May 112009
I enjoy dinner parties, but sometimes things go wrong. I end up with a rushed day and no time to prepare, no a problem with many guests, but sometimes you want to impress, and you feel you have to create something a little out of the ordinary but you have no time to do it.
This idea was given to me on a day when I found myself hosting a dinner for my sons godparents. Dinner was at 7:30, I found out about it at 12. Don’t ask why, it’s a very long story.
A friend gave me this idea when we discovered that I had no time to prepare AND my guests were vegetarian.
You need:
Salad leaves
A log of goats cheese
Demerera sugar
Crusty bread
variation – tomatoes.
Slice the cheese quite thickly log and sprinkle sugar on each slice. Blowtorch or grill the cheese until the sugar forms a caramel crust. Serve the cheese on the crusty bread on a bed of leaves.
If you find this a little bland, do the same thing with tomatoes and add these for additional colour and flavour.
