Monday 9 April 2012

Easter Sunday- Chocolate Guinness Cake & Healthy Fish Stew


Chocolate Guinness Cake...the start of it.



Chocolate Guinness Cake-
250ml Guinness
250g Unsalted Butter
75g Cocoa
1 x 140ml Sour Cream
2 x Eggs
1tbsp Vanilla extract
275g Plain Flour
2 1/2tsp of Bicarbonate of Soda

1) Heat the Guinness and the butter in a pan on a medium heat
2) Once the butters melted into the Guinness add the rest of the ingredients and whisk on the heat.
3) Add the ingredients to the tin and cook on 180 for 1hrs- ovens vary but make sure the the centre of the cake isn't still totally wobbly before taking out- as it will collapse and be too gooey.



The onions, sun dried tomatoes and fennel sliced and cooking away


This was easily enough for 12 People.

2 x White Onions- Finely chopped loops
2 x Fennel Bulbs- Finely Chopped into loops
2 x Dried Red Chillis
Hand full of sun dried tomatoes
Rock Salt
Loads of Black Pepper
Fry Up in Rape Seed Oil until translucent
Add a big glug of White Wine bring to boil
Add x 3 Cans of Tin Tomatoes
Add 1.5 x Pint of Fish Stock (3 cubes)
Cook for 25mins

Add  x 2 Big bundles of fresh  green beans- You want to cook them in the simmering stock for no more than 10mins so they're still crunchy.

Add the fish- Mussels White Fish Wrasp (very affordable and sustainable)
And only cook for max 4/5mins  or until fish turns white and no longer transparent.

Using the veg/rocket ribbons of courgette helps steam and cook the fish



Ted busy in the kitchen


A classic white...


Use the potato peeler on the courgette, makes it look fancy.



Bread for substance


Once you've cleaned the mussels -scrapped off all the rough bits with a knife the  keep in cold water, give them a tap with a knife and they'll more than likely close up again as they're still alive.


Add the mussels 3/4 mins before serving the fish stew, add them first then the other fish and then cover with extra veg, courgette ribbons, rocket etc.. then a lid or just use the other veg in replacement of the lid.




Love adding fresh tomatoes, spring onions and anything else fresh just before serving- also squeeze x 2 fresh limes before serving (don't cook with it in otherwise it will go sour)


Brown rice, with black eye peas...


Here I am...


Hanging out in the kitchen...and hungry


2 Pots on the go..


Add parsley and fresh cherry tomatoes


Table at the ready.


Girls at the ready...


Nearly everyone at the ready to get stuck in...


And getting stuck in..







Back at the baking.


200g Phillidelphia
250g of Icing Sugar
250g Double cream

Whisk until thick.
Don't apply to the cake until it's completely cooled- otherwise it will melt.


I added a splattering of melted chocolate


The some sliced strawberries


Then the gold spray paint-edible 


Then 100's & 1000's.




Clean Plates







Oh YUM!



Ted's interested.

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