At night I dream of food (still)
Food however, continues to loop round the inside of my head, and last night was not exception. I thought about pate. Can you flour it and flash brown the outside in a frying pan, service it crisp on the outside and melting on the inside with a sour cranberry sauce?
Maybe you can wrap little cubes of pate in filo pastry and bake it in the oven, making crisp little packets of hot finger food? If that works, corn beef might be good too, I sometimes add a bit of beef bolognase where it breaks down and adds back to the meaty velvet of the ragu.
I’ve a love of salt and pepper chicken (there’s a great set of photos about it), especially the softened onions and chillis that come with it. If I piled those up on top of the corn beef inside the filo, the spicy inside surely be great.
Finger foods are taken my interest of late too. After a new years eve party where everything was small enough to be eaten off a teaspoon. I’d love to try and do a whole dinner party of small foods, people tucking in to 20 dishes, a bit like some Chinese food.
Baked little packets of filo filled with tasty goodness, pickling onions browned and glazed with a reduced red wine, baked blobs of mashed potato with cubes of blue cheese, chicken nuggets made of boned and rolled chicken theis injected with pesto, inch long slices of spare ribs cooked over night, baked red cabbage with apple and balsamic vinegar, baby onion bajis the size of golf balls, shot glasses full of rich beef consume with a single crouton on top and others full of green pea soup, blue cheese and sour cream blended and piped onto Ritz crackers, crystalised ginger slices half dipped in dark chocolate and indevidual piles of sticky cold rissotto.
As fun as these things are, I’d still love to slow roast a chunk of brisket, browning the outside first and then ripping it apart with forks. Add a crisp fine slices coleslaw and pile into folded warm flatbreads, serve with friends and cold beer.
There are so many wonderful food blogs but Smitten Kitchen is just fabulous.
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