Potato nests

I have seen this recipe in ' The Little Paris Kitchen. Cooking with Rachel Kahoo'. I like the idea very much and decided to try it in my own kitchen. Because this dish is baked in muffin tin I have decided to publish it on my blog. The recipe is also available on line on this website. 

Ingredients for 6 large potato nests:

• 1tbsp butter
• 500g potatoes (used those which don't fall apart while being cooked)
• 1 onion
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 bay leaf
• 200g smoked bacon
• 100 ml dry white wine
• 250g Reblochon cheese I used Camembert

Grease the muffin tin holes. Preheat the oven to 180C.

Peel of the potatoes, then cut them into matchsticks size pieces.Set aside.

Dice the bacon. Chop the onion. Finely chop the garlic. Dice the cheese.

before baking

Put the butter, bay leaf, garlic, bacon  and onion on frying pan and cook until bacon golden brown. Then add the wine and reduce it until only a few tablespoons of liquid remain. Remove bay leaf. Add the potatoes and stir them in. 

Remove pan from the heat and add the cheese. Stir well and transfer to prepared earlier muffin tin. 

Bake for 15 -20 minutes until golden warm. Serve hot.

 Enjoy !

Cheese muffins

Those savoury muffins are like buns. They can be served with soups, stews or sliced and spread with butter. The recipe comes form ' Home baking cookbook'.

Ingredients for 12 muffins:

• 115g flour
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 225g cornflour
• 120g grated Cheddar cheese + some to sprinkle on the top
• 55g melted butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 clove of garlic
• 300 ml milk

Preheat the oven to 200C.  Line muffin tin with paper cases or grease the muffin tin holes.

Into a big bowl put the flour, baking powder, soda, salt and cornflour. With a spoon stir all ingredients together. Set aside.

Grate the cheese if you haven't got already grated. Add the cheese into a bowl with dry ingredients.

Melt the butter and set aside to cool down. Crush the garlic.

Brake the eggs into a separate bowl. Whisk them with a fork. Add the milk, butter and garlic, stir them together. Pour this mixture into the dry ingredients mixture. Stir all ingredients together until just combined.

Spoon the batter into muffin tin. Sprinkle each muffin top with gated cheese. Bake for 20 minutes until well risen and golden on the top. Leave them in a baking tin for a few minutes then transfer to the wire rack to cool down. Enjoy !