Hunter Street Kitchen

Fatima's Fingers. 

Over the weekend I discovered the pleasures of cooking with brick pastry. I had never heard of it before Friday when we ventured to Essential Ingredient and bought a packet of these Tunisian pastry circles. I followed the recipe on the back  - basically.

I seasoned and spiced up some pork and beef mince and added a chopped boiled egg. When it had cooled for a while I added 3 raw eggs and a fair bit of grated cheese.

Rolling them into the elegant finger shape is obviously something I need to practise. My Fatima's Fingers looked more like Fatima's arthritic thumbs!  They only took a few minutes to shallow fry and they tasted terrific.

I am quite sold on brick pastry. So much easier that fillo and it has a nice crunchie texture.

Fatima's Fingers looked more like Fatima's arthritic thumbs - but tasted yum!

Green Surprise: Sunday night left overs

I also made, what turned out to be quite a delicious cook-up on Sunday Night. I decided to use up lots of little green bits which were lurking at the bottom of the crisper bin: fennel, zucchini, garlic, mushrooms, a cos lettuce and a green apple. After slicing and peeling them. I put them all in a pan  (with lid on) with seasoning and oil for about ten minutes. The apple made all the difference.  In retrospect,  some almonds or pine nuts on the top might have been effective. I might have to give this a name...Green Surprise???