All in all an expensive, in more ways than one , kind of recipe.

Yesterday , Saturday May 4 th, the chapter was headed Soup in the blender. Mr Slater compares the food processor with the electric jug blender. For liquids he says the jug blender is best ".... By which I  mean less trouble, easier to clean ......"
Excellent, from past blogs you know my loathing of washing up. Can quite put me off making some recipes.
Reading on, I need to buy a " mouli- legumes" - sounds a really useful piece of kit.
On with the soup. No problems , easy to make and delicious to eat. The addition of hazelnuts I'm not sure . My husband left his but I felt they added another texture.

The next recipe for today was A warm tart of crab and tarragon

This proved to be the most expensive tart I have ever made as it required a day trip to Whitby to get the 500 gms of white crab meat. I tried every supermarket in our local area but could either only find dressed crab ( at an extortionate price ) or brown crab meat! Tinned was available - wonder if that would have done the job? Anyway hubby was very pleased as weather was reasonably good so we set off to Whitby on the motorbike. Bit chilly for me, however the needs of the recipe put my needs ( warmth!) second. 500 gms of white crab meat was quite pricey- £20.74 , plus lunch in Whitby and cost of trip you can see why this proved to be a very expensive tart!!!!!!

Home by six and set to work. Pastry was a bit tricky but managed, filling easy to prepare and into the oven. Would it all be worth it ? I made a very simple green salad to accompany the tart.

Husband loved it and said it was " dinner party standard" . Praise indeed. It was very good but exceedingly rich. Too expensive to make on a regular basis but will definitely do it again . Is there a season when crab is cheaper I wonder ?