Myedica's Mississippi Mud Pie

Another must-try!

Type: Dessert

Time: 1 hr

Best for: Desserts, kids parties

Ingredients:

For the base:

300gm marie biscuits
75gm butter


For the fudge sauce:

85gm dark chocolate
150ml double cream
3 tbsp golden syrup
175gm icing sugar

For the filling:

85gm dark chocolate
85gm butter
2 eggs
85gm sugar
100ml double cream

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 365 degrees.
Mix the biscuits and melted butter into a bowl. Press this mixture onto the bottom and sides of your baking pan. Pop it in the fridge for about 10 mins.

For the filling, melt the butter and chocolate together in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water.

In the meantime, whisk the eggs together with sugar for 5-10 mins, and then fold in cream and the chocolate-butter mix.

Pour into the baking pan and bake for 40-50 mins. Let it cool.
Meanwhile, for the fudge sauce, heat all of the fudge sauce ingredients in a saucepan, stirring regularly, over a medium heat until the mixture is smooth and glossy. Set aside to cool for 5 minutes.

Spread the sauce over the cooled pie and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes. Serve with double cream. :)

Kimberly's cream cake

Kimberly has the best collection of recipes for cream cakes EVER. This is our favourite one:

Danish Cream Cake....

Type: Dessert

Time: 40 mins

Best for: Tea time and parties

Ingredients:

2 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cup sugar
1 and 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup heavy whipping cream

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9"X9".


Beat the eggs into a bowl until they're very thick, then add the vanilla and sugar and keep beating well.

Mix the remaining dry ingredients together and slowly mix it into your sweet egg mix. Tip the batter into the pan.
Bake it for 40-50 mins. That's it! Ice it as prettily as humanly possible and serve! :)

Fav Food Combos

Hey! Though we'd take a break from posting recipes and talk combos instead.... here are our must-tries!

Apples and Honey

Plain sliced apples and drizzled with honey. Another way-better-than-cornflakes breakfast.

Tomatoes and Frying Pans

Let me clarify, you're not eating the frying pan. Fried tomatoes with a little pepper. Not really a combo, but we had to post it.

Shev and Ketchup
People don't usually like the sound of this, but it tastes great!

Amanda's Almond Honey Cookies

Granny's got competition....

Type: Snacks

Time: 2 hrs

Best for: Tea time

Ingredients:

1 cup almonds, toasted
2 and 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup honey
4 tbsp butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
sliced almonds for garnishing (optional)

Directions:

Dump the almonds in the blender and grrrrind! Put them in a large bowl and add the flour, baking powder and salt, and stirrrrr! um.... ok, I'll cut down the  R's....

Beat 2/3 cup honey, oil and 3 tablespoons butter in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until well combined. Add egg and vanilla and beat until blended. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients; stir to combine. Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Get ready with all the baking stuff (baking trays, baking sheets, etc)

Roll the dough into cookie shapes, or just let your imagination roll and go crazy with funky shapes. Bake them in batches until they're golden brown on the under-side, like 13-15 mins. Let them cool down on a wire rack.

Call Santa over for tea ;) Enjoy!

Eoghan's Yogurt Sundae

I'm very much aware of my talent in photography, thank you very much...

Ok, ok,  I didn't take the pic. -.-
Anyhow, this recipe is a MUST try!

Type: dessert, breakfast

Time: 7-10 mins

Best for: breakfast. Beats cornflakes hands down.

Ingredients:

2 cups of yogurt, vanilla
fruit chunks - we used chikoo
raisins or oats or crunchy/chewy yummy thingies
honey

Directions:

Scoop a layer of yogurt in a serving bowl. Sprinkle with oats or raisins, a few chucks of chikoo. Add another layer of yogurt, sprinkle more goodies, and then more yogurt.


Finally, add a huge helping of rainsins  and chikoos, top with honey. :)

Now, THIS is breakfast.

