my best recipe selections
These are my tried-and-true best recipes - all are DELICIOUS! (and most are super easy too!). I am doing this for my own records, but if you enjoy it, let me know!
Choc Chip Cookies (Tania)
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
 - 1 tsp baking soda
 - 1 tsp salt
 - 155g soft butter
 - 1/2 cup caster sugar
 - 1/2 cup brown sugar
 - 2 large eggs, or 3 small ones
 - 1 tsp vanilla essence
 - 360g choc chips
 
- Cream butter, sugar and brown sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy
 - Add salt and vanilla essence
 - Add eggs one at a time
 - Fold in sifted flour and baking soda
 - Add choc chips
 - Place tablespoons of mixture onto a greased and lined sheet pan and bake for 10 mins at 180C
 - I made 15 MASSIVE ones, so should make 30 normal sized ones :)
 
Meatloaf (Matts mum)
Ingredients
- 500g beef mince
 - 500g sausage mince
 - Soft white breadcrumbs from half a loaf of bread
 - 1 large onion, grated
 - 1 tsp salt and pepper
 - pinch of mixed herbs
 - (you can also add an egg and tomatoe sauce)
 
Method
- Combine all ingredients well and press into loaf tin
 - Oven bake at 150C for 1 hour
 - Make sauce - melt butter and cook a chopped onion. Add small tin of tomatoe paste.
 
Sausage and mushroom casserole (CROCK POT)
Ingredients
- 8 sausages
 - 1 large onion
 - 6 flat mushrooms
 - 1 cup hot water
 - 1 x 35g mushroom soup mix
 - 1/2 cup sherry or orange juice
 - 6 medium potatoes
 
- Put sausages at bottom of slowcooker
 - Put potatoes in with cut side to edge
 - Put rest of ingredients in (mix mushroom soup mix with water first)
 - Put on LOW for 6-8 hours
 
Zucchini pancakes with bacon and avacado
Ingredients
- 150g (1 cup) self-raising flour
 - 1/2 tsp baking powder
 - 1 egg
 - 310ml (1 1/2 cups) buttermilk
 - 1 (about 150g) zucchini, coarsely grated
 - Olive oil spray
 - 3 rindless bacon rashers, excess fat trimmed
 - 250g punnet cherry tomatoes, quartered
 - 1 small avocado, halved, stone removed, peeled, sliced
 - 1 cup fresh basil leaves
 - 1/2 small red onion, cut into thin wedges
 - 1 garlic clove, crushed
 - 2 tsp balsamic vinegar
 
- Combine the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Make a well in the centre. Whisk in the egg and buttermilk until just combined. Add the zucchini and stir to combine.
 - Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Spray with oil. Spoon one-quarter of the zucchini mixture into the pan. Tilt the pan to form a 13cm-diameter pancake. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cook for 3-4 minutes or until bubbles appear on the surface. Turn and cook for 3-4 minutes or until golden and cooked through. Transfer to a plate and cover with foil to keep warm. Repeat with the remaining zucchini mixture, reheating the pan between batches.
 - Meanwhile, heat a small non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook the bacon for 3-4 minutes each side or until crisp. Tear into large pieces. Combine the tomato, avocado, basil, onion, garlic and vinegar in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Serve the salad and bacon with the pancakes.
 
Chicken, pancetta & mushroom risotto
Ingredients
- 3 tbs oilive oil
 - 1 tbs butter
 - 5 rashers of pancetta
 - 500g chicken breast, diced
 - 1 onion, finely chopped
 - 6 medium mushrooms, sliced
 - 2 cloves garlic, finely diced
 - 1 stick celery, finely diced
 - 1 tsp lemon zest
 - 1 tbs fresh thyme
 - 2 cups risotto rice
 - 1 1/2 - 2 litres chicken stock
 - 1 cup peas
 - 3 sprigs mint
 - 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
 - 1/2 tsp salt (go easy on salt - tasted quite salty when i made it)
 - 1/4 tsp pepper
 
- Bring stock to gentle simmer and cook peas for 2 mins
 - Drain, reserving warm stock for later
 - Puree half the peas with a little stock
 - Heat 2 tbs oil in non stick pan and add hciken - cook until browned (5mins) - set aside
 - Heat 1tbs oil, butter and pancetta in same pan and cook until crsipy - set aside
 - Add onions to pan and cook in juices gently until almost translucent
 - Add mushrooms, garlic, celery, lemon zest, thyme and saute until soft (10mins)
 - Add rice and mix until onions coarted all rice
 - Cook for 2 mins until rice has chnaged colour slightly
 - Add a ladle of hot stock to the pan and cook stirring until nearly disappeared
 - Add next ladleful, and continue until all stock incorporated (20mins)
 - When almost cooked, add chicken, peas, bacon, puree and half the cheese and stir to combine
 - Add a knob of butter, taste, and season
 - Let it stand for 2 mins and serve
 
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