Saturday 19 April 2014

Chicken soup stew (eaten by Zeds and R)

Ingredients
- olive oil (1 tbsp)
- onion
- garlic
- ground cumin 
- fennel seeds
- finely chopped carrot
- chopped pepper
- diced chicken breast
- salt and pepper
- chicken stock
- peeled and diced potato

Method
1. Heat oil
2. Add finely chopped onion, fry for a few minutes til some starts to brown. Add cumin.
3. Add garlic, fennel seeds and carrot and fry for a few minutes
4. Add chicken and cook on medium I'm mostly white
5. Cover with cup of stock and added water
6. Add potatoes, bring to boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer 'til ready to serve.

Friday 24 January 2014

Chocolate brownies- good ones

This was the pan half an hour after they were cool enough to eat- the Zeds had 3 each with Z1 repeatedly proclaiming them to be delicious.

Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence 
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup cocoa
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking powder

Method
1. Preheat oven to 355F and grease pan
2. Melt butter in a medium pot
3. Remove from heat and mix in sugar, eggs and vanilla essence
4. Beat in cocoa, flour, salt and baking powder 
5. Pour into tin
6. Bake for 25 minutes. Don't over cook. Cool and cut in the pan.