White Chocolate Mousse

Be prepared for lots of whipping...This is good for when you have had a really bad day, you get to whip something and eat chocolate... hehehe...

Ingredients:

350 ml Cream
150 gm White Chocolate
4 Egg Whites
2 Tbs of Sugar



Heat the cream over medium heat just until it boils.
Take cream off the heat.
Add chocolate in a medium bowl.
Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and whip until melted and smooth and cool down completely in the refrigerator

When it has cooled, whip it into fluffy, soft peaks. Return to the refrigerator.

Then whip the egg whites until soft peaks form, then add  2 Tablespoons of sugar and continue whipping until glossy and stiff.

Lastly, you need to combine the two by folding the egg whites into the white chocolate mixture, and then spoon the mixture into glasses, I have used the Martini Glasses again as it looks so nice, I grated some white chocolate over the top aswell

Sticky Ginger Pork Fillet

Ingredients

400gms Pork Fillet

Marinade - Sauce Ingredients

50mls of Soy Sauce
3 Tbs of sugar
2 big cloves of garlic - finely chopped
1 Tbs of grated ginger
Splash of olive oil
Pepper to taste

Marinade fillet for a hour or so in the sauce.
Sear the fillet in a frying pan, do not over cook it.

Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius
Add seared fillet to baking dish and add marinade onto fillet and baste.
Turn meat and baste again after 10 minutes.
Cook for a total of 20 minutes.

Cut into medallions and  put some of the ginger and soy sauce over.

Served with mixed vegetables, I made these Veggies with a little lemon grass oil and added some roasted sesame seeds.

Simple and delicious.

Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni

I have decided to join the wonderful world of Meat-Free-Mondays... http://www.supportmfm.co.za
and so here is my recipe for this week...

Ingredients

Half a box of dried cannelloni
500 mls of Bechemel (White Sauce)
150 gms of Cypriot dried Ricotta Cheese - You can use normal if you want
500 gms of Spinach
100 gms of Parmesan Cheese
100 gms of Mozzarella Cheese
Pepper to taste

Wash and cook the spinach, once cooked wait for it to cool down.
Once cooled, squeeze all the water out of the spinach and chop into very small bits.

Add Spinach into a bowl and add about 100 mls of the Bechemel Sauce, crumble the Ricotta Cheese into the spinach mixture, and season with pepper.

Now you can start adding the mixture into the Cannelloni.

Put a layer of the Bechemel sauce at the bottom of the baking dish and add the stuffed cannelloni on top, then you can pour the remaining sauce onto the cannelloni.

Sprinkle the top with the Parmesan Cheese and the Mozzarella Cheese.

Bake dish at 200 degrees celcuis for 15 Minutes.

Prawn and Avo Ritz

I don't like the traditional seafood cocktail sauce (basically Mayo and Tomato sauce mixed)
So I tried something different and it was light and so tasty, with a little bite.

Also I used prawns - not shrimps

Ingredients

400gms of Prawns
2 Avo's

Sauce

2 Table Spoons of Salad Cream
1 Table Spoon of Sweet Chilly Sauce
Couple of drops of Tabasco Sauce (or according to taste)

Mix the above ingredients together.

Steam prawns until pink and firm, and Cool off.
Add cooled prawns to the sauce, and mix.

Cut Avo's in half and disgard the pip.

You can now spoon the prawn mixture into the avo.

Eat and enjoy...

Fun With Cupcakes

Crazy Cupcakes and Tea Pots

I was just playing around with decorating cupcakes, may have gone a bit over board with it, but its just for fun!!! Oh, did I mention that they were yummo!!

Loopy Lemon Meringues

Loopy Lemon Meringue

These are like inside out lemon meringues... fun to make and yummy to eat.

Ingredients

Meringue Nests

3 Egg whites

130 gms of Castor Sugar

1 tsp of lemon Juice

Preheat oven to 100 degrees celcius

Beat eggs and lemon until peaks form

add sugar in slowly and mix again until shiny

add mixture into a piping bag and shape into small nests anout 5 cms wide

Bake for 90 minutes

The Lemon Filling

125 ml Lemon Curd

125 ml Condensed Milk

Drop of lemon juice

Mini Tennis Biscuits

Add the lemon curd and condensed milk together and add lemon juice to taste.

Add lemon filling into the piping bag and pipe into meringue nests.

Add mini biscuits on top for some decoration

Love Choc Chip Cookies

Love Choc Chip Cookies

This is my first attempt at baking cookies and was quite happy with the result.
These were very easy to make, and economical, considering the amount that it makes, My batch made 36 Love Choc Chip Cookies...

Ingredients

125g of Soft Butter
100g of brown sugar
2 tbs of golden syrup
2 drops of vanilla essence
160g of self raising flour
150g of chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius

Beat butter and sugar together until creamy

Add syrup and vanilla essence into butter mixture and mix

Finally add in the flour and chocolate chips and give a final mix

Cover baking tray with wax paper

Add cookie dough to tray (I used a heart show cookie cutter)

Bake to 12 - 15 minutes until golden brown

Allow to cool before attempting to remove them.

Enjoy them with yummy hot chocolate...mmmmm