The 105th Bake: Roast Vegetable & Goat’s Cheese Torte

Simple ingredients made amazing, that’s how I would describe this recipe. It looks extremely complicated but it’s actually not and I would make it again. Everybody knows how to make pancakes right. Well these were made with wholemeal flour, so quite wholesome. This torte is simply pancakes layered with roasted veges, red and yellow peppers, aubergine, zucchini (and I threw in some beetroot and pumpkin)and feta cheese. Simple ingredients made delicious. The first thing I did was

slice up the veges into short lengths and put them in a roasting dish with olive oil and a few sprigs of fresh thyme.

I made the crepe batter using wholemeal flour, an egg plus one egg yolk and milk. I whisked these ingredients together to make a smooth, fairly thin batter. Then I covered the bowl and left this at room temperature for 30 minutes.

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The 52nd Bake: Aubergine Parmigiana Crumble

 

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…    (more…)