Tweet Treats

Compiled & Edited by

Jane Travers

tweet treats 140 characters, 140 celebrities, recipes for every occasion

TWEET TREATS 1

Jane Travers has a BA in English and an MA in Film Studies from UCD. These days, she makes stuff up and writes it down, and exists in deep denial about her addiction to Twitter.

She lives in Kildare, Ireland with her endlessly patient husband and daughter, who acted as guinea pigs for many of the Tweet Treats recipes.

She is often to be found walking her dogs on the Curragh and muttering to herself.

2 TWEET TREATS

Dedication For the medical professionals, administrators and volunteers of MÊdecins Sans Frontières, who give freely and generously of their time and expertise to bring medical care to those who need it most.

TWEET TREATS 3

First published 2011 by The O’Brien Press Ltd, 12 Terenure Road East, Rathgar, Dublin 6, Ireland.

Tel: +353 1 4923333; Fax: +353 1 4922777 E-mail: books@obrien.ie Website: www.obrien.ie ISBN: 978-1-84717-302-7 Tweeted recipes copyright © individual tweeters, included with their permission.

Introduction copyright © Marco Pierre White.

All other text copyright © Jane Travers.

Copyright for typesetting, layout, editing, design © The O’Brien Press Ltd All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library 12345678 11 12 13 14 15

Printed and bound by GraphyCEMS The paper used in this book is produced using pulp from managed forests

Kindly sponsored by

4 TWEET TREATS

Contents Foreword by Marco Pierre White Introduction by Médecins Sans Frontières Acknowledgements Glossary Breakfast Snacks & Sides Sandwiches Salads & Dressings Soups & Sauces Fish Perfect Poultry Meat Pasta & Rice Dishes Vegetarian & Vegan Dishes Spreads, Dips & Preserves Sweet Tweet Treats Desserts Cakes & Bakes Party Food

6 8 10 12 14 25 37 49 60 72 82 93 104 117 128 139 146 163 175

Drinks Cooking Tips by Marco Pierre White ‘Food Inspired by the Movies’ Quiz

184 195 196 TWEET TREATS 5

Breakfast Whether your usual choice of breakfast is a hasty bowl of cereal or a full fry, we all get bored occasionally and need

fruity recipes, to smoothies, to luxurious Sunday morning treats.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but it’s also the most hurried for most of us. If you don’t have time to whip up a hollandaise sauce for Eggs Benedict – or

lowing pages that take minutes or even seconds to throw together, to get your day off to the right start.

Fruit Breakfasts: Blueberry Yogurt @janjonesauthor Add a really generous handful of ripe blueberries to 150g cold Greek yogurt. Fold until smooth & thoroughly coated. Yum. Award-winning author of Regency romance (including The Kydd Inheritance) and contemporary romantic comedy.

Banana Maple Yogurt @SuzanneCollier 1 sliced banana, topped w fat-free fromage frais, maple syrup, handful of walnuts or hazelnuts, scrummy!

14 TWEET TREATS

Tropical Breakfast @HazelKLarkin 1 ripe papaya, 1 fresh lime. Seed, peel & chop papaya.

Squeeze lime juice over papaya. Eat. Yum.

Brilliant Berries @LevParikian Raspberries & blackberries. Lemon juice squeezed over.

Sugar sprinkled. A sprig of mint if you have it. Never mind if not.

Summer Brekkie @Candida6 Scoop 3 passion fruits, chop 1 banana, peel/stone mango, add 300ml orange juice and blitz, serve over ice.

Breakfast In A Glass @donalskehan Blitz a handful of frozen berries with 1 banana and top with apple juice. Hey presto, a fab little breakfast smoothie!

Author of acclaimed cookbooks Good Mood Food & Kitchen Hero. Presents RTE’s television cookery series, Kitchen Hero.

Oats So Good

Soak 2tbsp porridge oats in apple juice for an hour.

Top with natural yogurt and chopped fresh fruit. Fab breakfast and healthy!

TWEET TREATS 15

Snacks & Sides You know how it is, it’s too late for lunch but too early for dinner and you just want a little something to nibble on... "

going until dinnertime or can be a treat in the evening.

But there’s no need to reach for the junk food when this chapter is jam-packed with tasty and appetising morsels.

The beauty of these snacks is that many of them combine sweet with salty, satisfying all your cravings at once! #

ers to accompany and complement the fantastic main courses later in this book. If you’ve been guilty of serving frozen peas with every meal due to lack of inspiration, then read on!

Snacks Easiest Snack Of All @arlenephillips Frozen grapes!

Arlene Phillips, dancer, choreographer & popular judge on Strictly Come Dancing.

No Sour Grapes Here @helen_kara Small seedless grape. Cover in soft blue cheese, shape into a ball. Roll in grated dark chocolate & eat. Go on, I dare you.

TWEET TREATS 25

Haiku Food @SanyaV Cubes of watermelon & feta cheese, mint leaves.

Allow sweet & salty to conjugate in your mouth. Pink champagne.

Banana Bundles @elainelarkin Cut banana in half. Trim fat off a rasher. Wrap rasher around banana. Pin w a skewer. Grill/fry rasher as normal till cooked.

Posh Ploughmans @bahtocancer $ $ % $ $

gorgonzola. A drizzle of hearty honey.

Figs In Prosciutto @LouDPhillips " ' * +

7 89 "

of parmesan. Fresh basil leaf. Wrap in prosciutto. Bake 180c 10 min or until crisp.

Lou Diamond Phillips, actor, writer & director of Young Guns & La Bamba fame.

Luxury Strawberry Snack @helen_kara Fresh strawberries. Black pepper Boursin. Balsamic reduction if you wish; not essential. No cooking, just eat.

26 TWEET TREATS