Boxing Day recipes

[Guest guest]

My Boxing Day meal went very well. I got a new cookbook for

Christmas - Rose Elliot's Fast, Fresh and Fabulous and I chose 2

recipes from that which really lived up to the book's title. My

friend was suitably impressed and so was I because they were very

quick and easy dishes to make and delicious to eat and they aleo

looked really attractive (I'm only sorry that my digital camera has

vanished). I had to improvise a little as I only decided on the menu

this morning and I had to make do with the ingredients that I had

available.

 

Christie

 

 

Green Pea Soup with Mint

 

900g (2lb) packet of frozen petits pois

1 large onion, roughly chopped

6 cloves of garlic

 

To finish:

3-4 Tbsp thick plain yoghurt

fresh mint leaves

 

Serves 4

 

Put the peas into a saucepan with 1.2 litres (2 pints) water, onion

and garlic. Cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes until garlic and

onion are tender. Puree and return to the saucepan. Season with salt

and pepper. Reheat then ladle into bowls, top with a swirl of

yoghurt, coarsely ground black pepper and mint leaves.

 

I had no onion and had to substitute spring onions instead. After I

had blended the soup I found it a little bland and added 2 tsp of

vegetable bouillon powder. I had no fresh mint so I dunked a

peppermint teabag into the soup when I reheated it prior to serving.

It is the greenest, freshest tasting soup I've ever had.

 

Stuffed Avocados

 

250g (9 oz) basmati and wild rice mix

115g (4 oz split red lentils

0.25 tsp turmeric

500g (1lb 2 oz) assorted wild mushrooms

1 Tbsp olive oil

2 garlic cloves, chopped

Juice of half a lemon

2 avocados

 

Serves 4

 

Preheat oven to 150C/300F/Gas Mark 2.

Put the rice and lentils into a saucepan with turmeric and 600mls (1

pint) of water. Bring to the boil then cover and leave to cook for

15 minutes. Remove from the heat and leave still covered for another

5 minutes.

 

Fry the mushrooms in olive oil for 5-10 minutes or until tender,

adding the garlic and a squeeze of lemon juice towards the end,

Season with salt and pepper.

 

Halve, stone and peel the avocados, coat on both sides with lemon

juice and salt and pepper. Add any remaining lemon juice to the

rice/lentil mixture.

 

Fluff the rice and lentils with a fork, adding a little salt, then

spread onto a serving plate. Top with the avocado halves, cut sides

up. Spoon the mushrooms onto them, heaping them up. Put into a cool

oven for up to 15 minutes to warm the avocados – do not let the

avocados cook or they will spoil.

 

I had no turmeric and used saffron instead and I substituted a

mixture of baby button white and chestnut mushooms for the wild

mushrooms. I used hass avocados which were quite small so although I

had halved all the other ingredients, we had a whole avocado each.

[Guest guest]

So glad your Boxing Day meal went well. Your recipes sound great and

very easy indeed! Wow, that's two cookbooks by Rose Elliot that I'm

now interested in. May have to request them for my birthday.

 

I made the mince tarts from Rose's mince recipe and they turned out

great. Although my oven seems to be running high and I'm out of

practice making pastry with whole wheat flour; so some items came out

a little dry; oh well. I'm munching on my soysage rolls right now.

 

cheers,

Denise

 

, " christie_0131 "

<christie0131@g...> wrote:

>

> My Boxing Day meal went very well. I got a new cookbook for

> Christmas - Rose Elliot's Fast, Fresh and Fabulous and I chose 2

> recipes from that which really lived up to the book's title. My

> friend was suitably impressed and so was I because they were very

> quick and easy dishes to make and delicious to eat and they aleo

> looked really attractive (I'm only sorry that my digital camera has

> vanished). I had to improvise a little as I only decided on the menu

> this morning and I had to make do with the ingredients that I had

> available.

>

> Christie

[Guest guest]

Hi Denise

Sorry I forgot you had asked for a review of the Rose Elliot

Christmas book. I have been reading it over the past week, picking out

recipes I want to try - Chestnut-stuffed mushrooms is next on my list -

I see that this recipe is actually in the group files.

 

The book has 6 suggested Chritmas meal menus but it also has a lot of

recipes for party food, lunches, festive desserts and baking. There

are many recipes that I would want to try out and lots of suggestions

for side vegetables. I was originally intending to cook something from

this book for my dinner guest but was seduced by the photographs in

the other book. I would recommend both books - but then I do like Rose

Elliot's way of cooking.

BW

Christie

 

>>>>So glad your Boxing Day meal went well. Your recipes sound great

and

very easy indeed! Wow, that's two cookbooks by Rose Elliot that I'm

now interested in. May have to request them for my birthday.