Gah, I'm flattened!
May. 21st, 2021 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartToday was the great kitchen battle: I had to do something with the spinach my friend Evie brought me yesterday, plus I had to use up some eggs before they'd go bad.
Since the big bag of spinach I got shrank to a handful after being cooked, I decided to make little pasties from the roll of excellent ready-made puff pastry that was also dangerously approaching its "best before" deadline in the fridge, filling them with a mixture of spinach, garlic, grated cheese and chopped cashews.
Paul Hollywood's original recipe asks for pine nuts, but I didn't have those and refused to buy a package just for this one dish, as they are - how could it be different - outrageously expensive. OTOH I still had some cashews left over from the Christmas baking in the freezer, so I simply used some of those. I seriously doubt that anyone would notice the difference. Well, save for Paul Hollywood, of course, but I mean ordinary people with ordinary budgets.
Here are the little darlings:
Granted, they aren't all identical, as the puff pastry was being belligerent, plus I didn't have enough spinach filling, so the ones with the sesame seed on top are filled with chopped ham, creme freche and grated cheese. Also very yummy, though.
I also made an 8-egg sponge cake for a Swiss roll, which I filled with strawberry jam, chopped strawberries that I sprinkled with a little eggnog and white Raspelschokolade - no idea what those are called in English. The Swiss roll is currently resting in the fridge. I hope it will harden a bit to keep its shape and won't fall apart when cut. I'll post a picture tomorrow.
Other than that I bought my monthly ticket, made a food run and we had a visit from the physiotherapist. Right now I'm fairly dead on my feet, but at least we have leftovers for tomorrow. ;)
Since the big bag of spinach I got shrank to a handful after being cooked, I decided to make little pasties from the roll of excellent ready-made puff pastry that was also dangerously approaching its "best before" deadline in the fridge, filling them with a mixture of spinach, garlic, grated cheese and chopped cashews.
Paul Hollywood's original recipe asks for pine nuts, but I didn't have those and refused to buy a package just for this one dish, as they are - how could it be different - outrageously expensive. OTOH I still had some cashews left over from the Christmas baking in the freezer, so I simply used some of those. I seriously doubt that anyone would notice the difference. Well, save for Paul Hollywood, of course, but I mean ordinary people with ordinary budgets.
Here are the little darlings:
Granted, they aren't all identical, as the puff pastry was being belligerent, plus I didn't have enough spinach filling, so the ones with the sesame seed on top are filled with chopped ham, creme freche and grated cheese. Also very yummy, though.
I also made an 8-egg sponge cake for a Swiss roll, which I filled with strawberry jam, chopped strawberries that I sprinkled with a little eggnog and white Raspelschokolade - no idea what those are called in English. The Swiss roll is currently resting in the fridge. I hope it will harden a bit to keep its shape and won't fall apart when cut. I'll post a picture tomorrow.
Other than that I bought my monthly ticket, made a food run and we had a visit from the physiotherapist. Right now I'm fairly dead on my feet, but at least we have leftovers for tomorrow. ;)
