Susan's Light Scones

Popping this recipe here so I don't lose it.  My good friend Susan sent two of these scones round the other week, oh my, they were the best scones I have ever had and she has kindly let me have the recipe.  I must have a go!

• 200g (8oz) Be-Ro self raising flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 50g (2oz) margarine
• 25g (1oz) sugar
• 50g (20z) currants or sultanas (I’ve also used glace cherries rather than the small fruit)
• 1 egg beaten with a little milk (when I double the recipe I use 2 eggs with a dash of milk)

• Oven temprature 220C, 425F, Gas Mark 7
• Bake for 1o minutes

1. Mix salt and flour, rub in margarine
2. Stir in sugar and fruit
3. Add egg and milk, reserving a little to brush the tops
4. Kneed slightly on a floured surface and roll out and cut out
5. Use left over bits and re roll and cut out
6. Place on a greased baking tray and brush the tops
7. Bake in a hot oven 220C, 425F, Gas Mark 7 for about 10 minutes

This is the love heart ones she made for her husband on Valentine's Day.

The Be Ro Flour Website

1 Women, 1 Kitchen, 1 Big Mess!

Well I was making cupcakes for a party, the mixture in the bowl went crazy, as you can see from the stat of my KitchenAid ... flour, icing sugar, you name it went everywhere!  I had the wash all my tiles down afterwards, it was like a bunch of kids had been cooking in my kitchen.  It was good fun though =P

Pasta Parcels

These are so easy to make with a KitchenAid.

Ingredients:

• 300g of 00 flour
• 3 eggs
• tbsp of olive oil

Bung it all into the mixer, mix with the K beater, switch to dough hook and kneed on speed 2 for 8 minutes.
Wrap in cling film and rest it in the fridge for 1 hour.
Cut into 4, roll each a little out with a rolling pin, then make pasta sheets with the KitchenAid pasta attachment.

Cut out circles with a tart cutter or an upturned glass and add some filling, I used: mince steak, mushrooms, green pepper, mustard seeds, cheese, salt and pepper.  I blended it in the mixer after it was cooked to to make it a bit more combined.

Next I folded the circle in half over the filling and sealed the edge, then putting my thumb on the fat bit I folded the two corner bits round my thumb and pinched them together.

Added some sauce and away we go, they was lovely!!!

New KITCHENAID Pasta Attachment!!!

We as you know my dog died on Valentine's Day, my husband bought me a Chamilia bead for my bracelet, the limited edition one of a heart.  He said it was from Chelsea (my dog) as she gave up her heart for me on Valentines day, it was so touching and I will treasure it.

Really unexpectedly, he had also bought me the KitchenAid pasta attachment (costing £78, I know caz I've been eyeing it up for ages).  Well I was so broken hearted over Chelsea that I've not had the passion to cook this last week and I was so looking forward to getting one, any other time I would have been jumping up and down, but I just smiled, thanked him and put it in the cupboard.  I think he understood, anyway I tried it out for the first time today.

Well it was amazing!!!  I cannot believe has fast and easy it is to make pasta.  Needless to say I will be making lots of fresh pasta from now on and it is really good for losing weight as pasta fills your belly and is not full of fat.  About 80g worth of flour makes a lot of pasta that would fill you up and there is not many calories in 80g of flour.

Jazmine's Tortilla Wraps

Well school have sent home some recipes for my daughter to be cooking, as she is being home schooled this year.  The first one she has choose to make is tortilla wraps.

Recipe to come....

Making the bread tortilla dough

Jazmine chopping the salad and filling

Dry frying the wraps to cook them

The finished product, YUMMY!

My dog Chelsea has gone to heaven

Chelsea was a dog like no other, a legend in her own right.  She has given so much to me and my family over the past 16 and a half years and she will never be forgotten.

She died on Valentine's Day in my arms as we wept and sang her songs.  My husband keep telling her Mummy and Daddy's here and we told her not to be scared.  She took her finial breath and fell asleep for ever.

My heart is breaking and I just feel like the air has been knocked out of me, I have never cried so much in my entire life, but even though it hurts so bad, it was so worth it to have all the happy memories and love that she gave us.

Banana Loaf

• 100g butter
• 140g light muscovado sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 large bananas mashed (I used 5 small ones)
• 150ml butter milk (I had none so I used ginger beer)
• 280g plain flour
• 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
• 100g of nuts and raisins (I used a nut, seed and fruit snack pack)

Cream the sugar and butter, then ad the eggs, bananas, butter milk (or beer).
Sieve in the flour, bicarb and add your nuts, seeds, dried fruit then fold in until mixed.

Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, then drizzle with icing.

Cottage Pie

This dish was amazing and it was one of them "Throw what ever is left in the cupboard together for dinner".

The mash was done in my KitchenAid and I added, boiled potatoes, milk, butter, mustard seeds and turmeric, with a bit of cheese on the top.

The filling was minced steak, carrots, onions and beef stock.