A weekend of eating

On Friday night we had a test out for Saturday night’s meal for Andy and Becky.  It was a great success.  We had courgette fritters (with egg and fried in shallow olive oil) with a tomato chutney (roast and tinned tomatoes, onion, garlic, vinegar, sugar) and watercress first.  Then thin-sliced (fried) aubergine wrapping buffalo mozzarella, with leek cous cous and tapenade (black olive, caper, garlic).  N made a fabulous Baileys and chocolate cheesecake.  

Lessons: don’t heat the mozzarella (I grilled the rolls), keep it fresh.  Cous cous will form a shape really easily with any sort of bowl.

Sunday friends in Leeds made us a really nice spinach, mascarpone and walnut cannelloni with salad, and a really nice smoked haddock pate (mashed haddock with Philadelphia cheese and horseradish).