Bread and Butter Pudding

For this recipe, I used a fruit loaf that my little brothers had baked a few days prior. However, you can use any bread you wish. My Dad suggests that if you want to use brown bread though, that you mix it with some white as well - only brown bread does not work as well.

INGREDIENTS

1/2 a loaf of bread

Some margarine

3/4 pint of milk

A handful of dried fruit

3 eggs

50g sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground ginger

METHOD

1. Spread the margarine onto the slices of bread, and cut the slices in half into triangles.
2. Pour the milk into a pan and wait until boiling. Watch out - when milk boils it has a tendency to overflow, so have your wits about you!
3. Lightly grease a 30cm by 20cm tray/dish.
4. Arrange half of the bread on the bottom of the dish.
5. Sprinkle the dried fruit over the bread.
6. Whisk the eggs with the sugar, ginger and cinnamon in a bowl. Add the milk and whisk thoroughly.
7. Pour the liquid onto the bread in the dish, and then arrange the rest of the bread on top. Squish down with a spoon.
8. Bake in an oven for 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees celsius, until well risen and golden brown.

Chicken Liver Paté

This recipe makes A LOT of paté. Feel free to divide it accordingly.

INGREDIENTS

2 small onions/1 big onion

500g butter

150g bacon

2 cloves of garlic

900g chicken livers

Mixed herbs and pepper

METHOD

1. Chop the onions and bacon roughly.
2. Put the onions, bacon, butter, garlic, mixed herbs and pepper in. No need for salt - bacon is already salty enough!
3. Put on a high heat until the butter melts.
4. Add the chicken livers and cook for 20 minutes. Stir occasionally.
5. Blitz your mixture in a blender, and then mix it in a bowl.
6. Cling-film a container of choice (loaf tin, individual ramekins), and pour the paté mixture into it.
7. Place in the fridge until it is set. This will obviously depend on the size of container used. Our loaf tin took about 4 hours.

Serving Suggestion

Pork scamuche

INGREDIENTS

2 red onions

6 pork chops

1 clove of garlic

1 tin of chick peas

2 tins of tomatoes

Good squirt of tomato sauce

6 button mushrooms

Seasoning

METHOD

1. Heat oil in a pan, brown the pork chops and set aside.
2. Fry the onions, garlic, mushrooms, herbs in a pan.
3. Once cooked, add the tomatoes, chick peas and a good squirt of tomato sauce. Cook for 5 - 10 minutes.
4. Put the pork chops and tomato sauce in a dish, and put into the oven at 180 degrees centigrade for 25 - 30 minutes.
5. Serve alongside potatoes.