Category: Food Hints

Chocolate self saucing pudding

I was lazy and I was busy many years ago.  I started buying the packet pudding mixes, but decided after a while they were too expensive for the small pudding you actually made from those packets.  I wanted a pudding for dessert one night.  I didn’t have a packet pudding mix but I did have …

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Frozen lunches

Now that my freezer is much emptier after the Christmas feasting I can catch up with what I need.  Today when I went shopping I bought 6 fresh bread rolls and some sliced deli meats. I made up the rolls with meat as per the usual meat roll, popped back in the rolls bag, dated, …

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Muffins

I love a recipe that you can get more than one variety out of, like cakes, muffins and biscuits. By more than one I mean make one big mix, and what I call divide and conquer.  Today it was basic muffins.  I mixed one basic batch up that  makes 24 muffins and I managed to …

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Brussel sprouts

An easy way to sneak brussel sprouts into a dinner is to add them to your coleslaw.  Slice thinly like your cabbage and that’s what sprouts look like, cabbage. Before dressing is added make sure it’s mixed and tossed evenly.  3 or 4 is a good starter but it depends on how much cabbage you’re …

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My pie maker

Being a Friday I generally scrounge around in the freezer to see what tidbits of frozen cooked meats I can find, this can be savoury mince, spaghetti bolognaise sauce to any cooked veg I’ve thrown in there, it happens, I won’t waste it. Meat pies can be made out of not much meat (about a …

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