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Tonights dinner 15th May

2009-05-14T16:01:00.000+02:00

For dinner tonight i am making pork sausage in a nice gravy with mashed potato and veggies.
I have put my pork sausage into my electric frying pan, added onions and home grown tomatoes chopped up small, added a beef chilli stock cube, a left over gravy, some spices and herbs and I am letting it cook slowly on a low heat till supper time.
I am preparing mashed potatoes.
Pumpkin cooked in a little bit of water with some crushed ginger and garlic, a few spoons of brown sugar, cooked for about 10 minutes.
Serve, with a nice glass of white wine.
A nice dinner for an autumn night.

What are you having for supper tonight?
Email: alison@amftyping.co.za I would love to feature your supper/dinner recipes.

Cous Cous

2009-04-24T15:28:00.004+02:00

Cook Cous Cous according to packet instructions.
I always add ingredients to Cous Cous to give it flavour, I add my favourites spices, herbs, maybe some Worcestershire sauce, flavoured stock cube, fried onions, mushrooms, green, red peppers etc. Cumin and Coriander are great spices to add.
Add sweet chilli sauce to give a sweet spice, kind of morrocan flavour.
Whatever it takes to give the Cous Cous flavour as Cous Cous on it’s on has no flavour hardly.

Savoury Rice

2009-04-24T15:28:00.003+02:00

I cook my rice in the microwave. Add double the water to rice, and a little bit extra water, cook for the required length of time ± 20 minutes.
I add ingredients to give rice flavour, depending on what I’m serving with the rice.
I add sliced/diced Onions, sliced/diced Mushrooms, Worcestershire Sauce, spices, herbs
Frozen Vegetables
Stock cubes
Herbs and spices
Sweet and Sour Sauce with Pineapples
Sweet Chilli Sauce etc
I add ½ teaspoon Turmeric to the rice before cooking, if I am serving the rice with curry.

Butternut/Carrots/Pumpkin with a hint of spice

2009-04-24T15:26:00.000+02:00

1 Butternut or Packet of Carrots or 1 Pumpkin
1 teaspoon Cumin Powder
1 teaspoon Coriander Powder
1 splodge of Golden Syrup
2 teaspoons Ginger Spice
3 teaspoons of Brown Sugar

Peel, Slice, Dice butternut/carrots/pumpkin into a pot of cold water. Add the rest of the ingredients, cook for 30 minutes, when cooked add a little bit of Parsley and serve hot.

Chocolate Mug Cake

2009-04-24T14:47:00.000+02:00

Ingredients:
1 x Coffee Mug
4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional) mini chips would be the best
Small splash of vanilla

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.
Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.
Add the chocolate chips and vanilla, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired. Delicious

Add cream to make this decadent.
This recipe is a favourite around the world, to those who know about it.

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Chicken Soup for a cold day

2009-04-23T08:54:00.000+02:00

Our weather has turned very cold overnight literally. Its unreal, on Tuesday night we sat outside till dark and had a braai chatting over a glass of wine and then next morning its cold, just like that. That means its time for Soup, the minute it turns cold my first thoughts for dinner is always soup. This is what I made, I took out my slow cooker. Placed in two jugs of cold water and stired in a packet of Mushroom soup mix (PicknPay own make), we had chicken left over from the night before, my hubby took the meat that was left off the chicken discarded the bones as they were very little and then popped the chicken into the slow cooker. then I popped a pot on the stove and added patato's which I had peeled and cut into chunks, peeded carrots cut into rounds, leaks and turnip cut into chunks, added a chicken stock cube to the pot and boiled for about 10 minutes just to soften the veggies I than added them to the slow cooker, added black pepper and let them cook all day, by 7pm we had a lovely bowl of soup ready to eat and it was very tasty. Just the right meal for a cold day.

Sweet Potato Pancakes

2009-04-22T14:30:00.001+02:00

Ingredients

2 Cups peeled and grated raw sweet potatoes.
2 Eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp Salt
1 tbs Flour
Pinch Baking powder
1 tbs Brown Sugar
2 tbs Sunflower oil

· Mix sweet potatoes with eggs, salt, flour, baking powder and brown sugar. Heat oil in large frying pan over moderately high heat.
· Drop batter into hot oil by rounded tbs, flattening slightly with egg slice. Should get about 8 pancakes.
· Fry for about 5 minutes, or until golden brown on bottom.
· Flip and fry other side 4 – 5 more minutes.
· Drain briefly on paper towels and serve hot.

Oat Biscuits

2009-04-22T14:28:00.001+02:00

Ingredients

100g Margarine
100g Castor Sugar
25ml Golden Syrup
150g Rolled Oats

Makes approximately 15.

