On rainy days, get baking! How could I waste this glorious, cool wet weather by doing anything but? I did contemplate sleeping to make up for the lack of last night, but a sweet bubby had other plans. I also contemplated taking a photo of the wet weather to keep the stunning scenery trend going. It has been just a little too wet. Hubby is currently carefully peeling his soaked through uni mail apart and placing it on a table cloth to help dry them out. With a student coming tomorrow, I am a little disappointed it's raining for her sake. However, it will allow her to rest up after one epic bit of travelling to get here. She will have plenty of time to experience this awesome country when the suns out :)
Let me show you what my day of food looked like. It is in no particular order. It's that kind of day :) Enjoy!
Cheesy Stuffed Mushrooms
Serves 2
Ingredients:
2 large field mushrooms, stalks removed
1/2 red onion, chopped
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 egg
2 cherry tomatoes, chopped
1 slice of ham
1 egg
small knob butter
splash olive oil
fresh parsley
small amount of shaved parmesan
pepper
Method:
In a pan on medium heat, add butter and olive oil.
When butter starts sizzling, add mushrooms, bottom up, and onion.
turn heat down and cook until onions start to become transparent.
Remove mushrooms. The underside should be golden brown.
It's important to brown the top of the mushrooms as this adds flavour, but also helps them cook through during the grilling process later.
Mix together cottage cheese, egg, tomatoes, cooked onion, ham, parsley and pepper.
Spoon equal amounts into each mushroom.
Top with enough shaved parmesan to cover the top.
Grill until golden.
The result is delish and filling. It could easily be made into a vegetarian meal by omitting the ham.
Aussie Burger Patties
(These are for our Australia Day family dinner night on Monday)
Makes 10
Ingredients:
750gms regular beef mince
3/4 cup breadcrumbs
1 egg
1/2 cup grated cheddar
sweet paprika
salt and pepper
1 teaspoon Massell veggie stock powder
Method:
Wash hands. Place all the ingredients in a bowl. Remove rings. Mix with your hands until all combined.
Now, this is one piece of Tupperware I find brilliant for making hamburger patties. You simply put in the required amount, push the handle down, twist and it's done. The patties can then be individually stored in the white stackable containers too. Clever.
This is the result- 10 cheesy beef patties ready for an Aussie Day burger treat.
Next, we have an experiment that I didn't mind at all. I found the recipe on this one particular website and adjusted it only slightly. You have to scroll past the seafood and linguine to find the bread though.
Coconut Bread
Makes 10-12 slices
1/2 cup coconut flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon bi-carb
6 eggs
1/3 cup coconut oil
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
Method:
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius.
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl (I never sift).
Add wet ingredients all together and mix very well. I used an egg whisk.
Put batter into a well greased and lined loaf tin.
bake for 50 minutes, or until loaf turns golden on top and is firm to touch.
Allow to cool before removing.
It doesn't rise much, but it's such a dry, dense bread, you don't need much.
And lastly, the start of my very veggie bolognaise. I must admit, by the time I got to making this, I liked hubby's suggestion: make it tomorrow when we have a new teen in the house. So I did the messy part this afternoon.
This is how much veg goes into my very veggie bolognaise: 2 zucchini's, 2 carrots, several stalks of celery, a red onion and freshly picked herbs- parsley and thyme in this case. For those readers who know why, no garlic, but please add it for me!
All of the above veggies are then thrown into my fabulous food processor and pulverised into a veggie pulp of sorts. It cooks faster than grated, and grating takes forever anyway.
You will have to wait until next week for the results of the bolognaise, and Aussie beef burgers. I promise, it will be worth it, as I will have so much more news to share by then :)
Thanks for reading!
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