Cheese Twists


This is a recipe I made for my son's first birthday party - I served them in plastic shot glasses that had a teaspoon of dip in the bottom, with carrot and celery.  The guests loved them and the leftovers were a perfect morning tea snack for the kids for the next couple of days (although they are best on the day they're made).  Super easy to make too!

Ingredients
2 sheets frozen butter puff pastry, thawed
1 egg, beaten lightly
1/2 cup grated tasty cheese (you could also use parmesan, or a combination of both)

Method
Preheat the oven to hot (220°C).

Brush one sheet of pastry with egg then sprinkle with cheese.

Top with the other sheet of pastry.  Cut pastry in half, then cut into 1cm strips.

Twist the pastry pieces and place on lightly greased oven trays. Bake in hot oven for about 10 minutes or until the pastry is browned and puffed. Transfer to wire racks to cool.

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Leftover Christmas Ham & Pineapple Pizza

It's day 2 of Ham Week on the Blog and for the rest of the week, it's all about what to do with those leftovers! Well, you can't go past a good old Ham & Pineapple Pizza. This is another recipe from KR Castlemaine. My hubby actually whipped this one up - and WOW! Soooo delicious! His secret recipe was using some home-made tomato relish and caramelised onion on the base. It was so good. There really is something extra-tasty about leg ham, especially with that beautiful home-baked flavour. Enjoy!

Ingredients
Pizza Base
2 ½ cups plain flour
7g sachet dried yeast
1 tsp sugar
1 cup warm milk
Pinch salt

Method
Place flour into a large mixing bowl. Combine the yeast warm milk and sugar into a small bowl and allow mixture to foam.

Make a well in the centre of flour, add pinch of salt and stir in the warm milk mixture. Mix to a soft tacky dough. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead to a soft dough. Leave to rise for 30 minutes.

Divide dough into two and roll and shape dough to make two pizza bases.

Place bases onto greased and floured trays.

Ingredients
Pizza Topping 
40g tomato paste
200g KRC Premium Cooked on Bone Leg Ham, sliced & torn into pieces
½ fresh pineapple, thinly sliced, skin removed
200g mozzarella cheese, sliced
½ Spanish onion, thinly sliced

Method
Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees.

Spread prepared pizza base with pizza sauce top with KRC Premium Ham, mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced pineapple and Spanish onion. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 15 -18 mins. Serve hot.

Note: This recipe is only limited by your imagination. Place bowls of alternative toppings on the bench and have the family or guests prepare their own pizzas.

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Beef Provençal Casserole


This recipe is from the CSIRO cookbook and it's really good! Mr 1 absolutely loved it & devoured his serve plus half of his sister's! I've put the instructions as is, but this would also be perfect in a slow-cooker. Just 200 calories too, bonus!

PS - just a shameless plug for my Facebook page, so you can see whenever a new recipe is added!  Plus I love to repost my favourites from along the way - so get on over and become a liker! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mums-in-the-Kitchen/328059910543699

Ingredients (serves 4)
Olive oil spray
1 brown onion
200g mushrooms, sliced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
400g beef, diced
400g tin diced tomatoes
2 cups beef stock (or substitute 1 cup with red wine)
1 red capsicum, chopped
1 carrot, chopped
1 tablespoon flat-leaf parsley, chopped
1 tablespoon oregano, chopped

Method
Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius/150 fan-forced. Spray a frying pan with oil and heat on high. Add onion, mushrooms and garlic and sauté for 5 minutes or until soft. Transfer to a large, oven-proof dish.

Cook beef in frying pan, in 2 batches if needed, until well-browned. Add to mushroom mixture.

Add tomato, stock, capsicum and carrot to frying pan and bring to a gentle boil, scraping up any bits of beef stuck to bottom of pan. Add to casserole dish and stir well.

Cover and transfer to oven for 1.5-2 hours. Remove lid and cook for a further 30 minutes, or until meat is tender. Stir through herbs and season to taste.

