Flavorful Pancakes

Carrot Cocos Pancakes

today I became hungry for pancakes. I went in my kitchen and found some carrots,

some dryed coconut flackes. I thought that could be good ingredients with pancakes.

Flavorful pc with little crunchyness, awwwwwwww.  I did not fallow any recipe so

feel free. I just put together some things.

Lets go for about 9 small pancakes:

1 egg

1 cup flour

1 dash of salt

1 tbsp baking powder

1 tsp veggie oil

1/4 cup milk or more

1 dash vanilla, to taste

1 medium carrot

3 tsp dried coconut flakes

butter or magerine for pan

extra: syrub, whiped cream or fruits

Preparation:

1. Mix the egg with milk, oil & vanilla. Than add flour, salt,

baking powder and stir. The batter should be thicker as for crêpes.

2. Wash & peel the carrot. Shredd the carrot very fine. So, first mix coconut

in than shredded carrot and set aside for 10 Minutes.

3. Heat your pan to medium high. Melt some butter or magerine. For 1 pancake

bring 1 tablespoon of the batter to the pan flat it out a little bit and bake

until golden brown on each side and serve with your favorit topings like

wipped cream, syrub or fruits.

Enjoy!!!

" Can you see carrot sprinkles? "

Chocolate Streusel Cake

Who does not love cakeeeeeeeeee.

Streusel is one of my favorit cake toppings. It's buttery, a little salty and sugary.

Today I made a streusel cake recipe what was written on one sugar packet by sweet

family. It's an original North German chokolate streusel cake recipe.

Chocolate Streusel Cake

ok you will need:

cake: 150 g soft butter

150 g bown sugar

5 eggs

100 g bread crumbs

100 g ground hasel nuts or other

100 g chocolate sprinkles (I used dark chocolate)

2 tbsp all purpose flour

2 tbsp unsweetned cocoa powder

2 tsp backing powder (leveled)

streusel: 85 g  butter

100 g all purpose flour

85 g brown sugar

1 pinch of salt

cake mold

tooth pick

extra grease

Preparation:

Start by heat the oven to 185°C.

Grease a cake form.

Mix in a bol the butter creamy. Beat in eggs one by one. Mix in sugar.

Add nuts, bread crumbs, flour, cocoa powder, choko streusel and baking powder.

Combine everything well.

Fill the cake form with you cake mix and bake for 25 - 30 minutes.

Meanwhile prepare streusel. Mix butter, flour, sugar and salt in a bol. But not to long.

Only until you have crumbly streusel.

After the 30 minutes baking the cake add the streusel on top and keep baking for an

other 25 - 30 minutes until top is golden brown. The cake is read if nothing stuck on

your tooth pick. Let it cool complete before serving.

Enjoy!!!

notes: I cut the cake with a bread knife because the streusel are very stif.

 It's so yummy.

If you like try it with ground coconut or almonds.

Turn the cake into chokolate streusel muffin.

Mini Fruit Pies

Summer is comming and thx god my father has a garden.

when he comes from work on friday hes practical in his garden

cleaning it and picking fruits. Right now we gaining fresh

cherries & strawberries. This year we have to much. My mom is

making marmelade on high and me I'm  tried to make pies out

of my fresh fruits. I decided to make pie. They don't look prof

but like mini pies.

Let's go!!!

Mini Cherry Pies

for the filling:

about 700 g fresh fruits (I used cherries)

about 1 cups of sugar

about 4 tbsp cornstarch (I used normal food starch)

a dash of vanilla or lemon juice

for the dough:

200 g sugar

200 g of butter

300 g flour

a dash salt

a dash vanilla (or a little package vanilla sugar)
extra grease & flour for

a muffin tray for 12 muffins

or take shortcrust mix from your local market and prepare
or pie crust stuff

Preparation:

Pitt your cherries, place cherries, sugar, vanilla, starch in a heavy-bottomed pan.

Heat on medium until cherries begin to give their liquid. Bring to a boil but stir

constantly. Reduce the heat until cherry mixture beginns to thicken.

Allow to cool.

Heat your oven to 175°C.

For the dough combine sugar, butter, flour, salt and vanilla in a bol together

until you get "streusel". Set aside.

Grease your muffin tray ad dust with flour. Take 2/3 of your dough make 12 balls

and fill your muffin molds. Press and form little "baskets". Fill with your cooled

fruit filling. Cover with the rest of the dough as strips, streusel or your favorite

cookie shape, but leave holes for the steam.

Bake the pies until the top turnes golden brown. Let the pies cool completly and

Enjoy.

 

The rest fillng I stored in my freezer

11.06.2012: today I made strawberry pie filling. I had to add 1 tbsp more starch for thickness. It turned out really nice.

