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Asparagus is a vegetable that is abundantly available during spring. Try eating them in different ways. Asparagus Quiche (Party Food/ Easy Meals) Ingredients 1 large bunch Asparagus (About 250g) Green Chillies (Optional) Salt & Pepper 8 Eggs 1/2 Cup Thickened cream 1 Onion Finely chopped 1/2 cup cheddar cheese Method Spray  or grease 12 Muffin holes. Add oil in to a pan and sauté onions. In to the onions add the asparagus , chilles, salt & pepper. Cook asparagus 2-3 min. Meanwhile mix cream and eggs together. Add the asparagus mix and cheese in to the egg mix. Pour in to muffin holes and bake 180 about 20-30 min. Leave 5 min in the pan before taking out,

Caterpillar Bread rolls (Soft & Moist) Ingredients 450g Bread Flour 11/2 Eggs (Leave one egg yolk to brush the buns) 20g Sugar 8g Yeast 210ml Warm Milk 1 Tsp Salt 60g Butter Method Add flour, yeast, eggs and butter in to a mixing bowl. Mix it adding sugar. Next add salt, and knead adding milk little by little until it forms a smooth dough. Keep kneading for 10 min. Grease a bowl and put the dough and cover with a damp cloth and leave in a warm place until double in size. Then take the dough and put it on to a floured bench and knead a minute. (This dough is bit sticky so add enough flour) Next divide the dough in to eqal size portions. Then roll one portion to a rectangular shape. Leaving quater of the the dough cut the dough to strips (Watch the video please) Roll the dough streching the ends and leave on a baking tray to prove again. After brush the tops with the egg yolk and bake on 180 about 20-30 min until golden brown. Enjoy hot or with butter ...

Tuna & Pasta Bake ( Quick & Easy Meals) Ingredients 250 g Boiled Pasta 2 Cups of Tuna 1 Onion sliced Salt & Pepper Spring onions 1/2 cup cheddar cheese Finely Sliced White part of the leek 4 Eggs 1 Can (200g ) Sour cream or 150ml thickend cream Method Fry the onions  with tuna and leeks adding pepper and salt. After leave it to cool down. In a seperate bowl beat eggs with cream and add the cooked tuna mix and pasta. Put that on to a baking tray and sprinkle cheese on top. Bake on 180c about 20 min. Leave several minutes out before cutting.

These rotis need to be covered with a teatowel or in a container or in a totilla container. Always make sure you cover it to prevent them go dry. If you cant physyllium husk omit that. Physillium husk serves a lot of fiber to your diet. If you consider about health add whole wheat flour instead of plain flour. Oats Roti / Flat Bread Ingredients 2 Cups cups of Quick Oats 11/2 cups Plain flour or whole wheat flour 1 cup decicated coconut ( Optional) 1/2 cup Phyllium husk (Optional) Salt Enough water to knead the dough. Method Add all the dry ingredients in to a bowl. Next add enough water and knead until you get  a soft dough. Next leave a pan on the stove. Make balls out from the dough and flatten them using a rolling pin. Put that on to the hot pan and cook several minutes turnning ,until golden brown . Serve with a curry or a dip.

Chinese style Spicy Salted chicken Ingredients: 500g of chicken pieces  6 cloves of garlic finely chopped  1/2 tsp of bottled ginger or freshly grated ginger 1 tbsp of chilly flakes 1 tsp of pepper 1/2 cup of chopped spring onion 3 tbsp of dark soy souce 40- 60 mls of rice wine vinegar (substitutes: sherry vinegar or white wine) Salt to taste for the marinade 1 kg of sea salt Method For the chicken marinade add the garlic, pepper, chilly, ginger, spring oinions and salt to the chicken. The salt can be varied in taste, since the soy sauce already contains salt. Then add the dark soy sauce and rice wine vinegar. Mix this thoroughly  and leave it in the fridge to marinade for about an hour. After the chicken has been fully rested, wrap each piece in foil. Add 1/2 of the kg of salt to the bottom of a rice cooker or slow cooker pan, place the wrapped chicken in the pan, then add the rest of the salt to the top of the foiled chicken. making sure the top ...

White Sandwich Loaf with Over night Starter Ingredients For the Starter 100g Flour 1/4 Tsp Yeast 60Ml water (Warm) For the Main Dough 550 g Bread Flour 30 g Sugar 1 Egg 1 Tsp Salt 10 g Yeast 250 ml Warm Water 75 g Butter or Margarine The over night Starter Method Make the over night starter using the first 3 ingredients and leave in room temperature about 30 min and then Put it in fridge and leave 24 -48 hours. (Or even at least overnight) The next day add the flour in to a mixing bowl and add yeast sugar, butter, overnight starter, egg and the salt and start kneading adding the water little by little about 10 min. After , grease a bowl and put the dough in to that and leave in a warm place until double in size. Take out when it is double in size and then cut that in to four equal parts. (It will be a bit sticky. so flour hands and dough as well as the bench top) Take one part out and roll to a rectangle. Then fold that to three. Next roll again. ...

