Our apologies for the lack of a post for last week, family commitments intervened with our Wednesday night dinners. On tonight's menu I chose to cook leek and chicken pot pie for mains and Baklava Cigars for dessert. From the outset I have to say both of these dishes worked really well and tasted great.
The Chicken pot pie was a basic chook pot pie recipe but with a little twist that I had not experienced before. Lemon. With normal core ingredients of chicken thighs, bacon, leek, chicken stock and sour cream. Add some lemon juice and a little rind and some puff pastry for the lid. I served tonight's pot pie in individual ramekins which was just the right amount for a serving.
Dessert was from Valli Little and her Faking It Recipe book. Baklava Cigars. This is a very easy dessert to make. Grab a couple of filo sheets and butter them up sprinkle some roasted unsalted nuts over the top of the sheet and roll it up into a tight cigar shape. Bake these on 200 deg for 6-8 minutes until they are golden brown. Once baked allow to cool while sitting in some yummo syrup. To make the syrup put 200g of honey with 200g of caster sugar, 300ml of water and the juice and rind of 2 oranges into a saucepan. Allow to boil for 7 minutes or until syrupy. Serve with some ice-cream.
Both of these dishes were very easy to make and an ideal Wednesday night dinner when you are stuffed from work. It may sound like a busy dinner to make but with a little effort very easy.
Bon Appetite (gee i hope that is how you spell it)
My score for tonight's effort is 5/5 Ramekins for the Chicken pot pie
and for the Baklava Cigars 5/5 Filo Sheets (LOL)
This dinner was completely delicious. The pot pie had a nice hint of lemon, which helped cut through the richness of the sauce. And was a perfect serving size. And then there were the cigars! So crunch, so sweet, so yummy. Also Heston's cinnamon and vanilla ice-cream made an encore performance and was the perfect accompaniment. And there was not sniffing this time (see the Something Old Something New post from January and you'll know what I mean).
ReplyDeleteOverall 10 out of 10, pause, "yeah" (for all your MKR fans out there)