....Make easy peasy lemon drizzle cake! This is the most delicious cake we've had in a good while and the recipe is so easy to follow. Ingredients for the cake: 225g butter or margarine 225g sugar 4 eggs finely grated zest of 2 lemons 225g self-raising flour Ingredients for the drizzle topping: the juice of 2 lemons 85g sugar Now I know I say this about everything we make but this really super simple, everything we make is super simple as I'm not in any way culinarily (is that a word?) gifted! First of all pre heat oven to 180 c. Beat together the butter and … [Read more...]
Politically Correct Ginger Persons….
This sign made us laugh yesterday when we were out shopping ;-) I'm not sure what made me laugh most, the fact that Gingerbread Men now appear to be called Ginger Persons or the fact that we, a family of four Ginger Persons, were stood staring at the sign advertising us at the special offer price of 4 for £1.00. Inspired by this sign, we've just made our very own ginger person family.... You can make them even if you're not ginger lol. All you need to make them is: 350g plain flour 2 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 100g butter or … [Read more...]
Bursting Blueberries….
We managed to buy some bargain blueberries from the shop tonight - a big punnet reduced to 65p. I was planning to use them to make something exotic and different but in the end we just made plain old boring muffins! All you need to recreate my delicious little muffins is: 75g butter (softened) 75g sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg, beaten 200g plain flour 125ml milk 100g blueberries Gradually add the sugar and the egg to the butter Mix 1 tablespoon flour with the blueberries and put to one side. Sift the remaining flour together with the baking powder. Fold the flour and … [Read more...]
Parmo and Creamed Cabbage….
Who knows what a Parmo is? You probably won't unless you've spent some time in the North East as it's a local 'delicacy' round here, I'll tell you what it is if you promise to keep an open mind as it tastes way better than it sounds. It's a chicken escalope coated in breadcrumbs, topped with bechemal sauce and then cheese. They're usually eaten with chips, creamed cabbage and garlic sauce and you can get them with all sorts of toppings on like mushrooms, onions, bolognaise or even doner meat. You want one now don't you, admit it! All you need to do is put a chicken breast into … [Read more...]
Cupcakes….
Anyone who knows me knows how much of a cookbook freak I am, I have loads but hardly ever use them for recipes - I just like to look at the pictures and dream.... I have had the occasional go though and one particular memory of chilli and chorizo scallops springs to mind - I won't go into it but it's safe to say that we haven't had scallops since ;-) I've also had more than one disaster with chocolate mousses and it's probably best if I don't even mention my previous risotto issues! Anyway, my various disasters haven't put me off buying cookbooks and when I went shopping yesterday I heard … [Read more...]
Another Meal Plan….
SaturdayLunch - Cereal and toast.Tea - Home made Wraps with cajun chicken for the grown ups and ham and cheese for the mini frugals. Frugal Fondue for pudding.SundayLunch - American Style Pancakes if I can be bothered to make them.Tea- Minced beef and onions, yorkshire puddings, roasties and veg - again....MondayLunch - SandwichesTea - Chicken dippers with oven chips and mini corn on the cobs for the kids. Oven baked risotto for us.TuesdayLunch - Home made quicheTea - Home made macaroni cheese - still one of the few meals that the whole family will all eat!WednesdayLunch - … [Read more...]
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