Watch The Cook and the Chef online: Episode 11 Oats + Goats Cheese

If you enjoy the smell of freshly baked, you won’t be able to resist Maggie’s oat, raisin & fennel bread. Irresistibly rich, it’s perfect at any time, but especially for breakfast. But if you’re like Simon and not a morning person, then he’s got just the remedy for you. A delicious ‘granola’ style cerea, with a unique kick to start your day. Never tried goat’s cheese? Then Maggies on a mission to convert you. She makes a beautiful goat’s cheese and Rocket salad, with lardons of bacon and Persian figs, a combination which is too good to miss. Meanwhile Simon rolls out the pasta dough and treats us to some wonderful old favourites from the 1980’s, as he makes Agnoletti with goats cheese, semi dried tomato and pinenuts. Not a much of a fan of commercially made breakfast cereals, Simon heads south of Adelaide to meet John Downes, a highly regarded wood oven baker who’s taken up a hippy passion he picked up in America in the 1970’s…cereal. He now makes four different ‘granola’ style cereals, all lightly roasted to create clusters. Simon is keen to learn the cluster technology, but John tells him he’ll have to walk on the wild side to get it! Taking Johns advice, Simon combines a number of great ingredients, including chocolate, coffee and wattleseed to produce a cereal which not only tastes sensational, but has a serious kick to it. Maggie’s passionate about goat’s cheese and on a recent visit to Victoria dropped in to see organic goat farmers Carla Meurs and Ann-Marie Monda. They make a fantastic selection of Goats cheese from the fresh sweet milk their goats produce, which is set immediately to curd to ‘capture the life of the milk’. Serving some of Carla & Ann Marie’s cheese on her fruit bread, Maggie combines this with a rocket salad with lardoons of bacon and Persian figs. If you’ve never tried goat’s cheese, you won’t be able to resist this. Recipes: - Oat Raisin and Fennel Bread - Lardons, Persian Figs & Rocket Salad - Chocolate, Coffee & Wattleseed Granola Style Cereal - Agnoletti with Goats Cheese, Semi Dried Tomato and Pinenuts

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