The Mountain Echo

How do you like your eggs in the morning?

Ingredients
Sliced Bread
Eggs
Milk
Chopped Sundried Tomatoes
Basil
Parma Ham
Pine Nuts
Parmesam Cheese
Olive Oil

Method
1. Whisk Eggs with some Milk, Salt and Pepper
2. Add Chopped Sundried Tomatoes and ripped up Basil
3. Dip Bread in Egg mixture
4. Fry Bread in Olive Oil
5. Spinkle Pine Nuts and Parmesam Cheese shavings on top
6. Enjoy your eggcellent brekkie!

Hard to find a girl who does not like chocolate, so this valentine’s why not try this to get things flowing…

Chocolate brandy bombe!

Ingredients
2 eggs
3 heaped tablespoons self-raising flour
4 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon warm water
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon chocolate powder, 70% cocoa fat solids
500ml cream, whipped
brandy to taste
icing sugar to taste

Method
1. Beat eggs and sugar together in a basin over warm water for 10 minutes until mixture thickens.
2. Add water and vanilla essence, Fold in sifted flour and chocolate powder using a metal spoon.
3. Pour mixture into a greased, shallow tin (a Swiss roll tin) lined with grease proof paper,Bake for 10-12 minutes at 200 degrees centigrade
4. Turn onto a wire cake rack to cool,When cool, cut into suitable pieces (make sure you reserve a piece to make a lid).
5. Line a pudding basin with these pieces of cake, Whip the cream until it forms fairly stiff peaks and fold in brandy and icing sugar to taste.
6. Spoon this mixture into the cake-lined basin and put a cake lid on top. Put a saucer on top of this with a weight on it, Leave in fridge for a few hours and turn out onto a plate to serve.

Snowed in? Avoiding someone? Hungover? Sometimes leaving the house is not an option, and I’m having one of those days…

Ingredients
1 third old baguette
a few sundried tomatoes
a bit of brie
lardons
half an onion
clove of garlic
mayo
some lettuce leaves

Method
1. Fry onions and lardons in the oil from sun dried tomatoes
2. Mince garlic and chop up sun dried tomatoes mix with mayo and some pepper.
3. Splash a little water on bagguette and but in a medium heat oven for 5 mins cut lengthways sandwich style spread in the mayo mix and add other ingredients, close the curtains, find a dvd and turn off your phone!