
I wanted to make a 'simple' pizza on few ingredients. This recipe was from the Women's Weekly 'Food We Love" book. I have made adjustments though, as with many recipes there wasn't any salt in it for a start, which I find really bizarre.
Topping
200g prosciutto
fresh bocconcini
fresh basil leaves
Tomato Sauce
500g Tomatoes (recipe called for 400g tinned diced tomatoes)
1 and tablespoon fresh oregano,
1 tablespoon fresh greek basil
sprigs of fresh thyme
1 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons crushed salt flakes
1 medium onion, chopped
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup tomato paste
To skin the fresh tomatoes. Place tomatoes in a bowl and pour over hot boiling water. Leave for five minutes. The skin will split, and easily peel off. Chop tomatoes roughly.
In saucepan, cook onion and herbs in the oil, then add tomatoes. Cook on low for a couple of hours. Add tomato paste, salt and sugar at some point during cooking. Let sauce cool a little before adding to pizza.
The smells of this cooking is just divine, nothing like fresh ingredients - the kids outside said it just smelled delicious.
Basic Pizza Dough
I always make my own pizza dough, unless I'm closely watching calories and then I'll use pita bread. I make a large pizza, which fits on a cookie tray.
2 sachets dried yeast (14g)
1 1/2 cups combined water and milk warmed
4 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon crushed salt flakes
1 teaspoon sugar
Add yeast to warmed liquid with salt and sugar and let stand until it bubbles. Add sifted flour and then work to form a smooth dough. Leave in bowl with a clean tea towel draped over to keep it warm. I will make it quite a while before I need it. My girlfriend has discovered that once the dough has proved, it will keep well (and still rise) after it's been refrigerated, something we need to do on hot days, if you are making it up several hours before hand.
I then spread the dough on a cookie tray covered with baking paper and I have olive oil on my hands. I let the dough prove again for another half hour or so, before I add the ingredients.
Spread sauce over pizza base. Add sliced bocconcini and sliced prosciutto. Cook in hot oven (200 degrees celcius). Spread basil leaves on pizza, slice and serve with a delicious glass of red.
Simple, few ingredients, but very tasty.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Prosciutto and Bocconcini Pizza
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Chicken Scrolls

Sometimes we pick up these Chicken Scrolls that the butcher makes. He always makes them so huge, plus with all that puff pastry they're too decadent to eat very often. I thought I'd try to replicate them. Everyone just hooked in. Bunny pulled up outside and said the yummy smells were wafting out the front.
500g chicken breast fillets - bashed with meat mallet to thin out
1 packet frozen spinach - thawed and then squeeze out the water
grated cheese, tasty and parmesan
two cloves of garlic - chopped
ground salt and ground pepper
two sheets puff pastry
Place the puff pastry sheets end to end. Layer, the flattened chicken, spread out the spinach, sprinkle on the garlic and spread out the grated cheese.


Roll up as tightly as possible, into a long sausage. Then slice and place flat onto a baking tray. Cook in a hot oven for 30 minutes.
Serve with vegetables and gravy.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Chicken Tikka Masala

This was absolutely delicious and thoroughly enjoyed by the whole family. I love using jar pastes, but this just blows all those others out of the water. While the quality of the pastes is very very good, making it yourself from scratch is just an amazing flavour. It's like a taste party in your mouth.
1 green chilli deseeded and chopped
1 clove garlic, peeled
large knob of fresh ginger, peeled
1 heaped teaspoon garam masala
1 tablespoon tomato paste
stems of coriander which you are going to use as garnish
1 small onion
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
generous pinch of ground coriander
1 teaspoon tumeric
500g chicken breast (thigh fillets would be better and I'll use them next time)
1 red capsicum, chopped
1 green capsicum, chopped
2 large handful snow peas
2 carrots, julienned
1 can evaporated milk (instead of using coconut milk which is high in saturated fats)
Chopped coriander for garnish
natural yoghurt (*see note)
Moosh up the first lot of ingredients in a food processor. I could have done them in the mortar and pestle, but this was much much faster. Cover the chopped chicken with the paste and leave in the fridge for several hours or overnight to enhance flavour.
Heat wok, cook chicken on high heat, it actually chars a bit which adds to the flavour. Let it sit for a few minutes before you even stir. When you stir add the carrots and capsicum in a layer to cook above the chicken. Turn the heat down at this stage and cook chicken for another few minutes depending on size of chunks of chicken. Add snow peas to soften, not too early because you don't want them mushy. You can add some water to deglaze the wok and add extra steam for vegies to cook. Add can of evap milk, heat through, but do not let it boil.
Serve on bed of basmati rice, with chopped coriander and generous dollop of natural yoghurt. *European yoghurt has a nicer consistency.
Enjoy.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Chilli Con Carne

