The best part of the beginning of every year is how much chocolate I get to eat 😛 First its Valentine’s Day, then my birthday and then EASTER! And, who doesn’t love Easter chocolate! Speckled eggs, marshmallow eggs, chocolate bunnies. These days the sales for Easter chocolate seem to start earlier & earlier, which is great for a chocoholic like me 😛 This is a great recipe to use up any “left-over” chocolate eggs (haha, yeah I know right? left-over?). Ingredients: 1 King Size block Whittaker’s White Chocolate half cup of speckled eggs half cup of M&M speckled eggs rainbow sprinkles Method: Pop 3/4 of the block of…
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Day 11 : Prawn Cucumber Cups
After chocolate, seafood (prawns or shrimps usually) has to be one of my favourite food groups 😛 The spicier the better, hence the hot paprika. Hot paprika isn’t always easy to get in New Zealand – I’ve never seen it in any mainstream food store as yet. The box I bought, I found whilst shopping in my local Mad Butcher store, but I think any Mexican food store should be able to help you out with this. If you can’t find the hot paprika, but like the spicy taste, you could probably try a bit of sriracha sauce or even cayenne pepper. Ingredients: Precooked prawn cutlets Oil for cooking…
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Day 7 : Asparagus Toast
This canapé was enjoyed by almost everyone that I tried it on. I guess its a twist on the asparagus rolls that were once a familiar sight at any get together in NZ 🙂 I learnt 2 things whilst coming up with this canapé – 1. I don’t know how to cook asparagus & 2. Whilst I’m not a big fan of asparagus (probably because I’ve always only had tinned asparagus), master 4 loved it! Ingredients: Sliced Toast Bread Heinz Seriously Good Aioli Watties Tinned Asparagus Method: Toast the bread. I did mine in a standard pop-up toaster, but you could toast it on a baking tray in…
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Day 4: English Muffin Chicken Pizza
Do you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man, Do you know the muffin man, Who lives in Drury Lane? The good ol’ english muffin. So versatile it can be sweet or savoury. It’s used as a base for one of the best brunch dishes (Eggs Benedict), can be eaten with lots of strawberry jam or great even with just butter YUMMY. It is most used around here, as a quick easy pizza base – great when hubby forgets to take out the meat for dinner from the freezer Swear it wasn’t me 😛 Ingredients: English Muffins Watties Pizza Sauce Crushed Pineapple – canned Tegel…
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Pistachio & Rose Shortbread
I love a good crisp melt in the mouth shortbread, enjoy pistachio nuts & rose would be one of my favourite scents – This recipe brings it all together. Ingredients: 3/4 cup of Chelsea icing sugar 250g butter 1/4 cup raw pistachio 1/4 teaspoon rose essence 1 1/2 cups of flour 1/2 cup cornflour 1/4 cup raw pistachio 1/4 teaspoon rose essence 50g butter, softened 1 cup Chelsea icing sugar milk to thin Method: Crush the first portion of pistachio nuts into small pieces. This is best done in a ziplock bag with a rolling pin. Place the nuts into a ziplock bag. Make sure the air has…
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Diwali Recipe : Easy Poli
I absolutely love when my mum makes her traditional poli for diwali but don’t usually have the time to watch it on the stove top with 2 little monkeys running about. This is a simplified version, usually ready made pastry & baked in the oven 🙂 Ingredients: 1 cup dessicated coconut 1/4 cup slivered almonds 1/2 cup raisins or sultanas 1 tablespoon icing sugar 1 tablespoon white sugar 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder 1 pack (4 sheets) pre rolled sweet shortcrust pastry – defrosted. Method: Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius. Cut or Crush the almonds into smaller pieces. Mix almonds, coconut, raisins, icing sugar, white sugar & cardamon…
