Tag: eggs
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Spain Dessert – Crema Catalana
For our Spanish dessert, Crema Catalana caught our eye. It is essentially a firm custard, with a burnt sugar crust on top, so gave us a great excuse to buy a blowtorch! This is definitely one we will be making again, as it keeps really well too. A lot of the ingredients needed for this…
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Northern Ireland Starter – Ulster Fry
This week was St Patrick’s Day, so it seemed only right to celebrate. As the Head Chef for GGG is from Northern Ireland, we decided to pick out some Northern Irish treats. It wouldn’t be Northern Irish food, without an Ulster Fry! A classic breakfast consisting of sausages, bacon, eggs, black and white pudding, potato…
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Cyprus Main – Spinach and Feta Filo Pie
As the focus was on the Greek side of Cyprus, we looked into making a Spanakopita-style pie for the main course. We found a great recipe on BBC Good Food that we used for this dish! Again this was a dish that didn’t require a lot of ingredients and was super easy to make. Once…
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Italy Dessert – Tiramisu
Sticking with the theme of classic Italian dishes, we had to round up the week with tiramisu! A combo of coffee, rum, chocolate and sponge, this was an easy choice! We based our tiramisu on this recipe from Recipes From Italy and went for spiced rum rather than Marsala wine (we usually have spiced rum…
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Italy Main – Mushroom Tortellini
For the main course from Italy, of course it needed to be pasta! In an effort to improve our cooking abilities, we decided to make the pasta from scratch. There are many recipes online that can help you make pasta, we personally used Gordon Ramsay’s Masterclass (if you’re in a position to purchase this, we…