Muesli Gems

August 5, 2011

I found this gem iron in an op shop.  It took me several months and quite a few goes to learn how to use it, but now it is one of my favourite kitchen tools.  It’s a heavy cast iron baking tray for tiny little cake-scone-muffin bites called gems. It’s an old fashioned implement designed [...]

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Brunch Souffle

July 14, 2011

Soufflés have an undeserved reputation. I think they’re much easier and more forgiving than their rap. This one is basically just a white cheese sauce folded through beaten egg whites and baked. I can’t really say it’s fast enough for the Breakfast Cereal Challenge, but it makes a great brunch. Ironically, soufflés are great for winter [...]

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The Breakfast Challenge – A Breakfast Homage to Crepes Suzette

July 7, 2011

I do draw the line at Cointreau for breakfast, and I like breakfast pancakes to be higher protein and lower fat and sugar than desserts. But with a bit of tweaking, Crepes Suzette work perfectly for a citrus season Breakfast Cereal Challenge recipe. They’re fast and easy, healthy and very delicious. We have a tree [...]

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The Breakfast Challenge – Lemony Mushrooms and Spinach with 2 Minute Hollandaise

June 25, 2011

There is a small miracle in the number of things that grow well together, taste good together, and are good for you together.  Corn and beans, tomatoes and basil,  broccoli and cheese, turmeric and pepper… Spinach and lemon juice join the list.  I first had very lemony mushrooms and spinach at The Gun Shop Cafe [...]

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The Breakfast Challenge: Pressure Cooker 5 Minute Baked Custard

June 17, 2011

A bowl of hot custard on a cold winter morning (with banana if you can keep the bush turkeys from getting all of them) and the world is a warm and nurturing place!  It’s high protein and doesn’t need much sugar, so it fits the Witches Kitchen version of healthy, and in a pressure cooker [...]

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The Breakfast Challenge – Super Fast Frittata (Or Fast Super Frittata)

June 9, 2011

Five serves of vegetables a day doesn’t seem like that much. I love vegetables and eat lots of them. But it’s amazing how easy it is to miss a day or two. Lunch at a work meeting,  nice rolls with turkey and cranberry, but really only a bit of lettuce you could count as a [...]

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The Breakfast Challenge – Perfect Poached Eggs on Silverbeet

May 27, 2011

For perfect poached eggs, you need very fresh eggs.  You can add vinegar to the water, get it swirling into a little whirlpool, do whatever you like, but you won’t get perfect poached eggs without very fresh eggs.  Fresh eggs cook in one little mound with the white all staying together and a yolk that is [...]

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The Breakfast Challenge – Mandarin Curd

May 19, 2011

I love mandarins straight from the tree, sun warm and juicy and full of Vitamin C. But there is a limit to how many you can eat like that.  And mandarins are  such a good source of “bioflavanoids” that strengthen blood vessels and protect against all kinds of cell damage that it is worth challenging the [...]

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Lemon and Herb Baked Labneh

May 17, 2011

This was an accidental discovery. I had some friends coming for lunch and I had baked ricotta with salad in my mind.  But I’d forgotten that I’d used the ricotta.  Oops. Lots of other lunch options of course, but you know when you have your mind set on something? I had some home-made Greek yoghurt [...]

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