Gourmet Recipes

A simple soft cheesecake which is light, creamy and perfect for summer! If you’re feeling brave, the strawberry flavour is really brought out by steeping the chopped strawberries in some freshly ground black pepper and balsamic vinegar, before adding them to the cheese mixture. Ingredient s 160g Deans Lemon Curd & Oatflake shortbread rounds 50g unsalted Butter, softened 200g melted White Chocolate 250g Mascarpone or full fat soft cheese 200g Fromage Frais 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract 100ml Double Cream 225g Strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped Method Put the shortbread biscuits in a plastic bag and bash with a rolling pin until they resemble breadcrumbs. Mix the biscuit crumbs together with the softened butter and press firmly onto the base and sides of a 20cm springform tin. Refrigerate until needed. Melt the white chocolate in a bowl in the microwave and set aside until needed. Whisk the cream until soft peaks, then beat in the cream cheese and fromage frais until smooth and thic...

Other ideas for Best of Taste Fruit Coulis Mango and Passion Fruit Coulis Made from a wonderful blend of sun ripened mangoes and the strained juice of passion fruit. Great with any other tropical fruits, bananas especially (fried, barbecued or baked as well as fresh). Great with yoghurts, creme fraiche and ice cream. Blackcurrant Coulis Made from masses of plump, sharp English blackcurrants this is a wonderfully tart flavoured coulis that is rich in Vitamin C. Wonderful with anything rather sweet or bland and excellent for flavouring homemade ices, sorbets or long summer drinks and spritzers. Good with warm water to fight off colds in winter. Also excellent with deep fried Brie or camembert or as a flavouring in sauces with rich, game meats. Black Cherry Coulis with Kirsch The combination of sweet dark cherries and Kirsch has long been a favourite of dessert and pastry chefs around the world. By bringing the two flavours together in a coulis you can now enjoy a really gourmet dessert a...

Ingredients 1 Pack of frozen Puff Pastry 2 Punnets of fresh Strawberries ½ Pint of Cream 4 tbspns of Elderflower Cordial Instructions For the Icing 2 tbspns of Elderflower Cordial 4oz of sieved Icing Sugar. Roll the pastry out into 3 oblongs 12cm x 26cm. Soak the Strawberries in the Elderflower Cordial for 1/2 an hour. Whip the cream until firm, then layer the cream on the pastry and top with strawberries. Repeat on the next layer and top with the third sheet of pastry. To make the icing, sieve the icing sugar and add the Elderflower Cordial, stirring all the time. Pour over the top of the slice and serve.