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Sunday, 9 March 2014

Nice & easy vegetarian Cornish Pasties that my little boy loves!

Another of Charlie's favourites, and this is a recipe that I got right. They turned out beautifully and they are so, so easy to make - no scales required!

2 cups plain flour

1 cup butter

1 cup vegetable fat (I used Stork - it worked)

1 (or 2) onions

1 cup of grated carrot

3 cups of potato chunks

1 cup cold water

1 cup milk

300g Quorn/soya mince

3 veg stock cubes

1 tin of sweet corn (wasn't in the mood to pay 3 quid for a fresh cob!)

Fill a cup of grated carrot
Peal & chop potatoes into 3 cups. Optional potato shapes! :)
Boil potatoes until they slide off the fork & mash with milk & butter.
Fry sweet corn, onion, carrot & mince - add one jug of veg stock gravy to the pan.
Mix flour & fats together until breadcrumb consistency - add milk and water until it forms a sticky dough.
Do lots and lots and lots and lots of kneading - adding flour generously!

Roll out the dough - really important that it's a small, thick circle so it won't tear.
Dollop in your mixture (Or 'elegantly place' if you want)
Close up the sides & squish together
Glaze with a mixture of melted butter & milk
Bake in the oven 10 mins gas mark 7 & then 20 mins gas mark 4

Nice one mammy! :)

Friday, 7 March 2014

Quinoa veggie burgers!


Charlie LOVES these. And They're just brilliant because you can pack soooo much into them and add so many flavours - and different ingredients every time. They're probably pretty time consuming so if you have a little monkey make sure they're out having some daddy bonding time or something! They're easy to make. If I can do it then you can! They're so, so nutritious. I'm not even going to list all the nutritional info - lets just say they have everything including being packed with protein from the quinoa! You can pick the veggies you love but here's what I used: (Excuse the alcohol - it's left over from Christmas - people always buy us it and we never drink it!) Sweet potatos x 2 Quinoa grain (Which you soak overnight first) Sherlots x 3 Red pepper x 2 Cherry tomatos (a fair few!) 3 x carrots 1x suede cubed. Flaxseed Smoked paprika Garlic powder Mixed herbs Cashew nuts Lemon juice I was also going to use butterbeans but didn't feel like I needed to in the end.

Boil/steam the sweet potatos, carrot & suede
until they're mashable.

Boil the quinoa (keen-wah!) for 30 mins in boiling water with herbs & smoked paprika.

Fry the red pepper, sherlots, tomatos, sprinkling in smoked paprika, onion powder, mixed herbs & lemon juice.

Crush the cashew nuts & sprinkle them into the frying pan.

Mix together the mashed sweet potato, carrot & suede and the boiled quinoa.

Mix the fried veg with the mash & quinoa.

Squish it all together (nice and messy!)

Add flax seed liberally - it's a super food and it'll help it form a less gooey mixture.

Form into burger shapes (Yorkshire pudding trays really help!)

Cook - gas mark 6 for 30 mins, keep checking, attempt to turn over!

I made a cheese & chive sauce using alrpo soya milk, sunflower spread, whole meal flower, cheese & fresh chives & lemon juice.

Worked SO well with the burgers!

Charlie "Two spoons" :)

Thursday, 27 February 2014

This is something I've wanted to do for ages. I know Charlie is still a bit young but he loves to explore things & I thought he might enjoy feeling the textures of the toppings and watching us create a face for him.