Brown takes on Cameron, in the kitchen
They battle it out at the dispatch box every week during PMQs, but now Gordon Brown and David Cameron are taking it into the kitchen.
The political pair have each submitted a rival recipes for a charity cookbook in what has been dubbed "the clash in the kitchen."
'Saints and Celebrities Cookbook' is being produced by the congregation of a church in West Yorkshire who wrote to over 100 famous faces asking them to submit the recipe for their top dish.
While other contributors including Sir Cliff Richard and Jilly Cooper it is Brown's Vegetable and mozzarella parcels and Cameron's Italian sausage meat pasta, which are getting all the attention.
In this case getting the best approval rating will be more about filling peoples stomachs rather than winning their hearts and minds.
Gordon Brown's Vegetable and mozzarella parcels;
Ingredients:
1 packet filo pastry
Olive oil
1 crushed clove of garlic
1 courgette
1 of each colour of pepper
1 red onion
250g mushrooms
8 cherry tomatoes
2 sprigs of basil
200ml passata
1 buffalo mozzarella
Method:
Cut all the vegetables into small pieces. Cook the onion, peppers and courgettes in olive oil with the garlic until soft. Add the cherry tomatoes and mushrooms. Stir in enough of the passata to bind. Leave to cool, add basil and torn pieces of mozzarella. Lay out filo pastry in two layers (brushed with a little oil or melted butter between) and cut into squares. Place a portion of the mixture in centre of each square and fold into parcels. Brush with a little oil or melted butter and bake in a hot oven at 180C until golden. Serve with a little of the tomato sauce.
David Cameron's Italian sausage meat pasta;
Ingredients:
Two chopped red onions
6 spicy Italian sausages
handful of chopped rosemary
1 seeded and diced red chilli
red wine
2 tins chopped plum tomatoes
Parmesan cheese
Penne pasta
pint double cream
Method:
Fry two chopped red onions in a large pan. Add the meat squeezed from the sausages. Throw in the rosemary and chilli. Turn up the heat and break up the sausage. Once the meat has broken up, add lots of red wine and reduce. Then add two tins of tomatoes. Reduce the sauce. Grate loads of Parmesan in a bowl, and once the pasta is ready (preferably penne) add together the Parmesan, the cream and the sauce.
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