The 110th Bake: Lamb, Apricot, Coriander & Green Chilli Pie
That’s right you heard it here first, but what a great combination. Dried fruit in you lamb, chilli and coriander pie. Not only that, it was full of butternut pumpkin and ginger!! Yum! I really want to get into cooking like this on a regular basis, where you finely chop and then fry off a mixture of aromatics and spices (in this case), onion, chopped ginger, garlic, chilli and ground coriander to flavour your dish. At my cooking class in Bali, all the recipes were based around this style of cooking. I loved it. https://thebakersdozenbakeoff.com/2018/10/11/paon-bali-cooking-class-ubud/
finely chopped
oinion ginger garlic
ground coriander 
fry that goodness
Then to this aromatic spice mixture I added the diced lamb and browned this off. Then I added the vegetable stock and brought this to the boil before transferring to the oven for 30 minutes. After that it was time to
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I happened to be watching The Great Australia Bake-Off and they were making Lamb Bourguignon Pie. What a coincidence, as I was about to make this Boeuf Bourguignon version. All those luscious Boeuf Bourguignon ingredients of mushrooms, beef, red wine and lardons to make the classic French stew covered by puff pastry. The hardest thing about it was how to spell it actually! Coincidences tend to pop up out of nowhere and can be fun and even helpful. Not like other things that pop up too often these days. For example, I picked up the phone one day and was struck by a quite aggressive man who after citing the microsoft Licence ID Number of my computer, and the date and place of purchase, proceeded to tell me that “in 20 minutes my computer would be deactivated from the Microsoft server and no-one in the whole world would be able to fix it.” !! Okay?! Such an invasion in your own home, not to mention the emails that inundate our inboxes full of “answer a simple question for a free gift” so we are tempted to click on the link or worse, “you’ve been hacked.” Nothing is sacred anymore, least of all our privacy! Be careful out there!!!!
For a lazy sunny afternoon, this bake looked delicious. It sounded incredibly flavorful. My local shop only had split red lentils, rather than black, but it didn’t seem to matter, the recipe still worked. Having been in Bali recently and made a Yellow sauce from scratch, this recipe reminded me of that. (Recipe to follow) The whole combining of fresh ingredients like root ginger, garlic, ground coriander, chilli powder, fresh coriander leaves and cumin seeds brought back the essence of Balinese cooking and filled me with joy!! 🙂
This looks interesting. I’m not even sure what a roulade is but I do have some wood smoked salmon in the fridge and spinach so that’ll be perfect. I made a large flat baking dish out of tinfoil 33x37cm and brushed it with butter. 
The next step was to make a nice thick white sauce with butter, flour and milk into which I flaked the smoked fish. Speaking of decadent food, I went to Little & Friday recently and wow their food is spectacular. Great baking, good value, donuts to die for. It’s one of those bakeries where you can’t not buy something. 
So I made Paul’s signature bake, Mini Sausage Plaits. Well, I have to say, I do love black pudding and the resulting parcels were filled with delicious ingredients, pork sausage, black pudding, mushroom paste and caramelized onions. YUM. All this inside a flaky pastry plait. 
It’s ball season again and I tried to make these Pizzettes for the pre-ball on Saturday. I failed miserably because despite having all the ingredients laid out on the bench, I spent the whole day running, as you do from hair to makeup appointments for my daughter. So a plate of cheese and crackers it was. But I did make these the next day for lunch and then we had them for dinner as well. So yum, with caramelized onions and blue cheese. I made the dough, by 
A savoury bake it is. After the last burst of hot sweet rectangular sugaryness, I think a game meat pie sounds like just the ticket. I went to my local fresh collective and in the game meat department, only found venison, so bought that. To substitute the required 800g of mixed game meat I bought rump steak, woops, meant to buy chuck steak but never mind. High end cuts for a slow cooked pie, it’s only my bank account that will suffer! 
It’s about time I did a savoury bake, all this sweetness and cake, I think I need a break. I found this recipe for Aubergine Crumble, so bought my very expensive ingredients, gosh, Aubergines @$5 each and don’t even get me started on the price of Mozzarella. Speaking of yum ingredients though, I went to the Food Show in the weekend and had the best time sampling cheese and chocolate, not to mention humus and berry panna cotta. It was so much fun and I came away inspired by a couple of products…