Salmon and Potato Souffle

Intro
You know that moment when the potatoes are half cooked and you reach into the fridge for the family sized meat pie, or the whole cooked chicken or whatever it is you were basing the evening meal on ... and its gone ... gobbled up by the bambini as an after school snack? Well this is the recipe for when that happens.

I think it was one of Verna's recipes originally but I know Mum used to cook it quite often ... I remember it served with lettuce salad and mayonnaise made with Highlander condensed milk. A totally 70s meal.

Recipe

• 1 cup cold mashed potato
• 2 tablespoons butter
• splash or 2 of milk
• 1 cup cooked fish (tinned salmon)
• 2 eggs - separated
• salt, pepper,
• pinch ground ginger
• chopped chives, parsley
• squeeze of lemon juice

Warm the butter and milk, add mashed potato and beat. Add egg yolks and all other ingredients except for the egg whites and beat. Beat the egg whites and then gently fold into the salmon and potato mixture. Pour into a greased dish and cook in a quick oven for 20 - 30 mins.

Chocolate Fudge Slice

Intro
When I was at primary school my best friend was Denise; actually she is still is one of my very best friends now. You know the kind: you can ignore each other for months and months and months then when you do get together you just pick up where you left off.

It was the late sixties when 'good' mummies were home by after-school 3pm, cooked yummy nutritious meals every night and had full cake tins. My Mum's baking included sultana cake, chocolate cake, coconut cake, ginger crunch, peppermint slice, coconut macaroons and a cruncy biscuit made with Greg's instant pudding; it came in all sorts of different flavours and the biscuits were different every time. I remember three things that Denise's Mum, Verna, made: yo-yos, coconut ice slice and chocolate fudge. My kids love this now and its easy to make. Sometimes I jazz it up with a few raisins or walnuts but its perfectly nice as it is.

Recipe

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tblsp cocoa
• vanilla essence
• 1 pkt plain sweet biscuits (eg super wine)
• 6 ozs butter - melted

Break the biscuits into pieces - not too small is best. Place in a bowl with all the other ingredients and combine.

Press into a greased or tinfoil lined biscuit tin / tray. Ice with chocolate icing and store in fridge until set. Cut into small squares once set.