My Creations: Home & Kitchen Corner: Ma Maison & Mon Coin Cuisine

By J. Mairy Dietch’

MY HOME & MY KITCHEN CORNER is an informal journey through two fundamental aspects of our lives: where we live and what we eat. Home linens designed by myself are mixed with cooking recipes of my own. Alike my novels, they both reflect the idea of universality I cherish and promote since I have been lucky enough to experience a variety of cultures.

This is how among others, you will find therein African fabrics associated with others, turning the items into something no more exclusively ethnical but neutral with a cachet, that can fit any house. Similarly, African ingredients are included into western recipes and typical African recipes are offered. Thus, the many people who have no clue on how to use the vast range of tempting worldwide products that are displayed on supermarket shelves can enjoy a different and tasty cuisine.

Inexpensive ingredients can be turned into gourmet dishes and a mere piece of fabric can reveal itself as a beautiful table cloth just adding another piece of matching material. Since not everyone can afford it, almost all the recipes can be made without olive oil but keep being excellent when a beautiful living environment isn't about money but taste.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504949552

J. Mairy Dietch’

J. Mairy Dietch’ studied literature and graduated from Yaoundé University with a bachelor’s degree in private law. She always loved writing, but life contingencies delayed the actual expression of her passion. She currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her two children, while accompanying her husband around the world in his missions as a consultant in the oil industry. J. Mairy Dietch’ speaks English, French, and Spanish.

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/17/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5049-4954-5 (sc)

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ISBN: 978-1-5049-4955-2 (e)

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MY CREATIONS: HOME AND KITCHEN CORNER is the result of a spontaneous decision I made as I went through the pictures of the home linens I have designed some few years ago. While aiming to produce beautiful items, one of the main ideas that guided me then was to mix African fabrics with others, so that to give them an original and universal touch. As I was moving from an image to the other, I realized that quite unconsciously, my cooking was also a mix of the variety of cultural influences I have experienced thanks to my countless stays and trips abroad. And all of a sudden, it just hit my mind that I could join both my linen designs and cooking recipes into a book. I imagined it as a journey into the two unavoidable areas of our daily lives: where we live and what we eat.

This book doesn’t claim at all to be a professional one. I have never taken any home linen design or cooking class. It is just based on my love for nice environments and good food, with the desire to share how simple products can be turned into fancy dishes and how African ingredients can be included into Western cuisine.

Thanks to globalization, dozens of products from everywhere are offered on supermarket shelves but most of the time, many people don’t have a clue on the way to use or adapt them to their original background cuisine.

MY CREATIONS: HOME AND COOKING CORNER is an attempt to provide some useful and tasty suggestions as to this. Also, to make it easier for everyone, I have tried as much as possible to give the ingredient quantities in spoons rather than grams or other units of measurement. This book is so informal that you won’t have organized sections dedicated to each category of food (starters, main dishes and desserts). The recipes saw light according to my mood of the day, and so did I write them. In the same way, home linen pictures are spread here and there with no specific concept, just the need to offer beautifulness. In the end, I can say that this title is all about spontaneity and I wish it reveals itself not only to be beautiful, but actually useful as well.

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Roast pork stuffed with spinach and shitake mushrooms

Shrimp stuffed bell peppers duo

Free range chicken with basil – cranberry beans

Grilled coriander sea bass fillet on a bed of peppers and cranberry beans

Shrimps marinated in herbs duo

Sea bass fillet on skin and its simply grilled shrimp

Tricolored plate

Lamb chops with mint and ratatouille

Crêpes filled with red berries

Linen 1

Linen 2

Linen 3

Linen 4

Cranberry beans salad with asparagus and carrots

Mackerel salad with 2 veggies

Yogurt cake with banana and orange peel

White beans soup

Grilled mackerel – sweet potato gratin – buttered green