This can be done days ahead to use on busy working days or lunch boxes. This is a good meal that you can freeze with out cooking to take out on busy days. Leek, Spinach & Sausage Pan Pies Ingredients 400g Plain flour Salt & pepper 320 ml Boiling water Sausages ( I am Using Chorizo) 1 Packet frozen spinach (Squeeze the excess water) 1 leek Method Mix first 3 ingredients and knead well & leave to rest 30 min. Mean while cook sausage, spinach and leeks adding any kind of spices to your taste. Leave it to cool down. Roll the rested dough in to a log and cut equal size portions. Then roll it to a circle. Put a spoonful of the  filling in the middle.  Seal edges and press. (Watch Video) Then use a rolling pin to roll them well. (Make sure to be gentle when rolling .) Pan fry  with the lid on turnning after 2 min until golden brown on both sides.

If you like to do your own swiss roll this is the link for that.... (Please copy & paste it on your web browser.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ldYSxfxP4&list=UUU9yzHuVMjJa7yBXPnlTHIA Charlotte Royale (Quick & Easy Desserts) Ingredients Vanilla Ice cream (Depends on the size of the bowl you are using) Chocolate Swiss roll/Jam roll/Jelly roll Sweet or dry sherry/ Any kind of an alcohol/ apple or orange juice Method Lay a plastic wrapping around  a bowl as shown in the video. Next pack swiss roll nicely around the bottom of the bowl. Put ice cream to top up the bowl. Cover and freeze several hours or over night. When take out leave a minute or two out and before releasing.

Here I tried to do the dough the day before and bake it inthe morning to have hot bread. That really works and hope you all will enjoy hot bread in the morning. Home made Sandwich Bread from Scratch. Ingredients 6 Cups Bread Flour 2 Tblsp Margarine 1/2 Cup Milk Powder 2 Tsp Instant Dry Yeast 2 Tsp Salt 2 Cups of warm water 2 Tblsp Honey/ Sugar Method Add the flour, yeast and milk powder, honey, margarine, & salt . Add warm water little by little to make a soft dough about 10 min. Grease a bowl and leave it to prove. After take the dough and cut in to two equal parts. Flatten and remove air and make a rectangle and roll to a log.  Put the log in  to a greased loaf pan.  Leave to prove until the dough reaches the 90% full and then bake it on 180-200 about 45 min.

Chicken Pot Roast (One pot meals) Ingredients 1 Whole Chicken Several potatoes and carrots Leeks Onions Garlic Rosemary Thyme Mustard Oil Method Rub the chicken with mustard, salt and pepper. Insert 1/2 of the herbs in to the cavity. Add a bit of oil in to a pan. Fry leeks onion and garlic. Put the chicken on the leek and onion putting wing down and breast up. Add the carrots and potaoes. Slow cook or cook in the pot or bake in an oven. Oven temp will be around 200 about 11/2 hours . Serve with the juices remaining in the pot.

Home made Bagels from Scratch Ingredients: 375g flour or Baker's flour 5g instant yeast 210ml water 20g sugar 10g butter Salt to taste For sugar syrup: 100g sugar  1/12 liter of water Method:  Add the flour, yeast and butter into the mixing bowl. Mix this on a low speed  for bout  minute and add the 20g of sugar. While it's being mixed add the salt, then gradually add the water. Mix it on a low speed for 10-15 minutes, until it becomes a smooth dough. Once the dough is doubled in size, flour the bench or mat and kneed the dough. When fully kneeded spread the dough into a roll and divide the dough into equal sized peices, approximately 80-100g in weight. Shape the peices of dough into circles or rectangles using a rolling pin, fold the long end of the dough to the center to make a narrower rectangle. Then using your hands roll in to a roll or pipe shape, press the ends down and join the ends to make a wide doughnut shape. Place the bagels on...

Sausage, Vegetable & Bread bake (Quick & Easy Meals) Ingredients 300g Sausages Broccoli 7 Eggs Half of a carrot Leeks Salt & pepper Onion  Garlic 8 Slices bread cut in to cubes Capsicums Celery Any kind of a cheese Oil Method Add oil in to a pan and fry onions and garlics. Next add celery and capsicums. Mix well. And season with salt & pepper. Next add sausages and carrot and cook that about 3-4 min. Add leeks and broccoli next and cook that about 1 minute Once the vegetables are ready take a tray and add half of the bread. Next add vegetables on to the bread. Add the remaining bread and pour the whisked eggs on to that.and press with a spatula. Add cheese on top. Bake on 180c about 20 - 30 min.

Piri Piri Spatchcock Chicken Ingredients 1 Whole Chicken Rosemary, Thyme, Parsley or any herb you like 11/2 Tblsp Chillie powder or sweet paprika 1 TspPepper Salt Olive oil 1 Tblsp Grlic minced 1 Tblsp Honey or sugar 2 Tblsp Red wine vinegar or any vinegar Method  Take the back bone out from the chicken. Next Put that on a tray and press down. Mix all the ingredients except the herbs. Massage the chicken with the spices. Put the hrerbs under and under the skin too. Bake 180 about 40 min to 1 hour