Filed under: Dessert, Food | Tags: Apple, Cinnamon, Egg, Food, Pear, Puff Pastry, Strudle, Sugar
One sheet of puff pastry, two pears and a bowl containing the following ingredients all mixed together – 1/2 cup castor sugar, 2 teaspoons of cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of flour (to thicken the juice).
I told my family this was apple strudel and they loved it. The second time I made it I told them the truth it was pear strudel and no-one touched it. So third time round I solemnly swore to make the apple strudel and I did, using pears and they ate it and loved it.
Preheat oven to 200C and line a baking tray with baking paper.
Peel and slice up the pears very thinly and then mix them into the sugar, flour and cinnamon mixture. My pears in the pictured version were not sliced thinly enough.
Mix one egg and 1 tablespoon of milk together in a container to make up an egg wash.
Layer the pear cinnamon sugar mixture out evenly across the top of the puff pastry sheet leaving room at the bottom to seal it shut with some egg wash.
Roll the pastry and apple up (kind of like a jelly roll). and seal the bottom with some egg wash. Carefully transfer to a baking tray and place sealed side down.
Seal the ends and cut 4-6 slices across the top to let the steam out.
Brush egg wash across the top and put into the 200C oven for approx 30 to 45 minutes.
When finished eat it all up before your family find out about there is ‘apple’ strudel in the house or they will want some. Or just tell them it is really pear and watch ‘em run for the hills. 
Mmmmm I love spring salads. This one has a very mild chilli pepper in it, so mild infact that it tasted not unlike capsicum with just a little bit of extra zing, not much though, just a hint.
Been enjoying lots of turkish bread and wraps with yummy fresh salads. Occasionally I splash out and add some tinned fish or left over corned beef.
Filed under: Food, Main, Vegetable | Tags: Chana Masala, Curry, Food, Main
Man I worked hard at this one. I took photos to document each stage of creation and had a special blog entry all planned out. But that ain’t goint to happen because unlike the previous pumpkin and chickpea curry I made this one is all BAD BAD BAD.
Hubby and I think the mistake was that I put the coconut milk in the curry itself. Last time I made coconut rice to go with the curry.
So I’m pressing the reset button and trying again.
In the meantime seek out some of this stuff for it is the most super doooper secret ingredient for curry ever.
Filed under: Food, Snack, Vegetable | Tags: Food, Potato, Potato cake, Vegetable
This one is a huge fav. of Annie’s.
I peel and grate 2-3 potatoes. Then dump all the grated potato into a clean cloth and wring the juice out of the potato – it needs to be very dry.
Cut up a couple of strips on bacon into small pieces. Put bacon piece and potato into a bowl.
Whisk one egg and add to the bacon and potato mix.
Heat some oil in a fry pan on medium heat. Spoon potato mixture in and cook on both sides for approx 4 minutes.
You can also make a giant potato cake and just add all the mixture in one go. It doesn’t’ get as crispy around the edges but it is yummy. I cut it into quarters and flip each quarter separately rather than trying to flip the whole frypan size potato cake.
Heidi is still not a fan but I’ve found this is a great way to fill Annie and my tummies at lunch time and makes a pleasant change from bread and sandwiches.
Filed under: Food, Main, Vegetable | Tags: Food, Main, Stir Fry, Vegetable
We’ve been having many of these meals lately. This was a quick and easy stir fry.
What I wanted to note about this was the sauce. I purchased a bunch of Canton sauces when they were on special recently but I find one bottle of sauce is waaaaaaaaaaaay too much for our stir frys. Struck by inspiration I used half the bottle and emptied the other half into a ziplock bag which I have frozen.
Further struck by inspiration I plan to slice up a variety of stir fry veggies and put them all together into a ziplock bag to freeze along side the sauce.
That way when the need for dinner of desperation next strikes I have the ingredients standing by ready to go.
Filed under: Snack, Vegetable | Tags: Carrots, Sausage Rolls, Snack, Zucchini
I used 250g mince, 2 grated carrots and one grated zucchini for these sausage rolls, along with one egg to bind the ingredients together. I mixed up the mince, carrot, zucchini and egg in a bowl.
Then made the mince mixture into a sausage shape on some puff pastry. I cut one big sheet of puff pastry in half so I wasn’t wasting any.
Roll the pastry around the mince mixture and use a little egg wash to hold the pastry together. I cut the rolls up into 2cm size rounds and lay them join side down on a baking tray.
Took about 45minutes in my 200C oven to cook them.
My girls and hubby loved these. I was not so happy with them.
