While this is the last season there are still juicy tidbits to share: Carson finds it odd that Mrs. Hughes likes to pair it with lamb.ĭownton Dish Robert underestimates his mother once again. As the newlyweds adjust to married life this week’s recipe is Bubble and Squeak, an easy dish which any new cook can master, even if Mr. In keeping with tradition, I will continue to share one recipe mentioned on each episode as my love letter to the Downton kitchen staff and to those fans who love the food on the show. Hughes gently adjust his expectations? This will be fun to watch.

Hughes ran the household not the kitchen, so how does a man with exacting standards adjust to a wife who does not cook? And how will Mrs. Blue cheeses work exceptionally well here, in which case I would omit the cumin.Now that Charlie Carson wed Elise Hughes (S6E3), we are granted a view of how the new couple adjusts to married life. Mrs. Fold small pieces of cheese, a good 150g, through the hot potato when it is mashed. Sprouts are best quartered, shredded or separated into individual leaves. Kale is just one of the suitable brassicas: Brussels sprouts, savoy cabbage or purple kale will all work well. Some floury Maris Pipers will be good here instead of the sweet potato, or use half potato and half celeriac. Toast the cumin seeds and chilli flakes in a dry frying pan, using no oil or butter, watching very carefully, as they will burn in a heartbeat. The exceptionally soft flesh will collapse if cooked in water and produce a soggy mash. The trickĪ steamer basket or a colander, balanced over a pan of boiling water, is probably a more successful way of cooking sweet potato than boiling it.

Pile into a dish, top with a few knobs of butter and bake for about 25 minutes until lightly crisped on the top. Drain and roughly chop.įold the kale into the sweet potato. Cook the kale for a minute or two in a saucepan with about 1cm of water, covered by a lid. Remove the tough stalks from 150g of kale (you need 100g trimmed weight). Lift the sweet potatoes out, tip them into a bowl (or the saucepan emptied of its water) and mash them thoroughly with a good 50g of butter, some salt and a grinding of black pepper, and the toasted cumin, chilli and paprika.

Remove and mix them with ½ tsp of sweet, mild, ground paprika. In a dry frying pan, toast ½ tsp of cumin seed and ½ tsp of chilli flakes.

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