This morning I decided to make some pastry, maybe a tart, I thought. So, I got to making Maggie Beer's sour cream pastry. Ok, that went well. It came together in about 2 minutes, popped it in the back of the fridge to chill for a bit and decided to use up the organic asparagus trying not to die in the bottom of the fridge. Went and got some eggs and stuff from the shop found a great recipe for the filling here. I do love Delia. But I must confess, I didn't really follow the recipe, I just used it as a base for my own (Frankenstein) creation, as I didn't want to use so much cream and cheese. The things I changed were that I used only 1/3 cup of cream, didn't add cheddar (I didn't have any) and I used pecorino instead of parmesan. I also added half a red capsicum, sliced lengthways and also added about 1/2 a tsp of allspice to the egg and cream mix. Oh and I used heaps of asparagus, probably too much in fact. I had 2 bunches so I didn't want to waste any, but I think just 1 bunch would work much better. I also sauteed half a sliced red onion in butter for the filling too. But back to the pastry. You would think that I have stuffed pastry up enough to remember that you must blind-bake before you add the filling and also that pastry shrinks!! It would appear that I, the pastry novice, failed to remember these important things, and thus, my pastry was all bubbly and shrinky! Oh well, I guess when you're going to top it with other goodies, it shouldn't matter so much. But if anyone can offer some advice regarding shrinkage, I would really appreciate it.
Some time later: the tart is out of the oven after cooking for about 15 or 20 mins, and it doesn't taste too bad!! Hooray!! Even my pastry tastes good. I'm just not going to examine the pastry too much, that's all.
I was just talking to my mama and she wants me to find a recipe for a cheesy sauce that she can serve over steamed cauliflower and broccoli. So, mother dearest, please find a recipe here from Delia but if you want something a wee bit easier, check out this one.
Ooh, also props to my friend Jess, she has her own website, which can be found here.
I just decided that I am also going to bake a cake today. Mmm, but it has to be boozy I think. I just bought some mixed berries from the supermarket so I searched for a fab recipe, and managed to find one at Kats Kitchen Talk here, after only about 2 minutes! I heart the intertubes.
I followed the recipe and the only change I made was to add more than 2 tbs of booze, I added about 1/3 of a cup! And I used sherry. I know, I'm a total grandma, but it's cool. I baked la cake for about an hour and when it was ready it looked like this:
The thing is though, brown cakes are really hard to make look awesome, and my photog skills aren't that mad. Oh well, at least it smells good! That's it for now, I'm not sure what's next on the menu, but no doubt there will be inspiration a-plenty over the next few days.
Happy eating x
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