Posted in baking, cooking, dessert, food, recipe, sweet, tagged biscuits, butter, condensed milk, egg, lemon on July 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Ok, so it’s not the lime pie mentioned in Note to self #2 but I don’t have limes.
Ingredients
1 can condensed Milk
1/2-3/4 cup of lemon juice
4 egg yolks (put the white aside to make an omelet or something)
marie or similar biscuits
butter
Method
Combine crushed biscuits with butter to make base. refrigerate. in a mixing bowl add the condensed milk and egg yolk. beat / whip until fluffyish. add lemon juice. beat / whip again.
Add mixture to base and bake until golden.
Posted in baking, cooking, dessert, food, Note to self, recipe, sweet on July 27, 2009| 1 Comment »
Make Lime Pie.
Egg yolks. 1 can sweetened condensed milk. lime juice and rind. on a biscuit base.
Posted in cooking, drink, food, recipe, tagged black tea, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, milk, vanilla bean paste on July 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This is such a comforting cosy drink. I used to get to work and make a coffee. I think I will be mixing up these spices and having a cup of tea instead! And Cnnamon has great health benefits too. And it smells great!
Ingredients
Ground Cinnamon – heaps
Ground Ginger *
Ground cardamom *
ground cloves *
Vanilla bean paste
Sugar
Milk
Black Tea
Method
Add all ingredients except of the black tea to a cup and microwave until hot stir. I added a little boiling water and then added a tea bag for a couple of seconds.
* Just a tiny amount of these
Posted in cooking, food, lunch, recipe, vegetarian, tagged carrots, coriander, egg, flour, mushrooms, snow peas, spring onion, vegetables, zucchini on July 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
I went to the Cafe at the Latrobe Regional Gallery (I think it’s called so swish) a couple of weeks ago and had some coriander crab cakes. I have been craving them ever since. Here is my version.
Ingredients
small tin of creamed corn (or you could probably use corn kernels)
1-2 zucchini, grated *
1-2 carrot, grated *
4 or so small mushrooms thinly sliced
1 spring onion sliced thinly
a handful of snow peas chopped thinly
2 eggs, lightly beaten
dash of milk
1/4 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
1/2 – 1 cup chopped coriander (you could use less, but I just love it!)
*I grated half of these ingredients on the superfine part of the grater and half on the regular side. It turned out really well.
Posted in entree, Note to self, tagged avocado, crab, prawns on July 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
I was watching come dine with me last night and one of the contestants made a layered entree of prawns then avocado and crab. It was layered in some type of cookie cutter or something similar. I must try this sometime.
Posted in Note to self, Website, tagged banana, fruit, lemon on July 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
I stumbled across the Love Food Hate Waste website when googling “how to use up leftover bananas”, and it’s fantastic!
There is a section on the right hand side called “what food needs to be used up”, it’s so easy to use.
Below are a couple of recipes that took my interest:
Posted in baking, cooking, food, recipe, sweet, tagged butter, chocolate, cocoa power, coconut, flour, hazelnut meal, jam on July 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This is a nice basic biscuit recipe. it’s not to sweet. and it lends itself to heaps of different variations
Ingredients
125g butter at room temperature (I just put mine in the microwave for 20 seconds on defrost)
1/4 cup caster sugar
1/4 cup icing sugar (I only did this because I ran out of caster sugar).
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
1 egg (take out of the fridge about 1/2 hour before making this recipe)
1.5 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
a small amount of milk
Method
Mix butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl until creamed. Add the egg and mix until all combined. next sift flour and baking powder into mixture. Add a small amount of milk and mix until just combined.
I think separated a couple of spoonfuls of mixture into a separate bowl and added different ingredients. the combinations i tried out where:
Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 10 minutes. I like mine soft so I take mine out before they brown…just cook to your liking.
yes, I did get a little carried away. But as I sit here with my cup of tea and a sneyok cookie… I’m in heaven. yum
p.s I haven’t tasted all these versions yet. I’ll update after the weekend (or maybe tonight 😉 ) and mark if they are successful or not.
Posted in baking, cooking, Finger food, food, recipe, sweet, tagged apple, berry on July 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Ingredients
Mini tart cases
can of pie apple / stewed apples
frozen berries
caster sugar
plain flour
brown sugar
butter
Pre-bake tart cases for about 10 minutes or until golden. Add berries, apples and a couple of teaspoons of caster sugar to a blender. Blend. you don’t want this like puree you still want some chunks. add mixture to tart cases. in a medium bowl add brown sugar, butter and plain flour mix together with hands until it all combines to a nice crumble. add to top of tart cases and bake until golden on top.
Posted in Finger food, tagged chicken on July 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This is a recipe that I used to make years ago. I had forgotten about it. I’m not sure if this is exactly how I used to make them, but they tasted pretty good anyway.
Ingredients
500g chicken (I used chicken tenderloins)
2 Spring Onions
1 tbs or so of sweet chilli sauce
1/4 cup of chopped fresh corriander
bread crumbs
Add chicken to a blender and blend until extra fine add breadcrumbs and blend to mixed. add chopped spring onion, chilli sauce and coriander and blend quickly. Make into small balls and shallow fry in a little oil until cooked.
Posted in recipe, Sauce on July 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
We had smoked cod for dinner tonight, and Rob loves to have his with mustard sauce so I thought I would attempt to make it. Basically it’s just a white sauce with mustard. Simple. We didn’t have butter so I used cream and it turned out very nicely.
Ingredients
Approx 1.5 tbs cream
2 tsp plain flour
Milk
Wholegrain mustard
American mustard
1. Heat cream in microwave for about 10-15 seconds.
2. Add flour and make a paste.
3. Add a small amount of milk (under 1/4 of a cup) and microwave for 10-20 seconds and sir. If the sauce isn’t thickening, microwave for a little longer.
4. Repeat step three until you have a nice thick sauce.
5. Add Whole grain mustard to taste.
6. Add a dash of American mustard.
What we eat 