Parsnip medallions

Estafette recipe card
Makes 8
Preparation / Cooking time: about 45m all told

This recipe comes from the company that runs our local organic shop; it is translated from the Dutch. The Mammal hasn't tried it (yet), but based on other recipes from the same source, it should be very tasty indeed.

Ingredients
400g parsnips
350g mature cheese
2 eggs
4 tablespoons sieved flour
half teaspoon ground nutmeg
pepper and salt to season
1.5 tablepsoons chives or parsley
flour for coating
2 tablespoons butter

Orange and almond cake

Gluten-free cooking p.116
Serves 6-10 (depending on slice size)
Preparation / Cooking time: about 3h 30m all told (2h if using a pressure cooker)

This recipe comes from Michael Cox's Great Healthy Food: Gluten-Free (London: Carroll & Brown, 2000). It is delicious: soft and moist, with the strong orange flavour sitting very nicely alongside the subtler taste of almond. It is well worth the effort of the longish cooking time, though since the first two hours merely involve boiling the oranges, you aren't tethered to the kitchen for all that time.

A word of warning: this is one of those recipes where it makes a big difference if you leave it in too long. Check it on the dot of 60m to see if it is done (or five minutes earlier if your oven tends to be too hot); it may need a bit extra, but if it is ready at this stage it should be taken out immediately.

Ingredients
Butter for greasing
2 large oranges
6 eggs, medium-sized, separated
250g caster sugar [use less if you don't have a sweet tooth]
225g ground almonds [or a tad more if you reduce the sugar]

Blackened trout with gingered sweet potato mash and garlicky mangetout

SM 2003-03 p.57 [02.018.01]
Serves 2
Preparation / Cooking time: about 45m all told

Onion soup with Madeira and Gruyere toasts

SM 2003-03 p.46 [02.064.12]
Serves 4
Preparation / Cooking time: about 1h 30m all told

Watercress and Lancashire Cheese bread

SM 2003-04 p.90 [02.013.02]
Serves 8 [slices]
Preparation / Cooking time: about 1h 15m all told

Slow-cooked chilli con carne

SM 2003-04 p.69 [02.012.01]
Serves 4
Preparation / Cooking : about 4h 30m all told
Advance prep: 1h 30m (boil and soak kidney beans)

Summer trifle

SM 2001-06 p.85 [02.004.01]
Serves 8
Preparation / Cooking time: about 6h 30m, including advance prep
Advance prep: 2h for fruit to sit; 4h for trifle to chill

Plum cobbler with cinnamon snow

SM 2001-09 p.74 [01.087.01]
Serves 6
Note: Cinnamon snow involves advance preparation; cobbler can also be made by itself.
Preparation / Cooking time: about 1h all told [cobbler only]
Advance prep: about 5h, including freezing and whisking every hour [cinnamon snow]

Mashed pumpkin [or squash] with butter and black pepper

SM 2002-01 p.42 [01.076.02]
Serves 2 as side dish
Preparation / Cooking time: about 35m all told

[COMM] A slight change of tactic

It's been a while since the last recipes were added; time to return to this mammoth task of indexing. However, the Mammal has decided to take a different tack so that the index is of more immediate use during its slow compilation.

The previous method was simply to start at the beginning and plough through the recipes in sequence, but that has meant that lots of things that don't particularly appeal or are not suited to the Mammal's circumstances are added while other recipes that it has, in fact, tried and liked have yet to appear. This means that instead of conveniently searching for these recipes via the blog, the poor beast has to continue to trawl through the whole range of cut-out pages and Sainsbury's Magazine tables of contents from scratch, which sort of defeats the purpose.

So from now on, the focus will be on prioritizing the Mammal's favourite recipes, or untried ones that it really likes the look of. Which means that other readers will be at the mercy of its idiosyncrasies: if you like light summery salads or sweet cakes and desserts, you will be less catered for in this phase, but if your taste runs to hearty stews and soups and fruit-based or dark chocolate desserts and cakes, you'll strike lucky more often.

And now that the Mammal's favourite food seasons of Autumn and Winter are coming round again, it is looking forward to putting its apron on and getting down to some real cooking ...