And, drumroll, the next installment of our CDWM fun... and it's MY night to report back to you on! I went for a Greek theme for the first two courses of my dinner, and to start:
Roasted peppers with halloumi, toasted pine nuts and a chilli, lemon and garlic dressing.
I have to be honest, these were absolutely gorgeous. The dressing was such a lovely combination of flavours and I could have happily doubled up the portion sizes and eaten this as a main course! I won't bore you with the recipe as I do have to credit BBC GoodFood for the majority of the creativity behind this meal, so here we are:
For my main... Greek lamb with orzo, homemade gluten-free flatbreads, homemade tatziki and a greek salad.
This greek lamb dish was also to die for, slowly cooked for around three hours with cinnamon, tomato and oregano, before chucking in some orzo to cook briefly before serving;
I kindof improvised the flatbreads as I went, as one of my guests is gluten intolerant, and I struggled to find a recipe that was what I was after - unfortunately they didn't come out as nicely as I'd hoped so better luck next time with those. The Greek salad was a simple mix of tomatoes, olives, red onion, cucumber, avocado, oregano and extra virgin olive oil.
None of the tatziki recipes I found were exactly what I wanted either, so I combined a few different ones to make a tatziki nicer than any other that I've tried before! A combination of cucumber, yoghurt, lemon, garlic, olive oil and mint - could have eaten it out of the bowl with a spoon...
And for dessert; Chocolate, nut and amaretto cake served with a raspberry compote.
Credit to (my favourite) Gino D'Campo for the cake recipe;
And the raspberry compote was just a blend of frozen raspberries and caster sugar, stewed in a saucepan until broken down, and served with a drizzle of chocolate sauce on the plate.
Voila! One more CDWM night to go before finding out the winner, and we've so far had Jamaican, Spanish and Greek, now just awaiting the French themed dinner - who do you think should win?
xoxo la dolce eater.
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