Celebration

December 31st - The final day of 2015, the final day of my year long challenge and I can't believe that I've made it this far. I resolved to try a new recipe each week for a year and I have tried 90 new recipes! It's the first New Year Resolution I have ever kept so I am feeling pretty chuffed. What have I learned...well I think I enjoy cooking more now, I am more adventurous and more confident to use recipes as an idea and adapt them to suit! I still love recipe books and TV cooking shows because they inspire me...but there will be a cull of my books in the New Year. There is no point in having books on your shelf that you don't use. I think that everyone should get out there and try new things. There is a world of recipes to try.
And so to my final celebratory offering. We were planning an adventure to see in the New Year so I decided to make some tuck. Haggis and Onion Chutney Rolls - shop bought puff pastry filled with haggis and chutney then rolled, cut into 'sausage roll' type pieces then brushed with egg and baked. A colleague at work invented these when she did a topic on Scotland. I also made some Scotch Eggs with my leftover sausagemeat stuffing. What a mess with the flour, egg and breadcrumbs! I have to report all tasted great...but delicate canapés they were not!  I don't have the dainty cooking skills mastered...we nicknamed them manapes! My son reckons there is some mileage in that idea. We also thought that some haggis from D Comrie and Sons (Purveyor of Fine Quality Meats) would have made them better still with a nice peppery haggis. I guess the possibilities for not-sausage rolls are endless.
Anyhow, that's me signing off, why not try your own version. Happy cooking!