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Chocolate Chickpea Cake


Well, today is my 27th Birthday - yay!!!  I love birthdays and love the opportunity to do fun things and spend time with special people!  The hubby, kids & I are heading off on a little mini-break today, so we celebrated with family last night.  I left the menu completely up to mum, and she excelled herself as usual!  For main course, she made this, as she knows Mexican is my current favourite.

And for dessert, she brought out a delicious chocolate cake.  It wasn't until after we'd eaten, that she revealed exactly what it was.  We were all shocked and amazed!  I would have NEVER guessed that it had chickpeas in it and I couldn't even taste the orange juice!  Mum used dextrose instead of the sugar listed below - it really wasn't sweet, but just had that deep, beautiful flavour of a cocoa-rich dark chocolate.  The nuts are optional (we had walnuts) and you could also use dark chocolate chips instead of the cocoa.  The cherry sauce (listed below) just gives it that extra texture and flavour - a real winner!

This one is worth a try - you'll be amazed!

Ingredients
400g can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
2/3 cup orange juice
4 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup hazelnuts or walnuts, roasted and crushed

Method
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius/160 fan-forced.  Blend chickpeas and orange juice in a food processor.  Add eggs, one at a time.  Add all other ingredients and combine.  Bake in a round 8 or 9-inch tin for 45 minutes.  Let cool in tin.

Cherry Sauce
2 cups frozen cherries
1 teaspoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon cornstarch

Combine ingredients in a small saucepan over low heat.  Simmer for 15 minutes.  Spread over cake and serve.

Nana's special helper!

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Rocky Road


There are so many varieties of Rocky Road out there, it's so hard to choose just one!  This is what I've come up with, and I'll be entering it into the Pine Rivers Show, which is happening this weekend.  It's one of my hubby's favourite treats and he's pretty happy with it, so hopefully the judges are too!  Plus, hear Liam & Robbie's verdict in the Family Show Taste Test below.

Ingredients
200g milk chocolate
200g dark chocolate
100g marshmallows, halved
150g turkish delight/raspberry lollies/jelly snakes (I used a product from Aldi called Blackcurrant Fruit Gums & they were perfect), chopped
150g peanuts, halved

Method
Combine the milk chocolate and half of the dark chocolate.  Melt over a saucepan of simmering water or in the microwave.  Mix well.

Add marshmallows, lollies and peanuts and mix well to combine.  Spread into a 20cm x 20cm baking pan, lined with baking paper.

Melt remaining dark chocolate.  Using a fork, drizzle over the rocky road.  Refrigerate for 2 hours or until set.


What did Liam & Robbie think?  Hear the Family Show Taste Test here:

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Grilled Herb & Parmesan Polenta


I recently picked up some polenta on special, then had a bit of a search around to decide what to do with it. I tried this recipe from Good Taste Magazine and loved it! It's so delicious with that added cheese and the fresh herbs really set it off. I cut it into batons for the kids and they loved their "chips". It's only 100 calories per serve, so as you can see, it's a perfect low-calorie addition to some skinless sausages and salad.

Ingredients
Olive oil spray, to grease
1L (4 cups) salt-reduced vegetable stock
170g (1 cup) instant polenta
25g unsalted butter, chopped
25g (1/3 cup) finely grated parmesan
1 tbs chopped fresh rosemary
1 tbs chopped fresh oregano
Olive oil, to grease

Method
Spray a 22 x 32cm (base measurement) Swiss roll pan with oil. Line the base and 2 long sides with non-stick baking paper, allowing sides to overhang.

Place the stock in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low. Gradually add the polenta in a thin, steady stream, whisking with a balloon whisk, until well combined. Cook, stirring with a wooden spoon, for 5 minutes or until mixture thickens. Stir in the butter, parmesan, rosemary and oregano. Season with salt. Spoon into prepared pan. Smooth the surface. Set aside for 15 minutes to cool. Cover. Place in the fridge for 2 hours to set.

