Wednesday, May 21, 2014
A Jammy Weekend Recipes for Strawberry Balsamic Fig Vanilla Black Pepper Jam

A little cafe surrounded by a kitchen garden - windows with fluttering lace curtains - a big oven on one side - cinnamon, yeast, vanilla scents in the air - sounds of happy chatter - the aroma of fresh coffee brewing - people waiting in anticipation of a simple good time - a cup of good coffee or choice of tea with a scone or a muffin topped with some homemade jam - A girl can day dream right?
On Thursday, I ordered more fruit than I usually do for a week, especially strawberry and figs, with the intention of making jam. Im not much of a jam sandwich person. Give me a Mumbai style coriander-mint chutney and cucumber sandwich any day. But when you have a little boy at home wholl say Im hungry at the most unpredictable times of the day, it is good to have a loaf of bread and some spreads handy to make a snack in 2 minutes. He likes my Chocolate coconut Peanut Butter - well, I like it a lot myself and each batch gets over in a matter of 2-3 days. So I decided to make some jams anyway. What better way to preserve the goodness of seasonal fresh fruit for a couple more months?
Theres a lot more Id like to write about on jamming but the weekend chores beckon and I promised a few people that Ill be sharing the recipe on my blog before the end of the weekend, so here are the recipes for the two jams.
If you always wondered what the difference was between jelly, jam and preserve, read this.Id say my recipes are in between a jam and preserve, because while they do have a chunky texture, it is not that chunky because the fruit was fairly finely chopped to begin with. Contrary to popular belief that jam making is the job of old matronly housewives who wish to slave in the kitchen all day and night, these jams dont take more than 30-45 minutes each, including fruit chopping time, especially because were making only a small quantity at a time. Also, in both these jams, we dont need any added pectin because both fruits are full of seeds inside them which are a natural source of pectin. As for fig jam, most recipes from international websites dont ask for the fruit to be peeled, but Indian figs are very thick skinned, therefore better off peeled.
Strawberry Balsamic Preserve
Recipe adapted from Epicurious
Ingredients
750 grams strawberries (washed, patted dry and tops removed- I bought 1 kg and this was what I got after eating a few and removing the tops)
3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
3 tbsp water
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp butter
Directions
- Finely chop the strawberries-youll get roughly 2 1/2 cups of chopped fruit
- In a heavy bottomed steel or anodised pan, put all the ingredients together, on a medium flame, bring this to a simmer.
- The butter prevents the mixture from foaming and splattering too much. In fact, mine didnt splatter at all.
- Simmer for 20-25 minutes, until the mixture is thick and translucent. Keep stirring off and on. Dont worry if its still a bit flowy and it will thicken further on cooling. So, switch off before the jam turns thick.
- Remove pan from heat and cool thoroughly.
- Meanwhile place two empty clean and dry glass jam jars bottles without their lids in the microwave for one minute. This is to quick sterilise the bottles.
- Once cooled to room temperature, spoon the jams into the two jars. Id say I got roughly two jars of 300-350 grams each.
- Close them tight and keep in fridge. Use within a month.
Recipe for Fig-Vanilla-Black Pepper Preserve
Adapted from Taste
Ingredients
Roughly 1 kg fresh figs
1 cup sugar
half a vanilla pod (or use a cinnamon stick + 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon)
1 tsp coarsely ground black pepper
3 tbsp apple cider vinegar or lemon juice or balsamic vinegar
1/2 tsp butter
Directions
- Wash, dry and remove stems of figs. Peel and chop finely.
- Slice the vanilla pod and scrape the seeds with the end of the knife, add this to the chopped figs.
- In a large bowl, add all the ingredients, including the scraped vanilla pod, cover and keep overnight. [at this stage you could either keep the bowl of ingredients covered in the refrigerator overnight and proceed with jam making in the morning or proceed with the process immediately. I left it in the fridge overnight]
- After the mixture has sat in the fridge overnight, transfer them to a heavy bottomed steel pan or anodized pan, bring to a simmer on medium flame.
- Keep stirring off and on so that the sugar does not stick to the bottom and burn.
- In around 20 minutes, the mixture will start to thicken. Remove from flame. Cool thoroughly.
- Meanwhile place two empty clean and dry glass jam jars bottles without their lids in the microwave for one minute. This is to quick sterilise the bottles.
- Once cooled to room temperature, spoon the jams into the two jars. Id say I got roughly two jars of 300-350 grams each.
- Close them tight and keep in fridge. Use within a month.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Christmas recipes – get 4 delicious recipes for this Christmas
Confused about, you can get what to prepare for Christmas. Pickles, holiday Christmas dip, clam dip and Christmas crab dip is 4 great recipe- s, you can prepare this coming Christmas. Here, the recipes for you are, try them out:
1. Christmas pickles
Ingredients:
-10 Pickles, thinly sliced
-1 Cup green bell pepper
-Paprika 1 cup
-1 / 2 Cup onion, diced
-1 Cup vinegar
-2 Cups white sugar
-1 Tbsp mustard seeds
-1 Tablespoon dill seeds
-1 Tablespoon salt
Directions:
-Wärme vinegar and sugar until it comes to the boil. Dont Cook.
-Cool and pour over pickles, pepper and onions.
Keep without sealing for months in the refrigerator.
2. Holiday dip
Ingredients:
-1 Cup mayonnaise
-1 (8 oz) pkg of sour cream.
-1 (8 oz) water chestnuts can drained, finely chopped
-2 Tablespoons chopped pimiento
-1 Tbsp sliced onions
-2 Teaspoons of beef stock flavor
-1 / 2 Teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
-1 / 4 Teaspoon garlic powder
-Fresh vegetables and chips
Directions:
-In medium bowl, combine all ingredients except vegetables and chips; Mix well.
-Cover.
-Chill.
You serve before the-Rühren.
-If you garnish with additional spring onions.
Serve with vegetables and chips.
3. Clam dip
Ingredients:
-1 (10 1/2 oz) minced clams can
-6 Ounces of cream cheese
-2 Teaspoons of grated onion
-1 / 4 Teaspoon hot pepper sauce
-1 / 8 Teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
-1 / 4 Teaspoons lemon juice
-1 / 2 Tablespoons clam juice (reserved juice canned bivalve molluscs)
Directions:
-Drain canned clams and reserve juice.
-Kombinieren shells with remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly.
-Chill.
Serve with crackers or bread round.
4. Christmas crab dip
Ingredients:
-1 pkg. (8 Ounces) of cream cheese
Force sharp old English jug 1 cheese spread
-1 Tablespoons half & half
-1 Tbsp chopped chives
-Dash Worcestershire sauce
-Knoblauch salt to taste
-360 ml Crayfish (fresh, frozen or canned)
Directions:
Merge the first six ingredients in the top of a water bath or chafing dish over medium heat.
-If the ingredients are melted and mixed well add the crab, reduce the heat to just warm.
Serve with crackers. Great for a party!
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Friday, May 9, 2014
Old Recipes

