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Top 120 Recipes for 2013
Our house has a LOT of cookbooks, no even more than a lot, nearly hundreds! We use them a lot but I’m finding increasingly that we are turning to the iPad for quick how-tos. At any one time though, I have a huge list of recipes I’d like to make out of the books – well, this will be the year that the list gets some attention. I’ve tried to reduce it too ‘just’ a 100 but there’s just so much I want to get through. Since giving up the cake business last summer, we have really worked hard to eat well and cook from scratch – I have to be honest that we were a jar family eating a lot of convenience food when we were constantly surrounded by food. We concentrated on the basics first conquering risottos, yorkshire puddings, homemade pizza dough, palovas, lasagne sauces, shepherds pies and basic pasta dishes during the last year so we are ready to move onto to some more challenging dishes. I’m not promising to get through the whole list in a year (nearly 2.5 new dishes a week might be a step too far for the kids and the budget) but more »
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Double Chocolate and Marshmallow Ice-Cream
The ice-cream machine is well and truly one of the family now. Millie had a friend home from school yesterday and promised her we would make ice-cream for after tea. Who am I to argue? After the success of the first recipe (Raspberry) I was keen to try making chocolate (Violet was also very keen!) The last recipe was super quick by using ready made custard but I wanted to try making proper custard myself so I could tweak the recipe and add various flavours at a later date. Here’s what I came up with: Ingredients: 1/2 pint milk 4 egg yolks 3oz caster sugar 1 x 284ml double cream 1 tsp vanilla extract 3oz melted chocolate plus another 2oz chocolate chips good handful tiny marshmallows How to make the ice-cream: Warm the milk in a pan until just boiling. Allow to cool slightly then add the eggs and sugar. Warm slowly but do not allow to boil or the eggs will curdle. Add the melted chocolate. Allow to cool again and then add the cream and vanilla. When completely cold, add to the ice-cream machine. When the ice-cream has thickened add the chocolate chips and the marshmallows. We served more »
We have an Ice-Cream Maker and I’m not afraid to use it!
Yes, I know that sounds really like I’m showing off … and I suppose I am. Our house has been so incredibly excited since the Ice-Cream Maker came to live with us.(CuisinArt Ice-Cream Duo in case you are wildly interested) I’d done lots of research before making my purchase (on offer at Amazon as it happened!) – For research, read: Tweeted a LOT about it – you’d be amazed how many people have coveted an ice-cream maker. I knew that I had to freeze the bowl for 24 hours before using so knew that: a) one with two bowls would come in very handy – one for the freezer and one to use NOW! b) we wouldn’t be able to use as soon as the machine arrived so I had to prepare the girls. So, the machine arrived. We read instructions (Ahem! We may have flicked through the booklet) I bought two recipe books (any excuse for new cookbooks) Wednesday arrived and I thought, ‘Ice-cream Day” … and got stuck. My recipe called for 2 eggs at least in each variety but did not allow for them being cooked. I’m an old-fashioned Mum, I don’t allow my girls to eat more »
