Recipe Swap Madness

E-Dogs Orange and Almond cookies

2008-08-07T07:51:00.000-07:00

Recipe as follows:
You will need
5 C plain flour (adjust as needed)
500g butter
tin of condensed milk
1 1/4 C castor sugar
drops of vanilla or essence
a large handful of almonds
and
the zest grated from two oranges and the juice of half of one
and icing sugar to ice

Melt butter mix in condensed milk and sugar and vanilla sift in flour and chop the almonds up as fine or chunky as you want them. Adjust the amount of flour till you have a good cookie texture.
Use a spoon to evenly make little balls and them squish em onto a greased baking tray with a fork. You should get sixty or so.
Bake on 270 in a preheated oven for approximately 12minutes (fifteen seemed over cooked and ten under).
cool on a rack or on a tea towel if that's all you got handy.
Use a teaspoon to pour on a spoon of icing on each cookie.
when set give away! Because if you eat them all you will feel a sugar high then you will feel sick and then fat and lonely it is better to eat the dough in solitude than the cookie

Katie's "It's a cold sunday night and I feel like an easy to make lentil soup" lentil soup

2008-04-23T01:25:00.000-07:00

Nom nom nom nom

1x medium to large brown onion
3-4 cloves garlic
Oil for pan
Around 250 grams green lentils (or whatever lentils you want - these ones just cook faster)
whatever veges you wish - carrot, potatoes, courgette etc is good
2x tins of tomatoes
Vege stock
Shit-loads of cumin
Chilli (fresh or dry) to taste
Salt and pepa
Sliced fried chorizo (optional*)

Heat the oil in a really big pot and "fry off" onion and garlic (if you are using cumin seeds instead of powder than fry that shit off also).
Add your veges if you have them
Add your tomatoes and lentils then cover with roughly twice the amount of stock (water with stock cubes in it) and add seasonings.
Cover and go read/ make love/ watch so you think you can dance/ whatever
Come back 30 min to an hour later and your delicious soup should be done!!!

* makes it even more amazing than it already is

This soup also tastes even better the next day

xxxxxx

Cameron McKeans SLOW BOIL GINGER BEANS

2008-04-10T04:28:00.000-07:00

SLOW BOIL GINGER BEANS

1 can ginger beer (jamaican if you have it)
1 can baked beans
some mustard seeds
salt / pepper
oregano or basil
1 teaspoon golden syrup (NOT OPTIONAL)
Some unsweetened yoghurt (optional)

Pour everything in together (except yoghurt) and let that slow boil for like 40 mins until all the liquid has evaporated into the beans. Serve with some doughy bread, like sourdough. or even add some unsweetened yoghurt to make it look more interesting.

Dan Jones Spelt Bread Dead

2008-04-09T01:29:00.000-07:00

Spelt Bread Dead

500g wholemeal Spelt flour
400g plain live yoghurt
Seeds, herbs and stuff, oil and sea salt.
1 level teaspoon of bicarb.
Fairies.

You need about 500g of wholemeal Spelt flour - but be brave and just guess the amount.

Don't bother sifting it, add a heaped teaspoon of sea salt and a level teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda (be exact with that one).

Then, make a little well and add 400g of plain live yoghurt and maybe add a little splash of good olive oil. Stir it up so it looks all weird and stringy and lumpy.

Then tip out the mixture onto some flour and fashion it into a ball shape and put on a baking tray.

Press loads of seeds and herbs and stuff into it, maybe olives or dried tomatoes, rosemary or nuts or something.

Then make it look all neat again and then... Let the fairies out.

Do this by scoring the loaf 4 ways and opening it out a bit, like a jacket potato. That way, the fairies don't get trapped inside and burn to death.

Then sprinkle some more seeds and stuff, oil and a little salt on the top, and cook at 180 degree or so for about 35 mins - or until you're sure the middle isn't gooey anymore.

Let it cool a little and EAT!

It's real good the next day, too.

Yeah!

Erin Forsyths Famous Mars bar slice

2008-03-19T19:16:00.000-07:00

Fat Food Rulz!!!

Cooking time: ten minutes

You will need:
3x Mars bars
1/2 block o' Butter
Rice bubbles
Choc bits/buttons/block (250gms)

Take three mars bars and melt them on in a pot on a low heat.
Add half a stick of butter and melt and stir.
When butter and bars are mixed and melty stir in three to four cups of rice bubbles (you will know when it is enough)
Press into a tin (I generally use disposable aluminum tins so I can pop it out but recycle!) then pour 250gms of melted choc button over the top.
Set
Cut
Eat
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Club Anna banana Thailand Pancakes

2008-03-17T15:34:00.000-07:00

Not quite the same recipe as the pancake man at the beach... but still anything with condensed milk and bananas has got to be good.

Ingredients

cup of flour
pinch of salt
2 eggs
200ml milk mixed with 75ml water
50g butter
banana
condensed milk
brown sugar
nutella

Sift the flour and salt into a large mixing bowl. make a well in the centre of the flour and break the eggs into it. Then begin whisking the eggs -incorporating any bits of flour from around the edge of the bowl.

Next gradually add small quantities of the milk and water mixture, still whisking, until the batter is smooth, with the consistency of thin cream.
melt the butter in a pan. and cook em up.
add chopped banana, nutella, condensed milk and brown sugar, roll it up.
yum

The famous Carol Wilken - Spicy Pumpkin Dip

2008-03-16T20:04:00.000-07:00

Heat oven to 200C

Peel and cube about 1kg pumpkin (my favourite is butter nut)

Place in a plastic bag ...
along with 2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 - 3 teaspoons cummin powder
1 teaspoon medium-heat curry powder
2-3 Tablespoons brown sugar

Shake and rub pumpkin ... shake and rub .. until well covered
Place on baking sheet in hot oven 20-30 mins

Mash well or use food processor
Add 1/2 cup sour cream
Salt and pepper to taste

Katie Ruscoe Sweet Treats Lolly Cake

2008-03-16T20:00:00.000-07:00

100g of melted butter
1 pack of malt biscuits
1/2 a tin of condensed milk
dried apricots, chopped (However many you please)
Pistachio nuts, roughly chopped (again, quantity is up to you)
desicated coconut

Crush the malt biscuits into crumbs - if you have a food processor you are way to sophisticated for this recipe but good for you; if you don't, just pop them in an empty bread bag and the smash the shit out of them with a rolling pin or other hard object.
in a bowl mix the crumbs, condensed milk, butter, apricots and nuts so it forms a delicious dough-type thing.
On a large piece of greaseproof paper, form the dough into a log shape. Roll in coconut and cover. Make cold in the fridge then slice and eat whilst playing a saucy game of pin the tale on the donkey.

Leah Forsyth - Scrambled Tofu

2008-03-16T15:57:00.000-07:00

Saute half a large sliced sweet potato along with 1 sliced carrot in a
large pan. Use plenty of oil so as to make them nice and squishy. When
they are lightly browned add half a spanish onion which has been
sliced up how ever you choose. Once this is lightly browned crumble in
a whole block of firm tofu using your fingers. Once this is all in the
pan douse with soy sauce (tamari if you prefer, only go lightly as i find it
is stronger than soy) and ground tumeric (I've never seen whole tumeric
so you should be fine). Probably 2-3 tblsp of soy and 2 small tblsp of
the tumeric. Stir thru all ingredients till tofu is a pale
yellow/brown colour. Simply serve on a bed of baby spinach and a
generous serving of natural yogurt. and hey presto you will think i am
the vegetarian Gordan Ramsey...