Hasselback Potatoes

Something wonderful about a garlicy, crispy baked potato fresh from the oven !   Hasselback Potatoes are just perfect and so very easy to make.

 Ingredients:

Baking Potatoes – Garlic cloves (1 per potato) – Butter – Sea Salt – Olive Oil – Parmesan Cheese ( Optional )

Method:

Clean the potatoes and slice a slither off the bottom so they sit flat onto the baking tray. Cut into the potato every 3 mm being careful not to cut all the way through the potato. Thinly slice the garlic cloves and add slices of garlic into each of the cuts. Spread a little butter over the top of the potato ensuring that some of the butter goes into the cuts with the garlic. Sprinkle with a generous amount of sea salt before drizzling a small amount of olive oil over the top of the potatoes. If you want a cheesy potato now is the time to sprinkle with the parmesan cheese. Bake the potatoes in an oven for around 45 minutes – 1 hour depending on how crispy you like your potatoes. ( Oven temp 200 c / Gas 6 / 400 f )

Wow, Our Kitchen smells amazing right now, roast lamb and garlic Hasselbacks. Time to pour a large glass of red wine and enjoy. . .

Hurricane Soup

Well the tail end of Hurricane Katia is currently crossing the British Isles and its sure feels fresh outside.  Of course when its cold outside theres nothing better than a steaming hot bowl of homemade soup.

Give this one a try and it will soon become a winter staple in your kitchen.

ROASTED TOMATO SOUP

 Ingredients:

 
1 kg plum tomatoes, halved – 1 large white onion, sliced – 2 cloves of garlic, halved – A handful of basil – 1 litre of chicken stock – 3 sun-dried cherry tomatoes – Olive oil – 1 teaspoon of caster sugar – Salt and black pepper

Method
Preheat oven to 220/gas mark 7. Using a large roasting tin, heat the oil in the oven until very hot. Gently add the tomatoes, onion and garlic and sprinkle with sugar. Season generously and bake for 20-25 minutes. Stir, then add basil near the end of cooking. Blitz in a liquidiser with the hot stock. Serve with a swirl of sour cream or crème fresh.

Question: Whats your favourite winter soup ?

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Apple & Blueberry Cake ( its yummy and very easy )

Ingredients:

250 g self raising flour – 125 g butter – 150 g castor sugar – 2 eggs – 125 ml milk – 1 tsp vanilla extract – 2 tbsp demerara sugar – 1 apple – 125 g blueberries

Method:

Combine the first six ingredients into a bowl and mix ( we used the trusty KitchenAid stand mixer ). Pour the cake mixture into a lined springform cake tin thats about 20cm in size. Top with half the blueberries and then add thin slices of apple before adding the remaining blueberries. Sprinkle on the demerara sugar and bake for 40 – 45 minutes in a preheated oven at 170c.