Sunchowder Needs your help! Looking for your favorite recipes for fundraiser

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Hello Mums! My 11 year old DD was interviewed last week and accepted to participate as a member of the People to People Student Ambassador Program. She is going to get to go on a 20 day trip to your side of the pond this summer with the delegation!! She will travel to Ireland, Wales, England, France, Holland and Belgium. The objective of the program is to promote international understanding while building leadership skills among America's youth. The only down-side is that the tuition is very steep (expensive) and we need to do fundraising to make the trip possible. So....I am taking on the project of publishing a cookbook as the main fundraiser! I am doing the original art for the cover and dividers and it will be plastic comb sprial bound and laminated. I am hoping the price will be between $10 and $12 American Dollars. I would love it if you would be willing to share your most favorite recipes on this thread along with your either your real name or mumsnet name (doesn't matter to me!) and I will use your recipes in the book and print your name along with each recipe. The book will be called "Sunchowder's Emporia", A Collection of Recipes for the Heart and Soul. I am getting an ISBN and everything. I am terribly excited about it. I have incorporated about 75 of my mums and my most treasured recipes and I have sent out requests to 50 of my friends here in the States, so I hope to have a gorgeous book at the end of all of this.

I don't want to request or pressure anyone to purchase the book (unless you want to!), I was just hoping for contributions to make the cookbook richer and more diverse. I appreciate anything you want to contribute and can't wait to see your responses. If we are successful, the book should be published in March 2006. I am going crazy trying to get the advertising in line to help defray the printing costs so I have my hands full, but I am enjoying it and my DD is hard at work printing and collating and delivering things to help support the effort. Thank you, Thank you so much. XO Sunny

Thanks again Sally! Shall we call it Sausage Puff?

Of Course!!!

Starter (good for veggies)

Shop brought puff pastry sheets (you can get frozen pastry that is ok for vegan diets)
Pesto (make your own or buy it in - if you make it yourself you can make this ok for vegans)
Assorted RIPE tomatoes
Pinch of sea salt
Lots of black pepper
Slivers of garlic
Chopped black olives (if you like that sort of thing)
Beaten egg or milk (soya milk if giving to vegans)

Preheat oven to gas mark 7.Cut the pastry into squares or cut around a saucer. Score a line around 1cm from edge. Put on non stick baking tray. Spoon pesto into centre of pastry shapes. Top with tomatoes, garlic and olives - make as pretty as you want. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Brush edges with egg or milk wash. Put in oven for 20 - 25 minutes and serve warm with green salad.

Thanks BlackWidow! I will print this one also, I will call it Tomato Puff and using your BlackWidow Mumsnet name. Thanks for taking the time to post it for me again!

Winter Pasta - Main (warning this is only for the seriously depressed who do not care about their waistline)

For one person (multiply by as many as you need)
1 fist sized potato chopped into small (ish) dice and parboiled.
4oz dry pasta shapes - boiled
Half an onion - chopped
Drizzle of olive oil
2 cloves of garlic - chopped
Handful of Parsley - chopped
Salt and pepper
(and the good bit) .25 - .5 pints of cream and a handful of strong grated cheese.

Heat the oil and add onion. Cook until translucent the add potatoes and garlic cook until starting to brown and potatoes are cooked through. Add cream and cheese. Heat until cheese melts. Add pasta to warm through. Add parsley and season to taste. Eat while hot. Nice to reheat following day if you have any left (or for midnight snacking on).

Here's mine:

Chicken Thight Normandy:

3 leeks
4 carrots
8 slices bacon
12 mushrooms
(you can play around with the veg qtys and choice of, leav e things ad, add others etc)
6 garlic cloves crushed
350 ml cider or white wine
8 chicken thighs
chopped fresh thyme
S&p
125 ml sour cream

Preheat oven - 190 degrees

Slice carrots and steam gently

Put sliced carrots, leeks and diced bacon in roasting tin with whole mushrooms & crushed garlic.
Pour over cider or wine
Place chicken on top
Sprinkle with fresh tyme and s&p

Bake for 25mins

Remove chicken & veg and keep warm

Put pan on hob and boli off juices till reduced by half.
Stir in sour cream and heat gently.
Pour sauce onto warm plates.
Arrange bacon and veg with chicken on top.

Enjoy

(Serve on it's own or with some mashed potatoes?)

Summer Pasta - Opposite of above good for your health and your wasteline.
6oz pasta per person
Handful of cherry tomatoes per person
Half a yellow pepper per person
Few basil leaves
Salt and pepper
Extra virgin olive oil

Chop peppers and roast in oven until skin starts to char. Boil pasta and drain. Halve tomatoes. Mix peppers (while still warm) with tomatoes, torn basil leaves oil and seasoning. Stir into pasta and eat warm

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Thank you so much for taking the time Meggymoo! They look wonderful, I love dolmathes (stuffed vine leaves) too--I can't get anyone in my family to eat them however. I will publish these for you under your name of MeggyMoo.

And GGG!!--I would be honored to have your lamb recipe.

Thomcat--also fabulous recipe, can't wait to try this out too, and I will publish it under Thomcat and Lottie if you don't mind! You are wonderful.

Blackwidow--I am overwhelmed, the summer pasta looks great also.

These recipes will make my book so special, I can't tell you how much I appreciate. Thanks again!!!!

A very nice starter

Hot Smoked salmon Sauce with Salad

50g can anchovies in oil
1/2 pint double cream
1teaspoon tomato puree
4 ox smoked salmon cut into ribbons
Assorted salad leaves mixed with 2 oz mangetout sliced diagonally
a few green and pink peppercorns in brine, drained.

Drain the anchovies, retaining the oil. Place half of them in a pan with the oil and stir over a low heat till they make a smooth paste. Add the cream and tomato puree stirring until the mixture bubbles. Continue cooking till a thick sauce forms. Add pepper to taste.
Set aside a few salmon pices for garnish and add the rest to the sauce.

Pour the sauce over the leaves and mange tout and top with the reserved salmon and peppercorns. Serve immediatley

Mars bars are the ones with caramel in.
Milkyway here are fluffy inside,not them!

Milky Way has caramel in it and fluffy nougat. No nuts. Just like a UK Mars Bar. An American Mars bar has almonds in it.

An American 'Three Musketeers' bar has nothing but nougat. No caramel.

But there's no Three Musketeers in the UK . Or Baby Ruth and Butterfinger .

But you do have CRUNCHIE bars and Mint AREO bars!

Lilibet! Thank you so very much, that looks really tasty-doing the conversion to US measurements now. Thanks so much for taking the time today to add another one to the collectionyou are so good to me.

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Yuk. I'd rather have Butterfinger anyday. Mmm, butterfinger.

Bump for the morning...

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