For a quick dinner, fish is always a good option. I can have this cod with parsley sauce, mashed potatoes and peas on the table in just over 20 minutes.
Oven baked “fried” chicken is fairly quick to make and is tasty and much healthier than actual fried chicken. Served with oven roasted potatoes and spinach wilted over sauteed mushrooms, it made a hearty meal.
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I love scones, and sometimes make a quick and easy recipe using oil. Today, I wanted to make proper currant scones, using butter. They are also quick to make…they just entail a little bit more work.
Posted in baking and desserts
These seem to be rather popular of late, so I thought I’d try my hand at making breakfast in muffin cups. It was rather fun, and the result was quite enjoyable…like a small quiche in a tortilla shell, rather than pastry. I think I will make them again.
I see a lot of cakes called Dream Cake these days, but when I was younger, Dream Cake had a shortbread base with a coconut-walnut-cherry meringue topping and a thin layer of cherry icing. It has been a family favourite for years.
Roast beef just isn’t a proper roast beef dinner without Yorkshire pudding (sometimes called batters) and gravy. They use a few basic ingredients- milk, eggs, flour and salt. My daughter is always appalled if I take a shortcut and don’t make the puddings with a roast:)
When my daughter was a teenager, it was hard to get her to eat anything remotely healthy. I came with these chocolate chip banana muffins in the hopes of getting her to eat them because of the chocolate and hoping she wouldn’t notice the flaxseed. She loved them. I’m heading off to visit her tomorrow, so thought I would bring a batch with me.
I love brownies and my husband loves cheesecake. Cherry cheesecake brownies are the perfect combination, and something both of us enjoy. These are fairly quick to make and do not need icing.
I was  playing around with Wacky Cake again the other day, and decided to make it as a plain cake. I then split it and filled it with custard, and topped it with chocolate icing. Not a true Boston Cream Pie, but a fairly decent imitation, and very easy to make.
The recipe for Wacky Cake is here. Substitute additional flour for the cocoa
The recipe for the custard is here. I only made a half of the recipe.
Chocolate frosting:
1/3 cup cocoa
1 cup icing sugar
enough cream to make it smooth (1-2 tablespoons)
I’ve never made these before, but for some reason today I really fancied the idea of rice wraps with peanut dipping sauce. I nipped off to the grocery store for wrappers, bean sprouts and a lime. I had everything else.
Posted in seafood, vegetarian