How To Make Croutons
These little squares are so much more than mere fried bread. They are a taste sensation: Guaranteed your mouth will light up, your taste buds will linger over the flavours, your teeth will revel in the crunchy texture and your tongue will tingle with the excitement of it all…
Have them is soups, salads or [...]
Beautiful Roasted Capsicums
These will blow your guests away, they will think you have slaved over a hot stove for a week… believe me, the taste is sublime and they are SO easy… but that part is our secret
Choosing the best Capsicums
Make use of the ‘on sale’ capsicums when the are in season as they can [...]
How To Make Traditional Flan Pastry
Master this easy peasy recipe and I guarantee it will open up a sea of recipes only limited by your imagination:)
Think of the possibilities: flans, pasties, individual pies, children’s lunchtime snacks and more.
You now have a stepping stone for all you family baking and you can control the fat content and sugar content of all [...]
How To Make YUMMY Croûtons
These little squares are so much more than mere fried bread. They are a taste sensation: Guaranteed your mouth will light up, your taste buds will linger over the flavours, your teeth will revel in the crunchy texture and your tongue will tingle with the excitement of it all!!¦
Have them is soups, salads or on [...]
How To Make Pastry
You can line a flan dish with the pastry and bake it blind, you do this by putting a piece of cooking paper on to the base of the pastry and then covering the paper with baking beans or dried uncooked rice, add just enough to weight down the pastry so it doesn’t ‘rise’ up [...]
Read more »Shepard’s Pie
Good Old Traditional Shepard’s Pie.
This is a blast from the past, but still goes down well on a cold, dark evening, hugging your plate in front of the log fire.
What you will need:
1kg Minced Beef.
1 Tbsp seasoned Flour.
1 Onion, chopped.
2 Garlic cloves, chopped.
1 Carrot, chopped.
50g Peas.
2 Sticks Celery, chopped.
1 Tbsp Tomato Puree.
1 tin Tomatoes.
1kg Potatoes.
50g [...]
What to Keep in the Kitchen Cupboards?
What to Keep in the Kitchen Cupboards?
When people find out I cook they nearly always ask:
‘ What DO I keep in my cupboards for basics ?? ‘
So here goes….
Cupboards & Shelves.
‘Dry’ Stores.
Tip: Save any ‘nice’ jars to put things in, or collect some ‘Kilner’ or ‘Mason’ jars, then I buy out of bulk bins in [...]
How To Make A Vegetable Stock.
Basic Vegetable Stock.
This is a great way to use up excess vegetables, just roughly chop away & toss in the pot.
Put in ends of beans, celery trimmings potato peelings, parsley stalks or mushroom stalks the list is really endless.
One tip to abide by is: AVOID any vegetable with a strong flavour they can make the [...]
Back to Basics.
Back To Basics…Are the pages for those who want to know the basics of cooking , what you should have learn’t at your mother’s knee but never did..
In todays modern world we have lost the extended family environment in which we used to learn the skills required to equip us in the domestic echelons.
Today, everybody [...]
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