Showing posts with label creme fraiche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creme fraiche. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

4 January - mushroom soup and kippercakes

More shiitake mushrooms had sprouted and were growing almost by the minute, so lunch was a simple mushroom noodle soup. Annoyingly, I burnt my tongue with my first slurp, so I'm not really sure if it tasted good or not!

Completely out of ideas for supper, I turned to the Kitchen Diaries, starting off with today's date and browsing back and forth. I came across what were described as "kipper patties", but somehow became known as "kippercakes" in the cooking! Really they were just pretty straightforward fishcakes made with kippers, potato and a bit of dill. The recipe suggested serving them with dill mayonnaise, but I had some creme fraiche in the fridge, so used that instead with some dill and a crushed clove of garlic. They were a bit soggy and went a bit squishy in the frying, but the smoky kippercakes with the fresh, cooling creme fraiche were a great combination, along with a pile of steamed leeks, beans and carrots.

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

7 December - baked salmon and rhubarb cakes

I picked up some rhubarb at the supermarket this afternoon and without much work on, I spent a bit of time pottering in the kitchen, making up a batch of rhubarb upside-down cakes. And now I know why my cakes always come out pointy - apparently, it's to do with cooking them in a fan oven.

Tonight's dinner started off with the cavalo nero still left from Friday's vegbox. I went for some simple baked salmon fillets with a dollop of minty creme fraiche on the top, then I cooked the cavalo nero up with some bacon and we had it all with some new potatoes. Simple, but tasty for a midweek supper.