A recipe by K. · … You don’t make a ratatouille. You build it. Each vegetable seared alone, on high heat, in order — never all together in the pan. That’s the whole secret, and K. won’t say it twice. Fifteen minutes on the clock, …
A recipe by Le Koink · it all starts in the garden. A parchment packet that cooks the fish and the vegetables together, no need to babysit the pan: the bass stays pearly, the asparagus crisp, and the cherry tomatoes melt just enough. A peak-season …
A recipe by El Koinko · the scent of travel.
Heat wave, no oven: out come the microwave and the knife. The sweet potato cooks in 7 minutes while everything else gets prepped, the saffron and four-spice perfume it, and the lemon sardines bring the zing — no extra citrus needed.
A warm-cool salad that travels: crunch (fennel, cucumber), softness (avocado, sweet potato), iodine (sardines) — and that breath of spice that takes the sweet potato well beyond the garden.
A recipe by Le Koink · it all starts in the garden. The salad that became the blueprint for all the others: pearly beluga lentils, cooked “straight-dive” then iced for hold, clean diced vegetables, soft-boiled eggs, and avocado. A meal-salad that really fills, without ever …
A recipe by Le Koink · it all starts in the garden. Le Koink isn’t afraid of a creamy sauce when it stays smart: here, no heavy butter, no fish stock — just a reduced cream, lemon, and a heavily-peppered chervil yogurt that breaks the …
A recipe by Le Koink · it all starts in the garden.
Le Koink loves when the oven does the work: a pan of cauliflower and bell peppers caramelizing, a pan of bass that the zucchini protects like armor. The fish stays pearly, the vegetables take on the grill flavor, and nobody watches anything.
His signature: chervil added cold, at the last second. Cooked, it loses everything; raw, it perfumes the plate with an anise breath. Vegetables in the spotlight, fish just placed beside.
A recipe by El Koinko · the scent of travel. Pantry corners, big journey: three bell peppers, sweet corn, red kidney beans, and a cup of rice all cooking together in the same pan. No meat, no extra dishes — just the cumin and smoked …
A recipe by Koinquino · when there’s too many ingredients, I’m in pasta-bilities. It starts as a clean-out-the-crisper project — leftover bell peppers, tired tomatoes, a slab of cold roast pork. It ends almost as a trattoria plate: the fresh goat cheese melts off the …
Le Koink’s touch · Le Koink · it all starts in the garden.
Not a recipe — a gesture: trust the oven. Two summer vegetables that love to roast, two ways to handle them. The common rule fits in one sentence — a single layer, never crowded, or it steams instead of roasts.
Eggplant is a sponge: don’t skimp on olive oil, and never salt before cooking (salt pulls water and stretches everything). For smoky flesh — the base of a caviar or a purée — roast it whole.
For more smoke, 2 minutes under the broiler or a quick pass over an open flame. The flesh then crushes into a caviar with garlic, lemon, tahini, and cumin — or just olive oil and flaky salt. In a hurry? In 1/2-inch slices, count on 20 min at 400°F; in halves, flesh scored with a knife, 30 to 35 min.
Meaty, low-water, sweet: the Black Krim heirloom holds in the oven without falling apart. Two schools, depending on the time you have.
Same prep, but oven at 285°F convection for 2 hours: the sugars concentrate, the acidity drops. Perfect base for a pasta sauce, a pizza, or a cold soup.
The clever pairing: the sweetness of the sweet potato answers the smoky acidity of the tomato. To roast them together at 285°F, cut the sweet potato into small cubes (3/4 inch), start it 20 min alone, then add the tomatoes and continue ~1h45. To keep crispness, do them separately (sweet potato 400°F for 25-30 min, tomatoes 285°F for 2 h) and reunite them on the plate with a splash of sherry vinegar and basil.
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A recipe by El Koinko · the scent of travel. Curry, coconut milk, a sweet potato that turns silky: this stew smells of travel without leaving the kitchen. Soft, fragrant, comforting — and clever, because it reinvents itself three times in a week: hot tonight, …