I usually give in to my “lazy bones” during the weekends especially where cooking is concerned. I try and avoid kitchen duty as much as possible during this time but when I find that I really can’t (such as yesterday), I try and stick to simple, hassle-free meals.
Hmmm…a “soup and sandwich” early dinner seemed to fit the bill. With leftover French onion soup in the fridge, all I had to do was make simple, filling sandwiches for Keith and the boys. As I had just whipped up some chicken ala king as well, the rest should be easy, right?
I should’ve just sliced up some bread, topped it with the chicken ala king, popped it into the oven and voila – dinner is served!
Except that I decided to give it a little twist. I thought it would be neat to stick to the French theme of my meal (my sister would have loved it – right, Rina? 
) so I took out the box of voulavent cases (it sounded so fancy – I just had to try it!) from the freezer, brushed the pastry with a little eggwash on top, popped those babies into the oven and came up with this instead…
A dozen pieces of Chicken ala King Voulavent goodness!
Although I would’ve wanted the pastry to be more buttery than what came out, the flakiness and softness of the warm voulavents were just right – yum! 
Go ahead, take a bite!
Thankfully, all of us enjoyed the meal (burp!) we just had to blurt out (don’t forget the nasal accent here), “Ooh-la-la, c’est bon!” 
Posted by munchkinmommy on 14 March 2008 at 6:32 pm
Thanks, Weng.
Actually, Luigi is quite happy with bread and soup but the two other boys (Keith and Rafa) are really true-blue rice-eaters.
We are all trying to get into the habit of eating lighter dinners na since they say it’s supposed to be healthier daw. Not having much success with Keith, though, since hours after our light dinner, he told me he ate two pecan cookies and two slices of turkey pastrami! 
Oh well, slowly but surely (I guess!)…
Posted by Meeya on 14 March 2008 at 9:17 pm
Salamat!
As I told Weng nga e, we’re also trying now to eat less especially during dinner time and sandwiches seem to be the healthier alternative. Hope this translates to weight loss soon…
Posted by chichung on 14 March 2008 at 9:28 pm
They were indeed a treat (or nabola na naman ako ng pamilya ko!), thanks very much!
Wow, tempura! That’s one dish I would love to learn how to cook! Especially here where there’s a dire lack of Japanese restaurants…
Di bale, am sure you’ll burn all those fried rice and tempura calories with all the projects you’d be doing soon, right?
Posted by Leap of Faith! on 15 March 2008 at 2:39 pm
Will get you one whole box on our next grocery trip… Teka, we’re supposed to be eating lighter to lose weight di ba? Looks like we won’t have much success if we eat lighter yet triple the quantity of our consumption! Bye-bye diet na ba ito? Oh no!
Posted by abby on 25 March 2008 at 3:30 am
Thanks, Abby!
Kung pwede lang i-vacuum pack din ang chicken ala king para ipadala dyan, diba? 
Actually, medyo may “silent protest” din from hubby and son #2 but they can’t really complain naman coz they don’t cook. In other words, no choice sila!
Posted by Rina on 7 October 2008 at 6:27 am
i don’t know how i could’ve missed this entry when i regularly lurk your blog…must’ve been the time i was busy finishing up my last few weeks of school. anyway, shall i say va-va-voulavent!!! these actually look so delish!
you’re right, those french things are good.
i am slowly getting used to having bread too with my meals, but now and then, i still miss my rice-rice-baby!
btw, love the new food blog! keep it up, ses!
Ikaw talaga, basta French, nahahanap mo! Bakit kaya????
Thanks for actually leaving a comment this time… you, lurker girl , you!!! Take care!
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