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February 5, 2019 / Cooking

Ginger Snap biscuits

These are awesomely delicious and we should make them again.  They freeze well.  Makes quite a lot, would be excellent for Christmas gift biscuits. 2 1/2 cups (375g) self-raising flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 3 teaspoons ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 180g butter 1 cup (200g) …

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February 5, 2019 / Cooking

Rhubarb pudding

A Rhubarb self saucing pudding with chopped rhubarb at the base. Nice idea, very very sweet. Warrants further investigation into a less sugary version for the future. 370g diced fresh or frozen rhubarb 125g plain flour 150g caster sugar 80ml milk 45g butter, melted 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract …

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January 28, 2019 / Cooking

Cooking with tomatoes

One simple thing for Church; using the local Saigon Village’s truss tomatoes discounted for quick sale…. as they were absolutely ready to eat. Fresh tomato with basil pasta. This worked well, I backed off the amount of basalmic (Aldi’s top quality Casa Barelli basalmic turned out to be great). While making a 5x batch for …

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January 9, 2019 / Cooking

Great baked chicken

Adam Liaw’s chicken marylands with modification for H. Replace honey and sriracha chilli sauce simply with sweet chilli sauce. I used soy sauce. The result was excellent when combined with the local butcher marylands. To improve next time, mix less marinade and do not let pools develop when basting. D suggests 5 minutes of grill …

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December 16, 2018 / Cooking

Large salads – Church summer lunch

Both of these worked well, but there was a fair bit of effort in top & tailing the cheap beans, and the quinoa salad was a little fiddly. Green bean, pancetta and chickpea salad – serves 40 with the below From Taste, but with modifications approx. 2.5kg green beans 625g dry chickpeas soaked overnight then …

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November 27, 2018 / Cooking

Lifesaving Lentil Soup

by Jill Duplex.  It’s delicious, easy and H approved. INGREDIENTS 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to drizzle 1 leek (pale part only), thinly sliced 2 carrots, finely chopped 2 celery stalks, finely chopped 2 tablespoons tomato paste 1 cup (200g) green lentils or brown lentils, rinsed, drained 2L (8 cups) Massel vegetable …

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November 27, 2018 / Cooking

What to do with Rhubarb

Next time we have some rhubarb, the rhubarb, raspberry and sago sauce from Stephanie is excellent on breakfast and H approved.

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October 29, 2018 / Cooking

Bacon Zucchini and Lemon Spaghetti

This was delicious and easy. I used the three colour egg fettuccine instead of spaghetti, it was fine.

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October 29, 2018 / Cooking

Watermelon Iceblocks

350g watermelon 1 tablespoon of Honey 2 teaspoons of lemon juice (one ice-cube tray frozen block) Wizz in the food processor until smooth, pour into iceblock moulds, freeze. Fills the 6 blue moulds. Child and Aunty K approved.

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October 27, 2018 / Cooking

Helen Goh’s Walnut, anise and honey bars

Original recipe here This was so delicious.  A full batch is fine in the larger swiss roll pan, and a half batch is fine in the smaller slice pan.  I discovered the the 60 mL of cream can be replaced with 60mL of greek style yoghurt, thickened with 2 tsp of flour, with no ill …

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