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Hot Crab Dip

  • 2x8oz cream cheese
  • 4 teasp worcester sauce
  • 2x6oz cans crabmeat
  • 1/4 cup sliced spring onions
  • 1/4 cup chopped celery
  • to garnish 1/4 cup flaked almonds

Mix all together and spread in china flan dish or similar.
scatter with flaked almonds.
Bake at 180 for 15 mins until heated through.
serve with corn chips for dipping

Avocado and Rocket Salad

  • 2 Large or 3 Small Ripe Avocados
  • 1 Bag of Rocket (wild is more peppery)
  • 1 Pack of Lardons
  • 1/4 Cup of Pine Nuts
  • 3 Slices of white bread or rolls.
  • Good Extra Virgin Olive Oil for Frying.

Prepare a bed of rocket in a large flat salad dish. Then halve the avocados and with a tea spoon, scoup out balls of avocado and spread evenly over the rocket.
Toast the pine nuts in a small frying pan and then spread evenly over the salad.
Fry the lardons until crisp and brown and spread evenly over the salad.
Cut up a few white rolls or slices of white bread into chunks and then fry in olive oil until nicely and evenly browned. Spread the croutons over the salad.
Dress the salad with standard honey mustard dressing – recipe in heatherskitchen under dressings.

John’s Onion Soup

Ingredients – Serves 6 People

  • 6 Large Onion
  • 1 Packet of Knorr Oxtail Soup (powdered)
  • 3 Pints of Water
  • 1/2 Bottle Red Wine – cheap stuff
  • 2 Tbsp of Sugar
  • 50gms Butter
  • 2 Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 2 Cloves of Garlic

Peel and slice the onions and chop the garlic cloves.
Melt the butter and the olive oil in a large pot.
Add the onions and the garlic and brown over medium heat for 10 minutes.
Add the sugar and caremalise the onions.
Then add the packet of oxtail soup and stir into the onions.
The mixture will thicken similar to a rouxe in the pan.
Add the water slowly to bring to a soup like consistancy.
Add the 1/2 bottle of red wine.

Pico de Gallo

  • 10 Medium but ripe tomatos – chopped
  • 2 Medium Onions – finely chopped
  • 3 limes – skinned and chop the flesh
  • 2 Garlic cloves – finely chopped
  • 1/2 Jar of Jalepeno chillis chopped
  • 1 tsp of ground cumin
  • 3 splashes of hot sauce
  • 1/2 bunch of chopped fresh coriander
  • Salt & Pepper to taste
  • Juice of 2 Limes

As described and mix in a large bowl. Best served chilled.