Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Sunday, April 13, 2014
OX TONGUE ROAST FOR CHRISTMAS
1Large Ox tongue
1 big onion sliced
4 red chilies broken into bits
1 teaspoon whole pepper corns
2 cloves
2 pieces of cinnamon
2 tablespoons oil
Salt to taste
Wash the tongue well and then pressure cook it with 2 cups of water and a little salt till tender letting some soup remain. Open the pressure cooker and remove the boiled tongue. Let it cool for some time. When it is a little cold remove the white skin from the tongue and put it back into the open cooker and add the oil, onion, red chilies pepper corns, cloves and cinnamon and a little more salt. Mix well. Simmer on low heat till all the soup dries up and the tongue is nicely brown all over .Cut into slices and arrange on a plate along with the residue. Serve hot or cold with mash potatoes and bread. You can make very delicious sandwiches with tongue roast as filling
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1 big onion sliced
4 red chilies broken into bits
1 teaspoon whole pepper corns
2 cloves
2 pieces of cinnamon
2 tablespoons oil
Salt to taste
Wash the tongue well and then pressure cook it with 2 cups of water and a little salt till tender letting some soup remain. Open the pressure cooker and remove the boiled tongue. Let it cool for some time. When it is a little cold remove the white skin from the tongue and put it back into the open cooker and add the oil, onion, red chilies pepper corns, cloves and cinnamon and a little more salt. Mix well. Simmer on low heat till all the soup dries up and the tongue is nicely brown all over .Cut into slices and arrange on a plate along with the residue. Serve hot or cold with mash potatoes and bread. You can make very delicious sandwiches with tongue roast as filling
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Christmas Pudding for Stir Up Sunday
Its Stir Up Sunday today. The last Sunday before Advent and the day when, traditionally, you are supposed to make your Christmas Pudding to allow it to mature for Christmas.
Too posh? Not enough time? Dont know how? Cant be bothered? Well, I have good news for you... you dont have to make your own as there are some lovely Christmas puds out there that you can heat up easily, serve and enjoy!
And where better to get your Christmas Pudding than from Harrods, dahling! I wouldnt dream of getting mine anywhere else ;-) For a start, it arrives in this gorgeous box, with Father Christmas on his sleigh, pulled by reindeer, flying over the rooftops of Harrods.
Im going to have to find another use for the box as I really love it, Im sure it can be repurposed to hold some Christmas decorations or something equally festive.
When you open the box, you see that, not only do you have a Harrods Classic Christmas Pudding with Brandy, but also a bumper jar of Harrods Brandy Butter! The pudding has been 6 months matured for Christmas Day and is bursting with juicy Mediterranean fruits, Vositizza currants, cherries, almonds and walnuts blended with Thatchers Cider, one year old Brandy, Spanish Sherry and Rum! It only needs some gentle reheating, an hour of steaming or a 3 minute blast in the microwave. The Brandy Butter is 8% Courvoisier VS Cognac.
The pudding tastes just as good as homemade, its rich and fruity with nice sized chunks of nuts. It isnt heavy at all and you could get six small portions or four generous portions from this 454g pudding. The Brandy Butter is soft and delicious, melting gloriously over the warm pudding without overpowering it with too much spirit.
The Harrods Christmas Classic Hamper containing a 454g pudding and 210g jar of brandy butter costs £25 and I think it would make a great gift. There are lots of other Christmas Hampers and Food Hampers to choose from at Harrods, there is bound to be something for everyone.
I received the Harrods Christmas Classic Hamper to review, I was not required to write a positive review and I was not paid to write this review.
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Too posh? Not enough time? Dont know how? Cant be bothered? Well, I have good news for you... you dont have to make your own as there are some lovely Christmas puds out there that you can heat up easily, serve and enjoy!
When you open the box, you see that, not only do you have a Harrods Classic Christmas Pudding with Brandy, but also a bumper jar of Harrods Brandy Butter! The pudding has been 6 months matured for Christmas Day and is bursting with juicy Mediterranean fruits, Vositizza currants, cherries, almonds and walnuts blended with Thatchers Cider, one year old Brandy, Spanish Sherry and Rum! It only needs some gentle reheating, an hour of steaming or a 3 minute blast in the microwave. The Brandy Butter is 8% Courvoisier VS Cognac.
The Harrods Christmas Classic Hamper containing a 454g pudding and 210g jar of brandy butter costs £25 and I think it would make a great gift. There are lots of other Christmas Hampers and Food Hampers to choose from at Harrods, there is bound to be something for everyone.
I received the Harrods Christmas Classic Hamper to review, I was not required to write a positive review and I was not paid to write this review.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Dark Chocolate MIncemeat for Christmas
I was struggling with the We should Cocoa challenge for November, just how should I combine chocolate and apples? I thought about a chocolate apple cake, stewed apples with chocolate custard, chocolate covered apples. But none of these ideas really appealed.
However, I was lucky enough to win Dan Lepards Short and Sweet from The Chocolate Log Blog (co-host of We should Cocoa) and my copy arrived this week. Flipping through all the lovely recipes and excellent photographs and I stumbled upon a recipe for Dark Rich Mincemeat. Maybe it was the name that did it, dark and rich conjures up CHOCOLATE to me and it got me wondering what it would be like to include some dark chocolate IN the mincemeat.
Im also entering this for Vanessa Kimbells "Lets Make Christmas".
This recipe is inspired by the Dan Lepard recipe.
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Dark Chocolate Mincemeat
Christmas Mincemeat (dried fruits, apples and butter) with added chocolate. Inspired by Dan Lepards Dark rich mincemeat in Short and Sweet
Ingredients
- 2 dessert apples, peeled, cored and chopped small
- 300g Dried raisin, sultana & cranberry mix
- 100g soft prunes, stoned and chopped
- 250ml stout or porter
- 1 medium cooking apple, peeled cored and grated
- 300g muscovado sugar
- 1 lemon, grated zest and juice
- 1 tbsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 50g butter
- 3 tbsp brandy or rum
- 100g dark chocolate
Instructions
1. Add the stout or porter to a large pan with the grated cooking apple, muscovado sugar, lemon zest and juice.2. Bring to the boil, stiring and simmer for about 5 minutes.3. Measure the dried fruits and other dry ingredients and put in a bowl with the chopped dessert apples.4. Add the dried fruit mixture to the pan with the butter and simmer until thick.5. Remove from the heat, leave until warm and stir in the brandy or rum.Leave to cool completely, then stir in 100g chopped dark chocolate.
Details
Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Yield: around 3lb
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