Bacon and broccoli with cream

Christmas of 2020 was all about - guess what - cook-off! Aurelien and I decided that we prepare food separately each for an appetizer and main course. So for appetizers, I prepared bacon and broccoli with cream. I honestly was not very sure how it would be as I have never prepared anything like it before although this was based on a beans appetizer from the internet... I wanted to use broccoli because it is not his favorite vegetable 😂 (and he was going to prepare snails for the next appetizer... which I was not so sure about at first!) 

Bacon and broccoli with cream (next to it is the sausage pastry that Aurelien prepared which was yum!)

He was very keen on making me eat snails so I challenged him to eat broccoli since it is his least favorite vegetable! Turns out, he liked it. As per him, he would only eat broccoli if I cook it with cream - probably the same way as to how this was prepared. So, maybe if you don't not like broccoli as well but would like to try, you can give this one a go:

Ingredients:

Broccoli florets

Bacon

Garlic, minced

Any kind of meat cube (chicken/pork/beef)

Cooking cream

Butter

Emmental cheese

Instructions:

1. Cook the bacon until they are crisp or as desired. Put them aside.
2. Put the butter into the pan
3. Once the butter has melted, add the minced garlic
4. Put the cooking cream and meat cube and let it simmer
5. Add the broccoli florets
6. When the broccoli florets are cooked as desired, add the bacon.
7. Remove the pan from the heat.
8. Sprinkle some Emmental cheese as desired

We did not finish everything that night as we had more food to prepare (and eat!). So we still had some leftover cream (most of the broccolis were gone) which was perfect for a baguette for breakfast!