The sort you can buy in tubs from the supermarkets will be rather firm, but the best is the softest and freshest that you can find in Italian grocers and specialist cheese shops. The coarse side of a box grater will produce a pleasingly rough texture somewhere between finely chopped and smooth puree. Pour into the prepared cake tin. Finely grate the zest from the lemon, squeeze its juice and add both to the pan. You could measure my life in health-food shops. Creamy burrata with basil, grilled tahini chicken, plus a pistachio ricotta cake summer dishes perfect to eat in the garden. Free the cake from its tin, dust lightly with icing sugar, press the reserved crumbs into the sides and serve with whole or sliced strawberries. Butter and line your 8" or 9" cake pan (I like a springform) with a parchment paper circle. Remove and set aside. Mix well and allow to rest for 10 minutes. Cover and refrigerate overnight. I made a many-layered cake this week, alternating layers of lemon sponge and ricotta cream, then finished it with a layer of soft cake crumbs. When you are ready to eat, beat the egg whites till stiff and fold them into the batter. To this day I wouldnt go anywhere else for my lentils and beans, though I can live without the crystals and self-help manuals. This was first published in the Observer many years ago, and rarely does a week go by without an email asking for a copy to replace one that has fallen apart or stuck to the bottom of a pan. Stone the cherries, add them to the pan with the sugar and water, and bring to the boil. Place the slices on a foil-lined grill pan, trickle over 2 tablespoons of the honey then leave under a hot grill till their edges have started to caramelise. Here is a selection of those columns, personal, practical, often a little eccentric, an archive of recipes and journalism from the Guardian website. Some cream is most welcome. A recipe for a day when the sun is high in the sky. You can make a scented sugar to scatter over the pancakes if you prefer. Two hearty chicken stews for a warming autumn treat. Turn and cook the other side. By Nigel Slater, Summers salad days call for coolness, crunch and contrast, Capture the seasons flavours with luxurious asparagus and glorious spicy chicken. Finely chop the rosemary needles. Place a bottom half of one of the cakes back in its tin, then spoon a third of the ricotta filling on top, smoothing it gently. Reduce the remaining piece of cake to coarse crumbs by hand or in a food processor. Brush a 20-22cm non-stick frying pan or crepe pan with a little melted butter. Whizz all together for a minute or until it is a smooth batter. Drain the ricotta for the filling in a sieve over a bowl. Here Ive used raspberries, but you could use any berries you like or slices of peaches, nectarines, plums, figs, or whatever. Serves 8-10peaches 3 ripe honey 4 tbsprosemary 1 sprig, For the batterground almonds 80gplain flour 100gbaking powder tspbutter 180gcaster sugar 180geggs 3 largelemon 1 pine nuts 2 tbsp. Oswaldo Oliva is head chef at Lorea, in Mexico City, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Click here to order a copy from Guardian Bookshop for 24.60, Click here to order a copy from Guardian Bookshop for 16.40. A little cream is good here, too. Chalk white and soft as snow, it is the mildest of the fresh cheeses. Dip the bread into the juices and let it soak some up. Put the ricotta and mascarpone into a mixing bowl. Test with a skewer for doneness. You will need 2 x 20cm cake tins, preferably springform. Set the oven at 180C/gas mark 4. Makes 6 good slices when hot, or 8 slices when coldcaster sugar 170gmargarine 113gself-raising flour 170gripe bananas 2 smallfree-range eggs 2 largesalt a good pinch. If you wish, eat with a spoonful of ricotta. C ool, milky and calm, fresh ricotta is the perfect cheese for a summer afternoon. Serve with a bowl of strawberries. You should end up with about 8 spiky golden fritters. To make the frosting, put the mascarpone, Philadelphia cheese and icing sugar into an electric mixer and beat till smooth and creamy. It was my favourite apricot sponge recipe, the fruit swapped for nuts, and we ate it as intended, before the filling had frozen, and