Serves 6 Ingredients For the Pudding • 1 cup or 200g pitted dates, chopped • 1 cup boiling water • 1 tsp baking soda • 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened • 1/2 cup coconut sugar (the twist) • 2 large eggs • 1 cup all-purpose flour • 1 tsp baking powder • 1/4 tsp saltContinue reading “Sticky Toffee Pudding with a twist”
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Chocolate dipped coconut cookies
Ingredients • 1/2 cup coconut flour • 1 cup desiccated coconut • 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted • 1/3 cup honey • 1/3 cup caster sugar • 2 jumbo eggs and 2 regular eggs • 2 teaspoons almond essence • 1/2 teaspoon salt • Strawberry jam for topping • 170g dark chocolate (two 85g slabs)Continue reading “Chocolate dipped coconut cookies”
Coconut Ice cream
Ingredients • 2 cans of coconut cream (refrigerated overnight) • 1/2 cup honey (adjust to taste) • 1 tsp vanilla extract Steps 1. Place the cans of coconut cream in the refrigerator overnight. This helps separate the cream from the liquid. 2. Open the cans of coconut cream and carefully scoop out the solid creamContinue reading “Coconut Ice cream”
Orange Vanilla Sponge Cake
Ingredients Icing Steps Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and grease and/or line 2 round cake pans with parchment paper. In a large mixing bowl, add together the sifted flour, baking powder, salt, castor sugar and orange zest. Rub the sugar and orange zest together with your fingers to help release the oils. Whisk allContinue reading “Orange Vanilla Sponge Cake”
Garlic herb pull apart rolls
Ingredients Steps Add lukewarm water to a large bowl. Sprinkle over the yeast and sugar and stir with a fork. Set aside for 20 minutes until the mixture has become bubbly. Add in the sifted flour, salt, dried Italian herbs and cumin seeds. Mix together until the mixture becomes a dough then knead for aContinue reading “Garlic herb pull apart rolls”
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients Steps Sift the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside. Place the butter in the microwave for 25 seconds just until it’s semi melted. Add the sugar to the butter and whisk until light in colour. Add the egg and vanilla essence or extract and whisk until smooth. Add the dry ingredients toContinue reading “Chocolate Chip Cookies”
Chocolate strawberry cookies
Ingredients Steps Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa. Then add the oats and set aside. Add melted butter, 1tbsp oil and sugar to a bowl and whisk until well combined. Now add in the egg and vanilla essence and whisk until smooth and most of the sugar has dissolved. AddContinue reading “Chocolate strawberry cookies”
Apple, cinnamon, walnut cookies
Ingredients Steps Peel and chop your apple into small cubes. Place in a microwave safe bowl along with the honey and 1/2 tsp cinnamon. Place into a microwave for 2 minutes until apples are just soft. Strain out any liquid in the apples and set aside to cool completely. Chop the walnuts and toast themContinue reading “Apple, cinnamon, walnut cookies”
Chocolate Date Brownies
Ingredients Glaze Topping (optional) Steps: Remove the seeds from the dates, add it to a bowl along with the combined warm espresso and boiling water and let it soak for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, blend everything until smooth. Melt half the dark chocolate (40g) along with 1 tsp of olive oil in the microwaveContinue reading “Chocolate Date Brownies”
Banana Oat Pancakes with Pomegranate Syrup
Ingredients Steps In a mixing bowl or jug, combine oats, baking powder, salt, 2 tbsp icing sugar, 2 egg yolks, oil and milk. Blend together until smooth. Add in the chocolate chunks. In a separate bowl, add the 2 egg whites and whisk just until almost stiff then add the remaining 1 tbsp icing sugarContinue reading “Banana Oat Pancakes with Pomegranate Syrup”
Carrot Cake
Ingredients Steps In bowl, combine grated carrots and brown sugar. Leave to rest for 15 minutes. Heat oven to 180 degrees c, and grease your cake tin or bundt tin. In a bowl, beat eggs until pale, then gradually whisk in the white sugar, oil and vanilla. In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking soda,Continue reading “Carrot Cake”
Apple crisp for one
Ingredients Steps Peel the apples, then slice them thin, you can use a peeler to slice them. Add the honey and cinnamon to the apples. Place the apples in the microwave for 2 minutes. Let it cool slightly while making the crumble. Combine the oats, flour, sugar. Crush the almonds and add this too, alongContinue reading “Apple crisp for one”
Homemade Pasta
Ingredients Steps Sift the flour and salt then add it to a clean counter top. Form a well in the middle. Add the 4 eggs in the middle of the well, then with a fork, whisk the eggs gently and slowly, incorporating the flour a little at the time constantly, until you have formed aContinue reading “Homemade Pasta”
Beef short rib ragu pasta
Ingredients Steps Combine all the spices, salt and pepper together to make a spice blend. Sprinkle half over the beef short ribs. Add oil to a large pot, and place on a medium to high heat. Once the oil has heated, you’re going to seal the beef short rib, fry them until just golden brownContinue reading “Beef short rib ragu pasta”
Brioche Buns
Ingredients Serving: Makes 4 large buns Steps Heat the milk for 25 seconds in the microwave, then let it cool for a few seconds, add 1 tsp of the sugar, mix then add the yeast and milk mixture and set aside until frothy. In a bowl, sift the flour, add remaining 2 tsp of sugarContinue reading “Brioche Buns”
Meaty filled buns
Ingredients: Dough Heat up the milk for 30 seconds in the microwave or just until lukewarm, ensure it’s not hot. Add a tsp of sugar and the yeast. Stir together and set aside. In a bowl sift the flour, add the sugar, pinch of salt, egg and melted butter and the milk and yeast mixtureContinue reading “Meaty filled buns”
Kolaches
Ingredients: Cream cheese filling Strawberry Jam Steps: Heat up the milk for 30 seconds in the microwave or just until lukewarm, ensure it’s not hot. Add a tsp of sugar and the yeast. Stir together and set aside. In a bowl sift the flour, add the sugar, pinch of salt, egg and melted butter andContinue reading “Kolaches”
Smoked Haddock Chowder
Ingredients: Steps: Finally chop the onions and garlic and dice the potatoes into cubes. Place a pot on the stove on medium heat, add half of the chopped onions and potatoes, then add the milk and the haddock fillets. Let it simmer gently to poach the haddock. Once the haddock is poached remove it fromContinue reading “Smoked Haddock Chowder”
Orange & Almond Poppyseed Cookies
Ingredients: Passion Fruit Royal Icing: With an electric beater, whisk the egg whites until it is frothy and white, then add the icing sugar bit by bit, continuously whisking slowly. Before adding the last batch of icing sugar add the passionfruit juice, then the remainder of the icing sugar, whisking until the icing is glossyContinue reading “Orange & Almond Poppyseed Cookies”
Ostrich Wellington
Ingredients: Pancake: Steps: Place the pan on medium to high heat and add 1 tbsp olive oil. Add the finely chopped mushrooms, shallot, parsley, salt and pepper to taste. Fry until all the moisture is removed from the mushrooms and the mixture has cooked down completely. Now make your pancake combining all of the ingredientsContinue reading “Ostrich Wellington”
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