LUXURY FAST FOOD USING GARDEN QUAIL EGGS
Buy the best thin crust plain pizza you can find – just a simple cheese and tomato one, with buffalo mozzarella and sun dried tomatoes if you can find it – then crack six (or more, depending how many slices you want) Garden Quail Eggs in a ring, sprinkle with olive oil before it goes in the oven, and serve with a rocket and lamb’s lettuce salad and a glass of Verdicchio. Perfect!
Steam or grill some asparagus spears, serve them with a small ramekin of Hollandaise Sauce (homemade if you have the ingredients, but supermarkets sell perfectly delicious
Hollandaise if you do not have ingredients/time/inclination) and a trio (or more) of warm soft boiled Garden Quail Eggs in their shells – they look stunning, especially on a white plate, and you don’t have the bother of peeling them all, you can pontificate to your guests on the techniques for peeling – all sorts of advantages to this easy way of presenting our beautiful eggs! Most importantly, this is a really good, sociable, finger licking first course to get all your guests relaxed and enthusing over your culinary skill with only a few minutes’ preparation required. Add some crusty bread and you have a delicious lunch – particularly useful if you have forgotten to ask if anyone is vegetarian..
Place 2 or 3 boiled Garden Quail Egg halves per person in a ramekin or gratin dish, together with some left over white fish, salmon or prawns, allowing one or two ounces per person, top with a couple of table spoons of well seasoned white sauce and a tablespoon of grated cheddar or gruyere, grind on a little black pepper and pop in the oven for 15 minutes until bubbling. Serve with a tomato and onion salad and some bread.
If you have some left over mashed potato, use it to top a fish and Garden Quail Egg pie. Add a handful of peas and half a pint of white sauce to 8 – 12 ozs of fish and as many Garden Quail Eggs as you wish, then cover with potato, brush with melted butter and place in the oven to crisp up for 40 minutes. Serve with spinach or red chard – very pretty!
And if you don’t mind spending the evening before your dinner party peeling Garden Quail Eggs while watching the TV – serve a bowl of hard boiled Garden Garden Quail Eggs with a small dish of celery salt as a delicious and simple canapé.