Lysander's Lobster Stew

Apparently, they DO stew lobsters.... the world is just...weird.

I didn't know they stewed lobsters. But they taste so lip smacking good...

Type:  main course

Time: 15 mins, MINUS the time for cooking the lobster itself.

Best for: brunch, lunch, dinner.

Ingredients:

2 lobsters, cooked
butter
5 cups of milk
2 cups heavy cream
salt, pepper, to taste
garnishing: onions, basil

Directions:

Once you're removed the meat from the lobsters, cut them into slices or cubes and fry in butter, about 4-6 tablespoons, till they're a bit light brown.

Heat the milk and add the lobster meat. On low heat, cook it for 5-10 mins. Add the heavy cream (kick out any cats if you keep them) and bring it just a teeny weeny bit near the boiling point. Now you can add the salt and pepper, some spices if you want.

Garnish with onions (thinly sliced! somebody actually dunked the whole onion in.... -.-) and basil. Enjoy!

Kimberly's kebab party

We are all children inside.

So, Kim had this party, and the kebabs there were simple but delicious. So we had to post the recipe!

Type: Snack, starters

Time: 5 mins

Best for: Summer days, kids parties

Ingredients:

1 cup of papaya (cubes)
1 cup of pineapple (cubes)
1/2 cup of strawberries
1/2 cup of cherries
4 tbsp of lime juice
chocolate sauce (optional)

Directions:

Get your kebab sticks. Now, spear the fruit chunks. It looks pretty if you have a particular order, so all of your kebabs match. We like being picky. ^_^

Sprinkle the lemon juice over it. You can add more seasonings, but don't overload on the flavour.

Serve with chocolate sauce.

Diela's Duck Roast

Sizzling straight from the oven!

Type: main course

Time:1 hr 30 mins

Best for: Parties, dinners.

Ingredients:

1 duck
1/2 slab of butter
pepper, salt
Potatoes, enough to stuff the duck
1/2 cup of herbs
3 tbsp of lime/lemon juice

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Boil your potatoes till they're cooked.

Mix the slightly mashed potatoes with the herbs and seasoning.
Grab the duck! Coat the skin with butter, pepper and salt. stuff the potatoes inside.

Roast the duck for 90 mins, till it's lovely gold and brown. :D This is the part where everybody starts drooling, keep a mop handy. ;)

Taddaa! Tuck in, you deserve it <3

Myedica's Mini Pizza

I didn't burn them! A new record! :D

Type: starters

Time: 5-10 mins, 20 mins for the base

Best for: Parties, Snacks.

Note: This recipe is for a large batch, like for a party.

Ingredients:

5 cups of whole wheat flour.
Pizza sauce or ordinary ketchup.
1 cup of shredded cheese
Slices of salami or bacon
a few olives
1/2 cup of sliced veggies (tomatoes, onions and peppers work best!)
A few pinches of black pepper and seasoning.

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Pour a bit of water into a bowl and add the flour, kneading it into dough. Roll this dough into little balls, and then lightly push down on them to form a mini pizza base. Aren't they cute? ;)

Bake them in the oven for around 20 mins, just as you would bake bread.

After they're been baked, Let them cool down. Now's my fav part!
Arrange your toppings. You can do this any way you like, but it works best with pizza sauce first, veggies next, seasoning on them, salami/bacon later, and finally the cheese. Top it with some pepper and basil.

Back in the oven! 5-10 mins this time, just to let the cheese melt. Don't let anything burn, though that crispy edge is temping, it's too risky for me!

Serve hot! ;)

Hello!

We're so happy to be writing our first post!We're gonna LOVE sharing all our favourite recipes with you all - some invented by ourselves, while others are our fav cook book recipes.

We hope you'll enjoy reading this blog just as much as we've enjoyed putting it together. ;)

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The taste bud team:

Myedica
Lysander
Eoghan
Deila
Amanda
Kimberly