Summer Tartiflette
2014-07-31 17:49:49
Tasty, cheesy starter
Prep Time
20 min
Cook Time
20 min
Ingredients
- 500 g waxy potatoes
- 150 g courgettes
- 1 tblsp chopped parsley
- 100 g smoked bacon
- 125 g cheddar cheese
- 150 ml crème fraiche
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 red onions
- black pepper
Instructions
- Boil potatoes in their skins until just tender
- Allow to cool, peel and slice thickly
- Chop onion and courgette and fry in a little olive oil until softened
- Add chopped bacon and garlic and cook for 2 – 3 mins
- Put alternate layers of potato and bacon mix in an ovenproof earthenware dish
- Season with black pepper and nutmeg
- Spoon crème fraiche over bacon, and potatoes
- Grate cheese and scatter on the top
- Bake in oven gas 4 (180c, fan 160c) until bubbling and browned (about 20 mins)
Notes
- Cook a larger quantity for a main course
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Tomato Relish
2014-07-31 03:36:04
Sweet & sour flavour
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
1 hr
Ingredients
- 2 onions
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1.5 kg tomatoes
- 350 ml red wine vinegar
- 400 g granulated sugar
- chilli to taste
- black pepper & salt to season
Instructions
- Chop tomatoes into chunks and add to onion
- Add vinegar and sugar and simmer for about 1 hour
- Season with salt and pepper
- The relish should be the consistency of jam
- Eat straight away or put into jam jar and store in cool place
Notes
- Serve with any meat or cheese.
- We ate with smoked partridge and tortillas
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Red Onion & Parmesan Focaccia
2014-08-09 23:14:59
Great for a picnic
Prep Time
2 hr
Cook Time
20 min
Ingredients
- 500 g strong white flour
- 15 g fresh yeast
- 2 tblsp olive oil
- 350 ml warm water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Topping
- 2 red onion
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- Parmesan
- handful chopped fresh thyme
- sea salt
Instructions
- Mix yeast with warm water until dissolved and leave in warm place to bubble
- Add yeast mix to flour, olive oil and salt and mix until well combined
- Turn dough onto floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic
- Place in oiled bowl, cover with cling film and leave to rise until doubled in size
- Chop onion and fry in olive oil until softened
- When dough has risen, knock back and stretch to fit an oiled swiss roll tin or roll into a rectangle and place on oiled tray
- Leave to rise until doubled in size
- Spread onion on dough and scatter with grated cheese and thyme
- Press fingers into dough to make dimples
- Drizzle with oil and scatter with salt
- Bake gas 5 (200C, fan 180C) for 20 mins until golden
Notes
- We ate our bread with tomato relish and roast breast of lamb
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Blackberry Chocolate Crunch Mousse
2014-08-09 23:29:11
Beautiful violet coloured light & airy mousse
Prep Time
45 min
Cook Time
45 min
Base
- 175 g butter
- 220 g granulated sugar
- 140 g SR flour
- 30 g cocoa powder
- 115 g desiccated coconut
- 115 g oats
- 1 egg
Blackberry Mousse
- 4 sheets gelatine
- 4 eggs
- 1 lemon
- 300 ml double cream
- 75 g caster sugar
- 250 g blackberries
Instructions
- To prepare base, melt butter and add all other ingredients
- Press mixture into the base of a greased cake tin using the back of a spoon
- Bake for approx 15 mins until browned
- Simmer blackberries in pan without water until softened and then press through a sieve to remove seeds
- Soften gelatine in a little water and then add lemon juice and heat in microwave until gelatine has completely dissolved
- Add gelatine to blackberry puree
- Separate eggs and put egg yolks in a bowl with sugar
- Heat yolks and sugar over a pan of simmering water, whisking continuously until mixture becomes paler in cooler and thickens
- Allow to cool a little before adding to blackberry and gelatine mix
- Beat cream until thick and stir into blackberry mix
- Finally beat egg whites to soft peaks and add to mix
- Spoon mousse on top of cooked chocolate crunch base and put into the fridge for approx 45 mins to set
Notes
- Decorate with uncooked blackberries. Equally delicious without the base.
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Partridge Goujons
2014-07-31 17:53:56
Crunchy on the outside, tender inside
Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
15 min
Ingredients
- Partridge Breast
- 150 g plain flour
- 2 eggs
- 300 g breadcrumbs
Instructions
- Cut partridge breast into strips
- Put flour on a plate
- Beat eggs and put on another plate
- Season breadcrumbs with salt and pepper and put in a bowl
- Dip partridge strips first in flour, then egg and finally in breadcrumbs.
- Heat oil in pan and fry goujons until browned.
Notes
- Also good with pheasant, turkey and chicken
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Apple Tart
2014-08-30 06:40:12
Traditional British Pudding
Prep Time
40 min
Cook Time
20 min
Pastry
- 250 g plain flour
- 125 g butter
- 1 tblsp sugar
- 1 egg
- cold water to bind
- Filling
- 1 kg cooking apples
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 3 tblsp brown sugar
- 2 lemons
Instructions
- Rub butter into flour until mixture resembles breadcrumbs and add sugar
- Beat egg and stir into flour then add enough cold water until mixture binds together
- Roll out half of the pastry to line pie dish
- Peel and core apple and chop into small pieces
- Add cinnamon, brown sugar and lemon juice to apple
- Fill pie with chopped apple
- Roll out remaining pastry and place on top of apple
- Seal edges and brush with beaten egg and bake in oven until browned
Notes
- Try different fruit fillings e.g apple and blackberry, plum, blackcurrant, pear, apricot
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