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Monday, 1 September 2014

Gingered Figs - Slow Cooker Challenge, September 2014


'Tis the 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'.  Hopefully we won't have too many mists just yet, as summer seems to have returned for a few more days, however I am looking for some fruitfulness as September's Slow Cooker Challenge is cook with FRUIT in your slow cooker.

Your dish can be sweet or savoury as long as it contains some fruit.  My recipe is a simple one,  I love baked figs and thought it would be easy to pop them in the slow cooker and it worked really well.

Slow Cooker Gingered Figs
4 ripe figs
50ml orange juice
4 dessert spoons Mackays Spiced Ginger Preserve (or chopped preserved ginger)

1. Cut the hard part of the stem from the top of the figs, then slice a cross into the top of each one, be careful not to cut all the way to the bottom or your figs will fall apart.
2. Place the figs in the basin of the slow cooker, open out the sections of the fig a little and fill the space with a dessert spoon of Ginger Preserve.
3. Pour the orange juice around the figs and cover with the lid.
4. Bake on low for 2-3 hours.
5. Remove the figs from the slow cooker to a serving dish, pour the juices into a pan and bring to a rapid boil, reducing the syrup by half, then pour this over the figs and chill in the fridge for at least an hour.
6. Serve with greek yogurt, drizzling the syrup over the figs and yogurt.
If you would like to take part in the Slow Cooker Challenge, then please: 
  • Make your recipe in your Slow Cooker and post a photograph and the recipe, or a link to a recipe, on your blog
  • Link to Farmersgirl Kitchen
  • Use the Slow Cooker Challenge logo in your post
  • If you use twitter, tweet your post with @FarmersgirlCook and #SlowCookerChallenge and I will re-tweet it to my followers AND post your picture on the dedicated Pinterest Board. 
Rules: 
  • Please do not publish recipes from cookbooks on your blog without permission, they are copyright.
  • If you are using recipes from another website, please link to the recipe on the website rather than publishing the recipe.
  • One entry per blog.
  • Recipes must be added to the linky by the 28th of each month.
The phrase 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' comes from John Keats' poem 'To Autumn'

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Monday, 30 September 2013

Dish of the Month - September Round up

Many thanks to all the lovely food bloggers who joined me and Sue (A Little Bit of Heaven on a Plate) for September Dish of the Month.  The blog event where we cook the recipes of Nigel Slater.  Sue and I are cooking our way through the Kitchen Diaries II but any recipe by Nigel can be entered for this easy-going challenge.

Nigel Slater's Autumn Chutney is the entry from Dish of the Month co-host Sue from A Little Bit of Heaven on a Plate.  This chutney is packed with green beans, onions, tomatoes and spices, it looks so good, I can almost taste it!
 
 Baked Figs with Marsala and Honey is the simple dish brought to us by Jacqueline at How to be a Gourmet.  The simplicity is typical of Nigel Slater and Jacqueline describes the dish as 'naughty but nice'!

 
Courgette and Apple Cake provides two of your five a day in cake form, how much better can you get?   Well, this one is also organic, so I don't think you can get any better!  Many thanks to Dom from Belleau Kitchen for bringing this healthy cake to Dish of the Month.

Chocolate Damson Cake, another superb seasonal cake, this time from Linzi at Lancashire Food.  I love how it looks like a fruity, fudgy brownie!

 
Cod in Soured Cream Sauce is a fascinating dish which Galina from Chez Maximka created using Nigel Slater's Lemon Tarragon Cod recipe and her own memories of a similar dish that her Mum makes.

Lamb 'Osso Buco' with parsley papardelle was the recipe I started out to make, however the eagle-eyed among you will realise that that is not quite what ended up on the plate!  You will have to read my blog post to find out how this morphed into a pot roast.

Courgette Cake was a popular choice as Claire at Foodie Quine also chose to make this moist and tasty 'five a day' in a cake.   Apologies to Claire for leaving her cake off the original post, I must have been seeing double!


I hope you will join us for Dish of the Month in October, the Linky will be posted on 2nd October. 

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