Preheat a chargrill on high. Cut polenta into 12 pieces. Brush both sides with oil. Cook half the polenta for 2 minutes each side or until crisp and golden. Transfer to a plate. Cover with foil to keep warm. Repeat with remaining polenta.

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Caramel Mudcake


This is a deliciously indulgent cake - perfect as a dessert or rich alternative to a standard cake.  I love caramel, so I really enjoyed it - thanks to www.taste.com.au for the recipe.  This picture is actually used in a published ebook novel, called "8 Slices of Cake", co-authored by an old school friend - so there's your trivia for the day!  If you want to check it out, here's the link!

Ingredients
Melted butter, to grease
200g butter, cubed
200g white chocolate, chopped
200g (1 cup, firmly packed) dark brown sugar
180ml (3/4 cup) hot water
1 tbs golden syrup
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs, at room temperature
150g (1 cup) plain flour
150g (1 cup) self-raising flour

Icing
125g butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1/2 tablespoon golden syrup

Preheat oven to 160°C. Brush a round 22cm (base measurement) cake pan with melted butter. Line base and side with non-stick baking paper.

Place butter, chocolate, sugar, water, golden syrup and vanilla essence in a heavy-based saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat with a wooden spoon for 5 mins or until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth. Set aside for 20 mins to cool.

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift combined flours over chocolate mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.

Pour mixture into pan and bake in preheated oven for 50-60 mins or until a skewer comes out almost clean. Stand cake for 20 mins before turning onto a wire rack to cool.

Meanwhile, make icing: beat butter in a medium bowl until light and fluffy.  Add half the icing sugar and beat until well combined.  Add the golden syrup and beat.  Add remaining icing sugar and beat again.

Cut cake in half horizontally.  Spread middle with icing.  Top the the rest of the cake and ice on top.  Serve.
Little Mr having a turn at stirring...
...and not happy when it's big sister's turn!


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Chocolate Crackles


A favourite with the kids - as you can see, a perfect addition to my little Miss's tea party! (Recipe taken from the packet of Kellogg's Rice Bubbles) :-)

Ingredients
4 cups Kellogg's Rice Bubbles
1 cup icing sugar
1 cup desiccated coconut
3 Tbsp cocoa
250g copha, chopped

Directions
In a large bowl, mix the Kellogg's Rice Bubbles, icing sugar, cocoa & coconut. Slowly melt the copha® in a saucepan over a low heat. Allow to cool slightly. Add to Rice Bubbles mixture, stirring until well combined. Spoon mixture into paper patty cases and refrigerate until firm.


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A few more soups...



Sadly, today marks the last day of Soup Week.  I hope you've enjoyed the recipes and that you have a chance to try them out over the next few weeks!  I'd love to hear your feedback on them too.  I thought I'd just wrap up the week with a few more for you to try.  The one pictured above is a classic Pumpkin Soup, that's my most frequently-made.  It's delicious and super easy and you should definitely try it out!  Here's the recipe.

I thought I'd also share with you a couple of recipes from readers...thanks Julie for this delicious Pumpkin & Red Lentil Soup Recipe

Ingredients
Olive oil spray
1 brown onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp finely grated fresh ginger
2 tsp curry powder
1kg butternut pumpkin, peeled, deseeded, cut into 1cm-pieces
175g (3/4 cup) red lentils, rinsed
1.25L (5 cups) water
1x 10g Massel Salt-Reduced Vegetable stock cube
90g (1/3 cup) low-fat natural yoghurt
Fresh coriander leaves, to serve

Method
Heat a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Spray with olive oil spray. Add the onion and cook, for 5 minutes or until soft. Add the garlic, ginger and curry powder and cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until aromatic.

Add the pumpkin, lentils, water and stock cube. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low. Simmer, partially covered, for 15-20 minutes or until the pumpkin and lentils are soft. Set aside to cool.

