Friday, October 5, 2007

Sausages with mash and cheese

Today I made saucages with mash and cheese
Read on for the recipe
Sausage with mash and cheese serves 4
Ingredients:
SAUSAGES
8 sausages
A little amco canola oil to cook

MASH POTATOES
4-5 non peeled potatoes
Sea Salt
Pepper
Tabasco
½ cup Milk
2 cm thick slice of cheese

For the sausages
Prick the sausages once or twice with the point
of a sharp knife. Cook the sausages in a frying
pan with a little oil

Handling the hot cooked sausages carefully make a 1 cm slit the length of each sausage

Add potato

For the potatoes

Cut the potatoes into cubes
Fill a pot up with water and cook the potatoes for 15- 20 minutes
Once potatoes are cooked start to mash them with a fork and slowly add milk
Taste for seasoning(salt pepper Tabasco)
Then add about 2-3 drops of Tabasco 3 pinches of salt grind of black pepper
mix through and add the grated cheese
Enjoy
We also made an apple crumble but i don't have the recipe for that maybe next time

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Moist apple and pineapple cake

Today me and mum made some home baking because she had guests coming for dinner tonight

We decided to go for the Moist apple and pineapple cake

Here is the recipe:
Moist apple and pineapple cake

2 eggs 1 ½ cups champion standard grade flour
1 teaspoon Edmonds baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 ½ teaspoons ground ginger
1 cup sugar
½ cup Amco salad and cooking oil
1 cup grated granny smith apples
225 g can crushed pineapple in heavy syrup drained

Place eggs sugar and oil in a large bowl. Beat with a wooden spoon until smooth and sugar has dissolved

Stir in apple and pineapple

In another bowl combine flour baking soda and ginger. Stir into egg mixture

Transfer to a greased 20 cm round cake tin that has had the base lined with baking paper
bake at 180C for 50 minutes. Stand for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

When cold spread with lemon or cream cheese icing
Serves 8

The guests loved it at least i know i did

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Semifreedo

Today me and mum decided we would make some semifreedo. This is a great recipe simple and short ingreidients and tastes delicious. if you don't know what that is it is something a bit like ice cream but softer. we made a half recipe so if you want to make a full one double the ingriendients
For the recipe read onIngriedeints:2 eggs seperated 1/4 cup caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence150ml whipped cream
Using an electric beater beat the egg yolks and half of the caster until thick. beat in essence In another bowl beat egg whites with an electric beater until soft peaks form. Gradually add the remaining sugar 1 tbls at a time. beat well. using a metal spoon gently fold the cream and flavouring of your choice into the yolk mixture. gently fold in egg white
Transfer the mixture to a 2 litre glass, plastic, or metal container.


cover and freeze for 4-5 hours until firm.
Flavourings1. Raspberry100g raspberries on a flat plate. frozen raspberries can also be used
2. Marshmallow and chocolate
Cut 20 marshmallows in 1/2 and 1/2 cup choc chips or chopped chocolate

3. Passionfruit
1/2 cup of pulp or bottled passionfruit can also be used4. Chocolate
1 cup choc chips