Recipe sharing

Bumping this to see what people are cooking this weekend, I am going to make marmalade!?!?!? slightly apprhensive but fingers crossed!!

Haven't done this one in a while but used to do it lots:

2 tablesppons clear honey

4 chicken thighs

2 tablespoons soy sauce

zest and juice of 1 orange

2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil

Fresh egg noodles

Mixed stir fry vegetables

Preheat the oven to 200°C, fan 180°C, gas 6.

In an ovenproof bowl, mix the honey, soy sauce, orange zest and juice and sesame oil to make a glaze and add the chicken (I leave the chicken in there for half hour before cooking).

Cook for 45-50 minutes until the chicken is cooked through, turning it in the juices a couple of times as it cooks.

When the chicken is almost ready, cook the noodles and vegetables

Serve!

OOoh some yummy recipes! Will try yours Rae. I am, as we speak making rosemary shortbread. Last night I cooked my friend Jamie's Libyan chicken which is LUSH.

Jamie's Libyan Chicken

Chicken thighs (skin on or off - up to you)

Few sprigs of rosemary

1.5 tbsps each of thyme, turmeric, cinnamon and chilli powder to taste.

few dollops of corn oil or similar

juice of 2 lemons

2-3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped.

Potatoes - chopped into small chunks

METHOD: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Combine the herbs (bar the rosemary), lemon juice, oil and garlic together to form a marinade. Cover the chicken and potatoes in the marinade and rub in. Put the rosemary sprigs under the chicken & potatoes. Leave for 20 mins or so until oven has preheated. Cover with foil and bung in oven. Cook for one hour then remove from oven and take foil off. Cook uncovered for 15 mins.

What a great idea.... pity i cant cook. But maybe this thread will spur me on. (you might have to explain it as if I'm 5 years old though lol)

I heard a couple of mentions of millionaires shortbread earlier on this thread - would really appreciate a recipe as when i have made it has always been a bit of a caramel disaster area!

HKJ I shall post my recipe tomorrow for you. The caramel was dead easy and turned out really well in it.

P.S. I am busy baking today and will post some pics of what I have made:

Cheese and thyme biccies, white soda bread and churros (Spanish cinnamon doughnuts)

Don't know if anyones interested but tescos are going wild salmon sides for a fiver on special offer at the mo, we're having one tonight yummy

So, this weekend as I mentioned, I have made: churros, cheese & thyme biccies, soda bread and now making Lahori lamb curry. I shall try and post pics/ recipes during the week.

On Friday I am making lasagne, a couple of lemon drizzle cakes and a carrot cake for a friend's memorial so shall post those recipes too!

Well I have been rubbish and made nothing but vegetable soup this weekend and didnt get round to my marmalade at all so will have to do that this week!

just to try and be a bit useful someone asked for a recipe for millionaire shortbread so here is mine, it has been very popular

I want to share with you a recipie that i've tested on my fiance this sunday

It's called Italian Chicken. I'm not an inventor of it, i found it online.

2 Free Range Chicken Breasts
1 Tin Plum Tomatoes
1 Courgette
2 Cloves Chopped Garlic
Mushrooms chopped
Basil
Mozzarella Cheese (for topping)
Black Pepper to taste

1. Sear the Chicken on each side and set aside.
2. Fry your chopped garlic, courgette and mushrooms for 3 mins
3. Add tin of tomatoes and season with salt and pepper
4. In a baking dish put your chicken in and pour your tomatoe mixture over it.
5. Tear some Mozzerala and basil leaves on top.
6. Place in a moderate oven for 45-50 mins (200 degrees)
7. Serve with fresh pasta and a crisp green salad

Whole recipe with picture of this meal you have here: Italian Chicken

My dinner didn't look that good, but was very tasty

take care and have a nice meal!

Forgot all about this thread!

I tried this BBC Good Food recipe at the weekend with brilliant results. OH doesn't really like anything sweet but demolished half the cake!

