Borth 2008: Test-Kitchen—Last Minute Experiments 2
Tortilla chips with cream cheese-lime and mango salsa:
These are nice and will look good if I get better at assembly, plus they can be contrasted well with red salsa which I’ll also make. However, they turn soggy fast, so they have to be milled out while people are grazing.
Thai fish cakes with sweet chilli dip (recipe for fish cakes in photo link. The sweet chilli dip is easy to make, too):
I’ve tried several dips, but sweet chilli wins every time.
On the other hand, soy & ginger dip goes well with Thai-style sausage rolls:
I wasn’t going to do sweets (and I’m not going to on the day), but I had this tin of matcha tea powder left from Nippon 2007, and it needed using. So…
Green tea shortbread should be a crowd-pleaser. However, these are too sweet. My college-recipe shortbread already uses masses of icing sugar. Sadly, this wasn’t a trial-run: half my green tea cakes are sickly sweet…
Alas, this was the effect I was after.
Without the sugar-coating, the effect is more pleasant. (Note: these things will go from being undercooked to burnt inside two minutes!):
Finally, I’ve never baked brownies, but these just looked too spectacular to pass up.
Sadly, the same can’t be said about mine:
But come on—I’ve never tried this before.
Denni