Creamy Goat Cheese: pickled beets and chives on crostini
Ingredients:
Goat Lady Dairy goat cheese, spreadable, small log
2 cups Beets, finely diced, red or golden
¼ cup cane sugar
¼ cup apple cider vinegar
¾ cup water
Chives, a few stems, finely chopped
Salt to taste
Baguette, sliced into rounds, brushed with olive oil, seasoned with kosher salt, baked at 400 degrees until lightly browned. Let cool.
Method:
In a small sauce pan put the beets, sugar, vinegar, water and salt
Simmer until most of the liquid has reduced down and beets are cooked through
Let cool
For the crostini:
Spread a schmear of goat cheese on the crostini rounds
Add a spoonful of the beets
Garnish with chives (basil, tarragon and dill also work well with beets)
- this can also be done on crackers, endive leaves, pumpernickel, etc.
Smoked Goat Lady Dairy Goat Cheese
Soft taco, scrambled egg, “romesco” sauce, cilantro, toasted pumpkin seeds
Ingredients:
Goat Lady Dairy’s “Smokey Mountain Round” Goat Cheese
10 “Handmade” soft tacos
Pumpkin seeds, toasted, salted
4 Red peppers, sweet, oven roasted (canned piquillo peppers are a very good substitute)
1 ripe tomato, squeezed to remove liquid, or roast it with the peppers
1 small chipotle pepper in adobo sauce
½ cup almonds, lightly toasted
2 large cloves of garlic, roasted
Splash of sherry vinegar
Splash of olive oil
1 small onion, diced
4 large eggs
Cilantro
Salt, to taste
Black pepper, to taste
Method
In a lightly oiled skillet, lightly toast the soft tacos, then place them in foil to keep them moist and warm
Romesco sauce
In a blender put the roasted peppers, tomato, nuts, 2 of the soft tacos, a quarter of the onion, chipotle pepper, sherry vinegar, salt, black pepper. Purée until smooth. Drizzle in a little olive oil and briefly blitz it again.
Then:
In medium-sized skillet sauté the rest of the onion with a little salt and olive oil until caramelized,
add the egg and scramble together.
Divide the soft tacos into pairs.
Divide the scrambled eggs between the 4 soft tacos
Top with romesco sauce, smoked goat cheese, cilantro and toasted pumpkin seeds.
