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Some funny and unusual recipes

China's Nest:

Take an egg and separate the white from the yolk. Beat the egg white, add grated cheese, salt. Put it in a circle on a baking sheet and heat for about 3 minutes. At the end of this time, gently add the yolk in the middle of the circle and return to the oven for 3 minutes.

Crazy Steak:

1 200g heart of rump steak, 4 cupped oysters, 1 tablespoon of fresh cream, mustard,

Pass the open oysters for 5 minutes in a hot oven (thermostat 8), Remove the flesh from the oysters, preserving the sea water and put them in a small saucepan. Add a teaspoon of fresh cream and a pinch of mustard. Emulsify everything. Sear your steak and cover it with this oyster sauce on your plate.

This crazy steak was one of the favorite dishes of the Sun King, a big fork before the Eternal.

Tomatoes Agadir:

2 large tomatoes per person, 4 merguez sausages, parsley, 1 onion, salt.

Chop the onion and the parsley. Remove the skin from the merguez sausages and mix them with parsley and chopped onion. Wash and core the tomatoes, Salt the inside. Fill the tomatoes with the merguez stuffing and put in a moderate oven (thermostat 7) for about 10 minutes.

Ho Chi Min Omelette:

4 eggs, 80g of minced meat, 100g of bean sprouts, 1 onion, 1 spoonful of nuoc-mâm, salt and pepper.

Peel and chop the onion and sauté it in a pan. Add the minced meat and bean sprouts. Beat the eggs with the nuoc-mâm, salt and pepper. Cover the ingredients in the pan with the beaten eggs.

Crimselich:

Soak 4 pieces of bread in water; drain them, put them in a container. Coat with a teaspoon of rum, sprinkle with powdered sugar, crushed almonds and raisins, mix. Fry each piece of bread in a deep fryer, holding them in a ladle.

Cauliflower cake with chive cream:

1 small cauliflower, 1 large pot of fresh cream, 3 eggs, a bunch of chives, salt and pepper.

Cook the cauliflower in salted water, drain it, put it in the oven to dry it (3 minutes) and mix it. Add the whole eggs and the fresh cream to this puree. Season and mix well. Place everything in a buttered cake tin and bake in a bain-marie in the oven (thermostat 4 or 5), 30 minutes. Unmold this vegetable cake and coat it with the following chive sauce:2 large spoonfuls of fresh cream and 1/2 lemon juice. Sprinkle the cauliflower cake with chopped chives.

Spaghetti with snail butter:

250g of spaghetti, 150g of butter, 3 sprigs of chopped parsley, 2 shallots, 1/2 clove of garlic, salt and pepper.

Cook your spaghetti for 8 minutes. Meanwhile mix the butter with the garlic, shallot and chopped parsley. Add salt and pepper. Melt this butter very lightly in a small saucepan and mix it with the drained spaghetti.

Recipes taken from Sylvain Lebel's "The Anti-Depression Kitchen" at Encre