Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Goodmorning Show Cheesecake In A Jar

Cheesecake In A Jar

Hi guys , this is my recipe from the Good Morning Show on Wed this week which you can watch on tv on demand if you missed it. Though id like to share it with you and hopefully give you some inspiration to either make edible gifts for your family and friends or just cook good easy food!
Enjoy! x

Ingredients:

2/3 Cup Cream
170g Cream Cheese
2tsp Orange Blossom Water
1tsp Vanilla Extract
1/2 Cup Icing sugar
1 Jar/ 250g Lemon & Passion fruit Honey/ Curd
1/2 Packet Malt Biscuits
 

Directions:
Process the Malt Biscuits till a very fine crumb consistency and set aside.
In a Bowl, whip together the Cream, Cream Cheese, Vanilla, Orange Blossom Water and Icing Sugar until combined and lightly whipped.
Place about 1cm of the crumb in the bottom of a small jar or glass.
Spoon 2 Tbs Of the Curd onto the Crumb and then fill the jar to the top with the cream cheese filling.
Top with zest or candied lemon peel and place in the fridge till your ready to serve them or eat them yourself!
(Makes 4 Serves)

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Pineapple & Cashew Chicken !!!

Pineapple & Cashew Chicken

Hey Everyone! welcome back to my blog! This is an awesome recipe for those chicken lovers and tasty food lovers...

Seriously this dish couldnt get any easier, which means it couldn't get any easier to create new and tasty, healthy meals for you, your friends and family's... so give it a go!

Ingredients:

1/3 Fresh Pineapple cut into chunks
1 Carrot cut Julienne style
3/4 green capsicum
1 Onion (brown or red)
700g Chicken breast cut into stir fry strips
1/4- 1/3 cup sweet chili sauce 
2-3 Tbs Rice (or brown) Vinegar
1 Tbs Brown sugar
1 Tbs Soy sauce
1/4 - 1/3 cup Roasted Cashews


Directions:

Soften onions in a large pan preferably a wok, then add carrots and capsicum. Once the vege's are softened and slightly brown in colour, place in bowl and set aside. Add the chicken to the pan or wok and leave on one side until lightly browned then stir, once the chicken is all browned but not completely cooked, add the vege's back to the pan and add the sauces. Cook Chicken for a further 3 or so minutes and season to taste, then add the Cashews. Check the sweet and sour is to your taste.. if not then alter it by adding either more salt via soy sauce or more sour via vinegar or sweet via brown sugar. 

Serve on white rice and ENJOY!!! 

Sunday, 19 February 2012

Best Cupcakes Ever !!!

Hi Everyone!

Its been a while since I've blogged a recipe but I'm back now!
So I use to hate making cupcakes.. for some reason they always came out to dense or dry or to risen and never perfect. So i made my own recipe and they are the best cupcakes ever! They never flop always rise just enough and are so light and fluffy! And well the icing .... Soooo light and fluffy. Give it a go guys... below is my recipe, ENJOY!

Ingredients:

150g Butter softened
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
1 1/2 Cups Flour
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 Cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 Cup Whole Milk

Directions:

Cream the Butter an Sugar until light and fluffy, add Egg and Vanilla then mix. Sift in the Flour and Baking Powder into the Mixture then Milk and Mix till well combined. If the mixture looks like its slightly splitting add 1 Tbs Flour and Mix, if its to thick add a dash of Milk. Use a heaped tablespoon to fill each case about 1 1/2 cm under the top of the cases. Bake in an oven for 15- 20 mins at 180 DegC or untill they bounce back when pressed or knife comes out clean.

Icing:
Cream Butter and Icing Sugar till light and fluffy. Add 2 tsp of Vanilla, 3 drops of Yellow Food colouring and 1 12tsp of lemon Essence, mix well! Spoon into a glad bag, cut the corner and pipe in spirals onto each cupcake. Sprinkle Strawberry Jelly Crystals ontop.
 Enjoy!

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Woo Hoo, Sweet & Sour Pork!!!

EASY Sweet & Sour Pork, YUM!
(No need for Maggi!!)

Hello everyone!!! Well a long time since i put up a new recipe! I am back to business... this awsome, super tasy Sweet & Sour dish weill very easily become your next "take out" home meal! You could even use chicken if your not a pork fan! Honestly guys give it a go ... you wont regret it ;).

