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  • Cookbook Corner

Potato Gratin

21/5/2016

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In my house creamy potatoes are always welcomed and loved. The simplicity of this dish is what makes it even more special for me. This is a great dish to serve at parties, it is a real crowd pleasing dish, serves large quantities and really, who can resist a potato bake.

This is my families favourite potato bake and honestly I will not try another version as this is firstly simple, and secondly, tasty.

Some notes:

I have listed pouring cream in the ingredients list, however, you can just as easily use thickened cream if you have it, as I found no difference really, both creams work well. I have even added some chicken stock when I just didn't have enough cream in the house (and I didn't want to go to the store to buy some more), it worked, and was slightly lower in fat.

I have stated 1kg potatoes, you can easily increase it to 1.5kg and the creaminess will still be there, without adding more cream, but you can if you want. 

I like it with 1 clove garlic, but you can increase it to 2 cloves if you love garlic.

Potatoes are best sliced with a mandolin, but quite often I slice them with a knife, as I couldn't be bothered pulling out the mandolin, and it is fine.

My most important tip, make sure the potato is cooked through before serving, as serving undercooked potatoes will ruin this dish. I check by poking it with a fork or skewer.

So give this a try, it will not disappoint.

Recipe

Adapted from Manu Feildel's Cookbook 'Manu's French Kitchen'
and Julie Goodwin's Cookbook 'Our Family Table'

Serves 4

600ml pouring cream
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1 tablespoon chopped thyme
1kg Desiree potatoes, peeled and sliced thinly
Sea salt and ground white pepper, to taste
20g butter, for greasing

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Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan forced. Grease a 1.5 litre capacity baking dish with the butter.

Slice the potatoes to about 3mm in thickness using a mandolin or a very sharp knife.

Combine the cream, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper in a very large bowl. Toss the potatoes through until they are well coated with the cream mixture.

Transfer the potato and cream mixture to the baking dish, spreading it out into an even layer, try and arrange the top layer neatly, press it down a little.
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Lay a sheet of baking paper on top of the potatoes, then cover the dish with aluminium foil, (the baking paper stops the foil from sticking to the potatoes). Bake for 1 1/2 hours, or until the potato is tender. Remove the foil and bake a further 20-30 minutes or until the top of the potato is golden brown.

Allow to sit for 10 minutes, then serve while still hot.
Enjoy!
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Frosty's Frozen Daiquiri

15/5/2016

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I love frozen cocktails, they are just perfect on a hot summers day.

A friend of mine for Christmas got me a deck of cards with 52 cocktails to try. I have to say it is a great gift.

I made it in my cocktail glass but make it in a stemmed wine glass if that is what you have.

This one I loved, it was simple to make, icy cold and delicious.

Recipe

Recipe adapted from 52 Christmas Cocktail Cards

Serves 1

45ml Bacardi
30ml fresh lemon juice
15ml sugar syrup
2 cups of ice


Pour all the ingredients in a blender, blend until smooth. Pour into your serving glass.

Garnish with a lemon circle.

Enjoy!
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Raspberry Mousse Torte

10/5/2016

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Let me start with saying I made this cake from a gluten free cookbook, but it is not just for people who are gluten intolerant it is for everyone. It is basically a meringue filled with an amazing raspberry mousse that is slightly frozen and an orange jelly. All ingredients are what you will find in your pantry, nothing special, except the fruit that is.

Now I have been wanting to make this for a really long time, but was waiting for the right time. My dear cousin was coming over who is gluten intolerant. I have in the past tried gluten free cakes and I have to say they weren't that great. So I decided meringues were the way to go.

It was AMAZING!!!!!!

The meringue is filled with the most delicious fresh flavour combination of raspberries and orange. It was light, it was flavoursome, it was brilliant. The raspberry mousse just freezes and makes the most delicious ice cream like mousse, it really is special.

Now I will suggest not making this when raspberries are not in season. It is seriously an expensive cake when they are not in season. When I get a chance I will try it with frozen raspberries, see if it is just as good. Also by doing it when raspberries are in season, it is just perfect to have in the summer as it is so refreshing, so the taste of summer.

Was it difficult, not really, you just had to follow the steps and time it well. The meringues I made the night before. The jelly and mousse I made in the morning. As I have a fan forced oven I may have overcooked ever so slightly the meringues, next time I would reduce the oven temperature, but this is seriously a minor issue. If slightly overcooked you just get a crisper meringue which is okay, so don't stress if this happens.

