What could be more comforting on a rainy day in lock-down than Quesadilla? Simple to prepare, warm, and oozing with flavour and cheese. Although I’ve used fancy ingredients here you can use just about anything for the filling. Remains of mince to pieces of chicken and ham. Make them vegetarian with roasted peppers or fried mushrooms. A good flavoursome cheese is preferable.
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There is something both comforting and satisfying about good a smoked haddock dish. Well-cooked its flakes should be compact yet succulent. Its flavour both sweet and delicately smoky.
This week’s Stirring Stuff theme is, very easy recipes with the minimal of fuss and ingredients. This delicious smoked Haddock dish takes no more than ten minutes to prepare and 20 minutes to cook.
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Brandade of cured smoked haddock, Quails egg mayonnaise and sourdough croutons
Cookery bloggers don’t usually tell you about the dishes and the ideas that don’t work out, we have a horrible habit of writing up the successful recipes, giving readers the impression that we never make mistakes, that those delicious ideas we have in our heads always work out as planned. But as any cook will know disasters, and things that don’t quite go to plan happen, perhaps especially for those creatives amongst us who have a tendency to get carried away, inspired by ingredients, flavours and aromas; those of us who dream about how to deconstruct recipes and add our own twist to a dish.
Preparing for the Easter weekend I had one such (luckily not ‘binworthy’) moment with a new recipe idea. It didn’t work out as planed and as I was pondering how to remedy the situation it occurred to me that the thinking process that this time turned a near disaster into something delicious might be worth sharing with you – it might come in handy next time you get caught out with a dish that hasn’t gone quite as expected, encourage you to ask questions about the flavour and texture in order to work out if you could create something that might work, rather bin your efforts too quickly in a fit of pique. Continue reading
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