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Hot Cross Fun

March 24, 2013 by Nanny 2 Comments

As you know by now, Poppy is a Coeliac and he really misses some things, so, with the family gathering for Easter, I thought I would try to make him some Hot Cross Buns! I searched Pinterest and any that looked interesting needed a bread maker or a recipe book that I didn’t have, so off to my pile of recipe books I went…

I came across this recipe in a printout from the company that produces one of the best bread mixes we have found (and no, I’m not getting paid to say that!!), Laucke. So I decided I would start my research with this recipe and decided to share my test runs with you!

The recipe:

1x500g pack Easy Bakers Special White Pre-mix

200g mixed fruit

1 Tablespn sugar

1 Tablespn oil

340ml cool water

1-2 teaspns mixed spice

I decided to increase the mixed spice to 2 teaspns and add 2 teaspns of cinnamon.

You take out 50g of the bread mix to use for the crosses. Put the rest in the large mixing bowl and add sugar,oil,mixed spice,cinnamon and water and mix thoroughly on high speed for 1 min. (2mins if doing by hand)

Put into well greased muffin tins.

I thought I may have over filled them but continued! They had to sit for approx 25-35 mins in a warm spot.

Maybe they didn’t rise enough (but I didn’t want them to overflow so went with them) On the right, you can see the plastic bag holding the 50gs of bread mix that has been mixed to a smooth paste with water. I snipped the corner and did the crosses!

Then I popped them in the oven (preheated to 210C) for 15-20mins

They didn’t want to come out of the pan but we got there in the end! I then brushed them with a syrup glaze made by boiling 1 cup of water with 1/2 cup sugar.

Then it was time to surprise Poppy!!

It doesn’t look too bad, does it? Of course it looked even better with butter on it!!

Poppy Test : Yes he liked them!! I say them because you can never get the taste with just one ……

If you try them, let me know what you think – maybe between us we can get this GF Hot Cross Bun sorted!!

Until next time
Nanny xx

Nanny joins Blogtoberfest – Cajun Chicken Stew

October 4, 2012 by Nanny Leave a Comment

Hi everyone!
It seems so long since I havebeen here so when I saw messages about Blogtoberfest, I thought I should give it a try!!
I have been busy sewing, quilting and doing a blog on ‘The Oz Material Girl’ called ‘Let’s Sew’. I have also been trying to improve my health through my food choices. It has been a great opportunity to try some new recipes. I just happened upon a Recipe Book in Crazy Clarkes here in NSW called Slow Cookers and for $4.00 I thought a treat (so I bought Slow Cookers 2 as well!!) Why the interest in Slow Cooking? I have a Dreampot for the Motorhome – it is a” non-electrical indoor and outdoor multifunctional: thermo cooker/rice cooker/yoghurt maker/cooler and bain-marie” and I just haven’t used it enough!! You can check it out here: www.dreampot.com.au

I tried this Cajun Chicken stew:

1.5kg chicken thigh fillets
1 Tblspn cajun seasoning
2 Tblspns olive oil
11/2 cups good quality chicken stock
400g tin chopped tomatoes
1 green capsicum seeded and cut into 1cm pieces
2 stalks celery thinly sliced
1 large onion diced
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
3 bay leaves
1 tspn sugar
1 garlic clove crushed
1 tspn freshly ground black pepper

Toss the chicken and cajun seasoning until evenly coated

Heat the oil and brown chicken 3-4 mins.

Transfer to the slow cooker (or in my case, the Dreampot)

Add all the remaining ingredients, mix together well.

( Cover and cook on low for 6 hrs.)
In the Dreampot inner pot on the stove, I brought it to the boil and kept it boiling for 15mins. When it had about 3 mins left, I took the small inner pot and added 1 cup of rice and 11/2 cups of hot water and brought it to the boil, let it boil for 1min and then put the lid on and boiled it for another 1-2 mins
I then popped the large inner pot into the Dreampot, sat the small inner pot on top, added the lid and closed the dreampot.
That was it until Dinner time that evening!

Luckily my cooking skills are much better than my photography skills – it was yummo!!

Until next time (that should be tomorrow!!)
Nanny xx

GF Anzac Biscuits

April 25, 2012 by Nanny 5 Comments

ANZAC day calls for some Anzac Biscuits so Nanny is getting up off her – chair- and heading to the kitchen…..

Now to get a recipe – think I’ll go with the good old Commonsense Cookery Book (can you see how much it has been used?? ) 😉

ANZAC BISCUITS( page 170)

Ingredients
1 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup coconut
1 cup flour
1.5 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
2 tablespoons boiling water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 tablespoon golden syrup

Method
1. Mix oats, flour, sugar and coconut together
2. Melt syrup and butter together
3. Mix soda with boiling water and add to melted butter and syrup
4. Add to dry ingredients
5. Place 1 tablespoon of mixture on greased tin
6. Bake in slow oven 20 minutes

OK we can’t have oats so introducing quinoa flakes!! (If you squint they will pass for rolled oats!!!)
and the flour will have to be Gluten Free……

and as for the sugar and butter, well I didn’t say anything about low fat or low sugar did I !!!!

Now if all goes to plan, I will be able to take some of these around to share with Mum and Dad for afternoon tea …….

Waiting, waiting, waiting

and TA DA!!!! Nanny’s Gluten Free Anzac Biscuits !!!! They look great don’t they??

And Dad ate them so I guess they passed the Yummy test!!!

Why don’t you give them a go? Enjoy!

Until next time
Nanny xx

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