Wednesday 13 March 2013

Baked Semolina Pudding

Thanks Bill Armstrong for this recipe, it was not just a hit with me but my family loved it when they came to dinner with sultanas and sugar :)

Baked Semolia Pudding

  • 600ml, 1 pint milk
  • 1/4 semolina
  • 1/3 cup glucose (optional)
  • 15g,  or a knob of butter
  •  nutmeg or cinnamon to sprinkle (to taste)
  1. Well grease an ovenproof dish
  2. Put milk into pan and heat until lukewarm
  3. Sprinkle in the semolina
  4. Cook slowly, stirring all the time until it comes to the boil and thickens
  5. Add sugar and butter
  6. Remove from the heat and pour into the ovenproof dish
  7. Grate (or sprinkle ready ground) nutmeg over the top
  8. Put into a moderate oven (160C or Gas 3) for 30 minutes

Salt and Pepper Squid

Tried making this the other night and just kind of threw in a few spices here and there and it came out delicious, i would say better then most of the Chinese places eaten at :)

SALT AND PEPPER SPICED SQUID



  • 1 Tube of Calamari
  • Milk to tenderise
  • Rock salt (Himalayan contains the most minerals)
  • Black Peppercorns
  • Pinch Szechuan spice
  • Pinch Chinese 5 spice 
  • Pinch chilli flakes
  • cornflour
  • olive oil for deep frying


Cut tube of calamari into either rings or wide rectangles.
Place in a bowl of milk and tenderise in fridge for at least 3 hours, this will make it beautiful and tender
In a mortar and pestle combine salt, pepper and spices and grind up until ingredients are combined.
You may want to reserve some of the mix to sprinkle over at the end.
In a plastic freezer bag put cornflour in the bag and then add the spices, shake it up to mix it all together.
Discard milk from squid.
Drop a squid at a time into the bag, shake until coated with cornflour and spice mix.
Deep fry in batches until golden brown.
Serve with lemon




HFI Marinated chicken wings

HFI Marinated chicken wings

1/2 kg Chicken windings
Mix in a bowl:-
Soy sauce
Olive oil
Chilli flakes (to taste)
1/4tsp garlic
1/4tsp ginger

Pour mixture over chicken, put in fridge to marinate for at least a few hours.
Cook in frypan

Enjoy :)

Chicken and bacon casserole

Great sunday night dinner, very quick and full of flavour 


  • 500g diced chicken
  • 4 rashers bacon
  • Sliced Mushrooms
  • 1 Packet French onion soup (the recipe says the whole packet but i use a quarter so reduce the water a little bit)
  • 1 1/2cups water or chicken stock
  • 2 tbls cornflour
  • Sour cream to serve
  • parsley for garnish
Brown chicken and bacon, season with salt and pepper
Add mushrooms, french onion and water, sprinkle cornflour slowly while mixing through
Simmer gently. Take off heat and stir in sour cream
Garnish with parsley

Cheesy Muffins

A nice and easy but yummy snack

Cheesy Muffins


1 Egg
2 Cups grated cheese
1 cup self raising flour
1/2 cup milk
4 rasher bacon
1 tspn baking powder
pinch of salt
onion (optional pending on tolerance)

  • Whisk egg and milk together
  • Stir in cheese, bacon, onion & dry ingredients. Mix well
  • Spoon into small greased muffins tins. Bake at 190deg for 10-15mins
  • leave in tin to cool for 10mins

Best ever hotcakes recipe

Well over the time i tried a few different recipe's but after finding this one i will never try anything else

Hotcakes

(obviously we don't have maple syrup but you can always get creative with the topping, my choice is vegemite or homemade lemon butter)

1 1/2 cups milk
2 teaspoon lemon juice
1 1/2 cup self raising flour
1/4 tspn bicarb soda
1 large egg
1 1/2 tablespoon melted butter
2 tablespoons glucose powder (optional)
  • Stir Milk, Lemon and Sugar in seperate bowl.
  • Sift flour and bicarb into bowl
  • combine egg and melted butter with milk mixture and add to flour, make sure you pour slowly and mix well as you pour, use a metal spoon and don't overmix
  • Leave batter for 2mins
  • Heat frying pan & grease
  • Pour mixture in to desire sizes, cook on one side until bubbles appear and pop.  Flip and serve when golden brown