Monday, October 11, 2021

Chocolate fudge cake, focaccia and chicken tacos

Weekly recipes from the olive cookery team. View this email online

Bake of the week: chocolate fudge cake

Chocolate fudge cake

Treat yourself to a slice of heaven with our decadent chocolate fudge cake. Smothered in silky smooth frosting, our recipe teaches you how to create dark chocolate curls for an artisan finish.

Discover the ultimate

Comfort food: venison pie

Venison pie

Enjoy this comforting venison, chestnut mushroom and red wine pie this autumn, topped with the crispest suet pastry. The filling is slow cooked until the venison is meltingly tender to bring deep succulence.

Snuggle up this autumn

Healthy boost: paneer chickpea curry

paneer chickpea curry

A quick and healthy traybake curry to enjoy as an easy midweek meal.
Using a tikka paste takes the effort out of cooking but still adds lots of flavour
– an amazing fridge-raider to have to hand.

Spice up your week

Seasonal saviour: roast guinea fowl

Roast guinea fowl

Discover an alternative Sunday roast for two. Roasted guinea fowl in a rich, creamy chicken stock sauce, with shallots and lardons. Perfect served with buttery mashed potatoes and seasoned greens.

Save it for Sunday

Weekend project: homemade focaccia

Focaccia bread

Deliciously moreish, puffy Italian flatbread glistening with drizzled olive oil and studded with herbs. Try your hand at focaccia art this weekend, with your favourite vegetable toppings.

Ready? Set. Bake!

Chef recipe: Barbudian fish wata

Barbudian fish wata

Enticing, fragrant flavours of Barbuda brought to life in a light fish soup. Flavoured with earthy green seasoning, fiery scotch bonnet and zingy ginger, this recipe is from Brixton's Caribbean restaurant Caribe'.

A flavour of the Caribbean

Midweek meal: chicken tacos

Pulled chicken tacos

Delicious pulled chicken tacos, using quick shortcuts to offer the same pay-off as their slow-cooked counterpart. Serve with all the fixings in the middle of the table for a fiesta at home.

Taco night?

Drink: vieux carré

vieux carré

A layered and complex cocktail first created in New Orleans in the 1930s – sure to be a hit among fans of manhattans, old fashioneds and sazeracs. The vieux carré is the perfect cocktail for sipping slowly on chilly autumnal evenings.

A toast to autumn

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