by Danica | Mar 25, 2020 | Featured, GloKitchen
Crispy Egg & Parmesan Breakfast Buns
Easter is fast approaching – the festive period where eggs are being served up in abundance. In case your Easter weekend is still in need of the perfect breakfast food to kick off the celebrations with, try these quick and easy Egg & Parmesan Breakfast Buns. Crunchy on the outside, warm and gooey within, these special bakes are not only quick and effortless to prepare but also incredibly tasty thanks to the sharp and nutty flavour from the Parmesan and the saltiness from the cured ham. Let the celebrations begin!
Ingredients:For 4 Buns
4 bread rolls
4 tsp. crème fraiche
4 slices Parma ham or similar
4 small eggs
70 – 100g Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated
Bunch fresh chives (alternatively parsley)
Black pepper to season
What you’ll need:
Baking tray with non-stick baking foil
Grater
Chopping board
Large bread knife
Sharp small knife
Teaspoon
Scissors
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180°C (fan, middle-rack)
- Use a bread knife to cut the tops off the bread rolls, but make sure not to cut too low as there needs to be enough space for the egg without risking spillage.
- Scoop out the centre. Use a small sharp knife to cut around the edges before scooping out the centre.
- Fill each bread roll with a slice of cured ham, a teaspoon of crème fraiche and a raw egg. Then sprinkle some cracked black pepper on top, fresh chives (I use scissors to cut them) and a handful of grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. Put the top back on each roll and sprinkle some more Parmesan on top.
- Place the filled Breakfast Buns on a baking tray that has been lined with non-stick baking paper. Take some extra baking paper or aluminium foil to cover the buns as they would burn too easily if left uncovered.
- Bake in the oven for 10-20 minutes (depending on how runny the egg yolk should be). Check frequently to avoid burning of the buns but also whether the egg is set.
- As soon as the egg is cooked, remove from oven and serve immediately.
(Credit to: Castelli/Parmigiano for these beautiful recipes)
http://www.castelli-uk.com
by Dee | Mar 19, 2020 | Featured
As we ramp up the restrictions on personal contact even more, we are reminded that life is fragile and gratitude for the things we normally take for granted are upmost on our minds.
Like popping into town to meet friends for a coffee or shopping for clothes – booking theatre or cinema tickets. The lists are endless, and now with this destructible virus, life as we know it is under threat.
We are hoping to give you a little glimmer of light each time we speak and suggest some ways of distracting all of us from the inevitable self-isolation and complete lockdown.
Some of us will cope better than others, and others will be devastated by the news. But one thing for sure, we will all be affected by this major turn of events.
Make a list
So, let’s begin with gratitude for everything we have, a roof over our head, loving family, food on the table, toilet roll (hopefully!) and then spare a though for the less fortunate, many of whom are on our own doorstep.
I know that in Britain we are famous for ‘keep calm and carry on’ but recent evidence has shown that seems to be no longer the case with all the panic buying, and perhaps gratitude is the one thing we have lost over the years and we are being reminded to get it back.
Oprah Winfrey
I am a great fan and follower of Oprah Winfrey who wakes up each morning and begins with Gratitude. Our wonderful Oprah who looks like she has everything in life, but that was not always the case, as she had a horrendous childhood and knows what it is like to go hungry. Besides which many of her guests have lost limbs in the war or are disabled, and she begins being grateful for her arms and legs.
If you are spiritual it all, is a known fact that gratitude is a great healer and is part of many mental health programmes.
Pope Francis (twitter)
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by Dee | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured
As we move into the next phase of this unprecedented epidemic, we need to remain calm and be aware of the facts and implications of how it will affect our own lives and those of the most vulnerable.
Easier said than done, and I for one am in agreement that it is not easy to be still as so many people are going into panic buying and high anxiety.
We look at the expression on the faces of World Leaders, including our own Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and know that this is serious, it is already affecting both physical and mental health and will continue to do so as we step up measures of prevention.
Bill Gates predicted an epidemic in a Ted Talk in 2015, but nobody took heed, and we still continued to concentrate on power and money which seemed to matter the most.
The present situation seems to be more difficult as it is completely out of our control and yet somewhere in the darkest corner of this ‘attack’ there seems to be a glimmer of light and an obvious explanation for this serious pandemic.
I would like you to read this, as I question why Mother Nature has decided to respond as she has and it is to do with our constant abuse to our Planet. Why greed and the pursuit of wealth has ruled over human kindness. How interesting that wealth as we know it could be wiped out completely, and we have to now look at alternative ways to acquire and look at ‘wealth’ – perhaps substituting it with ‘health’.
As the offspring of Sylvia Anderson, creator of International Rescue and the iconic Lady Penelope, I will be leading this campaign with my good friend and television royalty, Debbie Arnold, who is also at the cutting edge of mental health issues, and we will be posting throughout this crisis with ways to ensure that women in particular remain calm and supported in self-isolation or if you still have to work and carry on – perhaps looking after a loved one or an elderly relative. But one thing for sure, it will change our thinking forever, and seriously not before time.
Sylvia & Gerry Anderson with models from Thunderbirds
Yes, there is fear.
Yes, there is isolation.
Yes, there is panic buying.
Yes, there is sickness.
Yes, there is even death.
But,
They say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise
You can hear the birds again.
They say that after just a few weeks of quiet
The sky is no longer thick with fumes
But blue and grey and clear.
They say that in the streets of Assisi
People are singing to each other
across the empty squares,
keeping their windows open
so that those who are alone
may hear the sounds of family around them.
They say that a hotel in the West of Ireland
Is offering free meals and delivery to the housebound.
Today a young woman I know
is busy spreading fliers with her number
through the neighbourhood
So that the elders may have someone to call on.
Today Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Temples
are preparing to welcome
and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary
All over the world people are slowing down and reflecting
All over the world people are looking at their neighbours in a new way
All over the world people are waking up to a new reality
To how big we really are.
To how little control we really have.
To what really matters.
To Love.
So, we pray and we remember that
Yes, there is fear.
But there does not have to be hate.
Yes, there is isolation.
But there does not have to be loneliness.
Yes, there is panic buying.
But there does not have to be meanness.
Yes, there is sickness.
But there does not have to be disease of the soul
Yes, there is even death.
But there can always be a rebirth of love.
Wake to the choices you make as to how to live now.
Today, breathe.
Listen, behind the factory noises of your panic
The birds are singing again
The sky is clearing,
Spring is coming,
And we are always encompassed by Love.
Open the windows of your soul
And though you may not be able to touch across the empty square,
Sing.
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