Now I have two ovens so this is easy to make, one tin per oven,  but if like most people you only have one oven, after one hour of baking switched the tins to ensure even baking.

The original recipe used one springform tin and one baking tray lined with a 23cm baking paper circle to bake the meringues, but as the one on the tray expanded after cooking, I think to get the circles of meringue the same size 2 springform tins would give a better result. Since making this originally, I now always make it in two springform tins. Perfect results every time.

Do not make this if you have no room in the freezer, it will not set right in the refrigerator, it will fall apart when slicing if you try, learnt that the hard way. It really does need the freezer to set it.

The orange jelly will set on cooling, if it is hard to work with before you have spread it, just add a teaspoon of water to the mixture and stir it in, keep adding the water until it is of spreadable consistency. And do not put hot jelly over the meringue, it will ruin the meringue.

Also I ran out of time to decorate it with some spun sugar, but I will add it to recipe, it makes it look great.

Recipe

Recipe adapted from World of Food '101 Gluten Free Recipes'

Serves 12

For the Meringue:
4 egg whites
A pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
225g caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Orange Filling:
110g caster sugar
2 tablespoons gluten free cornflour
A pinch salt
1 teaspoon grated orange zest
175ml orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 egg yolks

For the Raspberry Mousse:
800g fresh raspberries
110g caster sugar
55ml water
4 teaspoons powdered gelatine
450ml double cream

To Decorate:
Icing sugar
11 raspberries
225g caster sugar


For the meringue: Preheat the oven to 140C.

Grease 2 x 23-24cm springform cake tins and line the base and sides with baking paper.


In a large bowl of a freestanding mixer, whisk the egg whites, salt and cream of tartar until soft peaks begin. Whisk in the sugar slowly, a tablespoon at a time, until the mixture is thick and glossy, then add the vanilla. Divide the mixture evenly between the two tins, level out the tops. Bake for 2 hours, until crisp. Switch off the oven and leave to cool, with the door open.
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For the Orange Filling: In a large bowl add the sugar, cornflour and salt, whisk gently to combine. Add the zest, orange and lemon juices and the yolks. Whisk into the sugar mixture well, ensuring no lumps. Pour the mixture into a medium sized saucepan and heat gently to a boil, whisking continuously. Once it comes to the boil, whisk for 2 minutes, then leave to cool, whisking occasionally. (If your mixture seems too thick, add a teaspoon of boiling water to the mixture and whisk in until you are happy with the consistency. Mine was, so I added up to 1 tablespoon of water extra, as you need it to be thick, but spreadable). 

Spread 3/4 of the filling on one of the meringue discs, leaving only enough orange filling in the saucepan to decorate the other meringue with dots of orange filling.
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Pipe dots of orange filling onto the top meringue. If you have any leftover filling, spread it on the other disc, don't waste it.
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The original recipe uses 1 cake tin and 1 baking tray to bake the meringues. The tray meringue expands and doesn't make a perfect circle, so I suggest buying a second tin, this way the end result is perfect. I also now use a piping bag and tube to make the orange dots.
For the Raspberry Mousse: Puree the raspberries and sugar, then press through a sieve into a saucepan. Bring to the boil, then simmer, stirring occasionally until reduced by a third, it takes about 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, sprinkle the gelatine over a small bowl with the water in it, stand for 5 minutes. Place the bowl with the gelatine over a pan of simmering water and stir until the gelatine has melted. Stir the gelatine into the raspberry mixture. Pour into a large bowl. Chill for 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Once the raspberries have cooled, fold the cream into the raspberries, I used a whisk to do this. Pour the raspberry mixture over the orange filling. Cover with aluminium foil and freeze for 1 hour.
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After 1 hour carefully place on the top meringue, pressing down gently and continue freezing for a further 3 hours.

(If you used a baking tray to bake the second meringue, freeze the mousse for 4 hours and place the orange dotted meringue disc on top of the raspberry mousse just before serving.)

Carefully transfer the torte onto a serving plate.

Sift with icing sugar. Top the orange circles with a raspberry.


Melt the sugar over a medium heat until deep golden. Do not stir. Remove from the heat and use a fork to flick back and forth over the back of a teaspoon. Set aside to cool and set, then carefully twist off of the spoon. Repeat with the remaining melted sugar and place on the torte, on top of each raspberry.
Enjoy!
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This one I used a cake tin for the base but used a baking tray lined with baking paper with a circle drawn on it. Still tastes the same, just not as perfect looking.
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Using two cake tins gives a perfect finish
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