{"id":2953,"date":"2011-12-20T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T10:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2011-12-20T10:32:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T10:32:39","slug":"recipe-mini-eggs-benedict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2011\/12\/20\/recipe-mini-eggs-benedict\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe | Mini eggs benedict"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The hunt for a decent alternative to ‘canape’ continues. There have been some fine suggestions – open-faced sandwich, catch-me-if-you-canape, the tenuous pun of ‘tin-monkey’ – but, alas, there’s been nothing that has quite done the job. Perhaps, like ‘foodie’, it’s just a word we’re lumped with.<\/p>\n

Instead of simply wriggling out of giving away a book, I’ll now chuck one at whoever can come up with the best *cough* canape idea for Christmas – one that doesn’t involve endless faffing but something more interesting than a piece of atomically orange salmon on yesterday’s bread.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I think this one is a cracker. It comes via Jim Fisher, a chef based in France who runs the wonderful and cryptically named cookery school Cook in France<\/a>. Jim uses smoked duck and poached quail egg, so this isn’t 100% accurate, but it works well enough.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Makes 12
\n<\/span><\/strong>12 Clarence Court quail eggs
\nSmoked ham
\nBread (I used a brioche)
\n2-3 tbsp mayonnaise – home-made or decent shop-bought
\nA lemon<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

– With a bite-sized-ish cookie cutter cut 12 pieces of bread and 12 slices of ham. Whisk a squeeze of lemon into the mayonnaise and taste. You could of course make hollandaise instead, which would be more of a classic dressing for eggs benedict, but I’d wager you probably can’t be arsed.<\/p>\n

– In a dry frying pan (or oven\/AGA) toast the pieces of bread and keep warm. Add a drop of oil to the pan and fry the quail eggs over a medium heat for about a minute, seasoning with salt and pepper as you go.<\/p>\n

– Put a slice of ham on the toast and top with a quail egg and a blob of lemon mayonnaise. Eat.<\/p>\n

\n

This recipe was developed for Clarence Court eggs.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hunt for a decent alternative to ‘canape’ continues. There have been some fine suggestions – open-faced sandwich, catch-me-if-you-canape, the tenuous pun of ‘tin-monkey’ – but, alas, there’s been nothing that has quite done the job. Perhaps, like ‘foodie’, it’s just a word we’re lumped with. Instead of simply wriggling out of giving away a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128,173,181,1070,1071,545,1068],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-canape","tag-christmas","tag-clarence-court","tag-eggs-benedict","tag-mini","tag-nibbles","tag-quail-eggs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zdji-LD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}