My Favourite Recipes

Apple Crisp

2005-10-10T16:06:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

8 cups peeled, cored, and chopped apples
1/2 lemon juice
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 cup flour
1 cup rolled oats
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 cloves
1/2 cup soft butter

Directions:

Place apples, lemon juice, cloves in a buttered 12x6x3-inch pan. (add 2 tablesppons sugar if necesary)
Combine brown sugar, flour, oats, cinnamon, salt, and butter.
Mix until crumbly
Sprinkle over apples. Bake at 400° for about 30-35 minutes, or until topping is nicely browned.

Bread Recipes - All Recipes

2005-09-24T22:28:00.000-07:00

Bread Recipes: The Internet's most complete selection of trusted bread recipes and advice - including bread machine, whole grain, cinnamon roll, and banana bread recipes.

The original Eleven O'Clock Rooibosch Tea.

2005-09-20T08:34:00.000-07:00

The original Eleven O'Clock Rooibosch Tea (Rooibos, Redbush). Organic, caffeine-free. Not a recipe but the best Rooibosch tea out there!

Orange Chunky Marmalade

2005-09-09T13:02:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
3 pounds Seville oranges
Juice of 2 lemons
12 cups water
14 cups sugar

Notes:

Seville oranges are only available at certain times of the year (end of january to early february)

Instructions:

Wash oranges thouroughly.
Put whole oranges into a large saucepan (or pressure cooker).
Add lemon juice and water
Cover and simmer for 2 1/2 hours or until skins are soft. If you are using a pressure cooker they should be ready in 30 mins.
Remove whole oranges with tongs and put on a plate to cool.
Cut oranges in half and scoop out the pulp with a spoon and return pulp to the saucepan. Make sure you do this over the saucepan to catch any juice.
Break up pulp in the sacuce pan with a wooden spoon and cook for an additional 30 minutes (we are making sure all the pectin is extracted here)
Strain the liquid from the pulp and discard pulp. Again be sure to press all the liquid out of the pulp to extract the pectin. Pectin will make the marmalade gel.
Boil in the saucepan until the syrup gels on a cold plate. This can take from 30min to 1hr. If you boil too long the marmalade will be very dark and sugary. If you boil for too short a time the marmalade will be runny.
Remove from the heat and cool for 7 minutes.
Stir the marmalade.
Pour into sterilized jars about 1/4 inch from the top.
Seal according to instructions with jars.

Makes about 16 cups of marmalade.

Tom yum

2005-09-07T09:12:00.000-07:00

Tom yum: (Thai ต้มยำ, also tom yam) is perhaps the most famous of all Thai dishes, a hot and sour soup flavored with fish sauce, lemongrass, kaffir lime, galangal and chillies [recipe]

Basic Pancake/Waffle Recipe

2005-09-01T08:47:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1/4 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
2 tablesppons olive oil
1 cup milk (aproximate)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla exract (optional)

Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl
Add egg, oil and milk. You may need to vary the amount of milk to get the right consistency. The batter should be the consistency of thick porridge! Too runny and the pancakes won't we fluffy.
Mix together ingredients and add vanila extract. Don't over mix.
Leave to stand for 2 or 3 minutes. The batter will thicken slightly.
Cook pancakes:
1. Heat non-stick frying pan on medium to low heat (if it's too hot the pancakes will burn, if too cold they will take ages to cook). If you don't use a non-stick frying pan you'll need to grease the pan before cooking each pancake.
2. Pour small amounts of batter (to make 3 inch diameter pancakes) into frying pan
3. when you see bubbles forming on the top (apx 2-3 minutes) flip pancake and cook other side. Cook so that pancakes are light brown on both sides

Serve with Canadian maple syrup.....!

Som tam

2005-08-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

Som tam is a spicy papaya salad originating in Laos and the Isan region of Thailand. [recipe]