More Cheese Monday Recipe – Baked Camembert

By Charlie Preston (@charliepreston)

This may be one of the simplest cheese dishes to prepare – but absolutely delicious.

I’ll be using garlic, but if garlic isn’t your thing then substitute it for Thyme or any other herbs of your choosing.

Ingredients
Camembert in a box
Olive oil
Garlic
Salt/Pepper
Baguette
A very large glass of wine (not required, but recommended)

Method

• Preheat oven to 220C/Gas 7
• Remove Camembert from box/wrapper and slice off rind from top of cheese.

• Place cheese back in box.
• Insert garlic into top of cheese (can be sliced if preferred).

• Drizzle with olive oil and add salt/pepper if desired.
• Place on baking try and bake for approx 10 minutes.

Once baked take the large baguette and start dipping!

More Cheese Monday Recipe – Cheese Scones

By Katharine Robinson (aka @TheSourceress)

This week I chose a very simple, but very yummy, cheese scone recipe from BBC food.

Ingredients
225g/8oz self raising flour
pinch of salt
55g/2oz butter
25g/1oz mature cheddar cheese, grated
150ml/5fl oz milk

Method

1. Heat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7. Lightly grease a baking sheet.
2. Mix together the flour and salt and rub in the butter.
3. Stir in the cheese and then the milk to get a soft dough.
4. Turn on to a floured work surface and knead very lightly. Pat out to a round 2cm/¾in thick. Use a 5cm/2in cutter to stamp out rounds and place on the baking sheet. Lightly knead together the rest of the dough and stamp out more scones to use it all up.
5. Brush the tops of the scones with a little milk. Bake for 12-15 minutes until well risen and golden. Cool on a wire rack.

You can see the fruits of my labour in the picture above.

The quantities in the recipe made 7 reasonable sized scones using a 68mm pastry cutter.

Next time I might make really little bite-sized scones – they’d make great nibbles!

More Cheese Monday Recipe – Deep Fried Brie

By Katharine Robinson aka @TheSourceress

For the inaugural More Cheese Monday, I bought a piece of Channel Island Brie.

Not satisfied with simply sticking it on a cracker, I looked for a simple (yet delicious) recipe.

I discovered this recipe for Deep Fried Brie by Brian Turner on the BBC Food website.

Ingredients
For the deep fried Brie
75g/2¾oz Brie, cut into cubes
6 tbsp plain flour
2 free-range eggs, whisked
175g/6oz breadcrumbs
Oil for deep frying

Method
For the deep fried Brie
1. Coat the Brie in the flour, then coat with the egg and cover completely in breadcrumbs.
2. Repeat this process until Brie is used up.
3. Place the Brie into the hot oil and fry for 2 minutes until golden. (CAUTION: Hot oil can be very dangerous. Do not leave unattended.)
4. Drain on kitchen paper and serve.

@amykate suggested I serve with watercress and cranberry jelly.

I assembled the ingredients and tweeted about my intensions.

I perused the cranberry jelly in Tesco but was left feeling uninspired until I spotted this Cranberry & Red Onion Chutney!

This time, I took the rind off the brie before cooking, but I am told by @charliepreston and @JimAnning that it is even nicer when left on – a good reason to look forward to next time!

And yes, they tasted even better than they look! Crunchy and light puffs of gooey cheesy goodness!

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