Egg and cress sandwiches

It sounds obvious but a perfect egg can be hard, or not...

Put the egg in Cold water bring it up to the boil, once boiling leave it for 3 minutes then remove (this should give you soft eggs~). Peal the egg add 1 spoon of mayo for every two eggs and mash. Add the cress

Tiny Little Goats Cheese Tarts

For my tarts I’m going to use a basic short crust pastry recipe, pretty hard to go wrong but you can use ready roll. 

All you have to do is combine

• 200g / 7 oz plain flour or all purpose flour
• Pinch of salt
• 110g / 4 oz butter, cubed or an equal mix of butter and lard
• 2-3 tbsp very cold water

Roll and cut to fit muffin tins

Cook off/caramelise, some red onion with a little sugar and balsamic vinegar

Then put a spoon of onion and  a slice of goats cheese in each tart then bake at about 180°C for 15-20minutes

Victoria Sponge

    Ingredients  

• 225g caster sugar, plus a little extra for dusting the finished cake
• 225g self-raising flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 225g/ soft butter at room temperature, plus a little extra to grease the tins
• 4 free-range eggs

1. Wisk together eggs and butter, add sugar once combined
2. Add the other ingredients. 
3. Pour into 8” tin and bake 25minutes at 180°c
4. Once cooled cut in half and add the filling.
5. For the filling spread a good quality strawberry jam the bottom followed by a mixture of 300g of cream 1 teaspoon of vanilla and two table spoons of sugar whisked until stiff