CREPES

A sweet crêpe served with strawberries and whipped cream (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 Ingredients:

• 30 grams butter melted 
• 150 grams plain flour
• 325 ml milk
• 1 large egg 

 Method:

1. Melt the butter and let cool a little.
2. Pour the flour into a bowl, whisk in the egg and milk and finally, just
   before making the crêpes, the melted butter.
3. Heat a crêpe pan or the nearest equivalent 
4. Spoon 2–3 tablespoons of batter into the pan then quickly lift it up and
   the batter forms a quick, thin pancake on the base of the pan. 
5. This will cook in a quickly so flip it and cook for 30 seconds to a minute on the other side, then remove the pale crêpe to a layer of baking paper.
6. Continue and make as many as required.
7. Leftover batter stores well in fridge for 36hours

APPLE CRUMBLE

Making Apple Crumble can be adapted to any fruit  you have on hand but we will call it Apple Crumble.

Fruit
Ingredients:

8 Granny Smith Apples (green)
Little bit of water
2 Tablespoons of Sugar

METHOD:

Peel and core apples
In a saucepan
Add Slice apple and a little water
Sprinkle sugar over and stew
Set Aside to cool

CRUMBLE MIX

Ingredients

1 Cup Plain Flour
60 gms Sugar
60 grms Coconut
60 grms Butter
20 grms Oats  (Optional)
20 grms Brown Sugar (Optional)

METHOD:

Rub Flour and butter together in a bowl
Add Sugar's, Coconut, Oats etc
Mix well
Sprinkle over the top of Fruit
Bake in a Moderately Hot over until nicely brown.
Serve warm with Hot homemade Custard  or
Cold with Ice-cream.

THE KING OF PUDDINGS

This is a Jamie Oliver .recipe so its simple and so yummy. I had everything in the cupboard to make it so why not.  Usually there is one thing missing, not this time. 
Very simple and very easy to follow.

Beaten egg whites (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The King of Puddings Serves 4-6

Ingredients

• 4 free-range eggs
• 565 ml milk
• 115 g fine breadcrumbs
• 225 g sugar, preferably vanilla sugar
• 4 level tablespoons jam , raspberry / black current what ever you have.

Method

Preheat the oven to 150ºC/300ºF.
Separate 3 of the eggs.
Put the yolks into a bowl with the remaining whole egg and beat together.
Add the milk, breadcrumbs and 85g of the sugar.
Put the jam on the bottom of a pie dish and spread it evenly.
Pour the custard egg and milk mixture over the jam.
Bake in your preheated oven for 1 hour or until set.

Whisk the remaining 3 egg whites until stiff, then slowly add the remaining sugar until it is all mixed in. Pile it on top of the custard, then bake in the oven for a further 15–20 minutes until the meringue is set and lightly browned.

MAKING CUSTARD (Custard Powder)

Lets make some yummy custard,  and let's just suppose you have a microwave oven.  If you do then this will be very very simple and fool proof.  This never fails.  If there is some left over it is fine the next day also even if the custard has solidified a little more.

 

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons of Custard Powder
1 large tablespoon of white sugar
2 tablespoons of milk for mixing
500 mls of milk

Method:

Mix together the custard powder and sugar with a little milk to make a nice consistency to pour into the rest of the milk which is in a microwave proof jug and mix this in thoroughly.

Place in the microwave for 3 minutes .. take out stir well and replace in the mic again for a further 3 minutes.  As the custard cools it will become thicker. 
If you want thicker custard for cooking purposes or for making trifle, simply increase the amount of custard powder used.

The traditional way of making custard with egg yolks is fun, however with rising prices and the lack of available funds and chook's in the backyard being a thing of the past; I decided to tell you about this simple custard and the ease at which you may satisfy a sweet tooth at a late ungodly hour!

Image by Smithy No 7 Flickr

PANCAKES

 

You cannot go past this easy to make delicious treat for breakfast or for a desert or for anytime you need to just have pancakes. 

If your going to cook pancakes then do it properly and properly is easy.  Better than those silly shaker things that are expensive in the supermarket.  You can whip up your own pancake batter yourself without too much trouble at all. 

Everyone loved pancakes and in this picture above is strawberries atop of this pancake with whipped butter maple syrup and the strawberries were grown by me.  This is easy and a cheap accessible way of obtaining endless antioxidants to keep you healthy and cancer free.  Strawberries and Blueberries are very very high in this.

My pancakes and strawberries from the garden

Ingredients:

  1 Cup of Self Raising Flour
  1 Cup of  Milk
  1 Egg

Method:

1.  Pre-heat a non-stick or cast iron fry pan
2.  Place the Egg Milk and Flour into a bowl and combine well
3.  Lightly grease the frying pan with butter or oil
4.  Spoon batter into the fry pan to cook until  bubbles start to burst on the top and the sides starts to dry out
5.  Turn them over and cook on the other side until they are brown.

I find that the pancake mix behaves better for cooking if it is allowed to sit covered on the bench for thirty minutes before attempting to cook the pancakes.  This recipe above is easy to remember if you just remember its 1 x 1 x 1 of the three thinks egg milk flour.

Images by Mezza  - Cooking Pancakes with Good Charlotte Strawberries