Pork
1/2 cup cornflour
1/3 cup plain flour
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
2 tbs (sparkling) water
500g pork (loin, shoulder.scotch), cut into 1.5cm pieces
Sauce
1 Large capsicum
1 Large carrot
1 garlic clove, crushed
Equal quantities of caster sugar & white vinegar (1/4 - 1/2 cup)
1 1/2 Tbs Tomatoe sauce
1 Tbs soy sauce
1 Tbs Sweet Chili Sauce (optional)
2 Tbs cornflour mixed with a little bit of cold water
1 can pineapple pieces in natural juice, drained
 
Directions:
To make the sauce, heat oil in a medium pot and add the capsicum, carrot and garlic then cook for a few minutes till slightly softened an coloured. Stir in the sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, tomatoe sauce and a cup of boiling water until sugar dissolves. Combine the cornflour and 2 Tbs of cold water and add to the pan and whisk until it comes to the boil. Simmer for 2 minutes. Add the pineapple and set aside.
 
Combine the cornflour, plain flour, salt, eggs and 2 tbs cold (sparkling) water. Coat half the pork in the batter. Carefully deep fry in hot oil for 3-4 minutes until golden. Repeat.
Combine pork and sauce. Serve with rice cooked by obsorbtion method.
 
Note- Before coating the pork in the batter dip mini mars bars in it and fry for dessert!


Monday, 1 August 2011

Real Thai Green Curry

Hi Everyone, so this is the easiest thai green curry recipie you will come across im sure!! You can add any vege you like to it ! Traditionally it would have the asian eggplant , long and skinny however its to hard to find so i even sometimes peel carrots into it! You can leave the chilli out for the kids or through extra in for a dinner party delight. Blend it as course of as fine as you want. ENJOY!

 
 
Ingredients-
3 by 2 cm Piece Ginger peeled & roughly chopped
2 Bunches of fresh Coriander
1-2 red chilli de-seeded
1 Clove garlic peeled
2 sprigs of lemon grass (white only) sliced
1 lime
1 can Coconut Milk
1/2 can coconut cream
Optional- substitute cream for vege stock.
Pinch of salt or dash fish sauce
500g Chicken or Beef Fillet Pieces even Fish
 
Directions-
Place coriander, garlic, ginger & Chilli into the food processor with enough milk to assist in processing (1/2 cup). Once processed to a paste put required amount into a heated pan with 1 Tbs oil. Cook for 2-3 minutes then add meat, cook for a further 2 minutes then add coconut, 1 tsp lime zest & juice of lime, milk & stock or cream. Simmer till meat cooked (7min) and serve on rice.

                                     Note- left over paste can be stored in air tight jar for 2 weeks.

Sunday, 24 July 2011

White Chocolate & Passionfruit Mudcake/ Molten lava cakes.

Hi Guys! Below is a completely unique absolutely devine mud cake recipe which can also be used in ramekins to make liquid centre molten lava cakes. Give it a go you wont regret it!!!


White Chocolate and Passionfruit Pods

Ingredients-
400g White choc
200g Butter
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
4 Eggs
4 Egg Yolks
1 Cup Flour
2 tsp Vanilla extract
1 tsp Baking powder
2 TBs Passionfruit Pulp
Directions -
Melt butter, chocolate and sugar in a saucepan over a low heat until well combined, whisking as you go. Add the Vanilla and let cool for 5 min. Lightly beat eggs until semi fluffy then mix in the cooled chocolate mixture, whisking as you go as not to scramble the eggs. Sift in the flour and baking powder and mix. Pour into buttered ramekins and bake at 180 Deg.C for about 20min or until browned on top but still slightly uncooked. Rest for 10 min and serve with cream and passion fruit syrup/ pulp. Or use icing as below if cooked into cake form. If making a cake use a 20cm cake tin or pie dish and cook at 160 Deg.C for 40 min or so.
Icing- Equal amount of icing sugar, white chocolate and cream cheese and 1-2 TBS passion fruit.

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Real Apricot Chicken

Hi Everyone.. So below is the yummiest easyiest Apricot Chicken, after you try this once you will realise there is noooo need to buy Maggi packets as its super easy without! Plus unfortunitly if you have a look at the ingriediants in the packets its not what you expect!


Ingredients
1 Medium Onion diced
1TBs Oil
1 1/2 Cup's Vege Stock
1 tsp mustard or crushed Mustard seeds
3/4 Tin drained apricots
1/4cup Sliced Dried Apricots
4-6 Chicken pieces or 8 drumsticks
1 1/2 TBs Apricot Jam
1/4 Cup Cream
!/4 Cup finely chopped Parlsey

Directions
Soften onions in oil then add the mustard and chicken pieces top side down. Once the chicken has browned turn it over and add the stock to de-glaze the pan. Add in the apricots and jam stir till combined. Place into a preTBs of water. Add S+P at this point and serve over rice.