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Caramelised Onion & Ricotta Pizza


I'm very excited to have a special guest blogger today - none other than my husband, our very own "Dad in the Kitchen", Dean!  This is a pizza he whipped up a couple of Friday nights ago and it was so good!  Here he is :-)

"All right men in the kitchen, it's time to throw out all those pink frilly items that decorate your lady friend's kitchen and subtly remind her that the best chefs in the world are men.  That means you could possibly be the next Oliver, Ramsey or Sanders! Here's a way to impress your lady friend the next time she's out at her CWA annual general meeting or playing women's rugby. It's a simple pizza that will impress. You could sneakily throw this in a dominos box and she wouldn't pick it - but I don't know if that's a good thing? Anyhow, give it a go men. It's simple a way to wow your lady friend. And for you ladies reading this, don't forget to thank your man at the end of the night by allowing him some quiet time with his pipe and a scotch in his library or den! Dean (the only man following Mums in the Kitchen!)"

Ingredients
Pizza base
Oyster sauce
BBQ sauce
Chicken breast
Sweet potato
Onion
Low-fat ricotta cheese
Olive oil

Method
Get your pizza base and spread your half a cup combo of BBQ sauce and oyster sauce over base. Fry up your chicken with olive oil till brown. Remove chicken and fry up onion till brown. Remove onion and fry up small cubed sweet potato till brown.

Top all ingredients onto pizza base and dollop some descents chunks of low-fat ricotta cheese evenly over the pizza. Get your oven to 200 degrees, throw it in and keep an eye on it from 10 minutes, depending on how you like your pizza.

I'm very excited to have a special guest blogger today - none other than my husband, our very own "Dad in the Kitchen", Dean!  This is a pizza he whipped up a couple of Friday nights ago and it was so good!  Here he is :-)

"All right men in the kitchen, it's time to throw out all those pink frilly items that decorate your lady friend's kitchen and subtly remind her that the best chefs in the world are men.  That means you could possibly be the next Oliver, Ramsey or Sanders! Here's a way to impress your lady friend the next time she's out at her CWA annual general meeting or playing women's rugby. It's a simple pizza that will impress. You could sneakily throw this in a dominos box and she wouldn't pick it - but I don't know if that's a good thing? Anyhow, give it a go men. It's simple a way to wow your lady friend. And for you ladies reading this, don't forget to thank your man at the end of the night by allowing him some quiet time with his pipe and a scotch in his library or den! Dean (the only man following Mums in the Kitchen!)"

Ingredients
Pizza base
Oyster sauce
BBQ sauce
Chicken breast
Sweet potato
Onion
Low-fat ricotta cheese
Olive oil

Method
Get your pizza base and spread your half a cup combo of BBQ sauce and oyster sauce over base. Fry up your chicken with olive oil till brown. Remove chicken and fry up onion till brown. Remove onion and fry up small cubed sweet potato till brown.

Top all ingredients onto pizza base and dollop some descents chunks of low-fat ricotta cheese evenly over the pizza. Get your oven to 200 degrees, throw it in and keep an eye on it from 10 minutes, depending on how you like your pizza.

Lamingtons


I'm very excited today to be putting in my entries for this year's Ekka!  For the non-Brisbane readers, that's the Royal Queensland Show.  I debuted at the Ekka last year and got 3rd place for my carrot cake - so I'm re-entering that category, along with Banana Cake and Lamingtons.  That's my entries pictured above!  I also had a few entries in the local Pine Rivers Show on the weekend - so I'll bring you all the results later this week.  So here's the recipe for the Lamingtons - I used one from the CWA - fingers crossed they are worthy of a prize!  Plus hear the early judging from Liam & Robbie below :-)

Ingredients
125g butter
3/4 cup castor sugar
2 eggs
1 3/4 cup SR Flour
2/3 cup milk
1 tspn vanilla

Icing

3cups icing sugar
1 tspn butter
1 tspn vanilla
1 tbspn cocoa

Method
Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla, add eggs one at a time. Add flour alternatively with milk.

Pour mix into a greased lamington slab tin, 11 inches by 7 inches and bake in a moderate oven for about 30 minutes.

After it's thoroughly cooled cut into four centimetre by 4cm pieces. Wrap cake in foil and put in the freezer.

Put icing ingredients in a double boiler, over boiling water.  And mix until smooth, adding a dash of hot water.

Then put a lamington on a fork and ladel icing over the top until covered, hold it while it drips then roll in fine coconut.

Dry on cake rack with greaseproof paper over the top of it, or underneath to catch the coconut.

Tip: When transporting Lamingtons put extra coconut at the bottom of the container to prevent sticking to the bottom.


I'm very excited today to be putting in my entries for this year's Ekka!  For the non-Brisbane readers, that's the Royal Queensland Show.  I debuted at the Ekka last year and got 3rd place for my carrot cake - so I'm re-entering that category, along with Banana Cake and Lamingtons.  That's my entries pictured above!  I also had a few entries in the local Pine Rivers Show on the weekend - so I'll bring you all the results later this week.  So here's the recipe for the Lamingtons - I used one from the CWA - fingers crossed they are worthy of a prize!  Plus hear the early judging from Liam & Robbie below :-)

Ingredients
125g butter
3/4 cup castor sugar
2 eggs
1 3/4 cup SR Flour
2/3 cup milk
1 tspn vanilla

Icing

3cups icing sugar
1 tspn butter
1 tspn vanilla
1 tbspn cocoa

Method
Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla, add eggs one at a time. Add flour alternatively with milk.

Pour mix into a greased lamington slab tin, 11 inches by 7 inches and bake in a moderate oven for about 30 minutes.

After it's thoroughly cooled cut into four centimetre by 4cm pieces. Wrap cake in foil and put in the freezer.

Put icing ingredients in a double boiler, over boiling water.  And mix until smooth, adding a dash of hot water.

Then put a lamington on a fork and ladel icing over the top until covered, hold it while it drips then roll in fine coconut.

Dry on cake rack with greaseproof paper over the top of it, or underneath to catch the coconut.

Tip: When transporting Lamingtons put extra coconut at the bottom of the container to prevent sticking to the bottom.