New year recips

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Canapés
_Black bean and mango wraps_
Tortillas
Mango
Tin black beans

_Beetroot and tagellio tartlets_
Shortcut pastry tarts
Beet root chutney
Chive
Tagellio cheese

_Baked mushrooms_
6 large flat mushrooms
Garlic
Ginger?
Crunchy Peanut butter
Spring onion
Soy sauce
Juice 1/2 lime
Small red chilli
Sesame seeds

(Mix everything into a thick satay sauce in frying pan, starting with softening onions an garlic
Oil tray with sesame oil and sprinkle with sesame seeds)

Ciabatta bread

_Spanakopita pie_
1 lb Filo pastry
Butter
2 leeks
900g/2lb spinach (frozen)
salt and freshly ground pepper
freshly grated nutmeg, to taste
Dill? Fresh mint
1 lemon, zest only
1 or more large free-range egg, beaten
200g/7oz feta
Raisins n toasted pine nuts


1 tbsp crushed sea salt

_Romaine lettuce, pomegranate salad_
Greek yog? Kalamati olives to seve?
Tomatoes marinated with fennel seeds ...?

Roasted sweet potatoes?


_Chocolate mousse_

Fresh cream

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www.deliaonline.com/recipes/cuisine/european/french/a-very-chocolatey-mousse.html

Nice idea, top with dried cherries soaked in ameretto or other spirit.

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OK final version of ressipps

Spinach Pie

Two packs of jus-rol filo pastry, defrosted
1 900g pack frozen spinach, defrosted and squeezed out
goodly amounts of butter/oil mix to do pastry
handful pine nuts, toasted
handful fat raisins, soaked in hot water to plump up
2 leeks, diced
3 garlic cloves, crushed
tsp or 2 of dried dill
1/2 ground nutmeg
salt and pepper
3 eggs, beaten.
2 pack of feta cheese, crumbled

Preheat oven to 180*
Fry leeks in butter, until very soft, and add garlic and other flavourings near end of cooking time
Remove from heat.
Add beaten eggs and crumbled cheese to this mix.

In sep pan, fry defrosted spinach and either boil off or tip away any excess liquid .. needs to be very dry.
Mix leek and eggy stuff into the cooked spinach, taste for seasoning.

Assemble the pie:
Oil large, rectangular glass pie dish. (2 litre capacity)
Layer in one pack of the filo, brushing one side of pastry with butter / oil mix.
Arrange so as to leave a few bits of filo hanging over the edges of dish.
Pile in 1/2 spinach and cheese mix - level out neatly
Sprinkle the pine nuts and raisins all over this layer
Pile in rest of spinach and level again.

Layer up rest of filo on top, tucking in overhangin bits and brushing with the oil/butter mix as required

Cook in moderate oven for 45 mins.
Leave to settle for ten miutes before serving

Goes well with baby roast potatoes with rosemary and garlic, with tomatoes in some form, salad or roasted.

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Chocolate Mousse

Basically this recipe:
Nigel Slater's Classic Choc Mousse

but without the butter (which congealed outside as it set!)
and with alchohol (not coffee) as used to soak a pack of dried cherries.

Ingredients:
Pre-soak a pack of urban fruit dried cherries in Chambord or Framboise liquer
250 g dark choc
4 seperated eggs
3 tbsp of the alcohol - as per Slater's method

Pop a few of the alcohol soaked cherries in the bottom of each serving dish, bfore adding the mousse
when set, decorate with thick layer of cream, good spoon of alcholic cherries and little grated chocolate.

These quantities make 6 good portions