FLOWER POT KITCHEN: MOTHER'S DAY FOR MY MUM HER FAVORITE DIABLITO'S WITH DIABLO SAUCE

10 Mar 2013

MOTHER'S DAY FOR MY MUM HER FAVORITE DIABLITO'S WITH DIABLO SAUCE

MUMS FAVOURITE DIABLITO'S WITH DIABLO SAUCE

INGREDIENTS

(makes 12)

FOR THE DIABLITOS

500g Organic ground beef

400g belly pork minced

1 shallot fine diced

1 clove garlic fine diced

2 chilli's fine diced

1 tsp dried chillies

1 tsp Cayenne hot pepper

Salt & pepper

Place all the ingredients together in a large bowl and mix well, form into small 2oz patties and cook for approx 10 minutes on a plancher or frying pan.

THE BREAD FOR THE DIABLITO BUN'S

This dough recipe is my most favourite, I have had many attempts and failed in producing a beautiful light airy roll I so often produce a chunky door stop of a roll that really could harm if I threw it! But this lovely simple recipe and old fashioned method have delivered time after time for me.

10g fresh yeast or dried

650g strong plain flour

10g salt

350g warm water

Mix the salt, yeast and flour together in a large bowl, add the water and bring to a sort of loose dough, turn out onto your surface, no flour is needed! The dough will be a sticky mess, that is perfect, lift up the front of the dough and flop forward in a rolling crest of a wave movement, imagine trapping all the air in that rolling wave, keep repeating this for approx five minutes until the dough stops being so sticky and lifts itself from the work top and the dough has a soft light elastic feel to it, now form into a ball and place in a floured bowl to prove for one hour in a warm place.

Take your risen dough and make your mini rolls, leave to prove again for 45 minutes, dust the rolls with flour and then bake for approx 15 minutes at 200 degrees. Your work is not over, slice in half and toast the insides before serving with the diablitos...

MY MUM'S DIABLO SAUCE

4 tbsp mayo

2 tsp tomato ketchup

1 tbsp hot cayenne pepper

Mix all the ingredients together and serve on top of the diablito burgers in the toasted mini buns with the fabulous mini burgers, this is a mini mouthful of fabulousness...

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LIFE MY PASSION

Welcome to my daily life of cooking, one winters day many years ago my family and I were all inspired by a back to back rainy day of River Cottage this got us to stop talking about and start actually doing, suddenly three weeks later eight vegetable beds were dug, greenhouse erected and our first vegetables were propagating, this was the start to raising and growing our own food, our fabulous son Oscar changed our path in life which lead us to sell our small thriving restaurant of 10 yrs and to start our new life (Terrifying!) a life of the self sufficient in touch with nature and seasons, taking a step back and looking forward to a slower change of pace and making the most of every moment.

My passion for cooking was stronger than ever and having time at home with Oscar I found I had a new direction and I was no longer striving for perfection, I was suddenly very passionate for the enjoyment of the other side of food, something I had not realised, being the Chef/Cook and every other duty of your own small restaurant made me see that I never actually took time to cook what I wanted!

So there I was muddy boots and hands digging deep in more than one sense and I found myself transported back in time to where everyone grew some of their own food, it is a wonderful world with a real sense of achievement and loss, Slugs Snails and Caterpillars! But thats another story! Childhood memories of summers when I lived with my grand parents reminded me of so much that I had learnt about the make do and mend generation that I had forgotten.

Now as a family we love our free wild food days where we gather what nature has provided, have gone from being mini mini garden urban small holders, who did raised pigs at home because we could not wait to find land and supporting ourselves from our garden to now owning a very small farm that allows us to grow more vegetables for the whole of our family and neighbours, raise our own gorgeous Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs, (Sausages!) and pets! Dorset Down sheep, chickens for eggs and pet goats! Suddenly having large quantities of produce started to wake up the Cook in me!

The Cook was awake that part of me that wants to cook for the masses and I found myself setting up Flowerpot Kitchen, a Farmers Market Stall, I wanted to use our honest raised meats and make old fashioned pork pies, rabbit pies and game pies from the local game keeper along with old fashioned techniques and the best hot water crust pastry. This in turn grew to a small cottage industry from home weekly supplying three farm shops and a deli along with also attending three farmers markets A few years later there came a time when my son Oscar's health changed and it was an easy decision to stop.

I still hold the occasional pop up 40 seater restaurant or gourmet lunch which we do for local charities for the love of sharing food and to remind that Cook in me why I love our go slower self sufficient life!

So here I am sitting amoung the vegetables watching the chickens loving that every season nature teaches me something new and that nature is in charge! She has taught me to just go with it and grow. Give it a try from a tray of salad on your windowsill to a few tomato plants it all counts.