DUTCH GINGER CAKE

 

DUTCH GINGER CAKE

Ingredients:

1 ¾ cups plain flour

¼ teaspoon salt

140g preserved ginger

1 egg (reserving 1 tspn for the glaze)

185g butter (or substitute)

2/3 cup castor sugar

60g whole blanched almonds (1 minute in boiling water, then slip skins off)

Method:

Sift flour and salt, add sugar and chopped ginger.

Mix in beaten egg, reserving 1 teaspoon for glazing. Melt butter over gentle heat and

allow to cool slightly.  Add butter to flour mixture.  Mix well, using hands to put together.  Press mixture into greased 22cm round tin. Brush top with reserved egg for glaze.  Arrange almonds decoratively.  Bake in moderate oven (180deg fan forced) for  30-35 minutes or until cake is cooked-golden brown and firm in touch.

Allow to cool in tin before removing.

Recipe Keeper App

Cooking for me is relaxing and joyful.. My Italian heritage I guess. I love my Recipe Keeper App.  I have been using it for more than 10 years now.  I never ever print out recipes any more.  

Instead, I use this app on my tablet in the kitchen and it stays open while I am cooking. There is no need to touch the screen with floury to switch it back on all the time.  It stays on while the app is open.  I stand the tablet on my book stand.  

It is easy to import recipes and super easy to share them.

Here is a link to the App. See for yourself

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This is a great recipe - Cauliflower Steaks Over Carrot Sauce

 Thanks to Katie B for this fantastic recipe.  It is easy, but looks and tastes fancy.  

Cauliflower Steaks Over Carrot Sauce - Taste Show Courses: Categories: Source: This is the link Taste Show Cauliflower Steak and Carrot sauce    Ingredients 【 For Cauliflower & Topping 】 1 large Whole White Cauliflower 1 tbsp Olive Oil 1 oz Red Bell Pepper 1 oz Green Bell Pepper ½ oz Fresh Parsley 1 tsp Fresh Lemon Zest ⅜ cup Grated Parmesan Cheese to taste Salt to taste Ground Black Pepper 【 For Spiced Carrot Sauce 】 2 medium Carrots 1⅓ oz Butter 1 oz Tomato Paste 1 tbsp Flour 1 cup Vegetable Broth 4 Sprigs Fresh Thyme ½ tsp Paprika Powder ½ oz Prepared Yellow Mustard 1 tbsp Soy Sauce to taste Salt to taste Black Pepper Directions LET'S START Step 1 Preheat the oven to 400ºF / 200º C. Cut cauliflower in half, then using two fingers to measure width (or 3cm) cut 1 slice off one half, and from the other half cut another slice 2-finger width, to make the cauliflower steaks. From the remaining slices, dice the cauliflower, and set aside in a bowl. Step 2 In a large cast-iron grill pan or cast-iron skillet, heat the oil, then add cauliflower, salt and black pepper.  Sear until golden-brown, then flip the steak, and add salt and black pepper. Add olive oil as needed. Step 3 While steaks are cooking, prepare the steak topping. Minced peppers, and finely chop parsley,  add both to the bowl with cauliflower. Over this mixture, grate a portion of a washed lemon peel for zest,  and add Parmesan cheese. Mix with fingers. Step 4 Once cauliflower steaks have finished searing, divide vegetable-cheese mixture and stack on top of the steaks.  Transfer the pan to the oven. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove and set aside until serving. Step 5 Meanwhile, cut tops off washed carrots, then thinly slice the carrots. In a medium saucepan,  add butter and wait until it melts, then add carrots. Stir-fry a bit, then add the tomato paste and flour,  cook until carrots are slightly soft. Add vegetable broth, thyme sprigs, add paprika,  mustard, soy sauce, and salt and black pepper. Cook for 10 minutes. Step 6 Remove the thyme. Take a hand mixer and blend the sauce until smooth. Step 7 To serve, cover with sauce the bottom of two serving dishes, then top with the cauliflower steaks. Enjoy! By the way, I love my Recipe Keeper App.  I can share recipes so easily.  Shared from my Recipe Keeper - the easy way to collect, organize and share your recipes on your mobile, tablet and PC. Download for free today at https://recipekeeperonline.com

Autumn Harvest, 2019

Passionfruit, Squash, pumpkin, oranges.

The Crane came from Arakun.  Thanks Amanda and her other brothers.

What about the sunflowers, alas, a gift from Amanda.
See the growing collection of Rosella Jam
But the Dahlia's are from here. A very big crop this year, which I could enjoy from the kitchen window.

There's a huge crop of Jerusalem Artichoke to be excavated.... 

Rosemary's birthday poem

1948, 48, 8 …I have spifflicated the English language, but I hope you do APPRECIATE.

INNOVATE in 1948  …. PROCREATE! INITIATE  !  

Rosemary was born, in the country, into the HAPPY Spurdle family, mum and dad, she also had two brothers, Richard and Jim, who did both MITIGATE and INFLATE her happiness.  

