Delicious canapés for all your veggie and non-veggie friends alike!
Ingredients – makes 20 10 Brussel Sprouts Half a butternut squash (or 1 sweet potato) Honey Cranberry Sauce Parma ham (optional) Method: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade Peel and cut the squash/sweet potato into square chunks about the width of your brussel sprouts Cut each sprout in half then add both to a [...]
As summer draws firmly to an end, I thought I’d share a snippet from my holiday with friends in Italy and a couple of recipes. We spent a luscious week in the rolling hills of tuscany which really is a food lovers dream! What’s particularly amazing is the quality of the raw ingredients…the juicy tomatoes, [...]
Ingredients: 3-4 plums 1 sheet of rolled sweet shortcrust pastry (or a block) Sugar Ground almonds (optional) Method (makes 24) 1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade 2. De-seed the plums and cut into small chunks 3. Stew the plums by heating in a pan with 100ml of water and 2 teaspoons of sugar. [...]
This is a slightly lighter canapé that I made up on Christmas morning with some spare ingredients in the fridge! Hopefully a good one for the new year detox too... Ingredients - makes 20 1 Cucumber 200g of goats cheese A few spoonfuls of red onion (0r caramelised onion) chutney Method Cut the cucumber into [...]
The festive season is truly here! This is my first Christmas addition for 2016...and a relatively healthy one at that (don't worry, naughtier ones to follow...). For our full collection of Xmas Canapés so far please see the page here... Ingredients - makes 20 5 apples (I like gala but choose your favourite!) 200g of [...]
Looking for something to whet the appetite before your thanksgiving feast? These should do the trick! Ingredients - makes 24 1 pack of pre-rolled puff pastry 1 pack of feta (200g) Green pesto Spinach leaves (chopped finely) 1 egg (beaten) Method 1.Preheat your oven to 170 degrees centigrade 2. Unroll your puff pastry and roll out [...]
These could not be easier and are a lovely refreshing addition to any event. Ingredients - makes 20 1 Mango 1 200g pot of yoghurt (I like greek with honey but feel free to pick your favourite!) Chocolate (to grate and garnish) A pack of raspberries (to garnish) Method Remove the skin and cut up [...]
A fab option for any veggie friends and a great one to experiment with in terms of different stuffings depending on what you have in the cupboard. Ingredients Mini sweet peppers Giant cous cous Vegetable stock Parsley Feta Method Pre-heat the grill to a medium heat Heat the giant cous cous on the hob for [...]
This is a really easy canapé or cheeky snack that I saw at a recent conference I was attending in NYC. It really is as simple as it sounds! You could do really mini ones of these in shot glasses or otherwise in any smaller chinaware that you have knocking around. Ingredients Celery sticks Peanut [...]
Ingredients Puff pastry (I'm lazy and buy the pre-rolled stuff) Parmesan cheese Cherry Tomatoes Fresh Basil Leaves 2 Eggs 280ml of Double Cream Method Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees centigrade Unroll your puff pastry and cut out with a c.5cm diameter cutter (or whatever works for your tartlet tray) and put in your tartlet [...]
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