Dessert
So with the sweet pastry, we made an almond and pear tart. Because I always wing it, this was the nicest tart I've ever made; properly delicious. If you dont have a pear handy, maybe a tin of drained cherries, fresh cherries, plums.
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Mum's anzac recipe. Yummy biscuit that keeps for weeks in an airtight container
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Seems I've a lot of afternoon tea recipes. This is a completely made up recipe using remains of eggs from ricotta gnocchi
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Ral's banana bread. It's great but I've not made it.
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Yummy Turkish yoghurt and cucumber dip
Dinner
Had this salad at a 1 year old's birthday party. Made by a Greek Nonna; I am assuming the ingredients. #yolo
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Time poor, one pot uni throw it together dinner. Doesn't look pretty but a fam fav. Add some chopped garlic to the cream mix if you like.
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I'm pretty excited about this now as I have refined the base flavour and it sets to jelly. It can be used for all kinds of good; I have it in the fridge always and it keeps for up to 3 weeks. I'm not sure what science and food regulations would say about that but I'm here to tell the tale
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This is my changes to the BBC's best ever brownie recipe. I have added vanilla and an espresso shot
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These are mum's chocolate forcer biscuits. She made them only occasionally as a treat and we totally devoured them. My forcer bugged out mid verification testing, so I made a sausage out of the rest of the mix and sliced them up with a really thin blade. This has been updated on the date above as the cup measures are ambiguous. Mum used to use an old style tea cup so I tried with this today. They turned out much better, so an update August 2021 removing the ambiguity in quantity... you know baking and science n stuff?
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Totes made this up. Good biscuit. Update: forgot sugar! The image shown uses tiger nut fleurrr
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Totes made this up. Rad
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Sweet biscuits with sultanas and rolled in corn flakes.
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I made this up yesterday. Can't even believe how delicious it was and takes only 10 mins. I use the Pantai crab paste with soya bean oil; I get it in all my local Asian grocers
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Moist
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You either love it or hate it, but if you love it... here 'tis. Mum used to boil the snags before she used them; that is too much pot washing for my liking, just chop them up and brown them first in the pan you are going to cook the curry in
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Brilliant flavoured rich chocolate cake. The pic shows it filled with cherries and cream. Brush the cake with kirsch before adding the cherries and you got yourself a black forest
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Mum called these truffles. Hardly; these are the marie biscuit, condensed milk and coconut balls from the 70s
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This is a base recipe we learned at TAFE recently.
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This is apparently Gennaro's mum's recipe, but as I use it all the time, I have added it here. Nothing better than home made gnocchi
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I just fail every time I make this. I think it worked once; all the sponge planets aligned and I still have no idea what I did differently. Serioulsy when it works though, this is my most fav cake of all time
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Mum's recipe from Aunty Rube; she used to use the bikky forcer for these. If you don't have one, just roll a teaspoon full of mix into a ball and press the top with a fork. Proper delicious
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Just bloody delicious if you like ginger; turns out I'm quite fond of ginger due to some form of loyalty to the gene. This is not biscuits to make for christmas, it is a really moist, delicious cake
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Yummo for the Celiacs. This is Ed; he is my pupper when he was a pupper. He is now an old man with grey hairs on his beard and spring time allergies.
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This is mum's recipe. I've not verified this one for years. You can make the whole thing in a large saucepan
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My classic go to hummus recipe (which I never use because I mostly wing it. I sometimes also add ½ teaspoon of cumin and coriander seeds, toasted and beaten to a powder
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Credit Chrissy Palmer for this fabo sultana cake. Probably my fav fruit cake. Stays moist for ages and has great flavour
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Mum wrote this one out in the book but I haven't tried it. Hopefully they are as good as Georgie McLeod
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Pressure cooker or slow cooked in the oven, this is proper delicious. You don't need to start it off on the hot plate if you are short of time - you can just set it going from all cold and raw.
