I can usually get about a month worth of meals from the following recipe. Really you can add whatever you have available in the fridge or pantry. 3 kg beef mince 2 cups rice cooked frozen mixed vegetables 3 potatoes in very small cubes 1 sweet potato in very small cubes 2 zucchini grated cooking…
Category: Handy Hints
Pumpkins
Did you know that you can boil pumpkin, cool, mash, place in zip lock bags and freeze. Best done in meal size bags and simply take out as required.
Some Cooking Tips
All cooks have some little tricks up their sleeves. Here are a few that I have come across over the years. Add a little vinegar to the water to cut down on odours when cooking cabbage or cauliflower. To keep a punch cool, make an ice ring using some of the punch and float it…
How to successfully peel an egg.
Carefully drop an egg into a pot of boiling water instead of starting it in cold water. I prefer the Circulon Infinite Saucepan because it is quick to warm and easy to clean. (eggs directly to hot water helps them cook faster, keeps the egg whites from reaching too high a temperature) This makes it…
Home Made Cooking Spray
1 part oil + 5 parts water + 1 spray bottle. That’s all you need.
Burnt the bottom of those cookies ?
Just made a wonderful mix up and scorched the bottom of the cookies ? Easy fix, get a grater and buff the bottom scorched bit off ! Saves the cookies
Kitchen Metric Conversion – Cheat Sheet
Oven Temperatures for baking cakes
A little flour placed in the oven to brown is a good guide to temperature The correct heat to bake a cake is when the flour is slightly browned.
Home made Self Raising Flour
Have you ever got half way through a baking session and found that you had no SR Flour left. Not a problem, it is easy enough to make some for yourself. 3.6 kg Plain Flour 115 gm Cream of Tartar 55 gm BiCard of Soda Sift all together three/four times and add to the mixture…
Cake Making Hint
Cake Making HINT ! Put lemon peel and sugar through a mincer, and when making a cake, add this to the butter and sugar BEFORE creaming. This dissolves the sugar on the peel and gives the cake a great flavour.
Useful Tip
If eggs are placed in cold water 2 hours before using they will beat more easily and make lighter cakes
The Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar
List of 10 Apple Cider Vinegar Benefits 1. Keep a Healthy pH Balance in the Body for Proper Digestion Homeostasis or proper equilibrium is what the body is constantly working on to keep everything just right, ACV helps allow the body to do this. This process takes most of its energy during digestion and other…
A little useful information-Sunburn
Tomatoes are also wonderful at soothing sunburn. If your sunburn is recent and not blistering or peeling, rubbing a slice of tomato on it can lessen the redness. Studies show, eating tomatoes can increase your skin’s natural sun protection. One more reason to eat those beauties!
Albumen Water – useful in cases of vomiting- from The Star Recipe Book 1928
ALBUMEN WATER Add gradually the white of a new-laid egg to 1/2 pint of cold water that has previously been boiled, add a pinch of salt, shake well and strain through fine muslin. This is useful in cases of vomiting.
Winter is coming ! – Healthy Flu Remedy
Now is the time to make up a bottle or so of this and keep on the ready. Winter is coming !!