Smoked Salmon and Rocket Pizza

I make my own dough for this one.
1 sachet dried yeast
1 cup warm milk
More than two cups of flour, I don't measure this, I add two cups and then add more until I have a good dough. A good consistency doesn't take long to work together to make a dough. Set aside covered with a clean tea towel, to rise for about half an hour, or or more.

Spread out the dough on a cookie sheet covered with baking paper, cook on high for 18 mins. Take pizza out and top with topping.

The topping consists of 150-200g smoked salmon, sliced.
Rocket leaves
Capers (you can rinse them, but I quite like the really salty taste, so I don't)
The cream cheese topping is light Philadelphia cheese, with a clove of garlic, chopped chives and chopped dill. If you don't have fresh herbs, the ones in the tubes are great too. Spread this topping onto the hot pizza, then layer, smoked salmon, capers and top with rocket leaves.

This is delicious and looks just gorgeous too. It's easy to make.

Fried Rice. ala Jenny Style

Today I made kick butt Fried Rice..............it was delicious. Over the last few months I have just refined the recipe.

Here it is.

Beat three eggs with a little salt, cook into a flat omlette in pan. Remove and then dice.

Boiled rice comprising of one cup raw brown rice and one cup white rice. Boil water, add a good cup of brown rice, cook for half an hour and then add a cup of white rice for 10 minutes.........voila polka dot rice! Set aside in a colander, it doesn't need to be prepared far in advance. I actually like to use it while it's still hot. I have tried the technique where you put the rice in the fridge and turn it......to dry it out, but I prefer it this way and I find it's alot drier.

Fry one chopped onion and five rashers of lean bacon. Add chopped champignons and generous dollop of oyster sauce and three cloves of garlic. Add chopped eggs.

Add rice, and aboaut 250g of frozen peas and corn, stir through, and maybe add some more oyster sauce.

Serve with roasted cashews and fresh chopped coriander.

I add Maggi seasoning on serving and I find this is a great way of getting kids to eat eggs. All three of my kids eat it..........

Delicious!

Caramel Slice

I made a Caramel slice the other week, that was from a packet. I was a bit disappointed in it, and felt it was certainly not anymore convenient that making the real thing. One thing I have never liked about making Caramel slices is boiling the milk in the can in the saucepan. I know that is dangerous, plus I never wait long enough for it to cool before I puncture the can. So today I went hunting for a recipe and I found this one on the Nestle site. I made it, it was quick and easy. The kids can't wait to try it. I had a piece for supper, it was delicious.

Caramel Slice

Ingredients

• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup desiccated coconut
• 125 g butter, melted
• 395 g can NESTLÉ Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 2 Tbsp golden syrup
• 30 g butter, extra
• 150 g NESTLÉ Dark Melts, melted

Makes:

24 squares

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC. Grease 18xm x 28cm baking pan.
2. Combine first 4 ingredients, mix well. Press into pan. Bake for 10 minutes, cool.
3. Combine NESTLÉ Sweetened Condensed Milk, golden syrup and extra butter in pan. Stir over medium heat until boiling, reduce heat, stir constantly further 5 minutes. Spread over base, bake further 10 minutes, cool.
4. Spread top of slice with NESTLÉ Dark Melts, refrigerate until set.

Osso Bucco

Okay as for the Osso Buco recipe

here goes..........

Osso Buco

1/4 cup flour (enough to coat the veal shanks)

8 veal shanks (Osso buco)

1/4 cup olive oil

1 brown onion (I used 2)

1 large carrot, diced

2 celery sticks diced

2 garlic cloves

1 cup white wine

400g tin diced tomatoes (I used two tins)

1/2 cup chicken stock (for the crock pot I only added the powder and not the water)

1 tablespoon thyme leaves (I prefer fresh)

2 dried bay leaves

Coat the meat in the flour, and quickly brown in the fry pan. Put into casserole dish, or crock pot. Fry the onions and garlic, so they are brown too. Add everything into the dish and cook for a couple of hours in the oven, or for 8 hours on auto in your crock pot.

I have paraphrased that recipe, I rarely follow a recipe to the letter. I always find that there is never enough liquid to my taste and dh's also, hence the added tomatoes. I left the lid off the crock pot for about half an hour to reduce the sauce slightly, I didn't add anything to thicken it.

I made the polenta too, it is delicious with it. I added the parmesan cheese, and I also added parsley and oregano too.

Bonney Kitchen Recipes

I often make up my own concoctions. I never write them down, and many of them are very good. I want to have a place where I can remember the special things I cook.