Friday, April 29, 2011

Caesar salad


Delicious! :)

Ingredients (serves 4)

  • 1/2 (12cm) ciabatta bread loaf, cut into 2cm pieces
  • olive oil cooking spray
  • 2-4 rashers bacon, sliced
  • 1 large cos lettuce, leaves separated, torn
  • 2 hard-boiled egg, roughly chopped
  • 40g parmesan cheese, shaved
Caesar dressing
  • 1/2 cup light whole-egg mayonnaise
  • 1-2 teasp mustard (I used english)
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Method

1. Preheat oven to 220°C/200°C fan-forced. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Place bread on tray. Spray with oil. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes or until golden and crisp.

2. Make Caesar dressing: Process mayonnaise, anchovy, garlic and lemon juice until smooth. Season with pepper.

3. Heat a non-stick frying pan over high heat. Add bacon. Cook, stirring, for 3 to 4 minutes or until crisp. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towel.

4. Place lettuce in a large serving bowl. Add croutons, bacon, egg and cheese. Toss to combine. Serve drizzled with dressing

Anzac biscuits


One of my favorite biscuit recipes so far! =)

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cups plain flour, sifted
  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup caster sugar
  • 3/4 cup desiccated coconut
  • 2 tablespoons golden syrup or treacle
  • 150g unsalted butter, chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda

Method

1. Preheat oven to 170°C. Place the flour, oats, sugar and coconut in a large bowl and stir to combine. In a small saucepan place the golden syrup and butter and stir over low heat until the butter has fully melted. Mix the bicarb soda with 1 1/2 tablespoons water and add to the golden syrup mixture. It will bubble whilst you are stirring together so remove from the heat. Pour into the dry ingredients and mix together until fully combined. Roll tablespoonfuls of mixture into balls and place on baking trays lined with non stick baking paper, pressing down on the tops to flatten slightly. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Sticky Date Pudding

Serves 6-8

Ingredients:
1/2 cup dessicated coconut
1/2 brown sugar
3/4 cup SR flour
1/4 cup plain flour
1/2 teasp bicarb soda
100g butter
1/4 cup golden syrup
1 cup chopped dried dates
1/4 cup orange juice
2 eggs, lightly beaten
Sauce:
80g butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup cream
2 tab golden syrup

Grease a 20cm square tin, preheat oven to 180c.
Sift flour & soda into large mixing bowl. Combine in small saucepan sugar, butter, syrup, dates, and juice. Sirt over medium heat until butter melts and sugar dissolves. Fold date mixture into the flours. Add eggs and stir until smooth. Pour into tin, and bake for 35 min or until skewer comes out clean. Leave for 5 min before turning out.
Sauce: Combine all ingredients in small pan. Stir over low heat until sugar has dissolved and butter melted. Serve over hot pudding.

Stir-fry

Fairly easy and multi-purpose meal. Serves 4, time: about 30 min.
Ingredients:
Anything really that goes with rice. I used
1/2 a Cabbage, Sliced
1 large onion chopped
2 sticks of celery chopped
1 red pepper (capsicum) cut in strips
500g beef strips (you could use chicken)
Soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper to taste.

You could put in (or leave out) ingredients to taste.

It's good to sweat the cabbage in the wok with some water first until a little soft. Remove, and heat oil in wok until hot, and fry meat until no red is showing. Remove, and fry onion until golden, add celery and pepper, cook until almost soft, add cabbage and cook for about 5 min, until soft. Add meat and seasonings. Serve with rice. :)