Monday 15 June 2009

Sticky sausage burgers with blue cheese


Ingredients (serves 2):

4 pork sausages
2 spring onions, sliced
tea spoon of apple sauce
tea spoon of whole grain mustard
25g of blue cheese (we used Danish blue)
2 burger buns
  1. squeeze the sausage meat out of the skins and place the sausage in a glass bowl
  2. add the spring onions, apple sauce, mustard and cheese and mix well

  3. mould the mixture into 2 burger shapes

  4. heat some oil in a non stick pan until hot

  5. cook the burgers on each side for approx 6 minutes

We served them in a toasted sesame seed bun with an extra slice of blue cheese. On the side we had new potatoes and green beans in a garlic, herb and caper mayonnaise.

Sea bream with tomatoes, red onion and lemon



Ingredients (serves 2):

2 sea bream fillets
1 large potato, sliced
2 large tomatoes, sliced
1/2 lemon, sliced
1 red onion, diced
1 bay leaf
1 clove of garlic
1/2 glass of white wine
salt and pepper
olive oil
  1. pre heat the oven to 180 degrees

  2. par boil the potato slices and then layer them on the bottom of an oven proof dish with a drizzle of olive oil, season

  3. layer the tomato and red onion slices on top of the potatoes and cook in the oven for 10 minutes

  4. add the garlic, lemon slices, and bay leaf, season the fish and place the bream fillets on top side by side

  5. pour over the white wine and put the dish back in the oven for 20-25 minutes, depending on the thickness of the fillets

Chinese omelette



Ingredients (makes 2 omelettes):

3 eggs
cooked peeled prawns
shitake mushrooms, sliced
3 spring onions, sliced
splash of soy sauce
1 clove of garlic
pinch of dried chilli flakes
1/2 tea spoon of chinese 5 spice
  1. fry the mushrooms, spring onions, chilli and garlic until the mushrooms are just soft, add the soy and chinese 5 spice for the last minute or two

  2. beat the eggs and pour half into an omelette pan

  3. once the omelette is almost cooked, heap half of the the cooked prawns and mushroom mixture on one side then fold over the omelette

  4. continue to cook for a few minutes until the prawns are warmed through

  5. repeat for 2nd omelette