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Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 February 2013

Blue Cheese Mushroom Stacks

I made these for dinner and they were scrum-diddly.
Can be served as a starter or serve two with a salad for a main course.
They also work with any other cheese but I am having a bit of a blue cheese obsession at the mo!

Make 'em:

Large mushrooms
Cherry tomatoes, halved
Red pepper, chopped
Blue cheese, sliced or crumbled
Oil
Bread, sliced
Garlic granules
Black pepper
Oregano

I haven't put quantities of anything as it's all up to you, also you can change up what veggies you use too. I used 2 cherry toms and about 1/4 of a small red pepper per 'shroom, and enough cheese to cover. I sliced my bread from the end of a crusty loaf to make my croutons but you could also use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes from a slice of bread.

Oven at 200'c (fan)

Lightly grease the bottom of your roasting tray and sit the mushrooms in cap-side down. If they have long stalks trim these first.
On each mushroom place the tomatoes and peppers and top with your cheese. Gently drizzle your pieces of bread with oil and sprinkle with the garlic, pepper and oregano. You shouldn't need any salt due to the cheese. Stack these on top of the mushrooms and cook for approx 20 minutes.
Remove from oven and transfer to plate. Then make lots of "mmmm" sounds as you chow down.





Friday, 15 June 2012

A Tart For Tea (or lunch, or whatever)

Ok, so I've blogged a quick tart recipe before, but that was ages ago and this one was too lush not to share.

Dead quick n easy to make and a right little treat for your taste buds. The best bit is you can change up the ingredients to fit what you've got in your fridge/cupboards. Perfecto.

The Stuff:
1 sheet of ready made puff pastry
Some kind of tomato sauce (or pesto)
Roasted peppers from a jar
Half a small red onion thinly sliced
Small piece of chorizo thinly sliced
A few sun dried tomatoes
A small wedge of Brie
Sprig of rosemary finely chopped

What to do:
First score your pastry like in the pic. Slap it on a lightly oiled baking sheet.
Next spoon on your sauce and spread thinly. Then just chuck on the other ingredients, and a bit of seasoning and bosh it in the oven at 180'C for about 20 mins depending on your oven (until browned and puffy and gorgeous). Cut it up (a pizza wheel is best for this job) and devour.