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PESTO MOZZARELLA AND TOMATO STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS
By foodiva
Instructions Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- 4 chicken breasts
- 8 tablespoons pesto
- 8 tomato slices
- 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- salt and pepper
Rum Ball Recipe
By foodiva
Instructions Mix all ingredients
- 200 g (7 oz) finely ground shortbread cookies
- 200 g (7 oz) butter, melted
- 50 g (1.7 oz) cocoa
- 300 g (10 oz) powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 2 Tbsp rum
banana rum cake | DAVE BAKES
By foodiva
I decided to cut it in half and use a 8″ by 8″ square pan, instead of the 13″ by 9″ by 2″ pan
- method:
- 1 and 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 Tablespoons Rum (Original calls for 3T, but I made a rum and diet coke last weekend, oops.)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temp.
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 medium bananas, very ripe
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, optional, or to taste
- demerara sugar, optional, for topping prior to baking
- confectioners sugar sprinkled on top, optional
beet sauerkraut probiotic
By foodiva
Instructions Add all ingredients in a large bowl, and use your hands for scrunching the mixture for two or three ...
- 1/2 medium red cabbage head, finely diced
- 1 medium beet root, peeled and grated
- 2 inch ginger piece, peeled and grated
- 1 tsp sea salt
Apple fritters
By foodiva
It takes less than 15 minutes to put together and if you can get past all of the calories from “frying” these l...
- 1 heaping cup all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- dash salt
- 1 – 2 tsp. cinnamon (depending on how much you love cinnamon)
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 T. butter, melted
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup milk + plus more if needed
- 1 – 1 1/2 cups chopped apple, your favorite kind for eating, peanut sized or smaller
- oil for frying
- milk and powdered sugar glaze for dipping or just powdered sugar for dusting (About 1 cup pwd. sugar + 1 T. milk or more)
Artisan blueberry bread
By foodiva
If it were sold at a grocery store, I wouldn’t make a big deal out of it, but it was being sold at a farmers’ m...
- Artisan Blueberry Bread (makes 1) adapted from the Boule recipe in “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day”
- 3/4 cup pureed blueberries, microwaved until slightly warm
- 1/2 tablespoon dry yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1.5 cups all purpose flour
- warm water
- 1 . Put pureed blueberries in a large container.
- 2 . Add yeast and salt, and mix well.
- 3 . Add flour. Mix well with a wooden spoon. If the dough is too dry, add warm water, 1 tablespoon at a time.
- 4 . Cover with a lid (not airtight) and let it rise in a container until it’s double in size, for about two hours.
- 5 . Refrigerate overnight.
- 6 . Form a round ball. Let it rise for 40 minutes.
- 7 . Preheat oven with a pizza stone and a broiler pan inside to 450 F twenty minutes before baking.
- 8 . Slash a line in the middle of the top with a sharp knife. Put the dough on the pizza stone. Put a cup of hot water into the broiler pan.
- 9 . Bake for 30 minutes.
Sausage Gravy
By foodiva
Directions With your finger, tear small pieces of sausage and add them in a single layer to a large heavy skillet
- 1 pound breakfast sausage, hot or mild
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 to 4 cups whole milk, more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper, more to taste
- Biscuits, warmed, for serving
Banana Cream Pie
By foodiva
Preparation Melt 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate with 2 teaspoons vegetable oil and brush over a prebaked 9-inch pi...
- act until firm peaks form; spoon over pie and swirl decoratively.
thai salmon cakes with basil lime mayo
By foodiva
INSTRUCTIONSpreheat oven 375
- INGREDIENTS
- SALMON CAKES
- 14 ounces wild salmon
- salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 scallions, white and light green part only, finely chopped
- 1/4 small red bell pepper, finely chopped (about 1/4 cup)
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice (about 1 large lime)
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger
- 2 teaspoons fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon red curry paste (or to taste)
- 1 teaspoon chili garlic sauce
- 1/2 cup panko, plus more for coating cakes
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil, for frying
- AIOLI
- 1 cup mayonnaise, regular or reduced-fat
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice (about 1 large lime)
- 1 jalapeno pepper (seeded if desired), chopped
- 8-10 large leaves fresh basil
- 2 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
boozy chocolate sultana cake w chocolate ganache
By foodiva
Instructions Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (160C fan forced) Grease a 24cm bundt tin (or your chosen tin)
- 2 cups sultanas
- 2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 1/8 cup rum ( you can add more if you want it really boozy)
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 250 ml rice bran oil (or any mild flavoured oil)
- 1 cup castor sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups plain flour
- 1 cup self-raising flour
- 200 g 70% dark chocolate (I use Lindt)
- + extra for grating on top
- 200 ml coconut cream