Aunt Kates Ration Recipe Book was given free with the Peoples Friend, we have quite a lot of those free books. I keep a lot of the free books that come with BBC Good Food so I guess nothing changes.
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Random Recipes Beetroot and Black Cumin Soup


For the New Year, Dom at Belleau Kitchen has invited us to cook from a new cookbook. Now I only got one cookbook for Christmas and it features nothing but...CHOCOLATE! However, the house is still full of chocs and biscuits, the fridge still has two jars of homemade mincemeat and we have only just finished the Christmas cake, so I really couldnt face making any more sweet things.

Beetroot Soup with Black Cumin
1/2 large Spanish onion,thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 rounded tsp black cumin or normal cumin seeds
750g raw beetroot, peeled and finely diced
1 large potato, finely diced
1.25 litres cold water
3 tbsp good quality red wine vinegar
1 small bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
100g home-made or Greek yoghurt, thinned iwht a little milk an seasoned with 1 garlic clove crushed to a paste with sea salt and black pepper
Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the onion and a pinch of salt. Cook for 10 mintues, stirring occasionally, until the onion begins to colour. Now add the garlic and cumin and cook for 2 more minutes to release their flavour, followed by the beetroot and potato. Pour in the water, bring to a gentle simmer and cook until soft, about 15 minutes (I dont think I chopped mine small enough as it took much longer to soften). Place the vegetables and the cooking liquid in a blender or food processor and blend until just smooth. You may need to do this in two stages. Return to the pan, add the vinegar, half the parsely and salt and pepper to taste, bearing in mind you may need more salt than you think to blance out the acidity of the vinegar. Servie with a little yoghurt on top, the rest of the parsley and an extra drizzle of olive oil.




