My Dish recipes

Method

• RECIPE 1: Goats Cheese Crostini
  
  (These are More-ish, peeps wolf em down!):
  
  Ingredients:
  - 1 thin baguette (works much better if baguette is relatively thin)
  - Butter (Half a slab!)
  - Goats Cheese (2 thin rolls of it)
  - Sun dried tomato pesto or basil pesto
  - Red peppers or basil leaves
  
  Method:
  I usually use half the baguette for sun dried tomato crostinis & the other half for basil pesto crostini:
  
  - Cut baguette into slices about 1 inch thick
  - Cut Goats Cheese roll into thin slices
  - Melt butter in micro wave
  - Dip baguette slices in butter to coat both sides & place on a baking dish lined with tinfoil
  - Spread half the butter coated baguette slices with Sun dried tomato pesto & spread the other half with basil pesto
  - Place a slice of goats cheese on each one
  - Place a basil leaf on each basil pesto crostini
  - Place 2 lil slices of red pepper in the shape of lips on each sundried tomato crostini
  - Bake in oven at 200 degrees for 10 – 15 mins (until goats cheese is golden colour & bread is crisped)
  - Leave to cool a bit then serve to guests!
  
  
  
  RECIPE 2: Jazzed up cheese n chutney cocktail Sausages:
  
  Cocktail sausages are a simple canapé which everybody loves – but if you don't want to be boring you can jazz them up ever so slightly to taste even nicer:
  
  Ingredients:
  - Cheddar
  - Mango Chutney
  
  Method:
  - Cook the cocktail sausages as normal
  - 5 mins before sausages are ready, take them out of the oven. Slit each one down the middle & stuff with cheddar cheese & chutney
  - Cook for a further 5 – 10 mins
  - Serve!
  
  RECIPE 3: Cherry tomato, marinated feta and basil skewers:
  
  Ingredients:
  - Feta cheese (enough to make 40 squares)
  - Olive oil
  - Oregano
  - black pepper
  - 40 cherry tomatoes
  - Fresh Basil
  - Cocktail Sticks
  
  Method:
  - Cut the feta into 40 even squares
  - Grate the lemon to get the zest
  - Mix 2 tablespoons of olive oil, the lemon zest, a bit of oregano & a bit of pepper together
  - Pour over feta squares & leave to marinate for a few hours
  - Once feta is marinated, make pretty lil skewers with cherry tomato, feta & a lil basil leaf so it looks like a lil sail of a boat on the top
  - These are now ready to serve but you can make a pretty centre piece by covering a cabbage with tinfoil then sticking all of the skewers into the cabbage
  
  
  
  RECIPE 4: Asparagus & Parma ham wraps:
  
  Ingredients:
  - Asparagus spears (2 for each wrap you want to make)
  - Parma Ham (1 for each wrap you want to make)
  - Philadelphia cheese
  - Olive Oil
  - Salt
  
  Mehod:
  - Put olive oil & salt in a bowl & mix asparagus spears in it
  - Chargrill asparagus in a wok or, even better, a griddle pan for 3 or 4 mins
  - Leave asparagus to cool
  - Put a bit of Philadelphia cheese near the edge of each parma ham slice & place 2 asparagus spears ontop then roll so that you are wrapping the asparagus & Philadelphia in the parma ham
  
  
  
  
  RECIPE 5: Mojito Cocktail
  
  Ingredients:
  - 1 part rum
  - 3 parts soda
  - A handful of mint leaves
  - Half a lime
  - 3 teaspoons of brown sugar
  
  Method:
  - Put mint leaves, sugar & lime in a glass & crush with a pestle (or something similar!)
  - Add Rum
  - Top off with soda
  - Garnish with mint leaves or lime