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Good Food, Room for improvement

Courgette fritters.

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New “Good Food” came through the door this morning, full of lovely ideas and recipes, that will be tried and soon! The fritters like that I’ve made before, from another recipe book, I did add my own touch, as usual. I made the batter out of 50 g of plain flour, 2 eggs, 50 ml of milk, then I added 2 grated courgettes, half a chopped red chilli, lots of fresh oregano and seasoned well. I fried them quickly, the only thing I would improve would be somehow making them more crispy. I served them with sweet chilli sauce with extra coriander. Nice.

Dessert

5 minute dessert.

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So simple, that it’s embarrassing. I had some blueberries in the fridge, some vanilla cream leftover from last night and some meringues. I crushed them into a bowl, added the berries, the cream, a good splash of lemon juice and mixed it. Then stuffed into the cooking rings, powdered with bitter cocoa and finished off with an almond- ran out of my favourite flaked almonds. Pretty and simple. And delicious.

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Andrea Bocelli Chicken. :-)

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Quite pleased with it, I must say. I had Mr Bocelli on quite loud while cooking this evening, clearly that’s why why it came out so good!  I flattened 4 small chicken breasts, seasoned them and stuffed with steamed asparagus (yum, I had some of it on it’s own while cooking, so good!), toasted pine nuts, chopped basil and some grated parmesan. I made a simple tomato sauce with some mushrooms, fresh oregano and some chilli and nicely covered those breasts in it, topped with some more parmesan and baked in the oven for about 30 minutes. Nice thing about it is  that the chicken stayed nice and moist. I think I might make it for Zatrybki in 2 weeks time.

 

Dessert, Room for improvement

Inspirational cake turned triffle.

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On the same flow as I have made the lasagne, I set to make the cake. It didn’t turn out spot on, but it was good enough to make it to the blog, though we did have a laugh with Florek, when I tried to release the tin.

First I made the jelly, as it takes hours to be ready. Then I baked the cocoa sponge. My sponge recipe comes from my Mom, it never fails. I made half a portion, as I only needed a base. I whipped 2 egg whites with about 4 spoons of caster sugar, then added the yolks. A poonsful of plain flour sifted into the misture, a spoonful of potato starch and a spoonful of cocoa powder. The last one, half a tea spoon of baking powder. All nicely folded in, went into the hot oven for half an hour. I’m really pleased with it, it’s not too sweet, it’s perfect.

My cream was the weakest point of this cake-turned-triffle. I cooked budyn with an extra spoonful of plain flour, as Mum’s recipe says, then I whizzed it with some margarine and threw a banana in as well, for extra, erm, character. It needed some fruit, so I emptied a can of apricots and finished with the jelly.

It tastes great, but the cream didn’t hold. Still, will not be wasted.

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Spinach and ricotta lasagne with a bonus.

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I put down “Fifty Shades Darker” to get into the kitchen this afternoon and I enjoyed cooking, nearly as much I’m enjoying the book.

The standard spinach and ricotta lasagne I make is one of our favourites, today though, before I threw the spinach onto he garlicky butter, I quickly sauteed a chopped courgette and a large chunk of aubergine. Then the chopped spinach and after it wilted nicely, the whole of ricotta, a handful of grated parmesan and I seasoned it well with salt pepper and lots of nutmeg. I layered the pasta sheets generously with the filling, placed it on the baking dish with some passata in it, passata with lots of fresh oregano from the garden and extra seasoning again.

On top went my usual bechamel,  made with infused milk. It baked in 200 degrees for about 30 minutes. When out of the oven, I sprinkled some more of lovely fresh oregano I have growing in the garden. Very much enjoyed it with a glass of good red.