Saturday, May 29, 2010

A very easy fresh cheese spread

As per my friend's request, here comes the recipe for this fresh cheese cream.



Ingredients:
  • fresh cheese or cottage cheese
  • garlic
  • basil
  • rosemary
  • thyme
  • salt, pepper
  • sour cream
Mix the sour cream with the fresh cheese. The amount of sour cream depends on how creamy you want it to be. All of the basil, rosemary and thyme has to be chopped fine, and the garlic needs to be smashed. Add everything to the mixture plus the salt and the pepper. Give it a thorough mix, and taste it.


Asparagus and potato tart



This recipe is from Jamie Oliver's show, "Jamie at home", more specifically from the second season, the episode about asparagus. Its quite easy and quick but really filling, we liked it a lot :)

Ingredients
  • a packet of filo pastry
  • 2 bunches of green asparagus
  • 8-10 potatoes
  • 2 dl of cream
  • 10-15 dkg of grated cheese
  • 3 eggs
  •  2.5 dkg of butter, melted
Blanch the asparagus in boiling salt water in about 5-10 minutes. Peel the potatoes and cook them in salt water as well. While doing that, get the filo pastry, do a little bit of wallpapering with the melted butter on each of the layers, and lay them in the tart pan. Drain the asparagus and let it cool. Drain the potatoes as well and start mashing them in a dish. Add the cheese, the cream, salt and pepper and basically make mashed potatoes. Add the 3 eggs and mix the whole thing. Pour the mashed potatoes into the pan and lay the asparagus on top of it. Cover them with the rest of the melted butter so that it doesnt dry out in the oven. My tart spent 30 minutes in the oven at 180 C, but Jamie said 20 minutes, anyways you can always check it with a needle or knife. Allow it cool for 20 minutes, and serve it.