Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning you lovely lot!! Todays menu:

[merciasounds]

Fresh just cut this morning asparagus with homemade hollandaise sauce
OR
Chicken liver pate with brandy served with melba toasts
OR
Spring vegetable soup with cheese bread

mains:
Stuffed cabbage leaves - cabbage leaves stuffed with minced lamb, diced onion, and peas, served in a rich gravy with roast potatoes and baby carrots
OR
Cold cuts of roast ham, roast beef. chicken or poached salmon with a salad of Jersey Royal new potatoes, mangetout and mint, served with a freshly picked garden salad, choice of dressing (french vinaigrette, blue cheese, honey and wholegrain mustard)
OR
Spaghetti carbonara - spaghetti with a sauce made with smoked ham, cream and eggs

Puds
Black cherry cheesecake
Or
lemon meringue pie
OR
Raspberry and coconut sponge and velvety smooth custard


7 cheeses, crackers, grapes and celery

filter/liqueur coffee

[marval]

Chicken liver pate with brandy served with melba toasts

Stuffed cabbage leaves - cabbage leaves stuffed with minced lamb, diced onion, and peas, served in a rich gravy with roast potatoes and baby carrots

7 cheeses, crackers, grapes and celery

It all sounds lovely, thank you.

[Eve]

Spring vegetable soup with cheese bread

Spaghetti carbonara - spaghetti with a sauce made with smoked ham, cream and eggs (seriously struggling to choose a main today though!).

Black cherry cheesecake

7 cheeses, crackers.

filter coffee

[mccfluff]

i think i want it all but i will settle on aspargus, cold cuts and cheese

[bobjugs12]

MS, can I have it all pleae? I'm a growing boy and I need my sustenance

If not i'll opt for the asparagus, carbonara, and ras[berry sponge please. Many thanks :D

[supersuezy24]

Spring vegetable soup, spaghetti carbonara and lemon meringue pie :)

[cherrychapstick]

merciasounds i have not seen you offering this but do you have a good recipe for chocolate mousse ,i made it on saturday was lovely but the bottom didnt seem to set ,i followed delia smiths recipe http://www.deliaonlin...hocolatey-mousse.html

tia

[merciasounds]

BobJ, you can have some of everything, there's loads to go around!! I've got 40lb of asapargus brought to me this morning to bundle up for market tomorrow, it's a whole 16lb gammon ham, and a rib of beef of help yourself!!

[cherrychapstick]

oh i will have the cold cuts of roast beef , raspberry and coconut sponge bob can have my starter :)

[merciasounds]

You know Cherry, with a risk of being 'clobbered' by those that think she's a goddess, there are a lot of Delia's recipes that don't work!! - I don't understand why she used golden sugar - well obviously to sweeten it, but it would make the egg whites 'sweat' being brown would still have a certain amount of molasses in it - i'll hunt out my recipe (I'm so used to making it i don't know the amounts and post it here on this thread for you a a bit!! Mercia XX

[mccfluff]

it's a whole 16lb gammon ham, and a rib of beef of help yourself!!

i'm so hungry right now, ready that actually hurts :-(

[cherrychapstick]

thank you mercia much appreciated ,i used to make it all the time but now i am getting back into cooking after moving 2 .5 years ago i cannot find any of my recipes or cook books :(

Cherry x

[Eve]

I'm sure they were demonstrating a Delia recipe that didn't work on Watchdog the other week.

[merciasounds]

Ingredients

250g plain chocolate such as Green and Blacks, pref 70%

3 tbsp water

50g caster sugar

5 eggs, separated

500ml double cream

pinch of salt


Preparation method
1. Put chocolate in double boiler with sugar and water. Heat and stir until very smooth. Take off heat and keep stirring vigorously every 2 minutes until about body temperature.
2. While chocolate is cooling down, separate eggs - crack over 2 separate bowls.
3. Stir yolks into cooling chocolate before it goes granular. Put whites in whisking bowl and into fridge.
4. In separate bowl, whisk cream. Stir body temperature chocolate into whisked cream, gently!
5. Whisk egg whites until peaks form and fold gently into cream and chocolate mixture. Spoon into 8 ramekin dishes. Leave to set in the fridge for at least 2-3 hours

[cherrychapstick]

thank you very much for that mercia , will let you know how i get on x♥x

Cherry x

[merciasounds]

I DO know there was some controversy about one of delia's 'cheat' recipes for waitrose, I think it eas for a fish risotto or something using a tin of French fish soup and everybody said it smelt and tasted disgusting!!

[merciasounds]

thanks cherry - hope you like it!!

[ummmm]

I'll have...

Pate
Cold cuts
Cheese
Coffee

Do you know 'real' Italian carbonara doesn't have any cream. Gino told me :-)

[merciasounds]

Oh a PS i forgot to add Cherry, I often replace the water with booze!! Cherry or Apricot brandy, or any of the orange liqueurs, Bailey's....

[cherrychapstick]

oh thanks will have to try that way too ,i am sure it will be brill xx