Ladle half the lentil mixture into the jug of a blender and blend until smooth. Transfer to a clean saucepan. Repeat with the remaining lentil mixture.

Place the soup over medium heat and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes or until heated through. Season with pepper. Ladle among serving bowls. Top with the yoghurt and coriander to serve.


And Elizabeth was kind enough to share this one for Pumpkin & Apple Soup - the apple really gives it a nice sweetness.

Ingredients
1kg pumpkin
2 green apples
2 onions chopped
2 clove garlic chopped
2 celery sticks
1 teaspoon ground comin
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Black pepper
6 cups chicken stock

Method
Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan, bring to boil, cover and reduce heat. Simmer for 30 minutes or until tender.

Purer mixture until smooth and strain. Return to saucepan to repeat.


And finally, a couple more soups I've posted on the blog previously...

Enjoy!

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Mexican Chicken Bake


I'm really into Mexican flavours at the moment and here's a recipe I threw together that came out a treat! The kids loved it, it's only 285 calories per serve and we had it the next day for lunch, wrapped in tortillas - yum! You can serve it with a fresh green salad or toasted tortillas. I hope you love it too!

Ingredients (serves 6)
1 red onion, chopped
400g chicken breast, chopped
1 sachet taco seasoning
1 red capsicum, chopped
1 carrot, grated
1/2 can corn kernels
1 tin tomato soup
1 tin red kidney beans, drained and lightly mashed
1/2 cup white rice
50g cheese, grated

Method
Heat a frying pan over medium heat.  Cook onion until soft, then add chicken and cook until browned. Add taco seasoning and stir to combine.

Add capsicum and carrot and cook for a further few minutes, until soft (add a bit of water if it's sticking).  Add corn, soup, kidney beans and about half a cup of water and stir well to combine.

Add rice, reduce heat to low and simmer for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until rice is cooked.

Serve sprinkled with the cheese.  You can serve it with salad or tortillas.

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Meatloaf Cupcakes


I saw this nifty idea on the 4 Ingredients website.  My kids really thought they were getting special "dinner cupcakes"!!!  Just make any meatloaf recipe, like this one, and bake it in individual cupcake pans.  Steam 1/2 a cauliflower, then puree together with a little low-fat cream cheese or ricotta.  Alternatively, steam a couple of potatoes then mash with some milk.  Place in a piping bag and pipe over meatloaf "cupcakes".  Serve with salad or vegetables.

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Healthy Easter: Rice Cake Scenes


To continue with the week of Healthy Easter Treats, I was thinking about how I could use my Easter biscuit cutters for good and not evil!  In the past, I've often made sugary, fatty biscuits, spread them with white chocolate and covered them with sprinkles - not one for the health-conscious!

So, I decided to do some cheese cut-outs, and these just evolved from there!  You can get as creative as you like.  The kids love it, whether they're involved in the decorating, or just the eating.  They are a bit fiddly, but less time-consuming than making and icing a batch of biscuits - and way healthier!



Ingredients
Rice cakes
Cheese from a block
Sliced ham
Sultanas
Dried apricots
Cucumber
Capsicum
Fresh parsley or coriander
Mayonnaise
(or anything else you have in the fridge/pantry!)

Method
Cut out Easter shapes from the cheese.  Cut ham with a scalloped round cutter, just smaller than the rice cake.

Layer ham and cheese on the rice cakes, then decorate as desired, using small dabs of mayonnaise to attach vegetables.

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Quiche


This easy and healthy quiche is perfect for a lunch or Summertime dinner.  It tastes best served with home-made tomato relish!

Ingredients
8 sheets filo pastry
olive oil spray
1 capsicum, chopped
1 tablespoon fresh/dried herbs
1 cup grated cheese
1/2 cup creamed corn
3 eggs
1 cup low-fat milk

Method
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius/160 fan-forced.

