trusted Computing

If you want more information about the Trusted Computing, even if I think that the movie is better

Tags: Richard Stallman, Trusted Computing

Trusted Comuting: a film to warn you

Do you know what "Trusted Computing” is it is a new idea developed by some great names of computers, according to them to make our computers safer. The guiding principle is very simple, it consists in assigning a signature for each data-processing object (software, document, music), and delegating to a third party the task to check if the handled object is authorized with being used on the local system… Elegant you will say, at the end we will get rid of all theses viruses… But think just a little: who will be the third party, the confidence one? All the signatures will have to be checked by this third party, and thus each signature recorded in the big database of this new Big Brother what, in a Microsoft logic, for example, will mean paid a lot of money to record your signature (if you do not believe me, ask yourself this simple question: “How much would it cost me to have my certificate in Internet Explorer? ”). To explain hazards this concept, here a small film found on Zudeo:

Once again the great computer makers groups or OS makers intend to play Big Brother with the world… But once again, I think that the free software, will be able to answer this threat… If the laws are not voted by and for the million of $ these large companies!

Tags: big brother, trusted comuting, APRIL, Zudeo, free software

The museum of the primitive arts or the museum of the Quai Branly

The museum of the Quai Branly or museum of arts and civilizations of Africa, of Asia, of Oceania and Americas (nonWestern civilizations) is located as its name indicates on the Quai Branly. Personally, I think that in a near future it will be called Musée Chirac, the BNF is now called Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. Each French President has its own monument in France... (except maybe Valéry Giscard d'Estaing )As you can see on this picture, the museum is all longitudinally and rises a such house on piloti on the top of the garden… Next time you walk in the garden, have a look to the ground, you could discover something , the large cubes of color must correspond to rooms but I am not certain…
Because I did not visit yet, moreover, I suppose that the photograph above must correspond to the library part…
I wonder whether in summer open air conferences will be envisaged… A little like a chief council (OK, I recognize it, that strongly resembles to an amphitheatre… so much more with Latin 's touch…) Finally this museum is worth be seeing, and I think I will visit it soon… So follow this blog

Tags: quai Branly, Chirac, Miterrant, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Giscard, BNF, primitive arts, museum

A recipe of Gordon Ramsay, again! Marinated mushrooms

I am kind of Gordon Ramsay's recipes: as I have a little time during the holidays, I test a receipt one after another as a consequence this evening the dish will be: marinated mushrooms (indeed I prepared them yesterday afternoon )

Ingredients:

• mushrooms
• shallots
  
• tarragon
• salt, pepper
• olive oil
• wine vinegar

Preparations:

Cut shallot into small pieces
Peel mushrooms and cut them in big pieces (look at the picture)
Put olive oil in a large frying pan. There when oil is almost smoking place mushrooms, from time to time return approximately, let them like this during approximatively 5 minutes until they take a pretty gold-translucent color…
Add shallot: cook to the moment shallot becomes translucent
Pour the wine vinegar on the contour of the frying pan (do not pour on the top!)
Carry the wine vinegar to boiling, then finally add the olive oil…
Let cool in a dish at the temperature of the room

an easy dish you can prepare this dish in advance Bon appetit

Tags: shallot, mushroom, Gordon Ramsay, Ramsay

Potato Parmentier and foie gras

A small receipt containing foie gras that I would like to test

Ingredients:

• 4 escalopes of foie gras
• 7 Charlotte potatoes of average size
• 1 small black truffle
• 3 spoon of olive oil
• salt, pepper

Preparation:

Cut a half of the truffle in fine slice and hash the other half.
Peel potatoes and place them in a large salted cold water pan.
Carry to boiling then let cook 10 min. Verify with the point of a knife.
Drain and crush with a fork all, and in the same time incorporate in it the olive oil and chopped truffle. Add salt and pepper.
Distribute these mashed potaties in 4 plates.
Make heat a frying pan then make cook escalopes of foie gras 2 min on each side. Add salt and pepper. Decorate plates with truffle.


this dish can be serve with this wine: Sauternes (White, Bordeaux)

Tags: foie gras, sauternes, truffle

Antipasti: Stuffed courgette rolls

Do you know Gordon Ramsay? it is one of the "grands chefs" in England . English cook is not the best of the world… but at least, they have very good chiefs. And Gordon Ramsay is not one of these good looking chiefs with no personality like Jamie Oliver… Gordon is better, it does not chew its words: it is a kind of Jean Pierre Coffe a little younger, more dynamic and much more talented. When I returned from England, I thus brought back two cookbooks by Gordon Ramsay and my girlfriend tested (for me) one of the receipt: Stuffed courgette rolls

Ingredients:

• 4 small courgettes
  
• olive oil
• 250g of ricotta
• juice of a half-lemon
• salt pepper
• sheets of basilica
  
• pinion of pine
• balsamic vinegar

Preparation:

Cut courgettes in length using a mandoline. Place them in a dish, sprinkle them of olive oil, salt, pepper and place in the fridge during 20 minutes.

Mix the ricotta with the lemon juice, a little olive oil and add salt and pepper as much as you want. Cook pinions of pine in a small frying pan… and add them to the mixture.

Form small balls of the mixture and to roll up them in the courgettes ribbons.


If after this receipt you do not want to know Gordon Ramsay… moreover one of its restaurants: Pétrus in Knightsbridge (London) received its second star with the Michelin guide.

Tags: guide Michelin, mandoline, zucchini, ricotta, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Jean-Pierre Coffe, restaurant

Sony Ericsson w810i and Linux

Despite all problems I had to stop my phone subscription at Orange , my new subscription will be an Orange one , after all, they are not so bad , my choice was a little quickly and I chose a Sony Ericsson w810i , I would have to check the compatibility of this telephone with Linux… Indeed I would like to be able to synchronize it with Kontact , in particular the calendar, To-do and the list of contacts… If like me you have large fingers: the keyboard of the portable telephone can be for you a nightmare

The good point of Sony Ericsson w810i is that it is provided with a USB cable to connect it with your PC, when it is connected, two modes are available:

1. File transfer
2. phone mode

The “File transfer” mode allows you to transfer the data from your mobile phone to Linux. But I have not yet succeed to make the contrary… The phone mode can be used with Kmobiltools to see contacts, the SMS sent and receives, to telephone and send SMS. But I still did not find the ultimate tool allowing me to synchronize my mobile phone with my KDE with the USB link, for that I am testing some software:

1. Kandy: hmmm… that does not work!
   
2. Kmobiletools: works very well but it is not what I am looking for
   
3. Wammu/Gammu: the X interface is very ugly but this software seems to works well when it does not freeze
   
4. Gnokii: command line tool and requires to create yourself a configuration file. Kontact uses this tool by default, but that does not work very well
   
5. GCALSYNC: that deviates a little my wired vision of a local synchronisation, but that will at least enable me to manage correctly my schedule.
   

For the moment I am reduce to synchronize my telephone under Windows… and synchronise Windows with Linux… this is not the universal panacea but I seek and hope well to find a perfect solution

Tags: kandy, telephone, Sony, ericsson, w810i, kmobiletools, wammu, gammu, gnokii, gcalsync, kontact, kde, to synchronize