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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