Apple Crumble Ice Cream

Hello all!

This week I had a sudden urge to experiment with one of my favourite dessert combinations. Apple crumble and vanilla ice cream. So I went searching on other blogs and food websites to see how others were going about making the combined dessert.

While reading I found that there were quite a few recipes that called for at least 5 egg yokes for the vanilla ice cream. Although I am sure I've had ice creams with egg in it, but I wasn't comfortable using it for my experiment.

I finally came  up with my own combination and method of making the vanilla ice cream. As for the apple crumble I've been making it for a while now so this wasn't a problem for me.

The final product tasted exactly how I expected it too! It was luxuriously smooth and creamy. The pieces of apple and crumble were AMAZING and most importantly the crumble didn't go soggy. It stays crunchy and gets better every time you eat it. The thing that did it for me was the amazing cinnamon taste and smell. Gets me every time!

For those who would like to try my recipe please contact me here or via facebook.

Enjoy!

Food outings!

To make it up to everyone for my absents here are some pictures of my food adventures recently

If there is a dish you would like me to post a recipe for, Holla at me and I'll try it out and post up the recipe!

Dawoud Basha

I know it's been a while since my last post. Sorry! I have been rather flat of late and I haven't been cooking anything worth exhibiting.

A few weeks ago I made an Arabic dish called 'Dawoud Basha'. There are a few ways of making this dish, however when you've got a very active almost 2 year old and studying full time; fast, simple and tasty is what you always go for on a daily basis. I will admit since the last post there have been more days I've bought lunch or dinner than I've actually cooked o_O

Without further ado here is my version of 'Dawoud Basha'

Ingredients:

1kg of koft

1 big onion

3 cloves garlic

2 tablespoons of olive oil

1 big red capsicum (cut into strips)

1 big red capsicum (cut into strips)

1 can of good quality diced tomatoes

2-3 tablespoon of tomato paste

1 tablespoon of powdered beef stock

salt

pepper

water

Method:

1. Roll kofta into medium sized balls and set aside on a plate
2. Finely chop onion and garlic and fry until just golden
3. Add kofta balls and fry until sealed
4. Add both capsicums and fry for a minute
5. Pour in the can of diced tomatoes
6. Add water to barely covering the meat
7. Add tomato paste paste and powdered stock and stir
8. Add salt and pepper to taste
9. Cover and let the soup simmer on low for 20 mins or until kofta is cooked through

Serve with rice and enjoy!

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Until next time my lovelies XOXO

I'M BACK :-D

Hello all!

It has certainly been a very long time since I've last posted anything. I do deeply apologies, things were getting crazy with studying and just life in general. But now that things have settled down just a tad I'm ready to get posting again!

Just to tickle all your taste buds here are some pictures of some of my treats I've made since I've been gone!

That's all folks!

I will post recipes up for some of these pictures. I also hope to start taking orders of my treats in the near future! So those in the Sydney, Australia area keep your eyes peeled for when I announce my big opening!

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Love you all!

Kinda, sorta, back to normal!

Hi all!

Thank you all so much for being patient with me while I try and focus on my studies. Today I've decided to take a little break and write about the decision my husband and I have made for this week.

As many of you know my husband and I have been doing a "Slow Carb Diet" as per the book "The 4 hour Body" by Tim Ferriss. I have since slacked off a bit as I found the diet too restricting and my whole outlook on food had changed for the worst. Usually I am someone who can appreciate all different tastes and cuisines. However through this diet I found it exceedingly hard to keep cooking the same meals all the time as prescribed in the book. I saw food as being boring, tasteless and I couldn't bring myself to eat another piece of meat or chicken again. So then I had gone through a stage of not eating at all and only drinking protein shakes (very bad by the way).

I'm not sure how much weight I have lost but I have lost 10cm from the waist, which I'm very pleased with. In saying that my husband and I have decided to take a weeks break and eat as healthy as possible while adding in the smallest amount of carbs as possible.

Yesterday we had gone to the supermarket to stock up on some good carbs:

I knew that I wanted to get mountain bread as it is one of the most thinnest pieces of bread you will find.

Lamb Shawirma can be classified as street food. Others may call them Kebabs. I sliced a large onion sweated them off with some olive oil. I added 1/2 kg of stir fry lamb with some spices (Shawirma spices).

I spread some Aioli on the break and placed the meat and onion inside, wrapped them up and placed them in a sandwich press to seal. SOOOO YUMMM!

I hope you enjoyed this quick unexpected recipe!

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Happy new year!

Hello one and all!

Happy new year! I know that my greeting is very late, but it is better late than never!
I'm sorry that I have not posted anything for quite sometime now, it is that time of the year again where my uni work is started to pile up and finals are knocking at my door, which of course require all my attention.

Of course during this time I have made quite a few new dishes that I can't wait to share with you all once this study period ends!

So for now here is a little taste of what I've been up too!

ENJOY!

Red hot steak

I sometimes feel as though a lot of the food that I put together isn't worth me uploading and are a bit embarrassingly simple. But if the title hasn't been taken yet, I'd like to dub myself the lazy home cook.

If there is an easy way out, I'm there, right at the front!

As most of you have realised I am still catering for the slow carb diet. But as I've mentioned before, a side of rice, pasta, or bread can be added to any of my dishes to cater to those lucky enough to be eating them :-D

Steak has been big in our diet since starting the slow carb regime. I don't think I've eaten this much steak in my life...not complaining, as there is so many things you can do with steak.

This recipe calls for 5 ingredients:

Steak (any cut and size)
2-4 tbs Tomato paste
A few dashes of Tabasco
2-3 tbsp Soy sauce
A good dash of garlic powder

Method:

1) Heat a big fry pan with oil, butter or ghee ( all are optional)
2) Rub each side of the steak with garlic powder and tomato paste
3) place into the fry pan and add soy sauce
4) Keep turning the steak until there is even caramelisation on either side of the steak.
5) Take off from the heat and allow to stand for 5-10 mins.

If you wanted to add the veggies just add them to the pan with all the steak juices and sauce add some Tabasco sauce and you've got yourself one hot steak with veg!