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Mum defines this as a one egg sandwich but declares it as good for lamington sponge; so here goes. I have never made this
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I totes made this up. Rad. If you dont have any almond meal, use all SR flour. I make this sometimes with the leftover egg whites from the ricotta gnocchi but the recipe stands up fine without egg whites. When you use a 375g ricotta tub for the gnocchi, this is just the leftovers
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Totes made this up too. When I use cumin and coriander I toast the seeds in a dry frying pan and grind up in my portal and vessel. You can just use it already ground out of a packet if you cbf with that fuss
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Mum used to make this as a sandwich spread. It is a nostalgic recipe that I felt the need to include on here because she took the effort to write it in my book. You can sit the tomatoes in boiling water to remove the skins if you have the time
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My go to pasta sauce for Gennaro's gnocchi. Best if you have home made stock in the fridge. Also delicious with egg fettuccine or tagliatelle
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I made this up on the weekend; too good to not put on here. #onlyIfYouLikeMushrooms
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This recipe got my rice averse small person eating rice, so I guess that means its a good family dinner. Credit, some magazine which I cut out from many moons ago, and myself for making it better
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This week at TAFE we learned how to candy orange peel. Once I nailed it in my own kitchen, I had an orange that I needed to use. The results were quite fab. If you don't have prunes, you can use dates - I've not tried cardamom and dates. Moist.
Meat
This is a yummy meat glaze; we made this at school to spoon over a pork chop. I thought it would be ghastly and sweet but it simmers down really nice.
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These scones are so good straight out of the oven with butter
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This is mint if you have some home made chicken stock and can be arsed roasting the pumpkin first, but you are okay to not roast it if you short of time and use home made stock
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This is Georgie McLeod's recipe. Yvonne wrote this out for me; I have never made it but she made it all the time. Another fav. I'm not sure if the cups are old school tea cups or actually metric baking measuring cups. I've just made this with metric cups and the mix was dry; I had to add some milk to make it come together. Wen 20th Nov 2020.
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No bake recipe, this one. This is kind of like a home made Kellogs ad; sorry about that
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I generally wing it when making these. Also not something I make very often but had a recipe request for a recent batch, so here tis. Some like to add a tablespoon of relish to the meat mix; this adds some sweet. Up to you. Make them as big or small as you like
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Recipe shared by the scone queen
Pastry
Proper delicious and flaky. Whizz the flour, salt and butter in food processor then add the wet stuff if you not up for hand rubbing.
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Mum suggested this is Margaret Pearson's recipe. I used rice flour. I had to add a teaspoon of water as it was a little dry
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Mum's recipe
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This is a credit to Ral the sponge and scone queen; it's about 6 stories high if you have the skills... I do not hence the lack of photos. I am still rubbish at sponges but it turns out I'm not a huge fan anyhoo. I did learn in the test kitchen that the cooking time is important and it will sink in the centre if you overcook
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I went to uni with Pavi, and she taught me to make this quick curry. I use chicken thighs, oyster blade steak with the bone in or diced lamb. It is so good, quick and easy
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I went to uni with Pavi, and she taught me to make these lentils to go with the curry. Also so delicious, quick and easy
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This is one of my mum's recipes. Probably one of my most fav baked things of all time; up there with a good eccles cake if you like that kind of thing
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Credit Leonie Henderson for this one; not sure where she got it from but as far as healthy smoothies go - this is a palatable cracker
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This week at Tafe I learned that Paste is the term for uncooked pastry. I'm not very experienced with pastry but this was bloody delicious; I made it into a Pear and Almond Tart
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soup
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Where to begin. Credit Liz Baulch for this one although I did a rubbish job of writing the instructions down. Lizzy and I met in Israel on a Moshav, sharing a house with a Thai family, where we learned (well where Liz learned) to cook amazing Thai food. This soup was amazing when Liz made it; I havent made it ever - I was always the pizzle and mizzle whore trying to stuff an enormous amount of herbs and aromats into a small hole. Manually it takes a lot of arm power to get it all into a smulch, but it is so very worth it. I could go on and tell the story about the stolen turkey that we butchered in pitch black thinking we got away with it until we awoke to daylight and a scene from dexter with feathers++ on the dirt patio, but I will spare you
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I think this is nana's recipe. I made this today; it was dry with too much flour. Turns out I both read the recipe wrong and had the quantity wrong; it is now fixed. #putYourGlassesOnWendy