QUALITY FOOD

I refuse to eat poor quality food. I rather eat less and well.  

In our family we eat a lot of ham – my husband and 2 daughters have it every morning on their omelettes, we all have it for lunch and I often make ham and pineapple pizza. Anyhow, I find it very difficult to get quality sliced ham for less than $20 per kilo, and for me, that’s just too expensive. I therefore decided to “invest” in a meat slicer machine and now buy good quality ham for less than $13 per kilo and slice it myself.

Chocolate cake….like brownies

My kids and husband love brownies but I refuse to make them. They are just too “fatty”… and I end up eating some myself. 

Anyhow, then I came up with this recipe.

They look like brownies, they taste like brownies, but… with less butter and no chocolate.

Chocolate cake….like brownies

Ingredients:

100 g butter

2 eggs

1 cup sugar

½ cup plain flour

4 tbsp cocoa

Method:

Preheat the oven to 160°C. Grease a small square cake tray.

Melt the butter.

Beat the eggs and sugar. Add the melted butter and mix it well together.

Fold in the flour and cocoa and pour the mixture into the cake tray.

Bake for 30 minutes.

Tips: You can also add ½ cup of finely chopped walnuts.



NICE LUNCH

I just made myself a nice simple and healthy lunch.

Homemade rye bread, herbs from the garden, homemade mayonnaise, sliced country ham (a very good but affordable one from Aldi) and sliced tomato and avocado…J

You are welcome to come along and taste my rye bread at the Coomera Community Lifestyle Show Sunday on 21 July. http://www.cac.qld.edu.au/component/k2/item/116-mark-the-date-on-your-calendar-the-2013-coomera-anglican-college-and-community-lifestyle-show

I will make sure that I get up early that morning and bake a lot of fresh bread to share with you all that day. Have a nice afternoon. Pernille X

 

Pumpkin Soup

What are you going to have for dinner? We are having pumpkin soup with homemade bread. It is a very nutritious and cheap dinner. And it warms up the body in this cold weater….:)

Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients:

½ middle size pumpkin (1kg)

1 large potato

2 garlic clove

1 large onion

2 to 3 vegetable stock cubes

20 g butter

2 tbsp oil

Salt

Pebber

Method:

Chop the pumpkin, potato and onion finely and crush the garlic clove. Heat oil and butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Add garlix and onion and cook for 2-3 minutes, until softened. Add pumpkin and potato and let it all cook for 1 minute then add enough water to cover the vegetablesand bring it to boil. At last add the vegetable stock cubes. Turn heat to low, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Allow to cool slightly, then blend in batches. Season with salt and pebber.

Serve with homemade bread.

What a wonderful morning.

Got up at 4:30am and saw the sunrise.

Had the night before made some dough and it was therefore easy to make fresh baked buns for the whole family. Went for a walk with my dear husband while the buns were baking and on our walk picked some beautiful flowers. Came back to the smell of freshly baked buns and had a breakfast….I don’t think I can expect any better….have a wonderful day..☼

Broccoli salad

BROCCOLI! No thanks, Mum.

Have you had your serving of vegetables today? As you probably know, broccoli is the healthiest vegetable in the world. But how can you get the kids to eat it? Here is a recipe that will help your whole family to eat more broccoli:

BROCCOLI SALAD

INGREDIENTS

1 medium sized broccoli

1 red capsicum

1 apple

1/2 cup of dry fruit and nut mix

½ cup Greek or natural yoghurt

1 tbsp real mayonnaise

Salt

Pepper

 

METHOD

Chop the broccoli, capsicum and apple finely.

Mix the Greek yoghurt and mayonnaise and season with salt and pepper.

Mix together gently.

Tip: You can also add some chives or parsley.