Recipe: Caramelised Apples

Caramelised Apples are apples perfect for dinner parties because they are vegetarian ,are easy to make, they can be served on a plate in a variety of ways, crispy ,tasty and sweet. The apples can be served with caramel sauce drizzled or dipped in.

-ENJOY 

3 small gala apples, grate skin and cut into small slices

25g butter

 

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

1 Tblsp maple syrup

Melt butter in pot. Add the apples.

Add cinnamon and vanilla to apples, cook on low for 2mins

Add Maple syrup the apples in pot. Cook for another 3 mins

Remove from heat, Stir gently.

Serve with a drizzle of caramel sauce

Serves 2-3 people

The original recipe came from Woman's weekly, I just wanted to make a small serving so I divided all the ingredients by 2 ,substituted 3 large apples for 3 small gala apples and instead of yoghurt I added caramel sauce

http://www.nzwomansweekly.co.nz/food/recipes/caramelised-apples-on-spicy-fruit-toast/

Recipe: Tomato & Cheese Toaties using Sunbeam's Thick Snack

Tomato & Cheese Toasties using Sunbeam’s Thick Snack

This is recipe is great on a cold afternoon in winter and its very windy. But you can actually make this when ever you like it. J

- Enjoy

 

Ingredients

-       2 thick slices of tomato

-       -2 thick slices of any solid cheese like Edam, Colby…

-       Some olive oil or margarine (I used Bertolli : Olive oil spread with Extra Virgin)

-       2 slices of bread or 1hamburger bun cut in half

Butter on one side of the 2 breads. Then place it on one of the sandwich mould. But don’t PLUG IT in the POWER point. Yet. The buttered side should be facing the black sandwhich mould.

Place the 2 tomato slices on the un buttered side of the bread. Then repeat with the cheese slices.

Butter the remaining bread and place it like the first bread slice.

Now plug the thick snack into the power point. The light above should be red.

Wait for the light to turn green. When it turns green, the toastie will be HOT. SO take care.

Serve on a plate.

Recipe: White Chocolate and Raspberry Muffins....

 Raspberry and White Choc Muffins… Yummy

-       100g butter, chopped

-       1 cup  Caster Sugar

-       1 cup milk
1 egg, lightly beaten


-       1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries

-       1/2 cup white chocolate chips

-        Icing Sugar for dusting

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C.

 Lightly grease or oil spray a 12-muffin tin.

Place the flour in a large bowl. Using your fingertips, rub the butter into the flour, until well combined.

Add the sugar, milk, egg, raspberries and white chocolate.

 Fold until just moistened.

 Spoon into the muffin . Bake for 20 minutes.

Stand for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.

 Dust with icing sugar before serving.

Tips and Variations

You can substitute the white choc for milk choc chips 

or have 1/4 cup or choc and 1/4 cup of white choc\

Remember to fold the muffin mixture so it does not feel heavy after you have baked the muffins.

What's for lunch ????

Day 3

Baker’s Delight Blueberry Scones. I suggest you TRY these these are SO YUMMy J

What's for Lunch ....

Day 2

A bunny rabbit cookie covered with chocolate and hundred and thousand sprinkles and 2 mini egg, spinach and ham tartlet.

Edmond's Banana Cake

Edmonds Banana Cake

Yay another Edmonds Recipe :)

This week my friend made a YUMMY and Tasty Banana cake from Edmonds Cookery book. It is a “MUST BUY” For Nzders !!!!! it has got a range of Kiwi recipes GO OUT AND BUY and MAKE 

Ingredients

125 g butter

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup mashed bananas

1 teaspoon Edmonds baking soda

2 tablespoons hot milk

2 cups Edmonds plain baking flour

1 teaspoon Edmonds baking powder

Method

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition

Add mashed banana and mix thoroughly

Stir soda into hot milk and add to creamed mixture

Sift flour and baking powder together

Stir into mixture

Turn into a greased and lined 20 cm round cake tin

Bake at 180°C for 50 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched

Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack

The mixture can be baked in two 20 cm round sandwich tins at 180°C for 25 minutes

When cold ice with Lemon or Chocolate Icing or dust with icing sugar

The two cakes can be filled with whipped cream and sliced banana.

New Post .....

New Segment POST

From now on I will be posting a new segment nearly everyday to show you guys my lunch J I hope you enjoy this. Its called ‘What’s for Lunch Jaz?’

