Dinner for two? Just mother and daughter on a Friday evening together after a long long day. Felt too lazy to cook just for two. Deli food sounded good but some soup was in order to bring warmth to the body as the cold crept into my old bones in the evening.
Menu de jour pour deux
tomato and mascarpone soup
multi grain bread croutons
cornish brown crab
tetilla cheese from spain
chorizo iberico
bread


A quick trip to Waitrose in Sheffield and then we were on our way home. Picked up a carton of Covent Garden Tomato and Mascarpone Soup, brown Cornish Crab meat, free range Chorizo Iberico de Bellota, some tetilla cheese ( a cone shaped cheese) and a French bread called petit mange blanc! . The cheese was very mild and a perfect accompaniment to the slightly 'spicy' melt in the mouth chorizo. The crab meat was overkill - GG refused to even taste it.
Daughter GG insisted that we had to have croutons with the soup. So despite not wanting to cook anything, I ended up 'baking'! Turned on the oven, cut some multigrain bread into chunks, coated them with a good dash of olive oil and in they went into the oven. The soup got warmed up in the meantime and the croutons were ready in about fifteen minutes. One of the easiest dishes I know of. Of course, the bread need not be multigrain, but that was what was at home and needed eating. For the two of us, I used six slices of bread! and all of the croutons finished. Greedy or hungry? Only a few slices of the french bread got eaten with the crab meat by me!

Croutons
Equipment
large oven tray
Ingredients
six slices of ready sliced multi-grain bread, crusts removed, cut into roughly one cm cubes
about 100 ml olive oil - I used extra virgin olive oil
sea salt
freshly ground pepper
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees C.
- 'Sprinkle' the olive oil all over the bread ensuring that the cubes are fairly evenly coated.
- spread the cubes on the oven tray and bake for about 15 minutes until the cubes of bread are crunchy.
- Remove from the oven tray into a serving bowl, sprinkle just a dash of sea salt and plenty of freshly ground pepper all over the croutons and serve. Delicious!!
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