My Recipe Collection

My DH was watching the FoodTV channel last night and watched Bobby Flay's "Boy Meets Grill". Bobby was cooking some Indian bbq and DH thought this is really nice. So he searched the net for this recipe & found it on the Food Network website.

We tried this today with chicken wings. Our maple syrup was poured on our carpet 2 weeks ago by our DS, so we replaced maple syrup with honey. However, we were like, maple syrup? In Indian cooking? We also just used plain old canola oil.

On the show, Bobby lightly fried the chicken to make the skin crispy and then put it in the oven. Since we used wings, we just popped them in the oven after seasoning with the garam masala/pepper/salt. All in all, nice recipe, but maybe not authentic Indian but maybe Indian fusion?

Cook Time: 30 min

Level: Easy

Yield: 4 servings

This recipe is off allrecipes.com. I've been looking for a nice chewy chocolate cookie recipe for a long time. My family loves them especially DH. When we used to live in Ireland, we would our 'fix' at the cookie shop, forgot it's name though, really yummy!!

Some reviewers recommend putting in an extra 1 cup of flour, but I just left the recipe as is and used dark chocolate chips & put in a bit of raisins to finish them off.

INGREDIENTS
1 1/4 cups butter, softened
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2.In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture. Mix in the chocolate chips. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

3.Bake 8 to 9 minutes in the preheated oven. Cookies will be soft. Cool slightly on cookie sheet; remove from sheet onto wire rack to cool completely.

Makes 4 dozen

footnote: I know I'm not meant to mix metric and US measurement, but I hate having to measure butter using cups and can't be bothered to weigh my flour/sugar etc, so I normally weigh my butter and use the cup for everythingelse

2 cups of butter is roughly 285g

This is a pancake recipe I tried. Simple and delicious especially with maple syrup! Recipe taken from allrecipes.com. Nice & fluffy. I didn't seive the flour though, everybody wanted breakfast quickly!



INGREDIENTS (Makes 8)


1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and melted butter; mix until smooth.
2. Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.

Hearty beef casserole

Alison Holst's


750g beef stewing steak
2 sliced onions
2 sliced carrots
2 sliced celery
1 can chopped tomatoes
1 tsp oregano
1tsp soy sauce
2T sherry
1tsp instant beef stock
1Tbsp brown sugar

Brown the meat. Dump everything in the slow cooker

Today is my DD's 1st birthday. We bought her a small chocolate mud cake from the cake kitchen and the cake was just PERFECT!!. There is a slice left in the fridge and I am trying to resist myself from polishing it off. MUch better than the cheesecake shop's mud cake IMO.

So I was browsing around, looking for a good recipe to try.

What I like about the cake kitchen's chocolate mud cake are :


It is a rich chocolatey cake
The cake is moist and just melt in your mouth
It is not too sweet, just nice
It is dense and not spongey


I found a few recipes on TNN. Will try and give it a go sometimes.


Annabel Langbein's One Step Chocolate Cake


Ingredients:

2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup milk or unsweetened yoghurt
¾ cup premium quality cocoa powder
200g (7oz) butter, softened
2 tsp baking soda
1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp salt
3 cups self-raising flour
1 cup boiling hot coffee

Optional ganache topping:

250g (8oz) chocolate
1 cup cream

Method:

Heat oven to 160 degrees C (375 F) and line a 30cm (12 inch) round tin with baking paper.

Place all ingredients in the bowl of a food processor and blitz until combined (or place ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric beater).

Pour mixture into prepared tin and smooth the top.

Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool in tin.

Place in a sealed container or freeze if not using at once.

To make ganache, melt chocolate and cream over low heat in a pot or microwave for 1½-2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until chocolate is fully melted and mixture is creamy. Either drizzle from a spoon over cake or cool ganache until it is firm enough to spread and cover cake

Chocolate cake (make a huge cake -suitable for birthday cake, can be halved)

2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup yoghurt
3/4 cup cocoa
200g butter '
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
3 cups self raising flour
1 cup coffee (1tsp instant in water)


Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl, then melt the butter, add eggs and yoghurt then mix all together. Bake @ 160 for 1 hour


Crazy Chocolate Cake (Dairy and egg free -apparently moist and yummy)

2C flour
1.5 C sugar
1C cocoa
1/4 t salt
1t b.powder
1t b.soda


Mix dry ingred together then add:

1/2c white vinegar
1/2 c oil
2 c coldwater
1.5t vanilla essence

It is a runny mixture!
40min at 180 Eggless and dairy free.


CHOCOLATE MUD CAKE (vegan)

125g (4 ounces) soft margarine
1 cup castor sugar (or you can use a sugar alternative if preferred)
1 teaspoon (5ml) vanilla essence
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup hot water
2 teaspoons (10ml) fresh lemon juice
1 cup soya milk
1 3/4 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1. Cream margarine, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Blend the cocoa in the hot water and gradually add to the marg/sugar mixture.
2. add the lemon juice to the milk to sour it.
3. Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and add it to the creamed mixture alternately with the soured milk. Mix thoroughly.
4. spoon the cake mixture into greased and floured 8" cake pan and bake in a moderate oven (180 deg. C) for 30-40 minutes or until the top springs back when lightly pressed.

I remember fondly my favourite baked american style cheesecake from Sainsbury's. I haven't been able to find anything like that since.

From the picture, this recipe looks pretty similar. SO it is on my to do list.I was browsing the magazine on my night shift and found this recipe. It was aaaagessssss ago, can't remember the name of the mag.

serves 12-16

200g sweet shortcrust pastry
500g cream cheese (room temp)
1C sugar
1C sour cream
2t vanilla extract
4 large eggs
1/4C cream -lightly whipped

1) Pre heat oven to 180C. Grease a 22cm springform cake tin

2) Roll out pastry to 4mm thick and use to line base of tine

3) Prick pastry all over, then chill well. Bake for 10 mins, remove to cool

4) Reduce the oven heat to 150C

5) In a bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar untill smooth and fluffy. Add sour cream and vanilla and beat gently to combine

6) Gently beat in the flour, then beat in eggs one at a time ( be careful not to overbeat at this stage)

7) Pour the cheesecake mixture over pastry base. Bake for one hour and 15 mins or untill filling is just set. Cool in the tin before carefully removing

8) Spread whipped cream over the surface of the cake to decorate. SLice to serve

Tip- Use a hot, slightly wet knife to cleanly slice cheesecakes

I was tidying up our messy drawer yesterday and found this recipe on a piece of scrap paper, must be from the last time I made this recipe during Eid. I got this recipe from CARI. If I remember it correctly, the poster said she got this recipe from Majalah RASA. What I like about the recipe is the corflakes turns out crunchy. Must use good quality cornflakes like Kellogs though. One thing I found, the batch of cookies that I made using butter bought in New Zealand is more buttery, too buttery in fact.I made the cookies when we were living in Dublin, and they were fine. So I must try and use 50/50, margarine and butter and see if I can tone down the buttery taste a bit.


180g flour
150g butter
80g icing sugar
50g cornflour
1 egg yolk
80g cornflakes -broken into small pieces -I use my pestle & mortar to do the job
1/2t baking powder

Cream butter and sugar
Add egg yolk, continue to beat the mixture
Add cornflour
Then add the flour, small amount at a time

I shaped the dough mixture into tiny balls and put them in paper cups, but you can do it anyway you like

Baked in preheated oven.

I can't remember how hot the oven should be, but the same as baking other raya goodies :)