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.