Easy Sauce Hollandaise

Sauce Hollandaise

.......... is an emulsion of egg yolk and butter, usually seasoned

with lemon juice, salt, and a little white pepper or cayenne pepper.

ok it's a low fat thing and nothing for dieting but for aspergus

the best sauce in the world. 2 Month a year you can eat aspergus.

Well it's aspergus time right now so we gonna make it. Yummi.

A Lot of restaurant serve aspergus & sauce h. with potatos & slices of ham.

2 importent things are steaming and stiring.

for 2 Portions you will need:

1 egg yolk

110g butter

2 tbsp white wine or apple juice

1/2 tbsp lemon juice

salt & pepper to taste

1 pot about 1,5 liter

a bol that fits the pot

mixer or wisk

Preparion:

1. Bring a litte amount of water in your pot to boil.

2. Melt your butter (microwave).

3. Give the egg yolk & the wine in your bol. Lightly mix.

4. Put the bol on top of your pot with boiling water and start mixing.

The pot should not touch the boling water only steam.

5. Add butter little by little. Keep stiring!

Taste with salt & pepper. Keep stiring.

6. After a few minutes of mixing it starts to thicken.

Add the lemon juice. Than it's ready to serve.

Enjoy with aspergus & potatos ^^.

Coconut Milo Muffins

Coconut + Milo + Recipe = yummi Muffins

Originally by Melissa Klemke. She is a freelance writer and a

family food enthusiast. She blogs food, fun and frugality of her family

of five at Frills in the Hills.

I found the milo muffin recipe @Essential Kids. But I changed
recipe ok I add coconut becaus I think it taste much better. And
 I used wheat + spelled flour and a little more backing powder.
For decoration I used powdered sugar.

Excellent for your kid's bento box.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups flour

2/3 cup milo / ovomaltine(EU)

1 egg

2/3 cup milk

2/3 cup  sugar

2/3 unsweetened coconut

1 tsp baking powder

60g butter, melted

chocolate, melted (optional)
choco drops (optional)
powdered sugar (optional)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 190 °C. Grease a muffin tray or line it with muffin papers.

2. In a bowl add all ingredients, beat everything until smooth.

3. Pour into muffin or cupcake papers until 3/4 full.

4. Bake for 25-30 minutes.

5. Optional decorate the cooled muffins with melted chocolate & choco drops,
or just powdered sgugar.

Flower Poppy Seed Buns

Poppy Seed Flower Bun

I addabted this recipe from: Sugar & Everything Nice

Originally it's with red bean paste but I don't had it so I did it with a ready poppy

seed mix. It's so yummy. I guess you can fill it with any paste or pasty things you

want. Try it wit jam or vanilla pudding. The dough is very elastic: I let it raise for

two hours it turned out fantastic. Ideal for a bento treat just make them

smaller than.

Just try it!

Ingredients:

143g fresh milk

35g egg (about 1/2 an egg)

25g caster sugar

1/4 tsp salt

250g flour

4g instant yeast

38g butter (unsalted)

coarse sugar for top
backing sheet & tray

For the Filing: Store bought poppy seed paste

Preparation:

1. Place milk, egg, followed by caster sugar, salt, bread flour and yeast into a large mixing bowl. Knead the mixture for about 12 to 15 minutes with your hand or your KA. If the dough is still moist, sprinkle with a little bit more flour. The dough should be kneaded until it forms a ball and is no longer sticking to the side of the mixing bowl.

2. Lightly oil a separate bowl. Remove dough from the mixing bowl and place in th oiled dough. Coat the dough with the oil and then cover the bowl with cling wrap. Let proof for 60 mins or longer until the dough has dobbled volume.

3. Remove dough and punch out the gas.

4. Divide dough into 60g pieces and shape into balls. Let the doughs rest and relax for 20 mins. (this ‘relaxing’ time is needed so that the dough will be easier to roll out and shaped). Lightly cover with cling wrap.

5. On a lightly floured surface, flatten one dough into a round disk. Place 35g of poppy seed paste (rolled into a ball) in the middle of the disk and wrap the filing with the dough. Pinch the joints to ensure that each dough ball is sealed completed.

6. Again, flatten the ball down using a rolling pin. Using a scissors, make deep cuts all the way down around the dough. This will give the bread the flower shape. Give them on backing tray lined with backing sheet.

7. Brush the top of the bread with melted butter or the leftover egg and then sprinkle with coarse sugar. Bake in a pre-heated oven of 190C for about 18 - 25 minutes. Turn buns and bakes bottoms for anothe 5 min.

any question???

