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Showing posts with label Cooking. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 July 2011

My favourite pancakes

I love love love these pancakes!!

Ingredients:
~ 2 cups of Plain Flour
~ 4 Eggs
~ 2 cups of Milk
~ Butter for cooking
~ Butter OR lemon for spreading
~ Sugar


  • Put the flour in a bowl making a well in the center. whisk/stir in the eggs and then the milk till it makes a thin smooth batter. If you feel you need a little more milk then put a little more milk. 
  • Heat a pan on a high heat just to heat the pan up for a couple of minutes. then turn the heat down to a lower heat and put the butter in. It may take you 2 tries to find the right heat for your pancakes to cook nicely without getting burnt. 
  • stir the butter all around the pan till the pan is covered in butter.
  • Pour the pancake mixture into the pan to the size that you would like.
  • I use a small pan and cook one pancake at a time, so when i pour the mixture in i also tilt the pan so that the batter runs to the edges o the pan.
  • When the pancake is browned nicely underneath, flip the pancake over and brown the other side. I find that my pancakes are done nicely when they are just golden brown. No need to cook more than that. 
  • Pancakes are done. now to serve on a plate and spread on butter or lemon and sprinkle sugar and roll them up like cigars and eat like a little piggy!! YUM YUM YUMMY!!!!!! 

These are better than any pancake i could ever be given anywhere. I love how i make my pancakes with the sugar and butter and i try not to eat them all the time coz i love them a little too much. LOL! ;P
I do like other pancakes with maple syrup and ice cream, but i LOVE LOVE LOVE eating these with my kids **cough** or by myself  **cough cough** ... lol ;P

Friday, 22 July 2011

Avocado Dip

Ingredients:
~ Avocado
~ Squirt of lemon juice
~ Salt
~ 1 or 2 tbsp of Natural Yogurt (just makes it go further)
~ 1tbsp Sweet Chilly Sauce

  • Cut Avocado in half and take out the big seed in the middle.
  • Scoop out flesh and put into a bowl.
  • Mash the Avocado flesh till all smashed up.
  • Squirt a bit of lemon juice and mix.
  • Mix in the yogurt.
  • Sprinkle the little bit of salt.
  • Mix in sweet chilly sauce. 


Oh Yummy!! This one is probably my favourite!! It is my favourite "sit on the couch with some biscuits and nom nom nom" dip.

French Onion Dip

Ingredients:
~ 1 packet of French Onion Soup Mix
~ 400g tub of Sour Cream
~ and if you think that its a bit too strong of a taste you can put a spoon or 2 more of Sour Cream or Natural Plain Yogurt.


  • Mix sour cream and soup mix together till it is combined.

Yep! Thats it! Easy peasy!! And everyone loved it!!
Its a good dip to do when u want to prepare something very very quickly. And it tastes so nice. Good one to make when u just want to snack on the couch.

Baba Ghanouj (Eggplant) Dip

Ingredients:
~ 1 tsp of Paprika
~ Black Pepper
~ 1/4 tsp of Cayenne (or a tiny tip of the teaspoon of hot chilly powder)
~ Salt
~ Olive Oil
~ 1/2 cup of Lemon juice
~ 2 Eggplants
~ 3 cloves of Garlic
~ 1/4 cups of Parsley
~ 4 tbsps of Natural Plain Yogurt


  • Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees C.
  • Cut the eggplants in half and put them into a roasting dish and drizzle a little olive oil on them.
  • Roast the eggplants for 40 minutes.
  • Take them out of the oven and let them cool so that you can handle them.
  • Scoop out the flesh. (I disliked this part because it was so yucky and messy. lol). 
  • Put the flesh into a blender and add the black pepper, cayenne (or chilly powder), salt, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, parsley and yogurt.
  • Blend until smooth. Till it looks like something you could dip a biscuit into without getting lumps.  
  • Sprinkle paprika to serve.
I didnt particularly like this dip, it just wasnt my kind of flavour, but EVERYONE who tried it LOVED it!