Brunch

A brunch in Melbourne today with Mez, Tut and the kids led to cooking a couple of favourite Donna dishes as well as a couple of new ones.


Firstly I put together the 'maple baked beans' and the ricotta baked breakfast loaf'. Both were tasty - again. Tut - the family baked bean aficionado - even admitted he would eat these in preference to the Heinz English recipe in a tin!


Had a small issue with the breakfast loaf - of course, isn't there always an issue with me.  I didn't take enough bread out of the loaf first, so the egg mixture ran out as I was pouring it into the bread and the loaf looked a bit lopsided.
Also it cooked too long for the bottom of the loaf, so it was actually too crunchy to cut properly and looked a bit of a disaster when we were trying to serve it. Luckily the recipients were family and just ate it anyway ;-)


The first new dish created today was 'chocolate sandwiches'. Although a bit dubious to start with - "I don't think hot Nutella will be very nice" was one comment - these sandwiches went down a treat with Leo and Stells in the end. Both waiting very impatiently for these treats to be cooked.

 Sylvie however,  just licked all the chocolate from the bread and left the unwanted detritus! :-)


I finally had a couple of tasters for Donna's 'hazelnut-spiked coffee with vanilla cream'. As I have said before I think, this is my least favourite recipe of all time...I don't drink coffee, am allergic to hazelnuts, and don't like cream. Mez & Tut though were willing to sample said drink! Both gave it a resounding YUM!


An indulgent pleasure with no need for a repeat though.