· Grease a 20cm square, shallow tin. Set the oven at 175ºC.
· Melt the butter, add sugar and syrup. Blend well.
· Stir in the oats and press mixture into prepared tin.
· Bake for 25 minutes and cut into squares while still warm.

Important!
Cut whilst still warm, else it will be too hard when cooled down.

Roast Patatoes, my daughters favourites

2009-04-22T14:26:00.001+02:00

Roast Potatoes cooked in either the oven or electric frying pan

Peel/cut large potatoes into quarters boil in slightly salted water for about 15 minutes.
In a mixing bowl add a few tablespoons flour, with flavouring, like garlic salt, rosemary, parsley.
You can also add curry powder or chilli spice for more flavour.
When potatoes have boiled, drain and then toss them in the flour in a large dish.
Put them into an oven proof dish or electric frying pan with a little bit oil, toss potatoes around in dish to cover each with a little bit of oil and bake or cook in electric frying pan for about 45 minutes turning every now and again. My daughter loves my roast potatoes, it’s her favourite.

Curried Beans

2009-04-22T14:18:00.001+02:00

Ingredients

1 tin Mixed Beans
1 tin Tomato and Onion mix
1 tin Curry Vegetables
1 cup of mixed red, yellow, green peppers.
250ml or a handful of Frozen Vegetables
1 teaspoon Turmeric, Cumin and Coriander
2 teaspoons hot/medium Curry Power (or what you prefer for your taste)
1 teaspoon Ginger spice/powder
500ml curry flavour stock cube
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Chutney

Fry off the spices (turmeric, cumin, coriander, curry powder, ginger) till you can smell the aroma coming from the spices, add to Slow Cooker.
Add the rest of the ingredients to the Slow Cooker and cook on required setting; to be ready for dinnertime.

I sometimes add chicken to this curry.
Serve with Rice or Cous Cous and a glass of two of really Cold Beer.

Moroccan Stew with Chickpeas

2009-04-22T14:17:00.001+02:00

Moroccan Stew with Chickpeas

1 tin Chickpeas (drain of tin and discard)
½ Kilo of Beef/Lamb
250ml Beef Stock
1 packet Mushrooms
2 tablespoons Cornflour
1 tin of Tomato and Onion Mix
1 teaspoon Cumin, Turmeric, Cinnamon, Coriander and Ginger spices
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Chilli Power or the amount to your taste/liking
250ml of Sherry
250ml water
Parsley, Garlic, Salt and Black Pepper to your taste

Roast off all spices (Cumin, Turmeric, Cinnamon, Coriander, Ginger, Chilli Powder) together for a few minutes in a frying pan, when you can smell the aroma coming from the spices, take of the heat and add to Slow Cooker.

David'a Yorkshire Pudding Mix

2009-04-22T14:13:00.000+02:00

David’s Yorkshire puddings

Mix 2 eggs in a bowl add 2 tablespoons of plain flour a bit of milk and water, season with salt and pepper and leave to stand (for about 30 minutes), its ready when there are bubbles on the top. (Preferably be in the UK when you make these puddings for excellent results).
Put a tray in the oven on 200c with a bit of oil, when the oil is hot pour in the mix and cook till brown 5 minute before finished turn them over for a 5 minutes to brown the bottoms when finished they should be golden brown.

Tip:
For some reason I have always battled making Yorkshire Pudding in this country (South Africa), I think it is something to do with the level above sea water that we are here in Johannesburg. My Family in UK makes these puds and they rise like crazy but for some reason they do not here, when I make them, I add a teaspoon of baking powder which helps.
Atora suet can be bought here in Spar and Pick n Pay.

Puddings in the Corner

2009-04-22T14:10:00.000+02:00

Ingredients
1 kg Mince meat, add a tablespoon or two of flour and roll into about 1inch balls, pop into large dish add
1 x Onion cut into small dice
3 to 4 Carrots cut into small dice (or vegetables that suit you)
Mushrooms are also nice added to this dish if you happen to have in
Oxo/Bisto gravy mix
and what ever seasoning you like, herbs and spices.

Cook dish in the oven on 180c for an hour, then:

Make the suet puddings using Atora Light Vegetable Suet at 2 to one that’s one measurement of suet to 2 of self raising flour, a bit of water enough to make the pliable dough then divide into balls put them in the corners and around the sides of the dish, cook for about 20 minutes, serve with new potato or mashed potato and the veggies of your choice.
This used to be one of our favourite family meals.
A nice dish, for a cold winter’s night.