Tuesday 29 September 2015

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Tart

On Friday we had friends coming for dinner and I was to cook an Indian meal.  The plan was to do about 8-10 dishes plus rice and naan bread.  As one of our guests is vegetarian, most of the food would be without meat.

It was my aim that just as each dish made it to the table, it would be photographed and a series of blog posts written about it all, but, know what, heating up 8-10 dishes is no joke and took ages, so by the time it was all on the table, the last thing on my mind was photography.

So here I am, food eaten and very good it was too – we had Rajmah Chawal (red kidney beans curry), curried eggs, matter paneer, spiced eggplant, dal,mushroom bhaji, Bombay potatoes, chicken shashlik, pulao rice and naan, followed by a mango kulfi dessert.  While I have written about some of it before, the remainder would have kept me going in blog for a week – marvellous!

But I have none of it, so whatever next?  Mercifully a good friend came to the rescue.  She had invited us to lunch on Sunday and while, as always, it was excellent, the star of the show was the amazing chocolate tart shown above.

Now while we can all drool over the picture, no recipe do I have, not least because no recipe exists, the dish being just ‘something she knocked up’!  I wish I was that clever – she has promised to try to write it down so hopefully in the fullness of time, we shall have it. (Added 30/9/15)

For the record, it was a shortbread base filled with with a peanut butter cream, then a layer of chocolate, topped with more peanut butter cream and sliced bananas (I think!)

Dream on!