Let's Eat Bloghop....................

Welconme to Somerset, your next leg of the bloghop itinerary. You should have travelled about 75 miles West from the lovely Anne who not only is a fab cook but is cooking her own little ''bun in the oven''.............she's having her first baby in January, awwwwww. 3 cheers for her and her hubbie.

So hope you enjoyed your food over there. We are making something from leftovers on our blog as it is part of my family makeup. When I was a child, the Sunday roast always denoted what our meal would be on Monday and probably Tuesday if the mear stretched. If it was roast beef then it was Cottage pie if it was Lamb Shepherd's pie, if it was pork I cant remember, but if it was chicken it was always Chicken rissoles. I can remember my mum cooking these as if it was yesterday so it is her recipe book I have raided for this old family treat.

Chicken or turkey croquetttes

Ingredients:

225-275g/8-10oz cooked chicken or turkey

1 small onion

25g/1oz plain flour

salt and black pepper

25g/1oz butter

125ml/1/4pint chicken stock or milk

1 egg

toasted breadcrumbs

Method:

Chop finely or mince cold chicken or turkey. 

Peel and finely chop the onion. 

Melt butter in a saucepan and add onion.  Cover and cook gently for 5 miinutes (don't allow to brown).

Stir in flour and cook for 2 minutes.  Then add stock or milk and bring to the boil, stirring all the time to make a thick sauce. Add salt and pepper.

Take pan off heat and beat thoroughly to get a smooth mixture.

Add chicken/turkey and mix well.

Separate egg and add yolk to mixture.

Cover pan and set aside until cold.

Take tablespoons of mixture and with wetted hands form rounds about 1/2inch thick

Brush with egg white and roll in breadcrumbs.

Fry in a little butter or olive oil for 5-8 minutes, turning once.

Favourite with children.  Freeze well
Noiw my mum used to do a dip into egg then flour rather than breadcrumbs and we had them with mashed potato and peas,.........mmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhh. I hope you enjoy them as much as me. 


I love cooking myself and still cling to my childhood faves like the one above. My mum still has the old mincer she put the beef into to make Shepherd's pie and the same cookbook she was given back in the 60s. They do say the oldies are the best. I hope that my recipe favourites stand the test of time and get passed down to my friend's children and so forth.


So the next person to visit is the lovely Debs  who resides just north-easterly about 100 miles plus from here. Lets see what she has on her menu today shall we.......................