FOOD Small Plates Too nervous or knackered to host a dinner? Ask a few friends around for a drink and think small, says Trish Deseine L possible. But the theme was British and, seen ife is still too short to stuff a through the French food cliché filter, there had to be mushroom unless, in my case, its sandwiches, fresh, last-minute sandwiches, teeny, a large, cheese-topped Portobello two-bite, dainty and crustless, two sorts, mint and mushroom alongside your steak cucumber and cheese and chutney. There was also and chips. Likewise, as we crank pie. And Stilton. And butterf ly cakes. I felt like I ourselves up into something approaching a party was catering lunch at a Home Counties amateur mood and consider entertaining more than a cricket club. handful, if not exactly a crowd, we know the effortWe all know the punishing drill when it comes to versus-appreciation ratio of minutely constructed mass sandwich making. The cucumbers needed to nibbles-with-drinks is most unsatisfactory. be peeled, slightly salted for precisely 20 minutes Guests are usually ravenous when they arrive, and drained, the butter just soft enough, the bread but they are also at their most distracted, and need f luffy, the mint finely chopped, the cheese sliced a drink most of all. Their bouches will be amusées with a mandoline slicer, and the chutney spread just as much by a sliver of good Vendée ham as a thinly. Then the perilous task of de-crusting and three-tiered petit four, so do not get sucked into cutting them into four mini-triangles without performance apéritif-ing. Leave all the chiselling, squishing their insides out, before arranging layering and tweezering to the chefs and make everything cutely on cute trays. your life easier. Everything else I had cooked and baked at In France, every decent small bakery always home, helped by my chef-in-training son, Tim. But has cold and warm petit fours on sale or, for larger the sandwiches had to be made spanking fresh, numbers, on order. Reassuringly, in all my years in the châteaus kitchen, 250 here, the basic collection has of them, one hour before the barely changed. Mini-pastry I WANT TO MAKE guests arrived. Thankfully, the quiches, anchovy and onion IT SIMPLER THAN serving staff happily dropped tarts, sausage roll slices what they were doing to help. and snail puffs are national FRESHLY MADE Our production line was swift institutions, and no French SANDWICHES OF and efficient and the châteaus homecook would dream COURSE, BUT CHIC chickens as delighted with the of making such an array crusts as the guests with their of fiddly, teeny mouthfuls ALL THE SAME. mini-sambos. herself. And then theres In the end, it was a lovely Picard, our posh Iceland. party, with everything else made beforehand and A stash of Picard mini-truff led boudin blancs served by the châteaus team, I was actually able to and croque monsieurs in my freezer will always attend and enjoy. But for the much smaller numbers save the day. coming for a drink over the next few months, If Im sounding so sure of myself, its also to do when gatherings become increasingly festive, I with the compounding trauma of a few weekends have an extra urge to treat the friends and family ago, when I catered (yes, catered!) for 60 extremely I havent seen for so long. I want to make it simpler discerning French guests. It takes a very good than freshly made sandwiches of course, but chic reason for me to venture into professional territory. all the same. I have only done it once before, for 450, which Here are two super-easy recipes which you can involved me taking a rather scary wrong exit, take out of the oven last minute, or up to an hour driving a refrigerated lorry on le périphérique at before guests arrive and leave to cool at room 3am, trying to find the hire company car park. This temperature, allowing time to make the finishing particular event was the gentler, très chic three-day touches to the food, the table and yourself! They birthday party of one of my oldest friends, in a also go very well with champagne or any dry small château near my home. sparkling wine. All you need to do is find the tins. Dips, charcuterie and other nuts and olives were, Thekitchenwhisk.ie has a very good selection. sadly, out of the question. I devised a brunch menu of the most labour-unintensive, well-behaved dishes @TrishDeseine @trishdeseineencore 56 November 2021 THE GLOSS MAGAZINE MINI CRUSTLESS QUICHES A basic recipe you can easily adapt. Add bacon, smoked salmon, prawns, goats cheese, anchovies and olives and/or herbs. For 12-20 quiches, according to the size of your tin/moulds 10 minutes preparation 10 minutes cooking 110g flour 250 full fat milk 2 eggs 60g grated cheese Salt and pepper 80100g bacon, ham, salmon, prawns etc. 1. Heat the oven to 200oC. 2. Beat the eggs with the milk then mix in the flour and beat again. 3. Add the other ingredients and mix well. 4. Pour into the tins/moulds and cook for 10 minutes until golden on top. 5. Remove from the oven and leave to cool at room temperature so they are still slightly warm when guests arrive. MINI HERB AND PARMESAN MADELEINES These are really delicious crisp and herby, easy to serve and eat. No pesky cocktail sticks or collapsing or dribbling when bitten into ! You will definitely need a silicone mini madeleine as unmoulding is tricky, even in a non-stick mould. For 12-20 madeleines, according to the size of your tin/moulds 10 minutes preparation 6-8 minutes cooking 50g flour 1 large egg 75g Greek yoghurt 1 tsp baking powder 30 grated parmesan 1 tsp rosemary, sage or thyme. Or a mixture Pepper Butter or oil for greasing 1. Beat the flour, baking powder, egg and yoghurt together until smooth. Then stir in the parmesan, herbs and season with pepper. 2. Leave to rest in the fridge for 30 minutes to an hour. 3. Heat the oven to 210 c. Generously butter or oil the tins/moulds, making sure you go into all the little ridges. 4. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes, until the madeleines are golden and crisp. Remove from the oven and let cool for a few minutes before removing from the mould and serve. Or leave them there until you are ready. 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