Day 1

Meclun salad with fake crab meat, cheese and mashed potatoes and 2 crumpets for morning tea.

Olympics are over

OLYMPICS UPDATE: NZ

NZ is 15th on the Olympic medal table J and Vallire Vilie a woman shot putter for New Zealand got her medal upgraded because the woman who got 1st place FAILED THE DRUG TEST L I think New Zealand did a good job of getting medals especially in ROWING and in water sports… New Zealand earned 13 medals J Plus we are a small country!!!!

Gold- 6

Silver- 2

Bronze- 5

TOTAL- 13

I forgot to tell you that I drew the Olympic rings on my hand on the days when the opening and closing ceremony of the Olympics.

I’m EXCITED FOR RIO DE JANERIO OLYMPICS in 2016 

Maybe next time you and your friends and family should have like a MAJOR OLYMPIC WATCHING party eg making an Olympic ring cake

That’s what I’m planning to do next time

J Be creative 

- Cinny

Recipe: Edmonds Chocolate Cake

Last week my friend made a DELISIOUS chocolate cake using Edmond’s cookery book recipe . For the people who don’t know the Edmonds cookery book, it's a book with recipes which are trialed and tested and contains kiwi recipes eg Hokey pokey biscuits = SO YUMMMY

website for edmonds cookery book: Check the Page " The blogs and websites I like" on my blog

Edmonds Chocolate cake recipe

175 g butter, softened

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

3 tablespoons cocoa

1/2 cup boiling water

2 cups Edmonds plain baking flour

1 teaspoon Edmonds baking powder

 METHOD

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition

Dissolve cocoa in the boiling water

Sift flour and baking powder together

Add to creamed mixture alternately with cocoa mixture

Pour mixture into a greased and lined 22 cm round cake tin

Bake at 180°C for 45-50 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched or when the knife is clean when doing the knife test.

Leave in tin for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack

When cold ice with Chocolate Icing or dust with icing sugar if desired

Tips

- DOn't forget to grease the sides and the bottom of the cake tin so it does not stick to the tin.

- Do not open the oven often because the cake needs the tempreture for it to cook.

- Place a few paper towels on the table before placing the cooling wire rack so that the excess crumbs can be put into the bin or maybe even eat.

2012 OLYMPICS has BEGUN

Yay !!!!! The London 2012 Olympics  has Officially started on the 27th of July. Wohooooooo J Go NZ we can do this if we believe. I thought the opening ceremony was interesting and togethery which the Olympics is all about. I hope that everyone is getting excited and I am sorry this is a late post I will do more in soon. Once I have done schoolwork first. The weather in Nz is quite COLD and chilly.

Leave a comment down bellow to  answer this question–

 WHAT SPORT ARE YOU SUPPORTING AND HOW MANY MEDALS DOES YOUR COUNTRY HAVE?

New Zealand has

Gold: 3

Silver: 1

Bronze: 5                  

Toatal: 9 Medals

- Cinny

Recipe - Apple Sponge

     

Apple Sponge                

46g butter

1 egg

2 tsp

1 cup flour (plain)                                           

4 Tblsp water

4 Tblsp Sugar (add more if you want) J

Dash of cinnamon or nutmeg

Pre-heat the oven to 180C

Grease 6 small ramekins or 2 large ramekins or 1 litre pie dish with cooking spray or baking paper

Sift in the flour and baking powder in a large bowl.

Cream the butter and sugar. Then beat in the egg with an electric hand mixer.

Fold in half of the flour and baking powder. After that drop in the other half on the flour and baking powder and fold. It should be like a soft dropping mixture. If you hold the spoon the mixture will drop slowly.

Put about 2-3 Tblsp of the canned apple filling at the bottom of each greased ramekins and add a dash of sugar, nutmeg or cinnamon to sweeten it up.

 Then pour the mixture on top of apples. When pouring leave about 1cm of space at the ramekin so the sponge can rise.

Bake for about 20- 25 mins or until its light golden brown.

Too see if they are done doe the knife test. Is where you open the oven and get a knife, poke the knife all the way to the bottom from the middle. If the knife comes out clean then it is done, if its got gooey mixture on it then it is not done.

Other options

Instead of putting in canned apple pie filling add in canned berries, pear, or peaches. Or maybe rhubarb.

If you are making it with a 1 litre pie dish add 2 cups of canned apple filling.

 

If you are making it with a 1 litre pie dish add 2 cups of canned apple filling.

