Saturday, September 14, 2013

Cinnamon Sugar

This is an easy one, but very tasty sprinkled on buttered toast.

Ingredients
Ground Cinnamon        1 Tablespoon
Caster Sugar                  3 Tablespoons

Method

Just mix them together.

Friday, September 13, 2013

PANCAKES

Used this recipe in the cafe for specials a couple of times and at home as well.

Ingredients
Plain Flour                       450 g
Caster Sugar                     60 g
Salt                                    large pinch
Baking Powder                  30 g
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Eggs, beaten                     200 g
Milk                                  900 g
Butter, melted                   110 g

Method

1.  Sift dry ingredients together
2.  Mix wet ingredients together
3.  Add we to dry; mix til combined

Heat a fry pan; add oil. Ladle 60 ml onto hot griddle or fry pan. Fry til top is bubbly and dry-looking, and the bottom is browned. Flip to cook other side. May be held in warm oven while all are cooked.
Once you're used to this recipe, vary the milk for thicker/thinner pancakes. Use veg oil instead of butter if you wish.

g'luck

Friday, April 5, 2013

Wild Onion Pork Sausage

Ingredients
1. Minced Pork at about 75% lean. This is fatter than most minced pork. You may have to ask your butcher to do a special batch for you.
2. Seasonings 3 parts sage, 1 part black pepper, 1 part salt, 1 part garlic powder, cayenne (about a teaspoon for a liter of the other seasonings). A part is as big or small as you like -- teaspoon, tablespoon, cup, etc.
3. Mix the seasonings with the pork thoroughly.

Sausage
1. Weigh out into 1/4 lb balls (about 114g)
2. Flatten the balls
3. Fry in a small amount of veg oil slowly on low heat til cooked through, then brown.

g'luck

Friday, February 8, 2013

Denver Omelet

The way I make omelets is:
1. pre-heat a saute pan with a little butter
2. whip with a fork three eggs (I add nothing else)
3. tip the whipped eggs into the hot pan
4. cook omelet til a light brown underneath, but still a small puddle uncooked on top
5. add on top anything you want cover the pan and turn off the heat (the residual heat in the pan and the eggs will finish the cooking)

Specifically for the Denver, before I start the eggs, I cook the mixed veg and ham. Then start the eggs. when the right point is reached in cooking the eggs add cheddar, hot ham and cooked hot veg. Cover. Turn heat off. Let this sit about 30 seconds to 1 minute and should be cooked.

To plate the omelet:
1. shake the pan a bit to make sure the omelet is loose
2. tip the pan so as to let the omelet slide onto the plate (aim at the far side of the plate)
3. when omelet is half out of pan flip the remaining side on top of the plated side.

The veg we used in the cafe was cut small so as to cook quickly -- broccoli, cauliflower, onion, pepper, carrot.

Good luck