then kept the rest in the freezer to scoff with our fingers like ice-cream wafers. Dust, if you wish, with a little icing sugar. By Nigel Slater, Wings made sticky with garlic butter, a revived roast with pomegranate and lentils smart chicken recipes that arent just for Sunday, Bring a taste of spring to the kitchen with wild garlic and a light chicken casserole, An aromatic roast chicken thats perfect for Sunday lunch and deliciously moist, cake-like muffins, Sweet glossy chicken and a coffee trifle for Valentines Day. Pour the batter in the floured cake tin and bake on the centre of the heated oven for 55-65 minutes. Working at this new slower pace this week, I spooned a basil-leaf and green-pea dressing over a tender egg of burrata, and stirred coriander leaves into a crushed melon and raw tomato soup. Make the compote. Soak the cakes with the milk mixture and refrigerate (as above). I also like to start the day with yogurt, muesli and strawberries that have been marinated with orange and a drop of sweet-sour balsamic vinegar. Preheat the oven to 160C/gas mark 3. Butter and line a 23cm round tin with butter or non-stick cooking spray. Email Nigel at nigel.slater@observer.co.uk or follow him on Twitter @NigelSlater, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Serves 8For the gooseberriesgooseberries 600gcaster sugar 2 tbspwater 3tbsp, For the crustsweet oat biscuits 300gbutter 90g, For the cheesecake cream cheese 300gcaster sugar 150gegg 1 egg yolks 2mascarpone 125gvanilla extract. Set the oven at 180C/gas mark 4. () Denotes recipes without meat or fish. chopped pistachios for the top. Grand Hotel Tremezzo Lake Como by TheTasteEdit May 17, 2022 Villa d'Este The Grande Dame of Lake Como by TheTasteEdit March 28, 2022 Porchetta Sandwich at Lake Como Brewery by Any problem with freezing this cake? They will keep well in an airtight container for a few days.Adapted from The Violet Bakery Cookbook by Claire Ptak (Square Peg, 20). Cut the butter into small dice then beat to a pale, thick cream with the sugar using a food mixer. Into the juices stir the 3 tbsp of olive oil and the thyme. Finely grate the zest from the orange and stir it in, together with the vanilla extract and orange blossom water to taste. Serves 4-6porridge oats 100grolled jumbo oats 50gapple juice 400mlhoney 2 tspapple 1, cored and gratedyogurt 100g, strawberries 250gcaster sugar 2 tbsporange juice of balsamic vinegar a drop or 2. The most successful to date has been mayonnaise that I lightened with a squeeze or two of lemon juice and a few spoonfuls of kefir. Cover with a second layer of sponge and a second layer of the filling. Breakfast starts the day and dessert ends it. Roast the tomatoes for 30 minutes, until there are lots of juices. For the marinade, mix together the olive oil and the lemon juice. As the berries begin to burst, remove from the heat. In a food mixer fitted with a paddle beater, mix together the cream cheese, caster sugar, egg and yolks, and mascarpone, then add a teaspoon or so of vanilla extract. These is something endlessly reassuring about their rows of cellophane-encased dates and haricot beans, their dried nuggets of cranberry and jars of organic peanut butter. Place on a piece of clingfilm or even in a plastic freezer bag, then bat the meat a little with a rolling pin or cutlet bat. Lower the heat and let the compote bubble gentle for a few minutes until the berries have burst and the syrup is deep purple. Not just pancakes, but particularly luxurious, rich and flavoursome pancakes Make the filling: in a mixing bowl, gently stir together 250g of ricotta, 250g of mascarpone, the grated zest of 1 small orange, 2 tbsp of icing sugar and 1 tbsp of finely chopped pistachios. I believe it works better when beaten and smooth. Process a large red garden rose (not one from a shop) with 3 tablespoons of sugar in a food processor. Nigel Slaters carrot cake, Emma Clarks banana bread and more great dishes chosen by Observer Food Monthly. s we slip from seemingly endless spring into summer, lunch and dinner outdoors has become an almost daily event. