"Fun and Easy" Food - and great cooking "tips" :-)

......  as promised last week -   (Abby/Rads)

3 INGREDIENT FRUIT CAKE 

1 kg. pkt Mixed Fruit

2 x  cups (500 ml) fruit juice (or cold organic tea of choice)

2 x cups (350g) organic S.R. Flour  (can use ordinary S.R Flour)

Method:

Soak fruit in juice or tea overnight.  Preheat oven to 125C.  Stir sifted flour into soaked fruit and mix well.  Spoon mixture into 22cm lined cake tin.    Bake for 2 - 2 1/2 hours in the bottom of oven (or until cooked through)  Remove and leave to cool   ... place in airtight container or wrap in alfoil.

Tip:  This cake can be frozen.

Optional:  Add a shot of your favourite tipple, sherry, brandy, rum, grand marnier.   :-)

PLEASE POST FAVOURITE RECIPES SO WE CAN ALL ENJOY!

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Country Women's Scone Mix. I always keep a packet of this in my cupboard for unexpected guests. It's made by Laucke from South Australia and you only need 230mls water to get the ball rolling. Each 500grms packet makes 10-12 scones in 18 minutes. They are soft and fluffy and goes well with Cream and Jam. You can buy it from Coles or Wollies in the cake mix section.

 

Hola, I have tried every scone recipe known to man and I still cannot make them rise.  They always come out flat.

Have given up now  LOL.

Another hint....when cooking crumbed chicken I always cook in coconut oil...gives a nice flavour to it.

Radish what do you cut them with -- I always use an open-topped cutter as cutting them with say, a glass or the like compresses them  -- and I always mix them with a knife and as least as possible

Radish, your comment about coconut oil reminded me of the Cobram infused oils. I always use the lemon one for fish and the garlic one for spaghetti bolognese.

https://cobramestate.com.au/product-category/infused/

Re scones, I just cut them with a knife for square scones. They seem to rise OK. Also I try to rub in the cold butter with fingers cooled under the tap & quickly dried. Also read somewhere, place the scones close together on the baking tray so they rise upwards, not outwards.

RnR I have never seen all those flavours -- I always buy Cobram, as it is Aussie

... I made the Lemonade Scones that they often feature here on YLC - easy and turned out yum!!!   :-)

I have always used a glass to cut my scones and have never had problems with them rising.... I also use coconut oil for some cooking, olive oil for others and as for my roast well I use the old fashioned dripping, the only way to get a roast to taste like Mum made....

 

 

Help -   :-)   Anyone ever used the McCormack Slow Cooker Recipes Base Sachets??  I bought one late last year (Country Chicken) but have just  found it has expired!?  Has an addition of "cream" at the end ......... are these nice???

Any comments please?   

I used my slow cooker every week when I first bought it like 5-6 years ago .....must confess I only used it once or twice  last winter .....plan to use it more this winter?  Food cooked in it is to "die for"    :-)    (well almost....) 

I have tried the lemonade scones they did not rise much at all...about half an inch.  I have used an open cutter, I mix it very gently and used a knife.   Had the oven as hot as possible.  Put them close together...you name it I have done it.      I am just not a scone maker!  LOL

 

No Foxy have not used those McCormack bases at all...sorry cannot help.

 

My lemonade scones turned out ok - nothing to rave about though!

FOXY,   i have some of the recipe bases here but havent used them as yet,   my daughter uses them,    so does my son,   so must be ok as they keep getting them,     i am using my slow cooker tomorrow for silverside,     cooks it great,  

 

Cats - Saw this on t.v. the other day = Roasted Vegetable Soup.

Cut up any veges you have in the fridge, about the same size. Put into a large bowl and sprinkle with olive oil. Spread out on a tray with baking paper and bake for about 20 minutes in a hot oven. Have a large pot boiling on the stove of vegetable stock and add the roasted veges, cook for a further 15 minutes then switch off. Stir and then use your blender stick leaving some veges lumpy. When serving in soup bowls add a little Greek Yoghurt. It's delicious and its fat free. I made enough to store in the fridge for another 4 meals. 

Amazing "no fail"  5  cup  "super cake"  -  coming soon!    :-)    

Pizza Margherita 

 

1. Pick up iphone

2. Log in to Zomato.com

3. Lookup pizza restaurants 

4. Place order

5. In half an hour receive delivery and enjoy 

Love that Raphael -- love a good Pizza -- we only have Dominos here and they are NOT the best

 

By the way what happened to my croc recipe, am guessing no one liked it. Hokay here's a 2 ingredient cake.

1 packet cake mix

1 can lemonade

Mix and bake, easy!

Image result for living on a dime two ingredient cake

WHY THE LEMONADE REAGAN,     DOES IT MAKE IT LIGHTER,  /

 

Did you make my cake Cats?? The lemonade makes it light and airy.

Two ingredient bread - fantastic.

1 cup plain yoghurt, 1 & 1/2 cups self raising flour (can be gluten free)

mix to dough. Cook any shape you want.

Two ingredient brekky biscuits.

Large very ripe banana, cup of rolled oats (quick ones good).

Flatten to biscuits (I use air fryer) and cook

Bit of butter and marmalade on, lovely still warm. .

Phyl my Friend where have you been -- I have been asking people about you

G'day Jane (P.B.).

We have two new cats 18 months old lol

Plus - new Toy Poodle just 5 months old now, and we have had her 5 weeks. Jimminie crickets forgot what a new baby was, and is 24/7.

LOVE Love love them all to bits. Thank goodness just the same age as you, so many good years left to rear them :).

Hugs.

Lovely to see you back Phyl, hope those fur babies are behaving...

Lucky fur baies Phyl,  love to have one myself but afraid it would out live me and it would not be fair to the little pet

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