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Honey Walnut Pumpkin Bread
By maredan
Serve this honey-sweetened bread, made with whole wheat pastry flour and oat bran, for breakfast or as a dessert or...
- Canola oil cooking spray
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/4 cup oat bran or wheat germ
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons cane sugar
- 1/3 cup canola or sunflower oil
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 1/4 cups fresh or canned pumpkin puree
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Plum Tart
By maredan
Directions Pastry 1. Put the flour, salt, and sugar in a large bowl
- Pastry
- 2-1/4 * 2-1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 * 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 * 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 * 1 cup butter, cut into pieces
- 1/3 * 1/3 cup ice-cold water
- 1 * 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Filling
- 3 * 3 pounds plums, rinsed and dried
- 1/4 * 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 * 1 egg white, lightly beaten
Country Apple and Berry Pie
By maredan
Directions Filling 1. In a bowl, combine the sugar and tapioca
- Filling
- 1 * 1 cup sugar
- 2 * 2 tablespoons instant tapioca
- 4 * 4 cups mixed berries (cut large strawberries into quarters)
- 2 * 2 Royal Gala apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
- 1 * 1 tablespoon cornmeal
- * Vanilla ice cream
- 1 * 1 drizzle Strawberry¬–berry liqueur, such as Bagosse from the Magdalen Islands (optional)
- Pastry
- 3 * 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 * 1 pinch of salt
- 2 * 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3/4 * 3/4 cup chilled unsalted butter, cut into cubes
- 2 * 2 eggs
- 1/4 * 1/4 cup ice water
Plum and Almond Crumble Cake
By maredan
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line the base and side of a 20cm round cake pan
- 125 g butter
- 1 cup (200g) brown sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup (75g) plain flour
- ¼ cup (40g) self-raising flour
- ½ cup (55g) almond meal
- 1/3 cup (85g) sour cream
- 6 firm ripe amber jewel plums, stoned,cut into wedges
- 1/3 cup (50g) plain flour, extra
- 2 tbs brown sugar, extra
- 40 g butter, chopped, extra
- 1/3 cup (35g) flaked almonds
- Crème fraîche, to serve
Summer Berry Pudding
By maredan
Directions Summer Berry Pudding 1
- Summer Berry Pudding
- 1 * 1 loaf homemade-style, sliced white bread, crusts removed
- 6 * 6 cups assorted summer fruit
- * blueberries
- * strawberries
- * raspberries
- * blackberries, All rinsed well and drained
- * fresh or frozen cranberries, thawed
- 1 * 1 cup sugar(use the higher amount if using cranberries or red or black currents)
- Garnish
- 1 * 1 pint sour cream
- 2 * 2 tablespoons brown sugar
Rotisserie Chicken
By maredan
Directions Rotisserie Chicken 1
- Rotisserie Chicken
- 1 * 1 4-6 lb free-range chicken
- 1 * 1 tablespoon celery salt
- 1 * 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 * 1 teaspoon black pepper
- Red Lentil Dal
- 2 * 2 tablespoons vegetable oil or ghee
- 2 * 2 cups diced onion
- 3 * 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 * 1 cup red lentils, rinsed
- 3 * 3 cups water
- 1 * 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 * 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/4 * 1/4 cup chopped coriander
- * salt and pepper
- Tonnato Sauce
- 2 * 2 cans (80 g) tuna in oil
- 3 * 3 tablespoons minced sweet onion
- 2 * 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 4 * 4 tablespoons capers
- 1 * 1 tablespoon juice from caper jar
- 2 * 2 teaspoons anchovy paste
- 4 * 4 tablespoons olive oil
- * salt and pepper
- 1 * 1 head radicchio
- Easy Pepper Sauce
- 1 * 1 jar 375 mL jar roasted peppers, drained
- 1 * 1 clove garlic, minced
- * olive oil
- * salt and pepper
- Lemmon Hummus
- 1 * 1 can 14-oz tin chick peas, drained and rinsed
- 1 * 1 clove garlic, minced
- 3 * 3 tablespoons tahini sesame paste
- 2 * 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 * 2 tablespoons olive oil
- * cold water, as needed
- * salt and pepper
- 3 * 3 tablespoons chopped flat leaf parsley, plus extra for garnish
- 6 * 6 small pita, cut into thirds
Butterscotch Pecan Cake
By maredan
Directions Make the cakes: Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
- Cakes:
- Vegetable oil cooking spray, for pans
- 3 3/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon(s) baking soda
- 2 1/2 teaspoon(s) coarse salt
- 10 ounce(s) (2 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 1/2 cup(s) packed dark-brown sugar
- 4 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon(s) pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon(s) pure vanilla extract, combined with above
- 1 1/4 teaspoon(s) rum, preferably golden or dark
- 1 1/4 cup(s) buttermilk, room temperature
- Frosting:
- 12 ounce(s) (3 sticks) unsalted butter, 1 stick left whole, 2 sticks cut into small pieces, softened
- 2 cup(s) packed dark-brown sugar
- 1 cup(s) heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) coarse salt
- 20 ounce(s) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup(s) confectioners' sugar, sifted
- Butterscotch Sauce:
- 2/3 cup(s) packed dark-brown sugar
- 3 ounce(s) (6 tablespoons) butter, cut into pieces
- 1/2 cup(s) light corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) coarse salt
- 1/2 cup(s) heavy cream
- 2 cup(s) pecan halves, toasted and chopped, plus more halves for garnish
Accordion Potatoes
By maredan
Directions 1. Heat the oven to 375°F190°C
- 10 * About 10 medium potatoes, such as Yukon gold, scrubbed clean
- * Bay leaves and thyme sprigs
- * Salt and pepper
- 2 * 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 * 2 tablespoons butter
Spring Vegetable Ragout
By maredan
1. Fill a bowl with water, squeeze in the juice from the lemon, and drop in the peel
- 1 * 1 lemon
- 1 * 1 pound baby artichokes or two globe artichokes
- 1 * 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 * 2 slices thick bacon, cut into "lardons"
- 1/2 * 1/2 cup carrots, halved lengthwise
- 4 * 4 spring onions, sliced with some of the green
- * salt and pepper to season
- 1/4 * 1/4 cup chicken stock, a splash more if needed
- 1 * 1 cup shelled fava beans or peas
- 1/4 * 1/4 cup creme fraiche
- * A handful of chopped fresh coriander or tarragon
- * Lemon juice to taste
Chocolate Russian Mojito
By maredan
1. In a pint glass or cocktail shaker, muddle the lime pieces with the Simple Syrup and 3 of the mint sprigs, ...
- 1 . 1/4 lime, cut into 2 pieces
- 2 . 1 1/2 ounces Simple Syrup
- 3 . 4 mint sprigs
- 4 . Ice
- 5 . 2 1/2 to 3 ounces chocolate vodka
- 6 . 1/2 ounce dark rum, preferably Gosling’s