Main: Salmon, Egg & Dill Pie
From: Delicious Love to Cook
Dessert: Champagne Strawberry Trifles
From: Delicious Love to Cook
Hi Everyone,
Hope this week has been a good one for you. Have you had a chance to try any of the recipes from the blog this week? I’d love to hear from you if you have.
Today I am bringing you another easy and yet impressive meal from Delicious – Love to Cook. Such a great book for enthusiastic cooks because the meals are interesting without being difficult to complete. This lovely layered “pie” calls for hot-smoked salmon which means that you don’t even have to poach or bake a salmon fillet. The beautifully flavoured salmon is usually found in the deli cabinet of Woolies and is already seasoned and vacuumed packed for ease. The only thing I couldn’t get this particular week was a block of pastry so I used the frozen sheets and just made them into the correct size.
Hey what a great opportunity to buy another kitchen toy. I didn’t have a pastry lattice cutter so for a start, I wasn’t sure how it worked but for $9.95 it was well worth giving it a go.
Boiled eggs, flavoured rice and smoked salmon encased in pastry and then topped off with a simple caper sauce creates an extremely tasty meal. Because of the combination of flavours there isn’t an overriding fishy taste so even the not so keen seafood lovers will be impressed.
None of this is difficult and the family with love you for it. Prepare the pie a couple of hours ahead of time, cover with glad wrap and put in the fridge. Serve with a green salad and you’ve got it covered. This scored a 9/10.
Individual champagne trifles – wahoo were they alcoholic! The jelly is made from fresh strawberries and champagne and then the savoiardi biscuits are soaked in sherry – so a double whammy. It’s a little bit fiddly but not difficult and can be assembled early then topped with whipped cream and crushed amaretti biscuits when ready to serve.
I would say that these are probably not suitable for younger children. Oh, by the way, I think if you didn’t have sherry you could use a liqueur of your choice. There was not a lot of chatter while these were consumed. 9.5/10.
Until next week….
From my table to yours with love x
