These quick and easy cheesy asparagus muffins are excellent for morning tea or a light lunch with salad or soup.
A cross between Toll House cookies and coffee cake this delicious and versatile cake works well both as a snack with coffee or tea or as a dessert after a meal.
When I first saw this recipe I couldn’t imagine it making a nice apple crumble. I thought the crockpot would turn it all into a apple porridge type mush. But my curiosity got the best of me before too long and I gave it a try. I was delighted to find that you can make [...]
You can easily make your own baking powder. Often commercially bought baking powder has wheat gluten in it. This recipe is gluten free.
Ingredients:
2 parts Cream of Tartar
1 part baking soda
1 part cornstarch
Stir and sift all ingredients together and you’ve got baking powder.
True bagels are boiled, that’s what gives them their chewy texture. Try this recipe, there’s nothing like a fresh bagel still warm from the oven!
If you want to remove the papery brown skin from almonds, just soak them in boiling water for about 15 minutes and the skins should slip off easily.
You will need:
250g Plain Flour
125g Butter
1 Egg (medium size)
Sprinkle of Caster Sugar
What to do:
• Put the flour in a mound on a clean work surface, this would be better if it was marble as the coolness of the marble makes the pastry easier to handle. Make a well in the centre.
• Break the butter into [...]
3/4 cup Peanut Butter (smooth works best)
1 cup White Sugar
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup Butter
2x Eggs
3 cups Flour
1 teas. Baking Soda
1 teas. vanilla
1 teas. cinnamon (optional)
Mix the peanut butter, sugar and butter together, cream well. Add eggs and vanilla and mix them in.
Then add flour, baking soda and cinnamon. The secret to great [...]
This is a lovely light brunch, lunch or evening dish full of the tastes and colours of summer. A the best bit is… it doesn’t take that long to prepare so you don’t have to miss too much time in the sun.
I use a traditional flan pastry for the base and fill this with fresh [...]
