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Recipes
Mashed potato with a caper and coffee bean duo
Ingredients
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- Mashed potatoes
- Capers
- Mini croustade canapé shells
- Instant coffee
- Coffee beans
- Prepare mashed potatoes and mix in capers
- Pipe into canapé shells
- Season to taste with instant coffee
- Garnish with capers and coffee beans
Roast cauliflower in a dark chocolate fondue
Ingredients
- Cauliflower
- Dark cooking chocolate
- Cut cauliflower into small bulbs
- Roast for 10 minutes in oven
- Meanwhile melt the chocolate in a bain-marie
- Dip roasted cauliflower in melted chocolate and leave to chill
Caviar d’Aquitaine on chilled white chocolate
Ingredients
- 1 tin caviar
- Chilled flat bar of white chocolate
- Cut chocolate squares with hot knife to rough 2-cm squares
- Add a dollop of caviar and serve
Gruyère cheese and honey mini frittata
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- Milk
- Gruyère cheese
- Honey garnish
- Whip up the milk, eggs and plenty of grated gruyère
- Pour the mixture into muffin tins
- Bake for 10 minutes until the egg is fluffy
- Remove from the tins and drizzle with honey
Stilton with a rhubarb compote
Ingredients
- Melba toasts
- Stilton
- Fresh rhubarb
- Roast rhubarb with spoonful of sugar in oven
- Place a triangle of stilton on a mini-Melba toast
- Top with a dollop of rhubarb and serve
Grilled asparagus with violet dust
Ingredients
- Asparagus
- Parma violet sweets
- Roast asparagus on a griddle
- Dust lightly with Parma violet powder
Mini baked potatoes with raspberry beads
Ingredients
- Baby potatoes
- Fresh raspberries
- Roast the potatoes whole in the oven
- Dismember the raspberries into beads
- Make small cuts in the tops of the potatoes and fill with raspberry “caviar”
Bloody Mary with lapsang souchong tea
Ingredients
- 150 ml/5 fl oz tomato juice
- 60 ml/2 fl oz lapsang souchong tea
- ½ lemon, juice only
- 3 dashes Tabasco
- pinch salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 ice cubes
- 2 shots of vodka
- 1 stick of celery for garnish
- Make a strong pot of lapsang souchong and cool to room temperature
- Mix in the tomato juice
- Pour vodka over ice
- Add lemon juice, tabasco sauce and tomato juice/tea mixture. Stir well
- Season with salt and pepper to taste
