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7DAYS´ INTERVIEW: Gillaine Hathaway  What's cooking this Christmas? By Sonia Golt Before we talk to a woman who spends many hours in the kitchen, for pleasure, leisure and work I would like to share with you some of her delicious recipes for this coming Christmas. RECIPES:
Spicy Squash Soup Cook the celery, carrot and onions in 2-tablespoons oil in a large sauce over a low heat, stirring occasionally until tend, but not browned. Approx 10 minutes. Then add the square, potatoes and chilli and sea salt. Sir in the hot stock, cover and simmer until the vegetables are tender, (approx 30 minutes.) Remove from the heat, discard the chilli and blitz up the soup in same saucepan until nice and creamy. Check seasoning and add some freshly ground black pepper and more water if necessary. Serve with a drizzle of olive oil over the top and a scattering of crushed amaretto biscuits or just some croutons. MY MOUTH IS WATERING ALREADY AT THE THOUGHT! Easy peasey Chocolate Truffles.
115 gr. plain chocolate...(good quality high cocoa content) Chocolate powder or ground walnuts to roll the balls in. Melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of hot water. (Make sure that the water does not boil and does not touch the bowl) When melted remove the bowl and stir in the sifted icing sugar. cake crumbs and the egg yolk. Stir in the rum and if a little soft leave for 5 to 10 minutes to firm up. Roll into small balls and coat well with the chocolate powder or ground walnuts and leave to harden before putting into sweet papers. "Another of my Christmas cheats is to put 1 kilo of good quality dried apricots in the food processor with 1/2 kilo of sugar. Blend until smooth and them rolls into balls, using a little water on your hands. Then coat with sugar and put into sweet papers." Well with great recipes like this we have to meet the person who makes our mouth water! She is none other than Gillaine Hathaway. Gillaine has been the Cooking correspondent for Hi Magazine, now called Society Living Magazine for many years she is an expert at cooking, presenting food and writing about it too, you have probably read her articles called "Tastes of Spain". Gillaine and I go back many years, and although we are not friends who are on each others doorstep constantly, we couldn't be as she lives up the Coast anyway! we do keep in touch and enjoy finding out what we are doing … this was one way of catching up with her. She worked on GBC Television for a few years with beauty chats and beauty queens on parade. Gillaine came from a BBC background and therefore her professionalism was evident and the programmes hugely successful. She married Gibraltarian businessman Lewis Hathaway, who also happens to be well known in the music field especially with his rendering of "La Virgencita de Europa" - but enough of Lewis now as this is an interview with Gillaine his wife. Gillaine was a war baby brought up in London and educated in Switzerland and her ambition was to act but her father opposed it so the next best thing was television years later although she was professional trained at the time as a beautician. She worked on television programmes in the Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Australia, London and GBC. Whilst living in Spain Gillaine did a lot of radio work with Radio Cadena now incorporated to Radio Nacional, and she presented an English programme for Brits in the coast called "Here on the Costa", it was a huge success and became a 2 hour long breakfast show, she did this for 6 years and then found she needed time for other things she also liked. "I was pleased with the success of the programme although I do not do it anymore, and I love radio over television because you do not have to give up all of yourself as you do on TV. You can keep a bit of you but one thing you cannot hide is who you really are as the air waves do not fool anyone. A popular presenter has to be warm and genuine and let the real character always come though."
Do you find time for anything else in your still hectic lifestyle? I will keep my ears and eyes open when this happens to share it with our readers too. This shows you how very versatile this lady is, a woman with the knack for the real ingredients both in cooking and in her life as she most certainly has become such a success due to knowing what goes where! From beauty, to television, to radio, but now mostly to the kitchen but what a kitchen, the masterpiece of any grand chef or cook. Gillaine writes about cooking and gives out recipes but she sure tries them out before and the results are absolutely YUMMY. Try them out yourself this Christmas and have a Happy ONE!
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