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B&B Luncheon, September 2004

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Sepie e Polenta
- Cuttlefish & Polenta

Serves 6

Ingredients:

  • 500g cleaned sepia (cuttlefish)
  • 100ml olive oil
  • 2 anchovies, roughly chopped
  • ¾ cup white wine
  • 2 large handfuls chopped flat leaf parsley
  • salt and ground black pepper
  • water, if needed

For the creamy polenta:

  • 2 litres water
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 2 cups semolina (half white/wheat semolina and half yellow/corn semolina)
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • radicchio salad, to serve

 

Method:

Make sure cuttlefish are thoroughly cleaned and fine membrane is removed.

Heat olive oil in a large frypan. Add anchovies and fry until dissolved.

Add cuttlefish, stir for a few minutes. Stir in wine. Cook for another few minutes. Add parsley and stir well. Season to taste, not too much as the anchovies are salty. Cover and cook for 5-10 minutes.

Remove sepia from the pan. Leave aside covered to retain heat. Add a little water (depending on how much liquid had been released from the cuttlefish) reduce sauce in pan.

Bring water and salt to the boil then reduce to a gentle boil. Gradually add handfuls of mixed semolina stirring constantly with a whisk. When mixture becomes thicker (about the 3 cup mark) use wooden spoon. When spoon stands up in the mixture, add butter and olive oil stirring constantly. Cook for approximately 40-45 minutes, stirring every few minutes to avoid polenta sticking to the bottom of the pan.

At the end of cooking time, bring to rapid boil for a minute until mixture leaves side of the pan. Pour onto a large wooden tray or serving platter. Cool a little and slice in into preferred shapes to serve.

Return cuttlefish to pan for a minute or two.

Serve with creamy polenta and a small radicchio salad dressed with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic.

 

Main

Involtini di vitello stufati
- Braised veal parcels

Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 2 small carrot, peeled and julienned
  • 2 sticks celery, julienned
  • 1 medium red capsicum, deseeded and julienned
  • 1 medium chili finely diced
  • 3 échalots fine diced or 6 shallots cut into julienne
  • 200g Enoki (or other) mushrooms, trimmed
  • 6 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • 4 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
  • 4 teaspoons finely chopped rosemary
  • 12 fine slices veal scaloppini, fat removed (about 750 gm)
  • 36 very thin slices Parma ham (or Prosciutto)
  • 1 Kg chats (baby potatoes) washed and scrubbed, cut in two
  • 750 ml mushroom or vegetable stock
  • 2 tbsp flour
  • 1 tbsp polyunsaturated margarine (or butter)
  • salt and pepper

 

Method:

Prepare the beurre manié by combining the margarine and flour and rolling the mix into little balls. Cover and refrigerate.

Place all the filling ingredients in a bowl - carrot, celery, capsicum, chili, shallot, mushrooms, garlic, oil, vinegar and rosemary. Season and mix well (because of the stock be careful with the salt).

Place a piece of the veal between 2 pieces of "Go Between" (plastic sheeting). Flatten and spread with a meat mallet until very thin (less than 2 mm thick). Repeat with remaining veal.

Halve each piece of veal crosswise if too wide. Place one to two tablespoons of the vegetable mixture in the middle of the veal and roll up. Place on top of two or three fine slices of prosciutto that have been overlapped two cm. lengthways and wrap tightly with the ends folded in to seal the parcel. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

Place the parcels in a large oiled baking tray and bake in a fan forced oven at 180ºC for 20 minutes or until the ham is crisp. Pour off the fat and add the stock to the baking dish so that it comes up nearly to the top of the parcels. Spray the potatoes lightly with olive oil and dust lightly with hot paprika. Place the potatoes on and around the parcels and return to the oven at 180ºC for a further 40-50 minutes or until cooked, basting from time to time so the parcels do not become dry. Be sure the stock does not reduce below 2/3 the original quantity (add water if needed).

Remove the veal parcels and potatoes; cover and keep warm. Strain the sauce and return to a pan on the stove. Allow to bubble and melt in sufficient of the beurre manié to bring the sauce to a smooth consistency, adding water if needed. Cook for 2-3 minutes.

 

To serve:

Plate out two or three parcels per person, and the potatoes.
Spoon the hot sauce over the parcels and serve.

 

Dessert

Butterscotch Upside Down Pudding

Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 3 dessert spoons (30g) margarine or butter
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ½ teaspoon grated lemon rind
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 3 slices tinned pineapple
  • 8 pitted tinned cherries
  • 2oz (60g) margarine or butter
  • 2oz (60g) sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 4oz (120g) self raising flour
  • pinch of salt

 

Method:

For the butterscotch: Cream butter with brown sugar, lemon rind and juice. Spread over the bottom of an 8 inch (20cm) greased cake tin.

Cut pineapple into desired shapes. Arrange a pattern with cherries on top of the butterscotch mixture in tin.

Cream margarine or butter with sugar and vanilla. Add egg. Mix well. Fold in milk alternately with sifted flour and salt. Spread carefully over fruit in tin. Being careful not to move the fruit. Bake in moderate oven 35-40 minutes.

Allow to stand in tin a few minutes for butterscotch syrup to settle. Turn onto a hot serving dish. .

To serve:

Serve with custard (crème anglaise)

 

Wine

Wine List

Course: Wine:
Aperitif: Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut
Spain NV
Entree 1: Yalumba Semillon Sauvignon Blanc
Barossa 2000
Entree 2: Maglieri Wilunga Block Rhine Riesling
McLaren Vale 1995
Main 1: Leconfield Cabernet Sauvignon
Coonawarra 2000
Main 2: Schulz Zinfandel
Barossa 2003
Desert: Tyrrells Ashman Sparkling Shiraz
McLaren Vale NV
Fortified: Penfolds Club Tawny Port
Kalimna NV

 


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