Sunday, 22 August 2010

Sloppy Seconds


Lamb steak seasoned with rosemary, salt and pepper baked in the oven for 35 minutes on 180c
Bubble and Squeak - (mash, cabbage and onion) baked in oven for 45 minutes 180c
Broc and col and carrots boiled for 12 minutes on a medium heat
Savoy cabbage boiled for 12 minutes with salt on medium heat
A quick hunger fix after a long day - EFFIN LUSH

Fatty Blueberry Cheese Cake August 2010











75g Butter
200g Digestive biscuits (crushed)
500g Soft cheese
1 Can of condensed milk
1 Tsp vanilla extract
3 Eggs beaten
Zest of 1 lemon
150g Blueberries



*Melt butter in large saucepan making sure that it doesn't get too hot
*Remove butter from heat and stir in biscuit crumbs - mash together
*Tip into the base of a 19cm cake tin and push down with fingers to create the base, please note it's best to use a tin with a push up base
*Chill in refrigerator for 20 minutes
*Preheat oven to 170 degrees c (fan oven 150 degrees c or gas mark 3)
*To make the filling beat the soft cheese until softened then whisk in the condensed milk, vanilla extract, zest of lemon then 3 eggs - whisk together
* Pour the filling on to the biscuit crumb base, then drop or place in the blueberries evenly
*Put into oven for 1 hour (checking throughout as some ovens are hotter than others)
*Take out of oven when ready leave to cool in tin for 1 hour, remove from tin (as it's more stable then) and chill in fridge for 2 hours for the cake to solidify or it tastes like flan.
*Serves 6 or 1 with a broken heart


Simple Sexy Lunch June 2010




Fish sticks
Prawns
Cous Cous with seasoning
Lettuce, plum tomatoo, cucumber
Red onion
Pepper and salt

Friday, 20 August 2010

Banana bread 2010 May








40z/ 113g - Butter

6oz /170g - Sugar (soft brown)

8oz/ 226g - Self raising flour

2 Eggs

2/3 ripe bananas

Nutmeg - half tsp

Cinnamon - half tsp



To prepare:


*Heat oven gas mark 4/180C

*Grease tin with butter

*Mash bananas with fork

*Cream butter and sugar together then add eggs

*Mix Bananas into mix

*Mix in the flour

*Scrape into tin for 40 minutes (checking throughout if cooked)


This was most delicious!



Post script: This cake looks quite yellow in colour and light, but we used whit sugar for this instead of light brown sugar which works better.