CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE BROWNIE SLICE

This is a rich and luxurious slice that will simply melt in your mouth and is relatively easy to make, it just takes a little organization ahead of time to get the cream cheese soft to start.

chocolate brownies (Photo credit: YayAdrian)

INGREDIENTS:

BROWNIE
1 Cup Plain Flour
1 Cup Castor Sugar
1/4 Cup Cocoa
2 Eggs
170 g Butter
100 g Dark Chocolate

CHEESECAKE

285g Cream Cheese Softened
5 Tablespoons Castor Sugar
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
100g white chocolate chips optional

METHOD

Preheat oven to 160 degrees Centigrade
BROWNIE : Melt  butter and chocolate together
Combine flour, sugar and cocoa add eggs and melted butter and mix together.
CHEESECAKE: Process Cream Cheese, sugar eggs and vanilla until smooth. Add chocolate chips if using these.
In a lined slice tin, dollop brownie mixture and cheesecake mixture alternatively.
Using a knife drag through mixture to create a marbled effect
Bake at 160 degrees Centigrade for 45 to 50 minutes or until set.  Best served chilled to achieve the best effect for your benefit as far as taste goes.

SHEPHERDS PIE

Shepherds Pie is yummy on winters nights and some of it can be made ahead of time if you are cooking potatoes the night before then put on extra other wise just follow the directions

INGREDIENTS:

Oil
3 Large Potatoes
500gms Mince
1 onion, 1 Carrot, Half Capsicum
Garlic and Chilli
Parsley and Chives
Salt and Pepper
Cheese (grated)
Gravox

METHOD:

1. Cook Potato and mash and set aside
2. Oil in pan and add onion, capsicum and carrot, garlic and chilli
3. cook quickly
4. push to the side of the pan
5. add mince and brown
6. sprinkle some gravox on one side
7. when cooked through nicely
8. move around and turn and sprinkle more gravox
9. cook a little longer
10.then add a tiny bit of water
11.and start to mix it all together nicely
12.cook for a few minutes till everything is mixed
13Pour into a baking dish
14.cover with mashed potatoe
15.sprinkle with cheese
16.Sprinkle with a little pakrika
Place in a hot oven around 200 degrees
Cook until nicely browned on the top

MARINATED FISH

INGREDIENTS:

Fish Fillets
Lemons

Garlic

Oil

Sea salt

30mls water

Black Pepper

Plain Flour for dusting fish
Plate for flour

Frying pan
A smile.

METHOD:

1. Cut the fish fillets into cubes / I prefer Whiting Fillets as no cutting is required usually

2. In a separate bowl squeeze lemon to get at least 20 mls
3. Blend the garlic and add in the bowl
4. Add two tablespoons of oil,  salt, water, black pepper
5. Soak the fillets in this mixture

Allow it to soak for 15 minutes.

1. Place a frying pan on the heat moderately hot
2. Pour some oil in to it
3. Allow this to heat up
4. Dust the fillets with the flour.
5. Place these in the frying fan carefully so as  not to splash the oil
6. Cook until golden brown

Into the frying pan, a scene in a Mharashtrian Kirchen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bon Appétit

A small story about Fish.

When I was pregnant with all three of my children I craved fish desperately.  I craved Whiting to be precise.   I wanted this fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  All other food and the thought of eating it made me feel ill.  Whiting cooked to the above method and a squeeze of fragrant lemon juice over these won my heart and my tummy.   This allowed me to eat and not be ill.

Fish is such a cool food too.  It is 87% Protein. This food is low in Saturated Fat. It is also a very good source of Protein, Vitamin B12, Phosphorus and Selenium.

Read More about the nutrition of whiting here:  http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/finfish-and-shellfish-products/4155/2#ixzz2WFxannmU

MAKING FLAT BREAD

Saj - Arabic flat bread (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

To make your own flat bread for homemade Pizza or for dipping is very simple.

INGREDIENTS

4 Cups Plain Flour
1 Teaspoon Salt
100 Grams butter
375mls Milk

METHOD

Warm milk until butter is slowly melting and keep mixing this
Make a well in the flour mixture
Pour in milky butter mix into the flour while stirring into the centre.
Keep doing this until it all leaves the sides of the bowl and forms a type of ball.
Turn out onto a floured bench and begin to knead this for FIVE MINUTES.
after Kneading
Wrap in Glad wrap for 30 Minutes
Then divide into 8 pieces

To Cook :
Heat large frypan nicely
a splash of olive oil
Roll out each piece of dough on a floured surface and place gently in the frypan to cook.  Watch the oil does not splash up if you have too much oil.
Cook these for a minute and you will see it start to rise.
When you feel its ready turn over to do the other side for about forty seconds

English: Home baked unleavened flour and water flatbread on a red tablecloth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Place on paper towel to cool

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HOMEMADE WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE RECIPE - BLACK SAUCE

Nell Brownlee's treasured Recipe's

1900 advertisement for Lea & Perrins' Sauce. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lea & Perrins's made the first authentic Worcestershire Sauce in Worcestershire .

Recipe Number One:
Ingredients
6 Cups Brown Vinegar
1 Cup Treacle
1 Cup Dark Plum Jam
1/2 ounce of whole cloves
1/2 ounce Allspice
1 Ounce crushed Garlic
6 small chillies or
1 teaspoon ground chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon salt
METHOD

Place all ingredients in a saucepan
Boil for One Hour
Strain using a clean nylon stocking
and BOTTLE in sterilized bottles and label.

RECIPE #2
Worchestershire Sauce

1 1/2 pints of Brown Vinegar
1/2 pint Treacle
1/2 pint dark plum jam
1 Large clove garlic finely chopped
1/2 ounce cloves
1/2 ounce bruised ginger

1/2 ounce salt
1/2 Allspice
1/4 ounce dried chillies or
1 teaspoon of chilli powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne

METHOD
Place all in  saucepan
Boil for One to one and a half hours
Open windows as its smell is overpowering
Strain through nylon stocking
Bottle in sterilized bottles

English: "Crockershire" Vintage Worcestershire Sauce (Photo credit: Wikipedia)