Sunday, March 23, 2014
Eggalicious My Favorite Egg Recipes
My Favorite Egg Recipes
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Cake Recipes 2

Chefs Jeenas cake recipes index page2.
This index page is full of step by step cake recipes that will be updated frequently with brand new cake recipes.
See cake recipes page 1 for more cake recipes.
Chocolate cake recipe
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Malted milk chocolate brownies recipe
Honey cake recipe

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Cake recipes page 1
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
1 Hour or less stove white rice recipes
As a busy mother, grandmother and wife I not in my kitchen every evening prepare healthy meals for my family spend hours. To solve this problem, I see the less than an hour from start to end and those to take advantage of the healthy fresh ingredients for recipe- s.
The following white rice recipehealthy dishes and are less than 45 minutes to make.
Time-saving tips: If you want to reduce preparation time, you can all your vegetables of night hacking above and place them in sealed containers in your refrigerator. You can cook your white rice the day before, drain away the water and in the fridge until you want to use it.
Lemon rice pilaf recipe
1 Cup celery, chopped
1 Cup onion, chopped
2 Tablespoons light butter or margarine
Rice 3 cups white fully cooked,
1 Tablespoon lemon rind, finely grated
3 / 4 Teaspoon salt
1 / 2 Teaspoon of ground black pepper
Cook rice according to instructions on the packaging and drain. Cook your celery and onions in butter in a large pan until soft. Stir into your rice, grated lemon rind, salt and pepper. Next Simmern over low heat for 2 to 3 minutes or until their fully heated through. Serve immediately.
Spanish rice recipe
1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 Cup uncooked white rice
1 can condensed Italian tomato soup
1 Cup water
1 Bay leaf
1 / 8 Teaspoon of ground black pepper
Pinch of red pepper sauce
Add your vegetable oil in a large pan and turn your burner on medium-high heat. Stir in the rice and until browned, stirring often with a nonstick silicone spatula. As soon as it has browned, soup, water, bay leaf, black pepper and a pinch of hot pepper sauce is the cans. Bring heat so that the mixture Cook comes to the quick. Reduce heat to low and cover the pot. Simmer on low for 20 minutes or until rice is soft is. Remove bay leaf and serve immediately.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014
Bunch of Asparagus Recipes
Cream of Asparagus Soup |
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Asparagus Pie |
Roasted Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus |
Roasted Asparagus with Fried Prosciutto and Poached Egg |
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Asparagus Souffle |
Asparagus, Ham, and Ricotta Pizza |
Saturday, March 1, 2014
To find healthy dinner recipes
If I am I looking for information about something type just the word or phrase in Google, and I can usually find what I search in the first few pages of results. When I was in "Healthy dinner recipe s typed" I overwhelmed. There were of course many results, so I clicked on the first and got a list of:
Appetizers, drinks, candies and festivities, entrées, healthy cookies, cakes and baked.... wraps, sandwiches and burgers.
Not even see the word "Dinner" and check out some of the meals you even that healthy me erscheinen.Die next site that I was tried actually better, something that even though I had a lot of recipe s that asked me to find to scan.
Criteria for a healthy recipe
If youre like me, time is precious, so I have what I need is still a lot looking at tun.Ich try to finden.Leider when it comes to ideas for healthy dinner recipe have s pretty quickly, to scan the recipe and screen out those my basic criteria for a healthy dinner meal not entsprechen.Hier are the things I look for when choosing a suitable dinner recipe:
-a large part of the mixed vegetables
-a source of protein such as lean meat, fish and beans
-a source of carbohydrates such as brown rice or potatoes.
Whole wheat bread, whole grain rice and pasta whole grains are healthier choices than the white varieties.A green salad makes a healthy choice.
If you are a vegetarian, its much easier to find a healthy recipe.The thing to find a sufficient source of Protein.Sojabohnen is however are a good alternative to meat, but in moderation are consumed.The Harvard School of public health has a good article on protein on your Web page.(http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/protein.html).
Other sources
So, where else can you find healthy food recipe s? an other good source online is Amazon.com.If you search on the keyword "dinner healthy recipe s" see, a lot of books (of course this is not, dinner ready tonight to help you go!).The only thing to note is that many of these books around weight loss diet, are aligned, are in the long run not necessarily good for you.Amazon is still a good source of information.
If you have children, it is particularly difficult recipe-s the nutritious and problem appeal to you to finden.Dieses is even worse if you try to CDC website (http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/nutrition_for_everyone/quick_tips/healthy_children.htm) has the eating habits of the family to level.the some good information to prepare healthy dinner for children.
Conclusion
Finally, there are a ton of information out there, but s for you try on the best healthy dinner recipe and geht.Sie take your family on NULL time, a lot have also ready to make changes, until you find something, this works for alle.Ich used to joke about our kids respond to some of my dishes (Lima bean soup to mind comes) - If you dont like it, its good for you must!
Seriously though, there are many good dinner healthy recipe s available, that everyone will love be must spend only in able to find the time and experiment a bit in the kitchen.
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
Gluten Free Thanksgiving Recipes Tips
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| Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Recipes and Tips |
The Big T. Thanksgiving. Nothing sends shivers of trepidation up a gluten-free or dairy-free girl's spine like the mental image of Grandma's white bread dressing, or shimmying slabs of Aunt Ida's pumpkin pie. It's a butter and wheat flour gorge fest with danger at every turn. The gruesome gut-twisting threat of thirty-six hours chugging Pepto Bismol
If you are blessed, they are thoughtful and well schooled in where gluten might lurk (turkey broth, marinades, gravy, seasoning packets, spice blends, traditional stuffing, cornbread mixes, crackers and pie crusts). And they don't ask questions like, You can eat "whole" wheat crackers, right? with the emphasis on the word whole as if somehow, the word itself makes the wheat magically safe for gluten sensitive folks to consume (it doesn't). They don't indulge in meta messages and all that spooky passive-aggressive weirdness. They won't sigh when you politely decline a slice of Aunt Ethel's pecan pie and say, Why don't you just eat the crust? They won't hold up a pitcher of turkey gravy and whisper, A little bit won't kill you.
Or my own personal favorite, Oh, go ahead... I have food allergies and I cheat.
Right.
So this post is for them...
The attentive Moms and Dads, compassionate Aunts and Uncles, smart-as-a-whip Grandmas and Bubbes and best buds who believe that if food is love, Thanksgiving should be fun and worry-free and delicious.
For everyone.
No big whup.
Friday, February 7, 2014
Eggless food recipes egg free recipes no eggs

