Sue’s Daughter bought her a Cheese making kit for Mothers Day. Little did we know then that we would have so much time on our hands at the moment. We’ve been beavering away at a few of the recipes, depending on the ingredients we've been able to get our hands on.
So Brunost? It’s an odd sort of Cheese recipe really, but it’s also very good. So good that we’ve just finished it all!
Basically the ingredients are 1L of full fat Milk, 1L Whey (Which we had from making the Romanian Bryndza Cheese), 400Ml of Double Cream, Salt and Chilli flakes. You simmer all the ingredients gently in a large pan for about 3 hours until most of the water has evaporated. Pack it into a Cheese mould and allow it to mature in the fridge for 2 to 3 weeks. It ends up semi-hard but just spreadable.
The Pesto on the cracker is our home brewed Fennel Pesto
£2.39 for the best part of 1Kg of Lamb ribs. Well yes there's a lot of bone. But a good deal of meal for 3 of us.
Ingredients:-
1kg Rack of Lamb
Mixed dried Herbs
Dried Mint
4 cloves of Garlic Minced
15g sliced fresh Ginger
3 Bullet Chillies finely chopped
¼ tsp Salt
Juice of 1 Lime
60ml Soy Sauce
120ml Sunflower Oil
3 tbsp Brown Sugar
2 tbsp White Wine Vinegar
4 tbsp water
Cassoulet Ingredients:-
1 Tin of Chick Peas
2 Onions cut into quarters
2 Carrots cut into chunky batons
3 outer leave of Savoy Cabbage shredded
Method:-
(1) Mix the marinade ingredients.
(2) In a deep sided tray massage the marinade into all surfaces of the meat.
(3) Cover and place in the fridge overnight.
(4) Lift out the Lamb and layer the Cassoulet ingredients and then lay the marinated Lamb over the top, spooning over marinate to ensure the meat is well covered.
(5) Cover with foil and roast at 180c for 1 ½ hours.
(6) Uncover and continue to roast for a further 20 minutes.
We served ours with roasted and double fried crispy chips, home made Garlic Bread and Coleslaw. This was the best meal we've had in a long long time!