Za Recipes

The one advantage of having only a few entries to a blog event is that the round up doesnt take as long to write up! I guess the warm weather is responsible for all but the regulars deserting us and who could blame them, I know I havent entered many challenges myself. Of course, the standard of the entries we have received is, as usual, exceptionally high, a tribute to Mr Nigel Slater and his lovely recipes.

Lets start with this months hostess with the mostess my friend and co-conspirator, Sue at A Little Bit of Heaven on a Plate with a delicious plate of Pistachio and Lemon Cookies This recipe is a little extra provided by Nigel in the inside of the slip cover of The Kitchen Diaries II.

Rachel Kelly of Marmaduke Scarlet is making a bit of a name for herself appearing almost weekly in the Guardian Cook Magazine on a Saturday, I always look out for her contributions to Felicity Cloakes themed reader recipe pages. Rachel is also a regular here at Dish of the Month and this month brings us these glowing Baked Tomatoes with Fragrant Spices and Coconut In true Dish of the Month style, Rachel didnt stick rigidly to the recipe making a few subtle changes, they dont seem to have had any negative effect on this rather unusal recipe of tomatoes stuffed with tomatoes.

I also took a few liberties, this time with Nigels recipe for Plum (or greengage) and Almond Tart in the Kitchen Diaries II. I didnt have plums or greengages and I didnt have time to make pastry. I did have cherries, ground almonds and eggs though and the result was these Cherry Frangipane Ramekins which I served warm with some lovely vanilla ice cream.

Camilla at Fab Food 4 All has gone preserving mad, especially after winning her local show with her Peach and Apricot Jam. Congratulations Camilla! This Mixed Tomato Chutney was inpsired by some lovely multi-coloured cherry tomatoes and based on Nigels recipe for Mixed Tomato Chutney.

Many thanks for entering July Dish of the Month and we hope to see you again in August when I will be hosting. The link and details of a GIVEAWAY will be posted on 1st August.

See all the dishes on our Pinterest Board or have a look at the round ups on the Dish of the Month page here at Farmersgirl Kitchen.

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• In a bowl mix maida, salt , water and make smooth dough. Keep aside for 1 hour.
• Wash channa dal and boil it in 3-4 cups of water until the dal becomes soft.
• After it gets boiled, drain the water completely.
• In the same vessel add jaggery and cardamom powder and mix well and make a smooth paste
• Finally add ghee to it
• Make this puran into round balls and keep aside
• Grease your hands with oil and take a small portion of dough and spread it on a plastic cover and make a small round chapatti.

• Place puran inside the little rounded chapatti and close it till the puram will not be visible
• Using roll stick roll it like chapatti or we can use hand and spread it slowly by pressing it down until it forms a round like chapatti.
• Now on pan put little ghee/oil and cook on low heat
• Cook on both sides till it turns golden brown
• Delicious Bobbatlu’s are ready. Serve these with ghee.

• Approximately 45 Foodbuzz pages were perused in the planning of this meal.
• The menu was changed 7 times before this final version.
• 58 unique ingredients were purchased at 12 different San Francisco markets.
• Incredibly, bacon was not used anywhere in this menu. How was that possible?
• The misenplace took 18 hours of prep, over the course of four days.
• No fingers or hands were harmed in the making of this meal.
• The combined running time for these three videos is 18:04. This was edited down from 41 minutes of raw footage.