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Raspberry cheesecake (egg free/eggless) recipe
Rhubarb crumble (egg free/eggless) recipe
Almond crumble recipe ( egg free/eggless) recipe
Mince pies recipe ( egg free/eggless) recipe
Best cookie recipe in the world ( egg free/eggless)
Cinnamon biscuit recipe ( egg free/ eggless) recipe
Ginger cake recipe ( eggfree/eggless) recipe
Low fat biscuit (eggless/eggfree) recipe
Vanilla & chocolate ( eggless/eggfree) short cake recipe
Carrot cake recipe that does not need eggs !!
Fruit cake recipe ( egglees /egg free)- no eggs
Mango & coconut cake ( egg free/ egg less) recipe- no egg recipe
Parkin cake ( eggless / egg free) recipe- no eggs.
Smartie cookie (egg free- eggless) recipe- no eggs
Shortbread recipe (eggless/eggfree)
Pistachio nut ( egg free/eggless) biscuits recipe
Prune (egg free/eggless) pudding recipe
Vanilla & chocolate (eggfree/eggless) cheesecake recipe
White Chocolate Chip and Coconut Cookies Recipe
Egg Free/ Eggless Marzipan Recipe
Vegan Confectioners Custard Recipe
Dairy Free Confectioners Custard Recipe
Vegan Vanilla Cream Recipe
Dairy Free Vanilla Cream Recipe
Oat cookies recipe
Date and Apricot Cookies
Onion Bhaji Recipe

Baked Onion Bhaji Recipe (video included)
Pineapple Cake
Pineapple Cake Recipe
Vegan Peach Cream Cake
Peach Cream Cake Recipe
Eggless Chocolate chip Cookies
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Vegan Whipped Cream Recipe
Vegan Whipped Cream Recipe
Vegan Sponge Cake Recipe
Sponge Cake Recipe
Vegan Bakewell Slice Recipe
Eggless Bakewell Slice Recipe
Carrot cake dessert
Carrot cake dessert recipe
Jam Slice Recipe
Eggless Jam Cake Recipe
Spiced Cookies Recipe
Spiced Vegan Cookie Recipe
Fig Rolls
Egg Free Fig Rolls Recipe
Eggless Oat Cakes Recipe
Egg Free Oat Cakes Recipe
Health Bars Recipe
Egg Free Health Bars Recipe
Egg free vanilla cake frosting recipe
Eggless Vanilla Cake Recipe
Egg Free Golden Coconut Cake Recipe
Eggless Stuffed Peppers Recipe
Egg free flapjacks recipe
No Egg Maderia Cake Recipe
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