25/05 Dinner get2gether

A friend from Christchurch deserves a meal at my flat.. The menu is simple: Prawn Cocktail Salad, Sushi, Chicken Nibbles, and Fruit Salad. Just the sushi takes a bit more time, otherwise all good.

Prawn Cocktail Salad

Iceberg lettuce cut into cups;
Some prawns (fresh or frozen);
Some mango (canned or fresh);

Dressing
mayo, mustard, and tomato sauce

Mix stuff together and fit in lettuce cups, fresh herbs for deco.
Thanks Olly.


Sushi
Cooked rice mixed with vinegar, sugar, and salt to taste; Salmon (smoked or fresh); 1 fully riped avocado; Eggs mix with milk, and some sugar and salt to taste. Heat pan and fry in flat pan on low heat, stir briskly until set. Roll into some kind of thick wuteva. Cut into strips.

Use a bamboo sushi roller, place seaweed sheet on top. Cover at least 2/3 of the seaweed sheet with rice, put ingredients in the centre and use whatever means to roll it up.. Cut into desired size, sprinkle roasted sesame for deco.

Chicken Nibbles

Cut off any excessive fat/skin from the nibbles, cook them in seasoned boiling water for 5 mins.
Take them out and leave cool, season well.
Grill on high until lightly burnt.

Bread cake!!!! (gateau de pain)

Bread cake is easy and cheap!
That's what we like....

The basic receipe is just like this:


_Old hard bread (more baguette like, not sandwich bread)
_Milk
_Sugar





Pre-heat the oven at 180 °C. Break the bread into small pieces in a big bowl and add milk to soak the bread. Put enought milk so the mixture becomes moisty but not drowning into the milk. Add a bit of sugar depending how sweet you'd like it.
Put the cake into the oven for 45 minutes keeping the same 180°C all along.
Try out from time to time to poke the cake with a knife, it must not be sticky.

But my favourite thing about this cake is the creativity around it. The picture here is actually a bread cake with fresh banana, raisins and a sugar crust on top of it.
I made it once with fijoas and nuts!

So take the basic receipe as such but let your imagination do the rest! And do not throw away any old bread now, keep it and when you have enought of it, change it into a bread cake!!

Whose is this??

Well done Nico! Now please kindly tell us how did this miracle happen...