1958 ACCELERATE toward schools! country and city, and Rosemary. Those teachers did EDUCATE

1968 RUMINATE IN BRISBANE

Where the famous story of the brother bought a sheep for $1.00 in order to TERMINATE it in their garage.  However, the meat inspector next door might analyse, chastise and penalize.  And CONFISCATE the beastie from the REPROBATES……So they closed the garage door!

GENIUS!

Meanwhile, Rosemary attended the University of Queensland so Syl’s father could EDUCATE. Thus she did become LITERATE and did GRADUATE in order to VETERINARIATE.

To TERMINATE her graduation, Australia she did VACATE!

Our loss, England’s gain. She plied her Vetcraft and so did educate, exterminate, operate, ligate, prescribe, imbibe, euthanise, surprise and CASTRATE to stop the FORNICATE, or MATE.

And MATE speaking of Chris Twidle……Was it FATE?    no DEBATE.     

In faraway England their nuptuals they did CONSECRATE.

And in Congestone, they settled. Whereupon Chris did UN-DILAPIDATE and RENOVATE a wee dwelling on Poplar Terrace.

Then Rosey did DUPLICATE herself and Heather was born. A late primavera if ever there was one. And then Andrew was born…..to COMPLICATE

1978 MIGRATE TO AUSTRALIA was the order of the day.

They bought a house in Morningside, from an Organ Grinder. And Chris began to RENOVATE and UN-DILAPIDATE. With Andrew in a supervisory role.

1988 Met up with the Lears and our sons did RECIPROCATE.  We had easy Sunday night meals together. Then Elizabeth upped the Anti. Meanwhile the walks, together with Deanne, we had in Bulimba before coffee at OTHELLO’S did EXHILARATE

1998 Regular visits back to the UK would DISCOMBOBULATE Rosemary. For a start, two summers each year. Crazy! Even though intriguing in-laws and children would ACCOMMODATE, there were also boats and Vans to NEGOTIATE. And with the Lears, from time to time, and Deanne, for a year did try to INVESTIGATE exciting foreign places.

For her new career, Rosemary did RELOCATE to TAFE she did her best to NAVIGATE the system and EDUCATE the nurses and the Pet Shop Boys.

In 2008 do not STAGNATE in Brisbane!

With Heather and Andrew happily settled, dispersed, DISSEMINATED it was time to RELOCATE to Maleny, where there are

·        Yoga classes in which to ELONGATE,

·        A lovely acre in which to MEDITATE and VEGETATE.

·        Aqua aerobics to ACCELERATE,

·        GARDEN CLUB, to comprehend and NEGOTIATE,

·        Regular occasions, like this, to CELEBRATE, MASTICATE and LIBATE with MATES.

All to ward off what old age may DISINTEGRATE.

But wait, I hesitate, BUT the Twidles don’t.

Instead of RUMINATING, cryptic crosswords are PLACATING, the ever downward spiral of the DISINTEGRATING bod.

NOW

Let’s not PROCRASTINATE.

And let us charge our tea cups

To VALIDATE Rosey’s life and values,

To AUTHENTICATE all our treasured friendships with her.

And COMMEMORATE in 201 EIGHT

Happy birthday. Rosemary,

From

Ann and Don Lear

Marakech Express

It's going well. I'm glad to hear the sun is out at home.  We've had some rain too.  In fact, Don had been saying that we've  had rain every day on our holiday. - until today.  In fact, we're still on the bus trip with Len and Carol. We're in Marakech.  Snowy mountains to one side and the Saharah desert to the south.  It's warm, but not too hot. It is a beautiful city, gardens everywhere, every kind of tree and flower. The market place is a huge wide town square, crowded especially at night, straight out of central casting:-

  Monkeys,

  Snake charmers,

  Market food tables to sit and eat the food that the hawkers cook,

  Horses and elegant carriages - we had a grand ride!

  Of course, there's stuff for sale!

The last supper in Còrdoba

Shame we didn't have to many egg dishes in Spain.   There were too many interesting things on the menu vieing for our attention. The last night's dinner was a knockout. We selected various dishes to share. Pigs' cheeks slooooow cooked served with chick peas and grilled lettuce hearts in a rich gravy, Rosemary's favourite, Carol loved the deep fried aubergine  drizzled with cane sugar,and me? I could LIVE on the venison and rice, served in a soupy rice, dotted with meat and lovely mushrooms. Simple, rich and delicious.   I didn't  really even need the meat, the flavour of the soup was great.

Rosie ordered a cod fish and orange salad. Very attractive and good to eat. The plate had small bite-sized of cod around the outside and large slices of orange scattered amongst the greens.

 here was a wedding in an adjoining room.  It was pumping out a bit of noise.  Then I guess it was speech time at the wedding. And that loud music stopped.

There was a "parade passed us of older guests who were leaving.  Happy to escape the noise. 

Really terrific, fun service.  Tony, a stand-up comedian, and our waiter says yes, he will cone to Australia and open a Spanish restaurant and teach people about good Spanish food. I cant wait