Improvement. I'm still a bit forgetful but you know nothing to bad, this meal turned out quite well actually and I love sweet potato it's my favourite type of potato :P
Everything actually went really well apart from that I forgot to put the asparagus in until the last 10 minutes of the slow cooking, but it didn't make much difference. Once cooked the sweet potato literally melted in your mouth it was really tasty, the bacon did a good job adding extra flavour to this dish. Next up tonight Lemon Fool.
Still don't feel like cooking but I quickly whipped together this little number forget a few steps and just chucked it all in a bowl to be mixed up. The batter didn't look to appetising but it came out all right VERY OILY but not to bad. Once again I took very few photos so here is a nice blurry photo of the finished product.
I'm afraid I'm losing interest in this Journey I really don't want to though, I just keep forgetting things lately like taking the photos and I keep putting off cooking and saying "I'll do it tomorrow" I don't want to give up but it seems like cooking has become a chore. I also really miss some of the people in Group 2 China, I can't wait for them to get back. I need to pick up my game again starting with the next recipe I make, and if that doesn't work I will pick a really fun recipe to do this week.
:)
Tonight, I really don't feel like cooking all I want to do is relax I am that tired and I know this dinner tonight is going to turn out pretty crap. The whole idea of this recipe is basically the sauce which is like a sweet sticky steak sauce, I was worried that this was all just going to go down in flames but it actually tasted alright (the steak I mean). Dad liked the sauce and so did mum but I didn't think it was that fantastic. Silly me forgot to take a picture of the finished product but here is as good as it's going to get.
You can see by the picture of the sauce why I was worried that it would be a massive fail.
Next up Seed-Cake
May I just quickly say that I was up all night last night because of that coffee cake, didn't get to sleep until very early this morning. This evening I will be making scallops, which if you don't mind me saying smell really bad! Heres a few little fun facts, I never new that peas float and that they cook really quickly I found it really interesting watching all the little peas bobble around. You could say my chopping skills need some work because I just cant seem to nail chopping up coriander and basil etc etc. The scallops where easy to make and the pea puree was decently spicy and had a odd taste but to tell you the truth it wasn't the meal for me... mum ended up eating it... good old mum the only non fussy eater in the family.
Tomorrow I am making Seed Cake which is one of those dishes I'm just getting out of the way and Date Steak which should be nice.
I don't know if anyone knows or not but if you wish to see a certain picture in a larger scale just click on it and it will go to full size.
Yes this is something I was excited about but I did have very high expectations for it, I'm not a really a bit fan of nuts so I was worried it would have that nutty crunch to it but it didn't because I blended the sugar and walnuts into the finest of all fine... things? Anyway so I put the mixture into the oven and set the timer tasted some of the left over mixture in the bottom of the Thermomix and OH MY WOW! That was the most amazing taste I have ever experienced, I even called mum over to have a try, it was that amazing! When I took the cakes out of the oven they had really risen like man where they round so I left them for 10 minutes and came back and no joke they where as flat as a pancake!
So I continued to make the cake piecing it together perfectly, living the right amount of icing for the top, but still having enough to put in the middle and PEFECTO the cake was complete and it looked amazing, I put it in the fridge for a while so the icing wouldn't drip or melt but it did, once I took it out and cut into the cake the icing in the middle had melted oozing it wasn't that bad just a bit annoying.
This cake could possibly be even better then the chocolate one I made a few weeks earlier, it was to DIE FOR! Mum and I had to put a note on the rest of the cake so dad wouldn't eat it because I wanted to take some to my mentors house.
Tomorrow I'm making scollops (mum's favourite) sadly I'm not so keen on them the smell... kinda gross.
Marmite? Whats that? It's the English version of Vegemite :)
This dish doesn't sound very appetising but I made it, I also made a movie for it which I am doing the same thing as the last and uploading it to Youtube, so enjoy and comment.
Later on today I will be making the Coffee and Walnut Cake, I'm so excited its going to be so YUMMY!
I'll tell you what is really handy, the Thermomix It just makes blitzing up cheese all the more easier, just chuck a few hunks of Cheddar Cheese in the Thermo' and BAM! You have instant grated cheese.
Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p7Wq-BdokY
...Oh its my birthday in 22 days, just thought I would let you know :P
I think I washed my hands more than 17 times tonight, as I was paranoid that I would get some disease from the chicken because Mum told me that you have to use a different chopping board to chop everything else and its best to wash your hands after touching chicken.
I have some great news, three lots of it actually.
1. Mum bought me a apron and a oven mitt from 'the Chefs Toolbox' to join my collection of sauté pans and spatulas.
2. I found it! The official Julie Powell Blog!!! I was so excited, I found out she also has another blog on the same website as mine about her everyday life! I will put the links down the bottom if you want to have a look.
3. Uhhh... You know when your writing a list of things down and you forget the last one... yeah that just happened, oh well I'll probably remember it later :)
Spatchcocked Poussin, or as we had to call it 'Spatchcocked Chicken' we decided to get chicken because it was bigger. The recipe was pretty simple actually...wash your hands one billion times, coat the chicken in spices, fry some bread (yum) and roast pine nuts (second times the charm)!
Once it was cooked place the chicken on a bed of greens and enjoy! As I am not much of a chicken fan the meal wasn't that appetising to me, my parents liked it but it was a bit of an average meal apart from the bread!! Mum and I have come to the conclusion (no offence intended Nigella) that Nigella's sauces aren't quite to our taste buds, the greasy bitter taste isn't the most satisfying treat of a night, so I have put two and two together and I'm not going to make many of her sauces anymore, and if I do I'll add my own flair to it.
I've decided to make movies every ten or so recipes depending on the extremeness of the recipe, I'm having a break for a few days to get back into the school vibe, but coming up is Spaghetti with Marmite Aussie style and something I have been looking forward to for a while Coffee and Walnut Layer Cake.
As Nigella would say "I don't believe in low-fat cooking".
Here is her Julie /Julia Blog: http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html
Here is her other blog: http://juliepowell.blogspot.com/
Improvement. I'm still a bit forgetful but you know nothing to bad, this meal turned out quite well actually and I love sweet potato it's my favourite type of potato :P
