The Cake Sale is tomorrow!!

As the Cake Sale is tomorrow, a wonderful recipe from the Domestic Goddess herself, Nigella Lawson, will definately hit the spot.

Nigella's Fabulous Fairy Cakes

You Will Need:
125g unsalted butter, softened
125g caster sugar
125g self-raising flour
half teaspoon vanilla extract
2-3 tablespoons milk
12 bun muffin tin lined with 12 muffin papers

What To Do:
(Preheat oven to 200 degrees C/Gas mark 6)

1. Put all the ingredients, except for the milk, in a food processor and blitz till smooth.
2. Pulse processor while adding milk, to make a soft dropping consistency.
3. Spoon in equal measures of mixture into the muffin cases.
4. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until fairy cakes are golden on top.
5. Remove and cool before icing and decorating.

A variety of ready-made icing and decorations can be bought from your local supermarket or Fords in Oakham do an excellent range of cake decorations. (Nigella didn't write that bit, we did!) Nigella suggests that you cut off any mounded tops to your fairy cakes once they're cool. It will be much easier to ice and decorate on a flat surface than one that's pointy.

Enjoy.... and save some for us!!

Easy Peasy Recipe

Briege Slattery emailed us here at the Friends of English Martyrs Blog suggesting a delicious recipe that she wanted to share for busy people with hectic lives.

Thank you Briege - a wonderful recipe!

Easy Peasy Pork Stroganoff (Serves 4)

What you need:

1 pork fillet, chopped into bit sized pieces
1 tub of half fat creme fraiche
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
1 heaped teaspoon wholegrain mustard
1 chopped onion
1 large glass of dry white wine (and one for the chef!)

What you do:

1 Heat knob of butter with one tablespoon of olive oil;
2 When butter/oil is hot fry the pork, browning on both sides;
3 Turn the heat to medium and add the onion and cook for a couple of minutes until soft;
4 Add the wine and cook for a minute or so to burn off the alcohol;
5 Mix the mustards with the craime fraiche and add this, mix well, add some seasoning (salt & pepper to the novice) and you're done.

Serve with rice & veg.
Note: You can also add sliced button mushrooms with the onion if you like.

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