Sunday evening was a night for entertaining as we had M's mum over for dinner so I thought I'd attempt a brand new main course and pudding! I'm not sure if that was brave or stupid...
For my main course I made Baked Turkey Meatballs with Broccoli and Crispy Potatoes and then we had White Chocolate and Berry Pudding with custard.
I found that whenever I've made meatballs in the past I've struggled to get the seasoning right. So to try and stop that I fried off a tiny bit of the mixture before rolling the meat into balls and gave them a taste. Personally I found them a bit bland so I added a (large) dash of Worcestershire sauce, some extra garlic, seasoning and a handful of grated Parmesan to the meatballs. I also browned them off in a pan before I baked them as sometimes I just think they look too anaemic if you just bake them in the oven. The potatoes were really similar to those I made on my NYE feast and I used skin-on Rooster potatoes (one of my favourite all rounders). I added some Asparagus Spears to the broccoli which I steamed as I sometimes get bored of just one vegetable. We also had garlic bread in a tin thanks to some "Jus-Roll" Garlic Pizza Bread which I bought a few weeks ago. Wow, it was lovely!! The only downside was that the juice with the meatballs was a little watery so I think I might try passata instead of a tin of cherry tomatoes if I made it again. It was also quite healthy due to using Turkey Mince and M's mum said she'd never had guessed and also asked for a copy of the recipe :)
Pudding was a variation of my favourite and most successful dessert - microwave sponge pudding. I vaguely followed the recipe in regards to using frozen berries, white chocolate chips and light brown sugar but I ignored the quantities. I follow the same principal for my sponge cakes (as described earlier here) that is I weigh my eggs in their shells ( for this case I used 2 large ones) and then mix the same quantities of flour, butter and sugar. Once I'd mixed this all together then I folded in 300g of mixed frozen berries (my mix had cherries, grapes, raspberries and blackberries) and then 85g of white chocolate chips. I found it needed longer in the microwave than the recipe said (probably because I had more ingredients!) and cooked it for about 14 minutes but it was really delicious. The sponge did start to turn a slightly strange colour due to the fruit melting a bit but once it was drenched in custard you couldn't really tell.
No pictures I'm afraid but I definitely had a very full belly!!
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