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Week 7 Ingredients for Cookalong by course: week 7

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Date Published:
04/01/2008

Stock up your cupboards - it's time to take part in Cookalong Live: The series week 7

Please note: There have been some changes to the menu.

On the menu (serves 4)

Starter: Roast chestnut, parsnip and apple soup

Roasted chestnut soup

20g butter
2 medium parsnips, peeled and grated
2 celery stalks, chopped
1 tsp curry powder
Approx 6 sage leaves, finely shredded
2 apples, peeled, cored and chopped
250g roasted chestnuts, shelled, skinned and roughly chopped
600ml hot vegetable stock
Few tbsp single cream, to serve

Main course: Christmas paella

Paella

1 red pepper, finely diced
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, peeled
400g paella rice
125ml dry white wine
1 tsp smoked paprika
Generous pinch of saffron threads
1l hot vegetable stock
12 large fresh mussels, well scrubbed, beards removed
4 large prawns
4 prepared squid, approx 170g in total, sliced into rings
Approx 280g monkfish fillet, roughly chopped
Handful flat leaf parsley, chopped
1 lemon cut into wedges
Olive oil
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Dessert: Quick Christmas trifle

Christmas trifle

250g mascarpone
3 tbsp icing sugar, plus extra for garnish
4 tbsp cream liqueur
Pinch of ground cinnamon
1 orange, zest only
200ml double cream
Approx 100g panettone
1 tbsp brandy
Small piece of dark chocolate to grate




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  1. It is just crap that the menu changed. I bought the ingredients las week and had no main course...
    Posted by Angry Man on 13/12/2008 17:10:10
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  2. Just got all my stuff for tonights cookalong and decided to check to see what goes where and I fid out there has been some changes to the menu. Not just some but 2 courses have been changed which is a bit drastic really seeing as I have got the old menu stuff. Well, I am allergic to squid & mussles but not to worry, I've got the chesnuts, curry powder & butter for the soup (nothing else) and I'm ok for the dessert so all's not lost. We'll just eat pudding for the time being while I think what to do with my other stuff that I have brought esspecially for tonight!!!
    Posted by mel on 12/12/2008 12:03:25
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  3. Hi I also wondered why the menu changed, I had already written down the ingredients, jolly good I decided to check if there was any preparation I could do before the show started. Any ideas where I can get the full details of the old menu as quiet liked the look of the soup & main course so would still like to try them.
    Posted by chantelle on 11/12/2008 10:47:55
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  4. Hi! Was really looking forward to this weeks menu but it has changed! Is there any way i can get the recipe for the other main dish mentioned on last weeks show? Love the show though, Gemma.
    Posted by Gemma Pauley on 11/12/2008 09:28:21
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  5. HI there when will the shopping list be ready to see so we can get what we need to cook with Gordon?????
    Posted by Andrew Newlands on 10/12/2008 16:16:47
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  6. Hi, I was just wondering how come the menu has been changed? We were really looking forward to the old menu! Is there anywhere I can get the recipes for the old menu? Thanks Sam
    Posted by sam on 09/12/2008 22:27:42
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  7. Any chance of showing the quick catch up section, before the cooking of each course, rather than after. It would make it much easier to keep up. Obviously we could read the recipe first instead, but we don't! Last week the rice wasn't cooked in time, we didn't have time to seal the chicken, and we never get time to eat. Why not make it an hour and a half? Then we could enjoy it, can't you put something on for ten mins between courses? They all have tasted really good though. Many thanks. Paul
    Posted by Paul Goodwin on 09/12/2008 17:15:27
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  8. really enjoying the series! best course so far has been the Chinese Soup with the prawns!
    Posted by annette robinson on 08/12/2008 17:14:57
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