Creamy Vegetable Soup

Low Fat Creamy Vegetable Soup

without cream☺

I was hungry for some vegetable soup. I had fresh and some

frozen vegetable to choice. You can take only one vegetable or

so many you want to. This is exellent for your rainbow kitchen.

As you see on the pic my soup turned orange and it's so yummi.

It's healthy and ideal for a diet plan and to go. It's creamy
without cream just because of blending.

For 4 portions I used:

1 tsp butter or oil

3 medium onions

1 tbsp tomato paste

a dash of asafoetida (optional)

ground curry

ground cumin

ground paprica

1/4 cauliflower

apple juice for wipe off

3 medium potatos

2 carrots

1/4 zucchini

handful frozen green beans

2 handful frozen pumkin

about 1 litre broth / stock

salt

pepper

a dash of nutmeg

cherry tomatos

some chive or parsley strings

 

Prepartion:

1. Wash and cut all your veggies into chunks.

2. Heat the butter in a pot. Sauté onions with tomato paste, curry, cumin,

asafoetida and paprica. Add cauliflower and cook for for to minutes.

Wipe off with apple juice.

3. Add all the other veggies and cover it with broth. Keep a few cherry

tomatos or soft veggie pieces for decoration. Spice it up with salt & pepper.

Cook until all veggies are soft. Let cool the soup half way.

4. Last puré or blend the soup until smooth and give back in the pot.

Maybe heat up soup again. Serve with sliced cherry tomatos & chives

or parsley and with your fave toasted bread.

super simple, isn't it?

any question to: stregana@yahoo.de

Vanilla Muffins Everywhere

Vanilla Muffins
with coconut flavour

Yesterday I visit my friend again. Just one hour befor leaving the house

I made some vanilla muffins with a dash of coconut. Perfect for cupcakes.

I prefer just muffins with some powdered sugar topping or chocolate.

for about 12 vanilla muffins you need:

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup caster sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 tbsp backing powder (lvl spoonful)

1/3 cup of unsweetened dry coconut

1/2 tbsp vanilla extract or 1 packages of vanilla sugar

1 cup milk

1 large egg

topping (all optional):

3 tbsp powdered sugar

1 tsp cocoa powder or milo

1 tbsp water or lemon juice

or melted chocolate

sprinkles

1. In a large bowl, siff in flour, baking powder, add sugar, salt and coconut flakes.

Mix well.

2. In a small bowl, combine together milk, egg, melted butter and vanilla.

3. Pour milk mixture over the dry ingredients. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

4. Transfer batter mix into a greased and paper lined or silicon muffin tins and bake

    at 400° F for 20 minutes. Let't them cool completly on a wire rack.

5. Toppings:

1. mix powdered sugar and water

2. mix powdered sugar and lemon juice

3. powdered sugar, cocoa powder and water

4. powdered sugar, milo and water

5. melted chocolate
6. powdered sugar or cocoa powder

or any frosting you like

add sprinkles over still liquid toppings, let dry

I decided for milo & just cocoa powder topping. Both taste good and not so sweet.

Seahorse Key Chain

Seahorse Key Chain or Bookmark

They are cute and so wild. They are mainly found in shallow tropical and

temperate waters throughout the world, and prefer to live in sheltered areas

such as seagrass beds, estuaries, coral reefs, or mangroves.

I talk about seahorses. Only the seahorse man delivery 100 - 200 babies.

I watched online for some seahorse infos as I got an idea on this

green seahorse pic. I found it @www.123rf.com.

I thought about an new key chain. I looked in my fabric box and I

choose my leatherette for it. I made a green and a black one.

It's about 12 to 9 cm(4.72 to 3.54 inch).

Let's go!!!

for one seahorse chain you need:

some leatherette about 26 x 10 cm (10.24 x 3.94 inch)

(in black, limegreen, purple etc.)

some felt  in 13 x 10 cm (5,12 x 3.94 inch)(what fits with your leaherette)

2 moving eyes 1,5 cm (0.59 inch)

a needle and thread

scissors

a key ring

a seahorse pattern

a satin ribbon (optional)

glue for fixing

 1. print out two seahorse pic. You need one pattern with "hair" one without.

As you see I changed the "hair" to cut out better.

2. Draw and cut 2 leatherette template without "hair" on felt template with

"hair" as the pictures shows. Cut a piece of satin ribbon and thraed the keyring

through it. Fix the felt body & satin ribbon with key ring between leatherette

bodies with some drops of glue. Let it dry.

 

3. Needle it together with easy step stich - - - , --- - - -, ---------(2 rounds)

or your sewing machine. Trim exase felt. At least attach the moving eyes with
little drops of glue on each side of the seahorse.