Spray filo pastry with oil and place in a stack.  Cut into 12 evenly-sized squares.  Press each square stack into the holes of a muffin pan.

Combine capsicum, herbs, cheese and creamed cord in a small bowl.  Spoon mixture into the filo cases.

Combine eggs and milk.  Pour into the quiches.  Bake for about 20 minutes or until set and golden.  Serve with tomato relish.

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Chewy Cereal Slice




Ingredients
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
125g butter
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup rice bubbles
4 weet-bix, crashend
1 cup desiccated coconut
1/2 cup dried fruit (I used sultanas - apricots would also be nice)
1/4 cup sesame seeds

Method
Combine brown sugar, honey, peanut butter and butter in a saucepan.  Bring to the boil then reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

In a bowl, combine remaining ingredients and mix well.  Add wet ingredients from the saucepan and mix well.

Put into a slice pan lined with baking paper.  Press down firmly with the base of a flat-bottomed glass.

Refrigerate for about an hour.  Slice and serve.

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Rice Bubble and Sultana Biscuits


It's been a wild week of weather for Queensland - I know in my local area, many homes have been affected by floodwaters and the clean-up will be massive.  As a mum with small kids, it's easy to feel like there's nothing much you can really do - we can't just don the gum boots and shovels and get out there with the "Mud Army".  But there is something we can do - Baked Relief!

This is an amazing movement started after the 2011 by Danielle Crismani.  Essentially, it's all about getting food out to the flood victims and amazing teams of volunteers, who are working tirelessly to get our city (and state) back on track.

This whole situation has been a bit hard for my almost-three-year-old to get her head around.  But to actually get her involved in the process and explain what we were doing, has really given her a lot more understanding.  She loved taking the biscuits down to our local drop-off point and was really proud of being able to help.

Here's a perfect Baked Relief recipe (taken from www.bestrecipes.com.au) - super quick, easy, great for the kids to help out, and a great little energy-boosting snack for all the hard-working flood recovery crews.

Keep up the great work everyone!  And hear our radio chat about Baked Relief below :-)

Ingredients
1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup Rice Bubbles
1 cup coconut
½ cup sultanas
¾ cup caster sugar
125 g butter, melted
1 egg, lightly beaten

Method
Place flour, Rice Bubbles, coconut, sultanas and sugar in a bowl.  Stir in butter and egg, mix well.

Roll level tablespoonfuls of mixture into balls.  Place about 6 cm apart on lightly greased trays.  Flatten biscuits slightly with a fork.

Bake at 180°C for 10 minutes or until lightly browned.


Here's Liam & Robbie's verdict on the Baked Relief bikkies...


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Peanut Butter Choc Chip Biscuits


Not much to say but these are amazing!  Thanks to Canary Girl for the recipe!

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
a pinch of salt
1 cup chocolate chips

Preparation
Preheat oven to 375ºF (175ºC).  Line a cookie sheet or two with parchment.

Cream butter and sugars until creamy, then add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.  Add Peanut butter and continue to beat until combined.

Add flour, baking powder and salt and stir to combine.  Add chips and stir again.

Drop small spoonfuls of dough onto parchment.  Bake 12 minutes or until just golden.

Remove from oven and allow to rest on the sheet 1 minute before removing with a spatula.

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Butterscotch Biscuits



These are a simple little biscuit that are super fast and easy to make.  Kids love the rice bubbles in them!  Taken from the CWA "Classics" book.

Ingredients
120g softened butter
1 cup soft brown sugar
vanilla essence, to taste
1 egg
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
1/2 cup rice bubbles

Method
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius.  Grease baking trays.

Cream butter and sugar, then beat in vanilla and egg.  Sift in flour, add rice bubbles and mix.  Knead until dough is smooth.

Place spoonfuls onto prepared trays and press with the back of a fork.  Bake until golden-brown, about 15 minutes.

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