Ingredients: 1 cup sugar ½ cup light corn syrup ¼ cup water ¾ tsp extract of your choice (vanilla, mint, cinnamon, coconut, etc) Food coloring (optional) Lollipop molds and sticks Preparation: 1. Prepare your molds by spraying them with nonstick cooking spray and inserting lollipop sticks into the molds. 2. Combine the sugar, corn syrup, and water in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Insert the candy thermometer and stir until sugar dissolves. 3. Allow to boil, without stirring, until … Read More
Cheese & Bacon Scrolls
Make a basic bread dough with 500g of bread mix, 345 ml of water, 1 teas of dried yeast, 1 teas of bread improver (optional) and a pinch of sea salt. You can mix this by hand if you wish, but it takes time to knead the dough. I make the dough in my breadmaker on the dough setting not only to save me time but to take the pressure off my silly wrist! Either way, once the dough has … Read More
Home made Butter
Here is how… Rich Fletchers Home Made Butter Thanks for sharing Rich! I used the whisk attachment on my stand mixer. I used the buttermilk to make Buttermilk Pancakes.. mmmm
Vege Stir fry with Chilli Plum Sauce
5 Minutes to throw together! Really easy stir fry veg with plum chilli sauce and udon noodles…. Chop up what ever stirfry veg you like.. today I have used what I have in the crisper.. Zucchini, carrot, tuscan red onion, mushrooms, garlic (add some capsiicum, corn, broccolini whatever you like) Saute with some peanut and extra virgin olive oil. Throw in a few tbs plum jam, some chilli sauce to taste (I used hot and spicy banana sauce) and a … Read More
Homemade Bake Beans with Bacon and Chorizo, stuffed into jacket baked potatoes..
Homemade Bake Beans with Bacon and Chorizo, stuffed into jacket baked potatoes.. Tin of canelloni beans Tin of diced or crushed tomatoes 1 Tbs Tomato Paste 1 Red onion finely diced Fresh Basil & Oregano finely chopped 1 Chorizo sausage sliced 2 Rashers of shortcut bacon diced Heat a heavy based saucepan and add a little splash of extra virgin olive oil. Add the Chorizo and cook on both sides until golden. Add the onion and the bacon and saute … Read More
Delicious & Healthy Chicken Pieces!
Delicious & Healthy Chicken Pieces! ♥ I placed the chicken on a rack in an oven dish, sprayed with cooking spray and then sprinkled a little mix of spice on the top! (mix together some Chicken Stock Powder and some Vege Stock Powder with some cracked sea salt and pepper & paprika) Yum! Make sure you make extra and even then there won’t be leftovers! Not in this house anyway!
Lj’s Italian style Chicken & Bacon Rice
Lj’s Italian style Chicken & Bacon Rice 1 Lge Chicken Breast diced 3 Rashers of Bacon diced I onion diced I cup white rice 1 cup chicken stock 1 cup vege stock 6 Button Mushrooms sliced 1 Large Zucchini diced 1 large carrot diced 1 Tin diced tomatos 1 Bottle of pasta sauce or tomato puree Fresh basil and oregano In a large frypan with a lid or I use my big oval enamel lined crockpot . Fry off the … Read More
Lj’s Lemon Pepper Tuna with Avocado and Cottage Cheese
Lj’s Lemon Pepper Tuna with Avocado and Cottage Cheese Very quick and simple and much more flavour than store bought flavoured Tuna. I mix half an avo with 1/2 small tub of low fat cottage cheese. Add fresh lemon juice and cracked black pepper to taste. I have these on Cruskits or Rye Vita’s for a lunch on the run on my busier days.
Skinny Choc Mint Icecream..
3 egg yolks 1⁄2 cup castor sugar 200ml extra light cream 350ml skim milk pinch salt Peppermint Essense to taste and green food colouring to colour 100g chocolate bits (I used Mini Specked Easter Eggs) Beat the egg yolk and sugar together until fluffy. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Pour into the freezer canister and allow to churn and freeze. Note: Any variation of chocolate bar finely chopped can be used i.e. Cherry Ripe, Mars Bar, Violet Crumble or Peppermint … Read More
Lamb Shanks mmmm.. Yummy!
Quick and easy Lamb shanks seasoned with Cracked sea salt and pepper with some paprika. Brown on medium to high heat to seal, put the lid on and turn down the heat until tender. I take out the veg when almost cooked through and put in a hot oven to crisp up. Remove the lamb when cooked and leave to rest while you make gravy from the pan juices ♥
