Welcome to the first Saturday of the month where I usually share everything I have made over the previous month. It has been a busy month in our kitchen with lots of baking and new recipes tries!
However, before we talk about this, I shamelessly stole the above pic from Jackie at Junkboat Travel because I feel seen! Often if I am baking I say to my husband that I am creating lots of washing up and the side outcome is something delicious to eat!
Speaking of baking here's what I did make this month
Raspberry Shortbread Cookies with White Chocolate - I made this after reading The Bittersweet Bakery Cafe by Catherine Greer. I reviewed the book and shared the recipe, which is a family recipe, here.
Chocolate Eclairs - My husband had been asking me to make eclairs for a while but I kept on putting it off as I was a bit intimidated by it! However, once I decided to make it, it is doable. The recipe, which I shared as part of my Cook the Books contribution a couple of weeks ago, makes a lot so I still have some in the freezer. When I first filled the eclairs, I made it with a chocolate glaze and chantilly cream filling. The next time, I refreshed the shells in the oven, and then used the passionfruit and milk chocolate ganache from the macarons as the glaze and chocolate cream
Curry sausage rolls - Yes, this is a rare savoury bake, and it was delicious! The recipe comes from Justin Narayan's Everything in Indian.
Passionfruit and Milk Chocolate Macarons - My friend and I went and did a class to learn how to make macarons! It was such a great day. I shared about this experience here.
Chocolate Brownie - It's been an age since I made my favourite chocolate brownie recipe by Bill Granger! It went down a treat!
I haven't bought many cook books this year. When this book, Everything is Indian, was announced as the cook book for Lambs Ear Cook Book Club, I borrowed it from the library. After cooking a few things from it, we agreed that we needed to own it! I am planning to share something about this book in the next couple of weeks. I also got Taverna by Georgina Hayden out from the library. We really liked her book Greekish, so I need to find some time to look through the book before it has to go back to the library!
My most useful purchase this month was two storage containers which are the perfect shape for sheets of premade pastry and things like wraps or rotis. I don't know how I lived without them! I keep on finding new ways to use it, but at this stage, I am resisting the urge to buy any more.
We did have a very nice French dinner a couple of weeks ago. In fact, we had a very French weekend. I had already made eclairs, then we had the dinner before we went to see the arena version of Les Miserables which was amazing, and then I made macarons the next day. I wasn't sure what to expect of the dinner. It was a fixed price menu in the restaurant at the arena, and to be honest I kind of expected to walk away thinking that it was an okay dinner, potentially overpriced but worth it for the convenience of already being in the stadium. It turned out the dinner was delicious, the portions were generous and it was well worth doing!
I had crab tart, mushroom pithivier and potato gratin. In theory, the dessert came boxed up so that you could take it into the show with you to eat later, but we ate it in the restaurant. It was a gingernut base with layers of strawberry and rhubarb.
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52 Recipes Challenge
Here are the new recipes we tried this month.
Raspberry and white chocolate shortbread cookies
Curry Roast Chicken, Masala roast potatoes and Raita - from Everything in Indian
Curry Sausage rolls - Another recipe from Everything in Indian. This one got rave reviews from Robert.
Spicy Prawn Noodles - My son was away for a few days so we had prawns. We don't cook these when he is home.
Spicy Beef Noodles - This came from Dominique's Kitchen and we tried this because it was a two person recipes
Chocolate eclairs
Potato Gratin - I had a craving for potato bake. This recipe came from RecipeTin Eats
Cottage Pie - Another recipe from the RecipeTin Eats site.
Sausage and veggie gravy traybake - And yes, another RecipeTin Eats recipe.
Before next month I should check to see what the tally is and how close I am
Weekend Cooking posts from the last month
Tucci in Italy/Nonnas - Italian Food
Weekly Meals
Saturday - Schnitzel, chips, broccoli, mushroom sauce
Sunday - Sausages and potato gratin
Monday - Beef and broccoli noodles
Tuesday - Cottage Pie
Wednesday - Sausage, vegetable and gravy traybake
Thursday - Chilli Con Carne
Friday - Out for dinner
I am sharing this post with In My Kitchen hosted at Sherry's Pickings.
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The Raspberry Shortcake Cookies with White Chocolate are really calling my name! It looks like you had a great week, I am about done updating the blog and hope to get more original recipes shared!
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