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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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July 12, 2018 / Cooking

Helen Goh’s Beef and baharat pasties

Oh yum, these were great, and the small person ate all of it.  I used the baharat mix in the cupboard that we made up previously.  They re-heated excellently in the oven, and acceptably with Microwave/griller. Beef & Baharat Pasties Ingredients 2 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, diced into 1½ cm pieces 500g rump or skirt steak, …

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June 30, 2018 / Cooking

Helen Goh’s Fennel and Cheese bourekas

Absolutely delicious.   Omitted Chilli Flakes for sake of small person, couldn’t get nigella seeds.  Used 3 sheets of puff pastry, (500g) but had enough filling left over for two toasted sandwiches and two pasties made with some leftover shortcrust.  Probably could use 5 sheets of puff pastry next time, or was also great with the …

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October 27, 2018 / Cooking

Garlic Bread Rolls

Worth trying again, with less sugar, more garlic and more cheese. plan for 2 hours to ready for an un-rushed demeanor and small child assistance. https://www.tastemade.com/videos/garlic-bread-rolls INGREDIENTS 2 3/4 cups wheat flour 3 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons yeast (used one tandaco dried yeast sachet, was fine) 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup milk …

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May 26, 2018 / Cooking

Cooking for the cold this week

Back to some old “cook agains” Beef gulyas with sweet potato mash Chicken fricassee with drumsticks and extra mushrooms. Finally a chance to use the new tarragon that’s growing.  

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