Johanna wrote about what was going on
at the back stage of the newest Gordon Ramsay show,
F-word. Intrigued by Johanna’s entry, I sat myself in front of Channel 4 last Thursday night, accompanied by my friends Maarika and Age. As I’m on the mission of internationalising the palates of my Estonian friends (the
Chinese meal,
Indian feast etc), then this time I prepared a simple and easy Greek meze platter, served on a tablecloth on the living room floor – almost like a real picnic:)
On the meze platter were yet another load of Greek
meatballs, this time with feta cheese and black olives, boiled Charlotte potatoes with herbs, olive oil and lemon, feta-spinach mini omelettes and mini plum tomatoes.
I was especially pleased with the mini omelettes. The recipe is from the Finnish foodmag
Ruokamaailma (4/2004) and is very simple. Even simpler than the
tomato, rocket, feta frittata I made a forthnight ago. Here’s a slightly modified version of mine:
Feta and spinach mini omelettes(
Spinati-fetaomletid)
5 large eggs
0.75 dl milk
0.5 tsp salt
a pinch or two of freshly grated nutmeg
1 dl (defrosted) chopped spinach
100 grams of chopped feta cheese
Break the eggs in a bowl with a fork or mini whisk,
add milk, seasonings and spinach.
Ladle the runny mixture into buttered muffin tins (I used a regular 12-hole muffin tray).
Sprinkle feta cheese on top.
Bake at 200˚C for 20 minutes, until egg mixture has set. I was a bit suspicious, if they'd set easily, as the mixture was very runny (see above). But they turned out just beautiful!
Mini omelettes raise in the oven nicely, but will collapse a little when taken out of the oven.
Serve with a green salad. Or as part of a Greek meze. A definite keeper. If you like the classic Greek combination of feta and spinach, you’ll love this.
As for the programme, I didn’t enjoy that. I understand that Gordon is a talented chef and that many of you like his (dessert) recipes. And whereas I did really enjoy his programme
Kitchen Nightmares, other programmes have left me cold. Talented or not, I’m too distracted by the arrogance and rudeness that dominate his programmes and end up overlooking his recipes and impressive cooking skills.. So no, I will not be having TV dinners in front of telly on Thursday nights...
UPDATE:
here is another picture of these tiny omelets (click to enlarge)
I know these are not proper 'teas', but that's how they were called at our house, and I find it difficult to call them otherwise. My favourites are peppermint tea (from my mum’s garden), camomile tea and linden tea – all at various times. I can happily have peppermint infusion for breakfast, which seems a bit odd to some of my friends. Camomile obviously helps me to unwind and calm down, and mixed with honey this is the ‘first aid’ remedy against colds. Linden always reminds me of the huge linden tree at my grandparents house and collecting its crop with my cousins...
And my current favourite concoction is quite unusual but extremely pleasant. I mix couple of pieces of dried raspberry twigs and leaves, some sage and some lemon balm.
