make a souffle

that this shall be my next cooking project. Need some cute ramekins to cook them in. Cannot be a proper souffle unless cooked in a cute ramekin.

maybe in chocolate or spinach?

Chocolate Souffles are the best!!!!!!

Yum!

Did this tonight.

Scoured the internet for cheese souffle recipes, but most were vague about cooking time so I resorted to those old-fashiond cook book thingies.

Ended up using Nigella Lawson’s Pea Souffle recipe.

The cooking itself was good fun and had multiple cooking stages:

- grate the cheese (wow, gruyre is smelly, I think I know where the phrase 'cut the cheese' originated).

- Separate the eggs. Fiddly, but no broken yolks.

- Beat the egg whites, the closest I get to hard work.

- Puree the peas and cheese (my wife did this bit for me)

- Make the roux sauce, probably the most technical bit, so I concentrated hard.

- Carefully fold in the egg whites in to the roux sauce.

- Bake! It was fun anticipating the souffle rising, for a while nothing happened but after about 10 mins up they came!

- While the souffles were baking I cooked a fuddle of bacon and sausages to accompany the souffle. Gotta love those processed pork products.

- Eat!

The souffle was great and a hit with the family.

It was everything I’d hoped it would be, except in was a luminous pea green :-) I’d imagined a lovely golden brown/yellow colour.

Anyway, I’ve finally done this, and I’ll be doing it again for sure. Next time I’ll try making a sweet one, I think.

Now I’ve proven that I can make a souffle, and how yummy they are, I’ll be making another soon.

I used this recipe from Delia Smith: Broccoli souffle and it went down very well. Souffles make a lovely moussey sound when you spoon into them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/cheesesouffle_5237.shtml

...time to get cooking!

After cooking the Gratin Dauphinois

I think about this every day… must do it.

(my current excuse is ‘I don’t know my oven’ – how lame!)

I’ve made ‘em savory
I’ve made ‘em sweet
with mushrooms and with cheese – replete
with goodness, chocolate, Grand Marnier
a bite, a sigh, a breath – HOORAY!

It is even better when you have a friend to share it with.