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Meat Cigars Meat Cigars and also some dessert Nashi and Sweet Cream Cheese filling |
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Dinnah! Meat Cigar, cold Aubergine with Tomatoes and Chickpeas, and Cucumber and Yoghurt Salad |
Notes: This was the first time I have used filo pastry and it was much easier than expected. Only problems were little hands wanting to help. He seems to like eating all pastries raw. The meat cigars were astonishingly morish, and I did make a LOT of them even though I only used 500gs of mince rather than the full 750 as per the recipe. The cucumber salad is basically tzadziki with half-moon cucumbers instead of grated. I liked the aubergine with tomato and chick peas better cold than I did warm!
The nashi with sweet cream cheese is fantastic. I had a quarter of a pack of cream cheese left, so warmed it to be able to beat it in the microwave, added maybe a scant tablespoon of caster sugar, about two drops of vanilla and beat it all up and smeared it around and added very finely chopped nashi. The denuding of the nashis was an effort in itself. I was going to make nashi pie, but they're the size of GOLF BALLS. Once I had done six, I cut one in half and discovered they are also mostly core. *sigh* And then V would run off with one to eat it. Then come back for more. The little parcels were much easier. :-)
