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Moules Marinière recipe

Moules Marinière recipeYesterday's “Flog Off” isle hunting took me to the Fish section. 1.5kg of fresh Mussels for £1.95 sound good to me.
 
Just the customary word of warning. Fresh mussels need to still be alive at the start of the cooking process. If you tap the shells and they don't close discard them. Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning is very rare these days, let's keep it that way folk!
 
Ingredients:-
 
Mussels fresh and alive
2 cloves of Garlic grated
2 small Onions finely sliced
Butter or Margarine
Bouquet Garni if you have such a thing. (Parsley, Thyme and a Bay leaf will do the job)
100ml White Wine or Cider
120ml Double Cream
Handful of Parsley leaves
2 Tsp of Capers
 
Method:-
 
(1) Check through your mussels and with a quick tug remove the Beard. This is the stringy attachment.
(2) In a large pan soften the Onion and Garlic in the Butter / Margarine with the Bouquet Garni or loose herbs.
(3) Add the Mussels than add the Wine / Cider and turn the heat up.
(4) Cover and steam until all the Mussels are open. Don't over cook them or they dehydrate and become very tough.
(5) Shake the pan to incorporate the juices.
(6) Remove the Bouquet Garni or Bay Leave if you used loose herbs.
(7) Add the Capers, Cream and Parsley.
(8) Remove from the heat. 
 
Serve over Pasta with Garlic Bread maybe?

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Vegetarian & Gluten free Scotch Eggs

It’s been a lovely warm day, too hot for a heavy meal and we’re still on Lock-Down – so we had time to play in the kitchen…..

Ingredients - For the middle!

1 soft boiled Egg per person

Ingredients - For the covering (Replaces the Sausage meat)

100g or so of dried Mung Beans
3 Mushrooms
Juice of a Lime
Dried Dill
Dried Basil
4 Birds Eye Chillies
Salt & Pepper


Ingredients – For the crispy coating

50g or so of dried Rosecoco Beans
Stale (Gluten free – in our case) Bread

Method:-

(1) Soak both the Rosecoco & Mung Beans over night in salted water separately.
(2) Boil both lots of Beans in separate pans for 30 minutes, drain and set aside.
(3) In a little Oil roast the boiled Rosecoco Bean until the pop onen and set aside to cool.
(4) In a food processor wuzz at the covering ingredients with enough oil to make a think Pate and set aside.
(5) In the washed and dried food processor wuzz the crispy coating ingredients into a Bread crumb texture and set aside.
(6) Per heat the oven to 180c.
(7) Stick the covering around each Egg by hand so that you have about a centimetre casing.
(8) Roll each covered Egg in the crispy coating.
(9) Place on an oiled baking tray and roast for 30 minutes until the top of the coating is golden brown.

We served ours with a mixed home grown & foraged salad and Potato wedges. These might have been a bit of an experiment, but they were well worth it!
 
 

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