Cinnamon Nutella Cake:

Ingredients

• 175g softened butter
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 200g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 4 tbsp milk
• 4 rounded tbsp Nutella or own-brand chocolate hazlenut spread
• 50g hazelnuts , roughly chopped

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4/ fan 160C. Butter and line the base of a 20cm round cake tin.
2. Put the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, cinnamon and milk into a bowl. Beat with a wooden spoon for 2-3 minutes, or with an electric hand mixer for 1-2 minutes, until light and fluffy.
3. Tip three quarters of the mixture into the tin, spread it level, then spoon the Nutella on in four blobs. Top with the remaining mixture, swirl a few times with a skewer, then smooth to cover the Nutella.
4. Sprinkle with the nuts. Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes, until risen, nicely browned, feels firm to touch and springs back when lightly pressed (cover with foil if it starts to brown too quickly). Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out, peel off the paper and cool on a wire rack. Wrap tightly in double thick foil to keep fresh for up to a week.

Serves 12 (or 1 very naughty OH!)

That sounds really special ililacit will have to give it a go!

Oooh, never spotted this thread first time around but as the Hitcher FionaTS78 recommended the chocolate fudge recipe to I can honestly say that, while it's not exactly easy on the waistline, it is delicious (specially if you dust the tray with cocoa before you put the mix in it). I put this in my mum and dad's Christmas hamper and it was very popular.

So glad it well down well still need to try it myself but I did make this over xmas found on bbc website and it was fantastic went down a treat. Very yummy

Here's a recipe from Nigella Lawson's 'Kitchen' book. I made it as a dessert for a dinner party I went to on NYE and it was a big hit:

Lemon meringue fool

MAKES ENOUGH TO FILL 4 SMALL MARTINI GLASSES OR 2 GOBLETS FOR GREEDY PEOPLE

150g good-quality shop-bought lemon curd, plus a little to decorate

1-2 teaspoons limoncello (lemon liqueur) or lemon juice

250ml double cream

1 meringue nest (shop-bought is fine) lemon zest, to serve

Put the lemon curd into a bowl and stir in the limoncello (or lemon juice), adding more if it seems too thick to fold into some whipped cream in a moment.

Pour the double cream into another bowl and whisk until just thick. It should be holding its shape but not so thickly whipped that it looks dry: it will thicken more as you fold in the lemon curd.

Drizzle half the lemon curd mixture over the cream and fold in with a rubber spatula, then do the same with the remaining half. You don't want it all folded in completely: whipped cream rippled with lemon is what you're aiming for.

Crumble the meringue nest with your fingers into the fool, and gently fold most of this into mix.. Spoon it into 4 small martini glasses (or fill 2 larger goblets) and decorate with some lemon zest curls and a drizzle of lemon curd, scraped out of the bottom of the bowl it was mixed in, or spooned out of a jar. If you have any fine biscuits - think along the lines of langues de chat (cat's tongue biscuits) - for eating alongside, put them on the table on serving.

MAKE AHEAD NOTE

The fool can be made 2-3 hours ahead. Spoon into glasses then cover and refrigerate. Decorate as directed in recipe.

FREEZE NOTE

The fool can be frozen for up to 3 months, though the meringue will go soft. Spoon into freezerproof glasses and wrap each in double layer of clingfilm. Defrost overnight in fridge and decorate as in recipe.

As you can see, I am a greedy person:

I decided to grate some dark chocolate on top too.

Wish I'd seen this earlier I could have shared the cauliflower macaroni thing I made for tea from my new Jamie Oliver book. Will be joining in as soon as I get my laptop back. Would take too long to share on iPad! You've just inspired me to start a thread I thought of ages ago.

You can still share it Zippy, sounds yummy

It must good for my OH to gobble nearly the whole thing. I've added pictures now, before and after my OH got at it! ?

Mmm looks yummy, my OH has banned me from baking after our christams excess but i will try and tempt him round with this lol ?

Hello again.

Yesterday for dinner i baked chicken with potatos and red onions.

It's very easy.

In a recipe i give you wine is included. But i made it without it, becouse i % while driving (i had to go somewhere after dinner) is illegal. By the way, what do you think about it? While baking or frying a meal with wine - % disappear or not?

Here is whole recipe: baked chicken with potatoes and red onions

My home made Spinach and Ricotta Canneloni -

Ingredients -

2 large bags of baby spinach

2 pots of ricotta cheese

2 tins of chopped tomatoes (I buy them with herbs as it gives a nicer taste IMO)

2 cloves of garlic

grated cheese

Method -

Wilt psinach in a frying pan/wok with 1 of the cloves of garlic that you have previously chopped, once all the spinach has wilted place in a bowl to cool.

