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21/04/2008, 14:16 peter@pons Joined on 15/09/2006 Posts 13 Re: RECIPES - STARTER / MAIN / DESSERT Starter - very quick and easy. Two or three large fresh scallops per person. Wash the scallops, cut into old penny size slices, and place in a shallow bowl of freshly squeezed lime juice for 15 minutes. This will cook the scallop slices. Drain and serve with a few drops of good olive oil and pepper to taste. If the scallops have the pink coral attached, keep it for a fish stock.   Peter.    Report

24/04/2008, 9:16 Celestine Joined on 08/01/2008 Posts 65 Re: RECIPES - STARTER / MAIN / DESSERT I have 2 recipes here for cheesecake. Its my favourite dessert ever and I missed this the most! Dessert - dead easy. Crush up packet of digestive biscuits (I found the cheap ones from Lidl with the choc on work the best). Add 55g butter to pan and melt it. Add crushed biscuits and coat with butter. I use foil to line the bottom of a glass pie dish but u could use foil dishes, add the biscuit base and press down with spoon. eave to cool in fridge. Meantime, put 500g of mascapone. Add 2-4 tbsp of sifted icing sugar depending on sweetness of tooth (u get the pleasure of tasting as u go alone!). Then add the rind and juice of either a lemon or 2 limes. Mix together and keep testing that the flavour is right for you, if theres any left place on top of the base. U could grate some more rind on the top or grate some choc or sprinkles or nothing. Chill. easypeasy and dead yummy!   Dessert - easy but take youre time! Again use packet of digestives, crush. 55g butter melted in pan, add biscuits. Put into dish. Chill. In a bowl put 175g cream cheese. Then add a little at a time of 150ml single cream and tin of condensed milk. If u put it all in at once it wont be thick enough and there will be a huge mess on your base lol. So do it slowly. Again, keep tasting to check how u like it! Then add the juice and rind of a lemon (or limes), do this bit by bit too and use a hand whisk. The juice makes the mixture curdle and thicken. When its how u like it, pour over base. This is extremely rich and would only need a small piece!    Report

24/04/2008, 9:44 spg Joined on 23/08/2004 Southern Morbihan (56) Posts 1,227 Re: RECIPES - STARTER / MAIN / DESSERT  Celestine wrote: I have 2 recipes here for cheesecake. Its my favourite dessert ever and I missed this the most! Dessert - dead easy. Crush up packet of digestive biscuits (I found the cheap ones from Lidl with the choc on work the best). They sound yummy Celestine but our Lidls here in the southern Morbihan don't have digestive biscs, chocolate coated or otherwise, so whereabouts did you find them? Or are you in the UK? Sue Computing - it's another world    Report

24/04/2008, 9:50 Celestine Joined on 08/01/2008 Posts 65 Re: RECIPES - STARTER / MAIN / DESSERT Im in the Vendee, we have a Lidl in every town! Can u not find digestives in the English bits of your supermarkets?    Report

24/04/2008, 10:04 spg Joined on 23/08/2004 Southern Morbihan (56) Posts 1,227 Re: RECIPES - STARTER / MAIN / DESSERT  Celestine wrote: Im in the Vendee, we have a Lidl in every town! Can u not find digestives in the English bits of your supermarkets? No, we haven't found any digestives anywhere here yet, though we have searched thoroughly. It would make my life a lot easier if we could find them as my OH loves them. At the moment we get UK visitors to bring them when they come to stay; which can give rise to hilarious exchanges as when my daughter was asked what those 'tubes' were in her suitcase last year. Sue Computing - it's another world    Report

01/05/2008, 23:17 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,368 Re: RECIPES - STARTER / MAIN / DESSERT They're going crumble mad ! Craquez pour les Crumbles   animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.orange.fr/ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

20/06/2008, 14:28 lorna Joined on 27/11/2007 the other Vienne - in Isère(38) Posts 115 Re: RECIPES - STARTER / MAIN / DESSERT  Christine Animal wrote: They're going crumble mad ! Craquez pour les Crumbles   Just came across your crumble post Christine whilst searching for something else. Yesterday we went to an 'Apéretif dinatoire' we had been invited to. Everyone had to contribute something and it was suggested that we bring an 'English dessert'. In the end we took a crumble and they loved it! Looking at your link I continue to be amazed at how inventive the French are with food, I'm not sure I would ever have thought of  making a ratatouille crumble or a crumble of endives and curry! lorna    Report

20/06/2008, 14:43 Christine Animal Joined on 14/05/2005 Deux-Sèvres Posts 4,368 Re: RECIPES - STARTER / MAIN / DESSERT Look delicious don't they Lorna.  What about the sardine and tomato crumble, I must get on and try them instead of just looking at them and thinking about it !  Sue, get out of Lidl, I've often seen Digestive biscuits at Super U.     Don't buy them myself preferring the ginger biscuits.           animalaidsaintaubin.monsite.orange.fr/ Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful    Report

20/06/2008, 20:46 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,857 Re: RECIPES - STARTER / MAIN / DESSERT We don't normally eat dessert in our house so this evening's dessert would have been a treat anyway.  The fact that it was really delicious was one of those serendipitous moments when you discover something and shouts "eureka!" I had a large opened jar of apple purée (cômpote) and a bottle of opened mincemeat left over from Christmas (yes, I should clear out the fridge more often!) Opened a couple of packs of ready-made flaky pastry, lined a flan dish with  pastry, bunged in the apple purée and mincemeat, put a lid on the lot and baked in a hot oven. The smell was great and the taste even better.  Would have been wonderful with a big blob of vanilla ice-cream as it's a warm evening for a change.  But, like I said, we don't normally "do" puddings!    Report

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