I cooked a dish tonight that was absolutely wholesome, delicious, full of flavour and nothing like the recipe I was actually cooking. I'd copied a recipe from Jamie Oliver's website because I was interested in the combination of vegetables he added, but that was where the similarity ended. I tasted it, about half an hour after it had been simmering away, and honestly, I wouldn't have been able to eat it. So, here's my recipe.
500g Minced Pork and Veal
2 large brown onions, chopped
1 capsicum, chopped (I used yellow, but red or green would be great too)
3 carrots, peeled and chopped
3 sticks of celery chopped
3 large cloves garlic
1 can chick peas
1 can red kidney beans
2 cans diced peeled tomatoes
2 heaped teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon salt
generous sprinkle maggi seasoning
2 tablespoons mild mexican chilli powder
1 heaped teaspoon sweet paprika
Guacamole for serving
1 large avocado
half finely chopped white onion
1 medium clove garlic
chilli sauce
salt
Must all ingredients together for guacomole
For serving
1 packet plain corn chips
freshly baked bread rolls
chopped coriander
Using a large saucepan, cook all vegies to soften, then add mince, tomatoes, one of the cans filled with water, chick peas, kidney beans and all the spices. Bring to boil and them simmer for a couple of hours.
Serve this delish meat dish, with a generous dollop of guacomole and coriander. You can add sour cream too if you wish - dh did, I felt my meal was already decadent enough. We used the corn chips and bread rolls for dipping and scooping. This was a hit with everyone, even Sammy had seconds, which is rare.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Pizza Scrolls

Served 3 kids and 1 adult for lunch
3 sheets puff pastry
left over bits of
ham, bacon, pepperoni (I'm not good at quanities, I just use what's on hand, or what I think, and then usually decrease it, so I don't have too much)
grated cheese
Pizza sauce
half onion, chopped
Spread out pastry
Spread out a little pizza sauce - not much
Evenly spread mixed up other ingredients.
Roll up pastry. If your knife's not sharp, place into freezer for easy slicing.
I just sliced them up and then placed the scrolls flat on a baking tray. Cook scrolls in a hot oven for 16mins.
Delish, easy lunch.
* Apologies for the photo, it was of the leftover ones as I didn't think to photograph them until my gf asked for the recipe. Most of the others looked better.
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Pesto Pasta


One thing that's really struck a chord with me of late as far as cooking is concern, is the importance of the quality of your ingredients. I've always used the best I could afford, but I've now learnt, that not only will good ingredients end in a good result, but you can keep things fairly simple. This point is really highlighted when I make my own pesto. I love pesto - absolutely love it. Even the bought stuff is okay, but when you eat a homemade version - it's just heaven on a fork. Even my dh doesn't clamour for the 'meat' when I cook Pesto Pasta. As my beautiful greek basil bushes are doing so well, I gave them a trim, in the name of this dish.....I can't wait for the basil to grow quickly enough so I can make it again. It's so fast and easy to make and you need a food processor or bamix or something that will chop it all up nice and fine and mooshy.
Pesto
2-3 cups fresh basil, if you're using home grown stuff you can use the stalks that aren't woody
2-3 cloves of garlic
1/4 cup toasted pine nuts (extra for garnish)
1/4 cup olive oil
60g Parmesan cheese
I added a little water, you could add more oil if you wish.
Moosh it all up in the food processor. Refrigerate until use.
Cook pasta ( I prefer fettuccine for this) , drain and then toss into a large bowl with all the pesto. Stir, place in bowls add freshly ground peppercorns, more pine nuts and coarsely grated parmesan.
I guarantee you will be licking the sides of the bowl when you finish. I used the lot for two good size serves - the kids didn't have any. Maybe next time!
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Salsa Chicken and Wedges

