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Creamy Mayo – Easy on the Budget

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

  1. 2 Egg yolks
  2. 340ml vegetable oil (12fl oz)
  3. 1tsp-2tsp lemon juice or white wine vinegar
  4. 1-2tsp Mustard
  5. Salt & Pepper
  1. Beat egg whites until stiff (for you kiwis, like a pav!)
  2. Dribble a tiny bit of the oil in and continue beating
  3. Keep dribbling small amounts of oil in and beating until 1/2 the mixture is done
  4. Add in the lemon, mustard , then resume adding in oil. As you get further into the mixture you will be able to add more oil each time, and eventually have a thin trickle going at all times.
  5. Once all oil has been added and its thick and creamy, add salt/pepper to taste, and refrigerate

 

The bonus of this recipe is that you can take out the lemon and mustard and throw in other things like garlic  or onionetc for a Aoli or other flavour. Make sure you keep refridgerated, this will only keep for around 4-7 days due to the eggs not being pasteurized .

This recipe makes a fairly large portion of mayo, you may want to half it.

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Winter Durchfall (my own recipe of vegetable stir fry)

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pumpkin (I used Crown/Grey Pumpkin)
  • 3 Onions Sliced
  • 3 Capsicum
  • 2T Garam Masala
  • 1t Cumin
  • 1t Salt
  • 1/2t Pepper
  • 1 1/2t Garlic (crushed, fresh, however you like it)
  • 700gms Beef Schnitzel

Preperation

  1. Roast pumpkin in oven, or cook in microwave, either whole or in large chunks
  2. Whilst pumpkin is cooking, slice Onions and Capsicum
  3. Lightly fry the Onions and Capsicum together , feel free to sprinkle salt to flavour
  4. Once pumpkin is cooked, remove skin and dice into bite sized cubes
  5. Put pumpkin cubes into large bowl or bag, add Garam masala, Cumin, Salt, Pepper and carefully mix together
  6. Dice the meat into bite sized squares, fry quickly in the frypan with the Garlic and a little salt.
  7. Put the pumpkin into an serving tray and mix Capsicum & Onion mixture gently into it, then sprinkle meat over it.

Notes: Feel free to drop the meat out of this one for a vegetarian option.

PS. Sorry for anyone speaking German, my daughter named it after asking what was in it, and i replied ‘lots of shit from the fridge’

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Quick easy Pesto Pasta with or without chicken

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Ingredients

  • Chicken Breasts (optional)
  • 1500gm packet pasta
  • 2T Finely chopped basil
  • 1 Cup blueberries
  • Any vegetables, eggplant, beans, etc you want
  • 2 T crushed/chopped fine Garlic oil Sprinkle of cheese (parmesan works best)

Instructions

  1. Cook pasta
  2. Mix Equal amounts of basil and garlic with oil. I find food processor is great here!
  3. Put mixture with the pasta, feel free to add more/less depending on taste.
  4. Add any vegetables into it here if you have any. Sliced eggplant is great, as is carrot, zucchini, mushrooms etc
  5. Sprinkle cheese over the top
  6. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes whilst you brown/cook the chicken.
  7. Brown/cook Chicken in a frying pan. You can slice it or leave it whole.
  8. Stir the Blueberries into the pasta
  9. Serve with chicken on the side, or mixed in if you sliced it (up to you!)
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