Finished!

 

If you want it as bookmark ok just miss out the moving eyes, just paint it it.

Or you want to apply on a seahorse on a shirt. Just make a bigger pattern and

stitch it on than use big knobs for eyes it's washable.

for any question write me a mail: stregana@yahoo.de

Welcome Spring

 Spring, Picknik & more...

 

Everything greens, colourful flowers blooming, little bugs making noises.

It's my favorite time all year. Not to warm not to cold.

Well what about a picknik or BBQ evening to celebrate spring.

Ya picknig no grilling no better both things together.

 So grap your bike, your family, your picknik stuff and have a nice time outside.

  

What is your fave BBQ food and where do you wanna be pickniking?

In my picknik bag I must have some veggies, chicken, sparkling water,

some watermelon and sometime sweet stuff.

my father has a garden and he loves it to grill. While he is working lol I make the food.

for the veggies  I cut my veggies like potatoes, zucchini, tomatos, bell paper, aspergus, mushrooms. I in chunks wrapped in alu foil packets and grill it.

for the meat I like to use chicken marinated in oil, ground paprica, ground curry,
salt and pepper grilled & served with toasted bread

for a sweet thing in your bag here Spring cupcakes with jelly beans

(found this recipe @http://www.jellybelly.com/)

Ingredients:

Standard cupcakes or Mini cupcakes

1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting

Assorted food coloring, (green, yellow, red, purple, orange)

Assorted Jelly Belly jelly beans, Sunkist Orange, Bubble Gum, French Vanilla,

Island Punch, Sour Lemon, Cantaloupe, and Cotton Candy.

Bunny Corn® by Jelly Belly (only available in Spring)

Fruit Sours by Jelly Belly

Jordan Almonds by Jelly Belly

Licorice Pastels by Jelly Belly

Mint Cremes by Jelly Belly

Instructions:

1. Divide and tint the vanilla frosting into the desired colors with the food coloring.
Cover the frosting with plastic wrap until ready to use.


2. Pick the desired cupcake and frosting color. Spread the frosting on top of th
 cupcake. Arrange the Jelly Belly beans, side by side, along the outside edge of
the cupcake. Continue with another color Jelly Belly beans. Insert a few Licorice
Pastels in the center.


3. Have fun mixing and matching the candies into flowers as shown.

Don't worry if you don't have jelly beans try to use m & ms.

Lentil & Pea Stew

Lentil & Pea Stew

I make soups & stews all year and one of my favorite things what I make a soup
from are lentils. Lentil have a lot of vitamins, fibres & minerals. I make this for
my mom because she works during the aspergus time and I want her to be filled
up with something good and made with ♥♥♥. ^^

My stew brings channa dal, brown lentils & yellow peas together. I used 3 kind of
lentil & peas because I wanted them out of the kitchen. You can use lentils & peas
or just lentils or just peas. It's better to soak dry peas over night in water because they
are bigger than lentils & channa dal. Íf you wanna soak also the lentil and dal do
it in a sepeate bol.

If you are vegetarian leaf the meat out. It's a healthy stew also for diet.

Ok, let's make a pot.........

Ingredients:

625 g dry lentils & peas

2 chicken breasts

3 medium onions

1 tbsp butter or oil

1 leek

2 spring onion

2 medium carrots

5 medium potatos

some tomatos

ground black pepper

salt

1 pinch of asafoetida

ground cumin

ground curry

ground paprica

1 litre stock

150 ml apple juice

Preparation:

1. Wash lentils & peas in water until clear. Put them in a big pot and leaf them in clear
water over night but soak big dry peas in a separate bol or pot. Next day: don't rinse
the lentils. Cook with water. Bring first the yellow peas to boil. Cook for about 15
minutes. Than add brown lentils and channa dal. Cook everthing until soft.
Notice: cook without salt otherwise it can happen that the lentils
and peas won't cook soft.

2. Meanwhile wash, peel & cut veggies & chicken breast into chunks or rings.
Set veggies aside.

3. Heat butter in a pan. Sauté onions and chicken breast & spice it up with salt,

black pepper, curry & asafoetida. Cook for about 3 minutes. Set aside.

4. Add potatos, leek, spring onions, carrots & stock to lentils mix. Also add salt,

black pepper, curry, paprica, cumin to taste. Cook until veggies get soft. Than add
apple juice, sautéd onions & chicken breast. Maybe taste again with salt & pepper.
Cook until everything is soft. Turn heat off. Finally add cutted tomatos. Let stand
for 10 minutes. Serve with any bread you like.

Tip: For all chilli lovers add harissa or other chilli paste.

Soooooo yummi