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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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Kale & Onion Bhaji recipe, eat well on universal credit

Maybe far from traditional, but we’re not known for being tradition respecters…..

Kale in the Curry. Kale in the Sag Aloe. Just Kale and more Kale. There is a reason for this. But to protect the dignity of others, let’s just say we have quite a bit of Kale to work through….

We’re awash with Kale at the moment so we modified this recipe, to our surprise it actually worked really well.

Ingredients:-

1 Large Onion, roughly sliced
300g of Kale, fried with a little Oil and Five Spice until dark
1 Tsp of Hot Chilli Powder
1 Tsp of Onion Salt
1 Tsp of Garlic Salt
1 Tsp of Baking Powder
1 Tsp of Black Lime Power
1 Tsp of Turmeric
Fresh ground Black Pepper
Water
Oil to fry

Method:-

(1) Fry the Kale with Five Spice until you have a crispy texture and most of the water has been driven out.
(2) Set aside on kitchen paper to drain and cool.
(3) Mix to batter Onion and Kale with enough Water to make a very sticky batter.
(4) Heat Oil to 170c.
(5) Using a ladle and a spoon drop flat fritters into the hot Oil in batches.
(6) When then float remove them and set aside.
(7) Just before serving re-fry them in batches and drain before serving.

The crunch from the fried Kale and the taste was really good. Sometimes you happen on something a bit odd which really works…..



 

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