Main: Lamb & Parsnip Pie
Life Food: David Herbert (The Weekend Australian Magazine)
Dessert: Japanese Cheesecake with Raspberries
Delicious – Love to Eat
Hi Everyone,
Hope life is treating you well and you’re enjoying your increased freedoms. Interesting family meals are the focus of this blog and certainly the pies from David Herbert, featured over the last two weeks, fit the bill.
I used a lamb shoulder for this pie as it has more flavour than the leg and the pie certainly contains a nice lot of veg but my thoughts were that even more could be added, so throw in some peas, and maybe zucchini or whatever you have in the crisper waiting to be thrown out. The combination of the red wine, tomato paste, rosemary and tinned tomatoes is a no-brainer when it come to flavour. I decided to do the filling ahead of time and freeze it because I wanted to know if it survived well. Yes! it did. It wasn’t watery once defrosted as so many casserole based recipes are. Just be aware that you will need to bring the filling up to room temp before putting the pastry on top. The recipe calls for the filling to be cool, not cold.
During cooking of the filling just be aware to check for sticking – I would definitely give it a stir every so often.
Pair this up with the mash of your choice, a little bit of something green and you have a hearty meal that is a winner all round. 9/10
Dessert: Japanese Cheesecake with Raspberries. The name made me think that there was going to be something exotic about this cheesecake. Well, wouldn’t you think so too? At the end of the day it was simply a baked cheesecake with a berry coulis. Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love a baked cheesecake but I’m all for calling a spade a spade.
It was beautiful and light in texture and flavour. It definitely needs the coulis and you could use raspberries or strawberries for this. The raspberries were at an all time high in terms of price so I went for strawberries.
It was a very easy recipe and won’t take you long to do the morning of your dinner. It goes a long way so if you were having a few friends over for afternoon tea, this would be a great treat to present them with. 9/10
Both of these are well worth a go.
So until next week,
from my table to yours with love x
