I’d say it took almost six hours to bake
the cake and the fancy Waldorf salad took another two hours; all this after
about 45 minutes of shopping. The socca took about two and a half hours and the
eggplant Kadaifi nests took a good three and a half hours. That’s almost
fifteen hours of cooking and baking for my friends. I loved doing it all; it’s
the perfect activity for me as I recover.
I’d made everything except the nests
before. I get really nervous/excited trying something for the first time. They
are very elaborate to make, like many things in Mr. Ottolenghi’s cookbooks, but
reward is proportionate to effort.
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The baked eggplant is mixed with ricotta & pecorina cheeses, Italian parsley egg, etc. and then it's wrapped in Kadaifi pastry. This is how mine looked before baking. |
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