Rocker feller oysters with bacon:
Matt's Recipe For Made With Love:
Ingredients:
- 12 oysters – shucked. Loosen the oyster in one shell and discard the other.
- Lay then on a baking tray lined with rock salt
- 75g butter
- 1 small onion – finely chopped
- 150g fresh spinach – wilted and then chopped and drained of all water
- 5 rashers of streaky dry cured bacon – chopped and fried until crispy
- 25g grated parmesan cheese
- 50gm natural breadcrumbs
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- Salt and pepper
Method:
- Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the onion – cook gently for 5 minutes.
- Add the spinach and mix well. Season with some salt and pepper.
- Divide this mixture amongst the oysters.
- Top with the crispy bacon.
- Mix the parmesan, breadcrumbs and the parsley together and then sprinkle this over the top.
- Heat your grill to high and place the oysters underneath – and cook until bubbling and golden brown
This has been named Chocolate mess, perhaps because it’s not the prettiest of puddings. What it is though, is a tribute to store cupboard ingredients and the ability to make grown men weep with joy when they eat it!
As it’s so quick to make, you don’t really need to assemble it in advance but it will keep quite happily for a couple of hours if you want to be organised and make it ahead of time.
Serves 8
Ingredients:
- 200g/7oz dark chocolate, broken into pieces
- 200g/7oz milk chocolate, broken into pieces
- 1kg carton readymade (county next to Cornwall!) custard
- 250g bag amoretti biscuits, crushed
- 4 tablespoons dark rum, amaretto or Tia Maria (optional)
- 570ml/1 pint double cream
- 2 milk chocolate flakes, broken up
Method:
- Place the dark and milk chocolate pieces in a heatproof bowl and melt it in the microwave or over a pan of simmering water.
- Leave to cool for 5 minutes.
- Warm the custard gently in a saucepan and stir in the melted chocolate and mix well.
- Using individual serving bowls crumble a few amoretti biscuits in the bottom of each bowl.
- Drizzle with a good dash alcohol.
- Add a layer of chocolate custard over the top.
- Add another layer of crushed biscuits (reserving a few for the top), more rum and then the rest of the custard.
- Lightly whip the cream to the same consistency as the custard.
- Using a large metal spoon, gently fold half the crushed chocolate flakes into the cream.
- Spoon this over the custard.
- Sprinkle with the remaining chocolate flakes and the remaining crushed amaretti biscuits.
Matt's Recipe For Made With Love:
Hollywood’s Kiss and Tell Martini:
- 3 parts Champers
- 2 parts vodka
- 1 part Pom pomegranate juice
- Squeeze of lime.
Method:
- In a shaker mix ice, along with vodka, lime and Pom juice.
- Shake vigorously so it froths.
- Pour into martini glass.
- Top with a little champagne and garnish with a pomegranate seeds
- Can be poured into a flute if you like the look of it instead.
Recipe and photo credits- Food Network
