This post will center on some simple recipes for entertaining your friends or family. Think less of eating alone in a one bedreem hell hole, and more of a spirited dinner party or as it usually devolves into, a piss-up.
And what embodies party food more than canapes? Here's two I made on Christmas day that cost virtually nothing.
Scotch Quail Eggs
Scotch eggs are the ultimate British picnic food. You know when food is 'ultimately British" when you describe what exactly it is to your American friend and they recoil in disgust.
Go Get:
12 Quail eggs
800g Sausage meat
Flour
Breadcrumbs
2 Regular Eggs
The Action:
1. Boil the quail eggs for 3 minutes, drain and place under cold running water. And then Peel.
2. flatten out a chunk of sausage meat with your hands and roll around the quails egg. Roll around in your hands until perfectly round.
3. Dust the ball in seasoned flour, dip in egg wash, and roll it around in the breadcrumbs.
4. Deep fry until golden brown. If You've done it right, the yolk will still be slightly runny.
Scotch eggs are the ultimate British picnic food. You know when food is 'ultimately British" when you describe what exactly it is to your American friend and they recoil in disgust.
Go Get:
12 Quail eggs
800g Sausage meat
Flour
Breadcrumbs
2 Regular Eggs
The Action:
1. Boil the quail eggs for 3 minutes, drain and place under cold running water. And then Peel.
2. flatten out a chunk of sausage meat with your hands and roll around the quails egg. Roll around in your hands until perfectly round.
3. Dust the ball in seasoned flour, dip in egg wash, and roll it around in the breadcrumbs.
4. Deep fry until golden brown. If You've done it right, the yolk will still be slightly runny.
Egg Bacon Bites
I used the Hairy Biker's recipe for this one. All you need is a sheet of puff pastry, a few rashers of bacon, two eggs, mayonnaise, four cherry tomatoes and four hard boiled quails eggs.
The Action:
1. Place the sheet of puff pastry over your cupcake baking tin and cut into squares and press into each cupcake space. Stab the bottom of each pastry base with a fork. Place in the oven and bake for 20 mins.
2. Hardboil your quails eggs and hen eggs. Make an egg mayonnaise by combining the hen's eggs and a few dollops of mayonnaise. Fill your pastry cases with the egg mayonnaise. Fry the bacon until crispy and cut into pieces.
3. Cut the quail's egg and the cherry tomatoes in half and arrange on your canape. Season with salt and pepper, and finish by sticking the bacon in vertically.
And there you have it. Two really easy ways to impress your guests with small, sophisticated nibbles.
I used the Hairy Biker's recipe for this one. All you need is a sheet of puff pastry, a few rashers of bacon, two eggs, mayonnaise, four cherry tomatoes and four hard boiled quails eggs.
The Action:
1. Place the sheet of puff pastry over your cupcake baking tin and cut into squares and press into each cupcake space. Stab the bottom of each pastry base with a fork. Place in the oven and bake for 20 mins.
2. Hardboil your quails eggs and hen eggs. Make an egg mayonnaise by combining the hen's eggs and a few dollops of mayonnaise. Fill your pastry cases with the egg mayonnaise. Fry the bacon until crispy and cut into pieces.
3. Cut the quail's egg and the cherry tomatoes in half and arrange on your canape. Season with salt and pepper, and finish by sticking the bacon in vertically.
And there you have it. Two really easy ways to impress your guests with small, sophisticated nibbles.
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