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Pancake Day
24 February 2009 at 12:31 pm (Lazy Blogging, Recipe for disaster)
I completely forgot about pancake day.
Which leads me to my question for today:
Where did the tradition of scoffing down vast quantities of pancakes come from and what does it have to do with “Shrove Tuesday”? What is “Shrove Tuesday” anyway?
Banana Bread
8 December 2008 at 3:00 am (Reasons to be cheerful, Recipe for disaster)
Tags: banana, Recipe
Ingredients:
8oz self raising flour
4oz butter
5 oz caster sugar
1 lb bananas
½ teaspoon of salt
2 eggs
6oz mixed dried fruit
Method:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
2. Mix all the ingredients except the dried fruit together. You can do this in a food processor or by hand in a basin.
3. When they’re all thoroughly mixed, add the dried fruit. Spoon the mixture into a 1kg/2lb non-stick loaf tin, spread it out evenly and bake it for one and a half hours. The loaf is done when a skewer pushed into its middle comes out clean.
4. Cool on a wire rack, then slice before serving.
Yum.
This is an ideal recipe when you’ve bought too many bananas and they’ve started to go a bit brown. Enjoy.
Time
8 October 2008 at 11:23 am (Reasons to be cheerful, Recipe for disaster, le château de grenouille)
This credit crunch malarkey is just creating a whole pestle of work for me. If anyone can share some time or maybe some recipes (I watched that nice Jamie Oliver chappy yesterday) then I’d be most grateful. I know that some people have time to spare. My time is precious which is clearly why I’m spending it on my much neglected blog.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
In other news I’ve got a new sledgehammer and I’m not afraid to use it. As a consequence of these two facts I have one fewer wall surrounding le château de grenouille and a pile of rubble in the former fish pond. I’ve been remodelling dontchaknow. What destructive\constructive tasks have engaged you recently?
Now, about those recipes… Pass it on.
Nom nom nom
16 July 2008 at 11:56 am (Recipe for disaster)
I’ve been playing with some recipes on Vegbox recently. I’ve discovered many delicious things to eat with some very simple ingredients. Yesterday I tried the Spring Pasta figuring that it would be both filling and healthy.
Be warned though for these ingredients lurk, hidden innocuously, waiting to pounce.
150ml double cream
100g Blue cheese (optional)
Of course I had to try it and coincidentally I happened to have some double cream and stilton in my fridge…after I went to the shops to buy them. I cooked the pasta and veg and nibbled a few raw ingredients and when it was draining in the colander I carefully followed instruction number 6.
Drain the pasta and veggies in a colander. Meanwhile, use the hot pan to warm through the cream and melt the cheese. Season with salt and pepper to taste
Double cream and stilton is flipping delicious as a cream sauce. It’s seriously lovely. I’m going to use it for other recipes and damn the arteries.
Chocroversial
19 March 2008 at 1:45 pm (Bad things happen, Reasons to be cheerful, Recipe for disaster)
Chocolate is horrible.
It’s too sweet, too sticky and it makes me feel sick if I eat more than a tiny bit.
It is also poisonous to animals.
You can keep your Easter Eggs, I don’t want them.
Please note that this is not a strange attempt at reverse psychology to get you to send me hoards of chocolate. I really don’t like the stuff.
Cake
9 January 2008 at 11:48 am (Pedantic, Recipe for disaster)
The phrase is “You can’t eat your cake and have it” not “You can’t have your cake and eat it”. Clearly if you have a cake then you can eat it but if you eat a cake you no longer have it.
You can have two cakes but if you eat one you’ll only have one left. So you can eat one cake and have another but but it won’t be the same cake.
If you tell me that I can’t have my cake and eat it I will point out your error and insist that you purchase or make an eccles cake for me.
Make your own Eccles Cakes
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Pre-heat oven to 220°C
Ingredients:
- 500g flaky pastry
- 25g melted butter
- Nutmeg
- 50g candied peel
- 100g sugar
- 200g currants
Method:
- In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar and butter and cook over a medium heat until melted
- Off the heat, add currants, candied peel, nutmeg and allspice
- On a lightly-floured surface, roll the pastry thinly and cut into rounds of about 0.5cm thickness and 10cm diameter
- Place a small spoonful of filling onto centre of each pastry circle
- Dampen the edges of the pastry and draw the edges together over the fruit and pinch to seal
- Turn over, then press gently with a rolling pin to flatten the cakes
- Flatten and snip a V in the top with scissors. Place on a baking tray
- Brush with water and sprinkle with a little extra sugar
- Bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes (220°C) or until lightly browned round the edges
- Place on a wire rack and allow to cool.
- Try not to eat them all at once!
Lefsa
14 November 2007 at 11:12 am (Recipe for disaster)
Deb passed me a recipe that I’m planning on trying out at the weekend.
Her husband is Norwegian and apparently so is the recipe. I’m reliably informed that you can put different goodies in the middle and roll them up like a crepe to eat. i.e. butter, cinnamon and sugar….Have fun!
I’m not 100% sure what a crepe is but I’ll give it a go anyway. It is actually remarkably similar to a type of Russian pancake that I’ve made before. The difference being that raw, grated potatoes are used rather than cooked and mashed ones.
INGREDIENTS
18 baking potatoes, scrubbed
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup butter
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
DIRECTIONS:
Peel potatoes and place them in a large pot with a large amount of water. Bring water to a boil, and let the potatoes boil until soft. Drain and mash well.
In a large mixing bowl, combine 8 cups mashed potatoes, cream, butter, salt, and sugar. Cover potatoes and refrigerate over night.
Mix flour into the mashed potatoes and roll the mixture into balls about the size of tennis balls, or smaller depending on preference. Keep balls of dough on plate in the refrigerator.
Taking one ball out of the refrigerator at a time, roll dough balls out on a floured board. To keep the dough from sticking while rolling it out, it helps to have a rolling pin with a cotton rolling pin cover.
Fry the lefsa in a grill or in an iron skillet at very high heat. If lefsa brown too much, turn the heat down. After cooking each piece of lefsa place on a dishtowel. Fold towel over lefsa to keep warm. Stack lefsa on top of each other and keep covered to keep from drying out.
Toad in the Hole
12 November 2007 at 4:32 pm (Recipe for disaster)
Toad in the hole is simple. Cook some sausages in a dish (we use vegetarian Quorn sausages but you don’t have to. two sausages per person is about right), mix up some batter and pour it over the sausages when they’re cooked and sliced (slice length ways in half). Bung it in the oven for about half an hour. Serve with veggies and gravy. It’s always best if you have a helper. You can also drink some cheap plonk while you’re waiting for it to cook.
Batter:
8 oz (400g) Plain Flour
2 oz (100g) Margarine
Pinch of salt
2 Eggs
1 Pint of milk
Whisk it all up together. It’s better if you mix the marg, eggs and dry ingredients first and add the milk slowly but I tend to must use the hand blender for speed.
OK, I’m vegetarian, not vegan but this is funny.
12 October 2007 at 9:38 am (Debate, I am, Recipe for disaster)
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