Oaty chocolate chip biscuits

 

Oaty chocolate chip biscuits

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Course Snacks & Sweets
Servings 24

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup Butter or margerine
  • 1/4 cup Brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup Caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 cup Wholemeal plain flour
  • 1/2 cup Quick oats
  • 1/2 teaspoon Bi carbonate soda
  • 1 Pinch salt
  • 1/2 to 1 cup Mixed choc chips

Instructions
 

  • Measure in a bowl the flour, quick oats, salt and bi carb soda.
  • With a mix master beat sugars and butter. Slow down mixer, adding the vanilla and egg.
  • Add the flour to the butter and sugar mix in a couple of batches until mixed in. Add in the choc chips and give a quick stir by hand.
  • Preheat oven to 160-170*C. Roll mixture into balls and place on a lined baking tray. Flatten with a wet fork. Bake for approx 12-15 mins. Place on a wire rack to cool.

Notes

Yes you can freeze the dough.
Yes you can freeze the cooked biscuits.
Yes you can use white flour or half and half flours.
Make your own quick oats by blitzing normal oats in your food processor until they are as you like.
Use any chips you like, mine were dark choc, white and some colour coated chocolate bits I found in the pantry.

Pepper grinders

It is sometimes cheaper to buy the grinder filled with peppercorns than it is just the peppercorns, you’ve got to love an ‘on special’ sign.  So I used my old pepper grinder for dried rosemary.  This worked really well as I didn’t have to get out the heavy mortar and pestle and I ground as much as I needed right over the top of the to be roasted vegetables.  Now to figure out what other herbs I can use in a pepper grinder.

Another birthday bites the dust

Today is my husbands birthday, we are sort of over the gift giving, I think it’s just because we’ve run out of ideas for each other, it’s usually something small if we do gift give.  But I decided we’d do something we don’t usually do unless we are away on holidays, go out to breakfast.  Nice little place in a smallish marina close by is where we are headed.  Out on the verandah to watch the boats come in from the local islands around on  a beautiful sunny morning on the 1st day of Autumn.  Family is here at home for dinner.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Bread or Pizza dough

I am a great believer in if you find a recipe that’s easy, that works and works well then you have to explore all options on variations to the recipe without making it complicated.  I hope I’ve not made this sound complicated because really it’s not.

Jamie Oliver has a pizza base/dough recipe.  I tried it, I liked it, it was easy and I could use my normal mix master with the dough hooks, no special machines.

This is Jamie’s dough recipe I use.  I can make my variations with this recipe because I decided I could add another 7g sachet of yeast and do a second 40 minute rise for a proper bread recipe.

I love this recipe because I can do the one rise and make pizza dough for 2-3 good sized pizzas or dough for lots of calzones.

With a second rise I make out of this recipe lots of  plain bread rolls,  OR lots of sweet rolls/buns with dried fruit and spices.

With a second rise I make scrolls, or pinwheels if you wish.  Roll the dough out to a flat rectangle with a rolling pin after first rise.  Spread or sprinkle on your filling and roll like a log.  Cut into 2-3 centimetre slices and place in a tray or tin with cut sides facing up and down. Second rise for 40 minutes.

Savoury scrolls.   Sweet chilli sauce and grated cheese.   Vegemite and grated cheese.    Pizza sauce, meat and toppings.   Feta/ricotta cheese and chopped spinach.

Sweet scrolls.  Add a tablespoon or two of sugar to the flour for dough mix (I don’t but you can).   Spread on apple and cinnamon.   Walnuts/pecans, spices and butter.   Caramel/chocolate pie filling.   Cinnamon and sultanas/currants/raisins.

I get 24 scrolls out of a mix, usually I make 12 savoury and 12 sweet out of one dough mix.

2 big log rolls (roll flat, spread with topping and log roll, bake without cutting) with above filling to bake and slice like a loaf of bread.

2 big bread loaves or 3 smaller bread loaves by adding a third yeast sachet.

2 big spice dried fruit loaves or 3 smaller spice loaves.

Free form loaves.

I made and anchovy loaf and an olive loaf for my brother in law for his birthday because they were his favourites and he didn’t have them often, he asked.

The options are endless explore them with your favourite toppings and or fillings.

 

Pizza and dough.

Explore your options on this easy pizza recipe, please see post here.Explore your options on this easy pizza recipe, please see post here.

Pizza and dough.

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Course Cakes, Slices & Breads
Servings 8 Many

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kilogram 00 Plain Flour Tipo 00
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 2 x 7 grams Dried yeast
  • 1 tablespoon Caster sugar
  • 4 tablespoons Olive oil
  • 650 millilitres Lukewarm water

Instructions
 

  • In a jug or bowl measure your lukewarm water, add sugar and yeast and set aside to froth.
  • In your mixer bowl add approx 3/4 of your flour and the salt.
  • Once your yeast has frothed add the oil, give a quick stir as you add to the bowl of flour. With your dough hooks in slowly get your mixer up to the dough setting on your speed dial. When mostly mixed add the last of the flour and mix for approx 3 to 4 minutes and well mixed.
  • Turn onto a lightly floured pastry or dough sheet, knock down (a sorta punch) and knead for a few minutes. I do this by doing the quarter turn, fold over the dough, push in with the heel of the hand 20 times. Check the flour on the board and then another 20 quarter turns. In a spray oiled bowl let the dough rise covered in a warm place for 40 minutes.
  • To make your pizza cut dough into 2 or 3 pieces, make a ball then roll as per pizza, add toppings. Bake in a 220-230*C oven for approx 10 minutes. Use a pizza stone if you have one or a baking tray if you don't, keep an eye on it. I cook mine on a pizza stone in my Webber BBQ for 7 minutes.

Notes

You can freeze the raw dough, wrap in cling film taking out all the air bubbles and put in a zip lock or freezer bag.  Defrost and use for pizza base.
For a nice light bread dough add another 7g sachet of yeast.  Rise dough in bowl 40 mins.  Punch down and knead.  Cut dough into 2 and pop into 2 bread tins to rise for a further 40 mins.  Bake in heated oven for approx 25 mins.  Tip out and cool.
You can freeze the baked bread and other options made.
Photo is my variation on this recipe, cheese and vegemite scrolls.

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