Sunday 18 May 2008

Twist on Tour

The BBQ we were supposed to have at Louise's turned out more like cake fest! The BBQ was light up but not much went on it. Everybody baked lovely stuff, it was great.

I didn't take pictures of the table covered with food, this one was taken just at the beginning...
Choux, lemon tart and rhubarb trifle from Louise (who made great salads as well), pear and chocolate tart from Diane (check her blog for more pictures and more details about this event), and a caramel flan from me.

Andrea made, amongst other things, some chocolate covered strawberries,

and I baked curry and onion cakes and pesto muffins (recipes below)


And of course, the reason for all this was that Laura and Peter, from Twist Fiber Craft, were coming to us instead of us having to go to Newburgh!


They bring all their lovely stuff and some new yarn as well: hand-dyed Shetland wool...yum yum, fabulous colors, I couldn't resist, of course!

I bought that one (250g, enough to knit a big cosy shawl to wrap myself in during winter)

and turned it into a ball in the evening:


Recipes

Pesto muffins
Mix 2 eggs with 4 table spoons of milk and 2 table spoons of olive oil. Add 4 table spoons of pesto and 3 table spoons of pine nuts. stir in quickly 150g of self rising flour.
Bake at 180˚C for 20-25 minutes (individual cakes).

Curry and onion cakes
Cook 2 sliced onions in a pan with some olive oil.
Mix 150g of self rising flour, 3 eggs, 13cl of milk, 8cl of sunflower oil, 1 spoon of curry powder and 100g of grated mozzarella. Add the onions.
Bake at 180˚C for 20 minutes (individual cakes).

Caramel Flan
Prepare a caramel with 6 table spoons of sugar, 2 table spoons of water and a tea spoon of vinegar. Pour it in a flan dish.
mix 6 eggs and 1 l of milk and pour it on top of the caramel.
Bake in a bain-marie at 180˚C for 50 minutes.

2 comments:

Louise said...

You are the fastest blogger and knitter ever! Some more pics will be over at my place sometime tomorrow I hope. Thanks for all your help today, we're enjoying the rest of the caramel for supper :)

HAJDUCH's page said...

Je constate que vous ne vous laissez pas aller! Que de gateaux!!!