Ham, blue cheese and mango chutney tart

I stole this from one of the supermarket magazines, made it last night and it was yummy, its really not good for you but would make great party food or a pizza substitute, we had a couple of slices each with some salad. It sounds like it shouldn’t work but it really really does. Just make sure not to use a sweet mango chutney, I like the Yorkshire rose one from Morrisons as its not too sweet and has huge chunks of mango. Ingredients 1 packet of pre rolled puff pastry 5 tablespoons of mango chutney big lump of your favourite blue cheese (the recipe said use dolcalatte) A few slices of you favourite ham (i used aldi black forest ham) a drizzle of olive oil Method Pre heat the oven to 200 degrees C Place the pastry on some baking paper on a nice big oven...

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Home made Gyros Pitta

Gyros was something I fell in love with the first time we went to Greece on Holiday, every time we go back I always eat way too many of them. The ingredients and way they are done vary from Island to Island and shop to shop, some use a big spit roast slab of meat (similar style to donner) some use pork chops and other use flame grilled pork loin, essentially they all end up having similar herbs and spices and presented in a similar way – usually in a pitta or flat bread with tzatziki, mustard, ketchup, onions, lettuce, tomatoes and chips…yes chips! The exception to this was a special gyros I had last year in Parga which came in the most amazing metaxa and cheese sauce. Anyway after looking through Mark’s photos of his recent trip to Greece and...

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