Ice-creams or icy poles become an attractive option during the summer heat. If you are a baker you might already know this, but bananas freeze well. So an icy treat can be created quite simply this way: Peel a banana, cut in half or keep whole (depending on how much you want), insert a paddle…
School goes back this week and I’ve made a fresh batch of these for the lunch boxes. I tweaked the original recipe to add the chia seeds, just to see how they’d go, and to my surprise it worked! Hope you like them too. Recipe 60g butter 2 cups self-raising flour 1/2 cup caster…
Look, I made a video! I’m very excited this Living List challenge is completed, but I’m also very tired. Lots of work to catch up on now I’ve returned from a few days in Sydney. I feel like I’m behind with the news. Do you have news? Tell me! This is recipe fifty-two of the…
Ingredients 60g baby spinach 3 sheets puff pastry 350g piece beef eye fillet 1 egg, beaten lightly Method Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Wilt the spinach in boiling water, or over a steamer. Put aside. Cut 8 pieces off the beef fillet, as equal sizes as possible. Cut 8 10cm diameter circle pieces of the…
Ingredients 3 egg whites 1/2 cup caster sugar 1 cup plain flour 1/2 cup almond kernels Method Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Whip egg whites until soft peaks start to form. Gradually add the sugar to the whites until sugar has dissolved. Fold flour (sifted, ideally, but I didn’t bother) and nuts into the egg…
Ingredients 2 medium red capsicums. 250g cream cheese 1/2 cup roasted walnuts Method Roast capsicums (quartered, membrane and seeds discarded) in an 180 degree oven for about 15-20min. For the last couple of minutes, add walnuts so they get roasted a little too. Put capsicums in a plastic sealed bag for a few more minutes…
I know what you’re probably thinking. That toffee-crunchy top is looking a little … ah … squidgy? Not even part-cooked? Well, as it happened, I don’t have a blowtorch and the recipe (and others I’ve seen) say it can be done under the grill. Which is what I tried to do, but lost my nerve…
So you know those days when your oven is being obstreperous for no reason, where you figure if a recipe calls for one kind of biscuit to use as those clever bases that you cook in the oven for a few minutes to make it soft and then you mould it into that tart-shape, but…
For several reasons: 1 – It’s Friday. 2 – Because we had the ingredients in the cupboard, courtesy of duty-free impulse shopping. 3 – Because we could. Adam and I are sipping our now. Cheers. 1/4 cup Baileys Irish Cream 1/4 cup Frangelico 1/4 cup Butterscotch Schnapps Mix well, in a shaker, with ice. Pour…
