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This website is for all those who love to cook, and may even be into tinkering with a recipe to get it just right.
The general idea is this, we post a recipe , you take that recipe and make it. Tell us in the comments how it turned out for you, what you changed in the recipe, even drop in a photo of it! Its always great to compare the difference in how each oven, kitchen, person creates the same things, and its even better when somebody who had a lot of problems can see how somebody else changed it to work for them.
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If you have any recipes you have created yourself and want others to try, by all means email them to me ( liz at velofille.com), ill credit you and post it and we'll all give it a go.
All and any recipes will follow, not just the ones you see.
This website is for all those who love to cook, and may even be into tinkering with a recipe to get it just right.
The general idea is this, we post a recipe , you take that recipe and make it. Tell us in the comments how it turned out for you, what you changed in the recipe, even drop in a photo of it! Its always great to compare the difference in how each oven, kitchen, person creates the same things, and its even better when somebody who had a lot of problems can see how somebody else changed it to work for them.
If you have your own recipe website, by all means link in, you can never have to many recipes! If you want to be notified of the new recipe for this week, then sign up on the right hand column.
If you have any recipes you have created yourself and want others to try, by all means email them to me ( liz at velofille.com), ill credit you and post it and we'll all give it a go.
All and any recipes will follow, not just the ones you see.
Mushrooms in a tangy sauce
December 30, 2009 at 8:34 pm , by admin
Ingredients
- 2 cups button Mushrooms (feel free to try others)
- 1 T Soy Sauce
- 1T Balsamic Vinegar
- 1/4 cup Cream
Instructions
- slice mushrooms
- Lightly sauté mushrooms in tiny bit of butter
- squirt equal amounts of soy and balsamic vinegar (i use approx 1T of each)
- Let it simmer and reduce (to get rid of some water)
- Add in cream and again let it reduce until thick, then serve.
Alter the amounts of soy and balsamic to taste.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading ...Custard from scratch
December 13, 2009 at 8:05 pm , by admin
Nice easy crowd pleaser that you can make the day before.
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole milk or cream
- 3 egg yolks
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons corn flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
- Heat the milk to boiling.
- Meanwhile, whisk the egg yolks, sugar and flour together.
- Whisk in a little warm milk, then a little more, gradually.
- Whisk well then pour into the boiled milk.
- Turn the heat to low and cook, whisking constantly, until thickened – about 3 or 4 minutes.
- Whisk in the butter and vanilla.
- Transfer to to a bowl and cover with plastic wrap touching the surface of the cream. Refrigerate.
This recipe makes excellent tarts or pies. With the 3 remaining Egg whites you can make an excellent Pavlova.
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Bicotti – low fat easy base recipe
December 2, 2009 at 9:31 pm , by admin
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups of flour
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1/2t baking soda
- 1/2t Baking Powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 Large eggs Icing sugar for rolling it in
- Optional: nuts, ginger pieces, cherrys, cocoa etc
Instructions
- Put all ingrediants in a blender and turn on low until mixed and doughy (or mix by hand)
- Turn out into board and roll in icing sugar (this can be messy/sticky, do your best)
- Split into 2 long thing rolls, put on baking paper on an oven tray.
- Cook at 180C/350F for 15 minutes or until cake like (occasionally a little longer to firm up in the middle)
- Slice into slices finger width thick lay slices on their side and re-bake for another 10-15 minutes at 150C/300F or until toasted/crisp on the outside.
Quick Notes
Most recipes contain a cup of oil or butter, I especially hunted down and tested this recipe which is low fat and easy.
These make an excellent gift wrapped in cellophane with a bow for christmas, or served with coffee. You can dress it up with a dunk in chocolate, or leave them as they are.
Additional Ingrediants:
Spices: 1/2 to 1t cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom or ginger all seem to taste great
Citrus zests and juice: 1t of lemon or orange zes and up to four T of juice can be added to the mix
Extracts: 1/2 to 1t of almond, pepermint, or vanilla extract can be added
Dried Fruits: cherries, cranberries,apricots,raisins, or currents can be rehydrated in water, fruit juice or alcohol, drained and added to the mixture.
Nuts: 1/2 to 1 cup shelled, peeled, chopped nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, etc) can be added to the mix
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(4.50 out of 5)