Whilst cooling pour the 2 tins of tomatoes into a pan and then fill 1 of the empty tins with water and that to the pan also, along with the 2nd chopped garlic clove.

Go back to the spinach and squeeze the excess liquid from the spinach but save the liquid! Chop the spinach quite finely and add back to the liquid once all chopped and add the 2 pots of ricotta, mix well until all mixed together.

Add this mixture then to the canneloni tubes which is incredibly messy.. once all the tubes are filled place in an ovenproof dish but make sure that the tubes are all laying flat and none on top of each other, then pour the tomato mixture over the tubes which will more than cover them but thats fine, cover this with the grated cheese and place in oven for about 30-40 minutes and serve...

This is a gorgeous meal@

EASTER LAMB

Cubed caserole lamb 1.25kg ..cut into small cubes

Roughtly 5 tbsp EV olive oil

750 ..800gm peeled floury pots cut into 5mm thick slices

375gm small tomatoes halved

Handful of flat leaf parsely

3 large cloves garlic chopped

100gm grated parmesan

Salt & ground black Pepper

In a casserole dish pour 2tbsps olive oil. Spread one third of the sliced pots over ,season,then scatter half the meat over ..season again. Remove seeds from toms. Scatter half the toms, parsley and garlic over the lamb, season .Then half the cheese and another tbsp olive oil. Season .Then another third of the pots ,rest of the meat and the rest of the toms,garlic etc.

Cover with the remaining pots season again sprinkle more cheese on top and the rest of the olive oil . Cover and bake for 30 mins Then uncover and bake for about an hour until the lamb and pots are tender and it has a cheesey crust .

Quick chicken pie

4 chicken fillets diced

750g mixed vege

4 large potatos

bachelors low fat chicken soup

chicken stock cube

1) fry chicken in fry lite until browned

2) par boil potatoes

3) steam vege (i usually do them in microwave)

4) make up the bachelors soup (mix with can of water)

In a casserole dish, place the cooked chicken at the bottom & crumble over the stock cube

add the vege, mix up and pour over the soup.

Slice the potatoes over & et viola!

I usually make it the night before so the next nite put in oven for 45 min covered with tinfoil & for the last 15 min take the tin foil off & spray with fry lite to crisp them up.

Usually have it with baby boiled potatoes as well & this feds us both for 2 nites so handy that way - just heat it microwave the 2nd nite.

On SW over 2nites between 2 people thats 2syns each for the soup.

We had Chicken fried rice from the Chinese Food made Easy cookbook

http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/271514/Ching-He-Huang-s-chicken-fried-rice

KBS I LOVE Spinach and Ricotta pasta!! I may need to sample this recipe!! x

Hi, another family approved recipe from me

Yesterday i made Orange cake.

It's fast, nice and easy. Recipe prepared by Jill Dupleix.

500g butter
500g castor sugar
8 x 60g eggs
1 tbsp grated orange zest
500g self-raising flour
200ml freshly squeezed orange juice
Icing: 250g icing sugar and 50ml orange juice

Heat the oven to 170C/Gas 3. You will need a 30 cm cake tin with removable sides, lined with non-stick silicone paper (eg Bakewell), or well-greased with butter.

Cream the butter and sugar well, until it is very pale and thick - this will take quite a while.

Add the eggs one by one, beating well after each addition, and the zest, if using. Add the flour all at once, and beat well, then slowly add the orange juice, until it is incorporated.

Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin, and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes - or until an inserted skewer comes out clean (slow is best, so don' t be afraid to cook it longer. If it starts to brown too much on the top, cover loosely with a sheet of buttered kitchen foil.)

Leave the cake in the tin on a wire rack to cool, then gently remove the sides of the tin.

To make the icing, stir the orange juice into the icing sugar until you have the right spreading consistency, and apply with a palette knife, allowing the icing to drip down the sides of the cake. Leave the icing to set before cutting the cake into wedges or storing in an airtight container

Link to whole recipe with photo is here: Orange cake.

I've added sliced oranges on the top It's very good recipe for: OMG they are coming today in two hours?! Not tomorow?!

Take care all and have a great weekend!

Re the alcohol in your cooking, it depends how it is cooked weather it remains in the food, if you boil the wine (or whatever alcoholic drink it is) I believe that as alcohol has a lower boiling point then water it will boil off all or most of the alcohol in the food (obviously depending on how long it is boiled for and how alcoholic it was IYSWIM