Tami: I'm so pleased that you and your family enjoyed the hamburgers. You have inspired me to continue on with my recipe blog. I just haven't taken the time of late, and often I make things which I forget........
Salsa Chicken and Wedges
Serves 2 adults and three kids.
Two large Chicken breast fillets cut horizontally to make more
a jar of salsa
thinly sliced ham
grated cheese
Wedges
5 pontiac potatoes (smallish)
1/2 tablespoon peanut oil
medium chilli powder
coarsely ground sea salt
Chop potatoes in quarters and place in a bowl with oil, chilli powder and salt. Mix with hands to cover. Place on tray with baking paper.
Using the excess oil, add the chicken breast pieces into the bowl and cover them with the chilli mixture too.
Place on baking papered tray. Layer a thin slice or two of ham, then grated cheese and then spoon on salsa. I find the thicker salsa works best rather than the really runny one as you lose some of the water and it can make a mess if you're not careful. Use a cookie tray that has sides, so it'll catch the excess juice.

Cook the wedges in hot oven for 15 mins. Turn oven down a bit to around 180 (350) and then cook the chicken and wedges for 20 mins. So the wedges have a total time of 35 mins - we like the crunchy here.....
Serve with a green salad.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Hamburgers
1 egg
small handful of fresh parsley
a couple of tablespoons of greek basil
a tablespoon of fresh oregano
1-2 teaspoons salt
2 cloves of garlic crushed
two slices of crust, chopped into small pieces
Mix everything together, I find it easier with my hands, I can mix it up better and ensure there's no clumps of herbs or bread. Sit in the fridge for an hour or so for the flavours to meld and for the bread to soften.
Mould into patties in the palm of your hand and cook in hot pan with peanut oil. Turn when brown. In a seperate pan fry some onions and bacon.
I just put them on nice thick toast bread with lettuce, tomato, cheese, mayonaisse and
BBQ sauce (and onions and bacon).
Absolutely delicious. I don't know how people can eat that mixed up mince from the fish and chip shop which has no flavouring blech........I've made a Thai variation before, where you add
. garlic
. coriander, fresh chopped
. onion
. bread
. fish sauce
. egg
and then on the bread I put carrot which has been cut with the peeler, snow pea sprouts and sweet chilli sauce. We all love them.
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Saturday, January 03, 2009
Vegetable Fritters and Dipping Sauce