Instead of putting in canned apple pie filling add in canned berries, pear, or peaches. Or maybe rhubarb.

If you are making it with 2 large ramekins add approx. 1/2 cup of the canned apple filling into each ramekin.

If you are making it with a 1 litre pie dish add 2 cups of canned apple filling.

Foood Lovers OUT THERE...

THIS IS FOR ALL OF YOU FOOD LOVERS OUT THERE !!!!

Have you ever seen a picture of your favourite dessert and you just want to grab your computer screen and it magically appears and you eat it. There are pages on tumblr, which have pictures of DEICIOUS and Preetty FOOD, and facebook page, which has an album, dedicated to YUM FOOD. Note: I did not make these pages 

LINKS

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/food?before=1341462081

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.449250588427255.108520.163251197027197&type=1

http://yummyinmytumbly.tumblr.com/

http://tumblr.com/tagged/food?before=1341462031

http://prettyfoods.tumblr.com

Sushi !!!

Today I went out with my mum to get sushi at a place called Bian sushi  Donburi Japanese Cuisine in Auckland City, 183 Symonds St Newton, I thought the sushi was great & tasty and plus they got “Viva’s Annual Gormet Takeout Food” award in 2006. Also they sell Green tea Gelato. Next time I go there I should try it you should too. I would rate this a 5 out of 5  Good Sushi

Here are the link to their website to see their menu and SUSHI

- http://www.biansushi.co.nz/index.html

Hey I'm back

Yes Jaz is back. I am very sorry that I haven’t posted much but I will be  posting more since I have more free time since it is the SCHOOL HOLIDAYS yay J but then its back to school. Getting ready  for upcoming Internals and ‘ Term 4 ‘ NCEA Externals here I come.

- Cinny

Choux Pastry

Choux Pastry

For chocolate éclairs, cream and savory puffs

1/2 cup flour

Pinch of salt or sugar , (add more salt or sugar if you are making a savory or sweet puff)

50g butter

1/2 cup hot water                         1 tsp vanilla essence or extract

2 eggs                                         (for a sweet aroma and taste)

Pre-heat oven to 220C

Heat the butter and water slowly in a pot, until all the butter has melted. Stir with a spoon

Increase the heat until the water boils rapidly.

Remove from the stove. Add in the flour and beat very fast with a wooden spoon. It should be like a smooth yellow ball of mixture.

Again put the mixture in the pot on the stove and stir for about a minute. Don’t let it dry up or burn.

Turn off the stove and beat each egg one by one. The pastry should look like a smooth yellow ball of mixture in step 4. If the mixture is slimy, and glossy it needs more stirring with a wooden spoon.

Spoon the pastry on the greased baking tray or baking paper. Using 2 spoons like spooning the muffin batter into the tins. Make sure they are small and rounded so they cook evenly and fast. (Cream or Savory puffs) For chocolate éclairs (Small short sausage shape)

Bake pastry in oven until they are crispy, risen and light golden brown.

Also reduce of the heat to dry out the paste inside of the pastry.

-       220C for 15-20 mins

-       -180C for 1-5 mins

Chocolate Éclairs

-      Melt a bit of chocolate and spread it over the pastry when it is cool . Ready to eat.

Chocolate icing

-       1 cup icing sugar

-      2 tsp coca

-      3 Tbsp hot water

-        After the pastry has finished baking, cut open it and let it dry then add vanilla pastry cream or whipped cream and a bit of icing sugar in the opening.

Cream or Savory puffs

-       After the pastry has finished baking, cut open it and let it dry then add vanilla pastry cream, whipped cream and a bit of icing sugar, custard, mousse, jam, salmon seasoned with pepper and chopped up olives, crab meat with mayo and pepper. The list goes on.

-        BE CREATIVE & (have FUN)

4 Common Scone Faults

4 Common Scone Faults

Tough/heavy   – Butter was not cold enough

                 - over mixed

-                    -the butter was melted

Did not rise     - over handled

                   - over knead

                  - didn’t sift flour

-       didn’t cut in to the milk, butter and flour

Cooked on the outside and raw on the inside

-     - place the scones too close together when baking

-     - oven temperature too low

Baking powder flavour 

- too much baking powder

-  too much self raising flour and baking powder

Welcome to Happy Food life

Happy food life is a food blog about food that i have like and recipes I would like to share.

- Cinny

Recipes will be posted nearly every Tuesday . 

- Don't forget to comment on posts if you have tried any recipes and did it go well. I would love to hear what you have to say.