Thursday, October 19, 2006

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.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

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!