Vegetable Fritters
3/4 Cup besan flour (ground chickpeas)
3/4 cup self raising flour
2 cloves garlic crushed
1 1/2 teaspoons garam masala
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon fresh coriander chopped
1 cup water
1 medium potato chopped finely
1 small eggplant chopped finely. I used two finger eggplants
1 medium zucchini chopped finely
250g cauliflower. I used broccoli because the caulis are really expensive at the moment, but they would definitely have tasted better than the broccoli
Oil for deep frying. I prefer peanut oil
Sift flours into a large bowl, stir in garlic, garam masala, chilli powder, seeds and coriander. Make well in centre, stir in water mix to batter, mix in vegies.
Deep fry heaped tablespoons of vege mixture. I like to deep fry this kind of thing quite slowly. It still needs to sizzle of course, but if you cook it a little more slowly, then all the vegies are cooked through. Turn when golden and finish cooking, the second side usually takes less time. I take them out and drain on paper towel in a baking dish and keep in in the oven, while I cook the other batches.
Yoghurt Dip
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 cup plain yoghurt (I prefer vaalia, because it’s more creamy and tastes better)
1 small fresh red chilli chopped (we like it hot so I left the seeds in, for the kids I would take most of them out)
2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint
1 tablespoon chopped coriander
Fry the cumin seeds dry in a pan, just until they are fragrant. Let them cool and then add to yoghurt, along with the other ingredients. This takes best made ahead, as the seeds soften.
This made quite a few fritters and we had lots left over as we used it for an entree. They werent as nice the second day, so if you don’t want about 25 or so fritters, you may need to halve the mixture. The recipe says it makes about 45 but they must cook for pygmies lol.......
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Rack of Lamb on Sweet Potato Rosti
Ingredients (serves 6)
- 40ml (2 tbs) fish sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 60ml (1/4 cup) sweet chilli sauce
- 3 tbs chopped fresh mint
- 6 Frenched racks lamb,
- 4 cutlets on each
- 20ml (1 tbs) peanut oil
Chilli-mint sauce
- 2 tbs grated palm sugar*
- 40ml (2 tbs) peanut oil
- 60ml (1/4 cup) seasoned rice vinegar
- 1 lime, juiced, zested
- 20ml (1 tbs) fish sauce
- 2 small red chillies, seeded, thinly sliced
- 2 shallots (spring onions), sliced on the diagonal
- 2 cups fresh mint, roughly chopped
Method
- Combine the fish sauce, garlic, chilli sauce and mint and rub over lamb. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Heat oil over medium-high heat, then cook lamb racks for 1-2 minutes each side. Transfer to a baking tray and roast for 6-8 minutes until cooked through. Allow to rest for 5 minutes. (This will be rare. Cook a little longer if you prefer it well done.)
- To make the chilli-mint sauce, combine all ingredients and serve immediately over the lamb rack with a sweet potato rosti
Recipe from taste.com.au Photo is my own (the vanilla essence wasn't for this dish, but was used with sugar when I whipped the cream for the caramel tart we had for dessert).
I halved the recipe as there was only two of us. To make the sweet potato rosti, grate the sweet potato, (about half a big one), add garlic, chopped onion, an egg, salt and pepper, and some flour. Spoon dollops into shallow frypan with peanut or canola oil. Flatten out and turn over when the edges brown. There are a few recipes on the net for this, but as I have made German Kartoffel Puffer before, I just switched the potatoes and made the rest the same. They were delicious, and a necessary addition to this dish. We had the lamg quite rare, and cooked it for double what the recipe said, so increase the time if you like your meat more cooked.Posted by Jenny Schimak at 10:10 PM 1 comments
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Eye Fillet with Char grilled vegies with avocado oil and balsamic vinegar
This was our anniversary dinner. Honestly I couldn't have asked for better in a restaurant.
I didn't have a recipe - just an idea.
I cooked the most tender eye fillet steaks. They were about 2" high and pink in the middle, just perfect, Peter's was a little more rare. The vegies were char grilled, potato, sweet potato, onion, garlic, red capsicum and organic asparagus. These were cooked with olive spray oil and then I added a dash of avocado oil at the end. The potatoes were pre cooked in the microwave, so didn't take long, I just basically wanted the 'lines' on them. Instead of piling the vegies on the plate and then the meat beside, I 'built' it up and put the steak on top with a couple of tender asparagus spears. I dribbled a little avo oil and expensive balsamic vinegar around the edge of the plate. The result was absolutely fantastic.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Thai Beef Salad
This was probably the best one I have ever made. Absolutely scrumptious.
Ingredients
Aged rump steak cooked medium.
Salad consists of
Baby spinach leaves
baby rocket leaves
spring onions
lebanese cucumber
red capscicum
cherry tomatoes
Dressing
Tiniest amount of sesame oil
two cloves crushed garlic
tablespoon corinader (from tube)
tablespoon sweet chilli sauce
tablespoon soy sauce
2 chopped green chillies
fish sauce
I would adjust the above once it's made and tasted. You may need to add white wine vinegar. As I never measure these things I have given a starting point and then the rest is up to you. Fresh coriander was not nice, so I couldnt' add any, but normally I would have it chopped and placed on top to serve. It's a delicious and filling and extremely low fat dinner, fit to be served in a good Thai restaurant if I do say so myself.
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Saturday, September 01, 2007
Carrot Cake
I made this today to take to Peter's parents' house tomorrow for Fathers' Day.
Ingredients (serves 12)
- Olive oil, to grease
- 2 (about 300g) carrots
- 1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
- 1/2 cup (75g) plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup (80g) brown sugar
- 3/4 cup (185ml) oil
- 1/2 cup (125ml) golden syrup
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Icing
- 250g spreadable cream cheese
- 1/2 cup (80g) icing sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
Method
- Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease a 20cm (base) round cake pan lightly with oil, and line with non-stick baking paper. Peel and grate the carrots, and set aside. Sift the flours, bicarbonate of soda and cinnamon into a large bowl.
- Put the brown sugar, oil, golden syrup, eggs and vanilla in a separate bowl. Use a balloon whisk to mix until combined.
- Pour the oil mixture into the dry ingredients. Use a wooden spoon to stir gently until just combined. Stir in the grated carrot.
- Pour the mixture into the pan and bake for 1 hour. Set aside for 5 minutes, before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the icing, place the cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla in a bowl. Use a wooden spoon to mix until well combined.
- Spread the icing over the cake.
Source
Fresh Living - August 2004 , Page 53
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Cooking today
I am in birthday mode again. It's July and birthdays are abound. Mickey's was on the 5th, Billy-Joe's is on the 27th, and the Bunny's is on 7th August.........so I get to enjoy making lots of decadent stuff, and what's better I get to do it all in my brand, spanking, new, divine, awesome kitchen........... I love spending time in it.
Photography by Luke Burgess
Melt-and-mix chocolate chunk mud cake
- 200g butter, chopped
- 300g good-quality dark chocolate
- 1/4 cup hot water
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup self-raising flour
- pure icing sugar, to serve
Method
- Preheat oven to 160°C. Grease a 6cm deep, 20cm (base) round cake pan. Line with baking paper.
- Place butter, 200g chopped chocolate and hot water in a heatproof, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on HIGH (100%) for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring every minute with a metal spoon, or until smooth. Add cocoa to warm chocolate mixture. Stir until smooth. Stir in vanilla, caster sugar and egg. Sift flour over chocolate mixture. Stir gently to combine.
- Pour half the batter into cake pan. Chop remaining chocolate and sprinkle half over batter. Top with remaining batter and chopped chocolate. Bake cake for 55 to 60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre has moist crumbs clinging.
- Allow cake to cool completely in pan. Remove and dust with icing sugar. Serve.
Notes & tips
Variation: You could ice the cake with rich chocolate icing or spread with ganache (see related recipe), if you prefer.
Note: This cake keeps well for up to 1 week stored in an airtight container lined with baking paper.
I make a ganache to put on top. Just melt chocolate and mix cream in it. You need a fair bit of chocolate.........it goes hard, but not too hard and it's yummy.
Source
Super Food Ideas - December 2005 , Page 115
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Monday, July 09, 2007
Have been cooking up a storm
I have been cooking quite a bit in the last couple of weeks, since the completion of my kitchen. But I have been slack with photos. I baked some Chocolate profiteroles (out of the packet) while the kitchen was being done, I have a post on my other blog.
I have this favourite meal from the local Thai restaurant. It's a Yellow Chicken Curry and it's delicious and different from any other curry I have ever had. It's quite sweet and the sweet potatoes in it, add a really yummy wholesomeness to it.
I made the curry paste with a mortar and pestle and cooked the curry in the crock pot. I always brown the chicken and the onions first. To me that is the secret of the crock pot. My brand new crock pot was destined for Ebay until I worked this one out. I can't stand food that has been stewed without that caramelisation happening first. Whatever I make in the crock pot, even soup, I always make sure the meat or the onions are browned off first. I always deglaze the pan too, so that all that brown flavour isn't wasted.
I took a base recipe I found on the internet and then changed it as the flavour wasn't what I was trying to emulate.
Thai Yellow Curry Paste
INGREDIENTS:
- 1-2 yellow chillies, depending on desired spice level (if unavailable, substitue 1-2 red or green chillies- I desseded these as my kids were eating the dish too, for us I would leave them in)
- 1 brown onion
- 1 generous slice ginger
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp. ground coriander (grind seeds yourself with a coffee grinder or pestle & mortar)
- 1 tsp. mustard seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon cinammon
- 3 Tbsp. fish sauce
- 2 teaspoons tumeric
- 2 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 2 kaffir lime leaves
- 1 Tbsp. lime juice (or the juice from 1/2 a lime)
- Tin Coconut Cream
Delicious.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
One of my favourite meals
Yesterday we had what is probably one of my most favourite meals.
Roast pork, with crackle
Apple Sauce
Potatoe Dumplings
Sauerkraut
Gravy...........
Just heaven.
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Saturday, March 03, 2007
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
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125g Butter
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup castor sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
1 1/2 cups self raising flour
1/3 cup cocoa
3/4 cup Dark Chocolate chips
1. Preheat Oven 160 degrees celcius
2. Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy
3. Mix in vanilla essence and egg
4. Stir in flour and cocoa
5. Add chips
6. Place teaspoon fulls on cookie trays, cook for 15 mins.
Eat and Enjoy
This recipe is from the dark chocolate chips packet. There are other recipes like this which can be found on
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Monday, January 08, 2007
Coconut Prawns
These are just divine, and oh so naughty. They are very rich too, you don't need very many. The salad which accompanied this meal was an avocadoe and artichoke one. This added to the richness of the meal, next time I made it, I just made a simpler salad.
Simply crumb the prawns in coconut rather than in breadcrumbs. I used both dessicated coconut and the 'long' coconut. The name of it escapes me........... Absolutely delicious.
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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.
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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!
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