say cheese...

 

did anyone say cheese?

well viewers today’s recipe comes via Lovie who happened to get this on her recipe grapevine. so i am happy to share it with you unlike some of Lovie’s other recipes which will remain firmly in the Sekulic ladies vault. and ha there is good reasoning behind this but that shall remain my little secret for now…mwah ha ha ha ha!!!

well i do happen to know a few things about cheese folks, i wrapped hundreds of pieces when i first landed back in good old Adelaide town. i relinquished my professional credentials temporarily for a stint in the cheese shop and a single mother’s pension. and yes, it is absolutely true the French do it the best and of course sometimes i would just make it up (i give credit to my uni drama classes for that). nothing like a bit of confidence and a few cheesy words like washed rind, ripe, chevre, aged cheddar to dazzle the customers, hee, hee. and of course i don’t mind a little bit of storytelling either like informing you about the claw which was our code word for the dude with the longest pinky fingernails who would hover around the tasting table. that’s where i often worked covering for the supreme cheese queen eileen…where’s eileen? where’s eileen?  she’s in jail for committing cheese fraud…oh no, i never would have thought…nah she’s just on holidays i would grin, a big cheesy grin of course (yes, i do know that is lame). but i can say i was the queen of selling fondue sets, definitely my specialty, lol.

so back to this recipe folks by now you would have gathered my theme is cheese. don’t ask me why when my cholesterol is 8.2. i shouldn’t even be looking at cheese but this is a simple recipe, very easy as Lovie would say but don’t be fooled by that either folks. Lovie is a Virgo, the nit-pickers of the zodiac, she is precise as you will gather from the visual cues, a perfectionist with some things apart from her kitchen drawers (but don’t tell her i said that otherwise my food supply will be cut off). besides i am taking a few master classes and cramming in as much as i can for future reference so that i will always have some unique culinary tricks up my sleeve.

Lovie’s cheese biscuits, stolen from Lorraine who stole them from her husband’s sister…

ingredients

300gms of plain flour

250gms of unsalted butter

300gms of tasty grated cheese

1-2tbspns of yoghurt or sour cream

shaved parmesan cheese chopped very finely, caraway seed powder or sweet paprika powder

method

rub butter into flour and then mix in cheese to form a dough, add 1 tbspn of yoghurt first add another if it needs to bind more.

roll out into a rectangle approx. 30cm by 18-20 cm, 1 cm thickness. sprinkle parmesan to ensure a good covering, sprinkle caraway seed powder or paprika or both for a bit of added colour. divide into 3 even strips, cut into sticks… see photos for visual cues.

line baking trays with paper, bake in preheated oven at 180 fan forced for 20 mins…check closer to time, leave to completely cool for a couple of hours on wire racks and then put into airtight container.