Tuesday Treat

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Pistachio Bites

Let me introduce to the quickest biscuit recipe – it only needs three ingredients! These Pistachio Bites are chewy, sweet, delicious… and very addictive. What more could you ask for on a cold and grey day in January? Thank you to Sabrina Ghayour’s cookbook ‘Persiana Everyday’!

1 egg white

100g icing sugar, sifted (plus extra for dusting)

100g pistachio nuts, very finely blitzed in a food processor

  1. Using an electric hand whisk, whisk the egg white until stiff peaks form. Add the icing sugar and gently fold into the egg whites. Now add the ground pistachios and mix until evenly combined.
  2. Using a teaspoon, dollop 12 equal portions of the mixture on to a tray lined with greaseproof paper, spaced apart to allow them to spread a little. Bake in an preheated oven, 170’c fan, for 12 minutes.
  3. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack to cool. Dust with icing sugar before serving.
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Cooking has always been something I've enjoyed, I have an extensive collection of cookbooks, some are well thumbed whilst others collect dust on the shelves; I can’t bear to get rid of any cook book, just in case one day I might use it for that one obscure recipe - light on a rainy day! I enjoy eating out and discovering new flavours, whether it’s just a local haunt or a ‘dress up’ to dinner restaurant - food is my hobby! In my opinion food is the one of the most important pieces of knowledge you need to know about any culture in order to really understand it, so when we go away, it’s not the local sights that I’m googling but the best place to eat! I'm not one of those fortunate cooks who can throw something together by looking at the contents of their fridge, I need a plan to work with, then I organise my fridge around the recipe. I am however a very organised person, you might even call me a control freak! I love the orderly fashion of a recipe, I find it soothing to have a plan in front of me, so the thought of trawling through my recipe books and trying new recipes is my idea of a perfect afternoon. But I realise that this is not everyones idea of fun, hence the birth of this blog. This blog is essentially for people who adore food but don’t have the time, patience or energy to search through cook books to find that winning recipe – that’s the job of Menu Mistress!

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