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Trim the spring onions, discarding any tough ends, then cut the stems in half lengthways and then into short pieces about 3cm long. Put the melon flesh into a blender jug and reduce to a coarse puree. Spoon the ricotta mixture into the cake tin and smooth flat with the back of a spoon. The scent fills the house and wakes up the senses before you are even properly awake. It was these pine-clad shops, with their lingering scent of patchouli, that introduced me to the joys of the organic swede. It will usually come with tiny indentations from the mould in which it was originally shaped. Makes 12-16 friandsbutter 115g, melted, plus more for greasing the mouldsplain flour 90gbaking powder tspground almonds 50gground hazelnuts 80gicing sugar 190gegg whites 5, slightly whiskedvanilla extract 2 tspfresh raspberries 200g (about 40-50)slivered hazelnuts 50gicing sugar for dusting. Top and tail the gooseberries, place in a non-reactive saucepan with the sugar and water, then bring them to the boil. We poured a ribbon of olive oil into its chilled orange and scarlet depths. Place the chicken thighs in the marinade and leave for at least 40 minutes. dried rose petals for the top. 1 cup confectioners' sugar. In deepest summer I like to make a rose-scented sugar for pancakes, scattering the pale pink sugar over them with a squeeze of lemon. Turn the sieve upside down on a serving plate, shaking it gently to dislodge the cream from its container. Grind the nuts in a coffee grinder or mini food processor (in different batches: almonds and pistachios separately). When the cakes are thoroughly cool dont try to do this while theyre still warm slice each into 2, horizontally. Lastly, return any juices to the tomatoes and place under the grill to let them brown and scorch here and there youll get deep smoky notes that way then tuck the pieces of toast on top and bring to the table. Melt 30g of unsalted butter in a pan, . Im happy with this and the change of step in the kitchen that accompanies it. Heat the oil to 180C in a deep pan with plenty of room for the oil to bubble safely. To make the cake, sift the flour and baking powder twice. Super easy to make and extra delicious, tres leches is a sponge soaked in three dairy products (milk, condensed milk and evaporated milk), which became popular in Mexico and Latin America after the New York Condensed Milk Company was founded in 1857. As we slip from seemingly endless spring into summer, lunch and dinner outdoors has become an almost daily event. Transfer to a bowl and add most of the warm, freshly drained peas. Grind in a few twists of pepper (no salt), then add the flour. Serves 4ricotta 250gmascarpone 250gorange 1 medium-sized vanilla extract -1 tsporange blossom water 1 tspicing sugar to taste, For the compoteblackcurrants 75gcherries 250gcaster sugar 1 tbspwater 6 tbsp. Do the same with the asparagus. Part recipe journal, part kitchen chronical, each story has, at its heart, a recipe I have cooked during the week that I feel I would like to share. Traditionally, tres leches is eaten as a sandwich cake. The centre should wobble slightly when lightly shaken. In a separate bowl, softly whip the cream. Beat the eggs lightly and add them, a little at time to the butter and sugar, making sure each batch is well combined before adding the next. @NigelSlater, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. There is no need to go the full escalope, just flatten out the thicker parts of the thigh. , My Chewy Amaretti Cookies are crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside. Not just pancakes, but particularly luxurious, rich and flavoursome pancakes Make the filling: in a mixing bowl, gently stir together 250g of ricotta, 250g of mascarpone, the grated zest of 1 small orange, 2 tbsp of icing sugar and 1 tbsp of finely chopped pistachios. For the sponge:butter 250ggolden caster sugar 250geggs 4, large lemon 1, grated zest and juiceground almonds 50gplain flour 175gbaking powder 1 tspFor the filling:ricotta 500gmascarpone 250gicing sugar 3 lightly heaped tbsplemon zest 2 tsp, finely gratedorange zest 2 tsp, finely gratedvanilla extract a few dropsdouble cream 250mlicing sugar a little, to finishstrawberries to serve. 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