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

India Traveling 2012

My mom is an India and bollywood fan and she traveled with her friend in India this March. Here some photos made in a video with bollywood music Sonu Nigam, Acon etc.... Enjoy the show.




Tell me if you liked it also if you want any information: stregana@yahoo.de

Suprise Bunny

Bunny Toy with suprise

Easter is comming and for smaller kids who wants little gifts when you are comming

could this be somethings for you. I found a bunny toy post @craft-craft.net and
turned it into a Soft Bunny Toy with Easter suprise. I couldn't find any pattern so I
made it by my own with the paint program. I also changed a few things as the original
post shows. You can sew it by hand or with your sewing machine.

If you want my pattern just ask me

or write to: stregana@yahoo.de

Let's make an Easter bunny!!!

You will need:

- bunny pattern

- 2 kinds of fabric (I used an old white t-shirt & some left over colored coton fabic)

- glitter glue (I used red glitter creme & pink nail glitter for the nose)

- pins

- freezer paper

- eyes on paper

- cutter

- cutting pad

- textil color in black

- paint brush

- iron

- seam fix

- wool thread (I used white thread for nose hair)
- needle

- stuffing

- pen or tailor's chalk

- scissors

and of course: - flat candy (I used a flat chocolate easter bunny wraped in foil)

Cut out a pattern. Draw now (2x body, 8x arms and legs, 4x ears) on the wrong side

of your white fabrics with 1 cm extra for the seam and cut it also. Draw 2x inner

ears, 1x belly, 1 tail & 1 pocket on your colored fabric but with no extra cm seam

exept the belly 1 cm where you sew it and cut it also.

 Fix the tail, inner ears and belly part with seam fix or pins on body and ears. Aply it

by hand or with your sewing machine on the bunny segments. Make from a rectangle

part(not bigger than the belly a little pocket. Aply it on belly part with open up.

Sew ears with wrong side in together and pull right side out. Sew arms & legs and

pull out. Pin ears, arms and legs between the 2 body parts(wrong side out) in place.

Sew everthing togehter and let  an oping for stuffing. Stuff the bunny and close it

by hand.

Draw some eyes on freezer paper and cut out. Iron freezer paper with glossy side on
bunny. Use a paint brush to fill out the eyes with black textil color. Remove freezer
paper and let dry. Paint a nose with glitter glue or glitter creme & nail glitter and
let dry. When it is dried take a needle and make some nose hair.

(this is totally optional hmm does a bunny has nose hair??? lol)

Last thing of course take candy and give it in your bunny's belly bag.

Finished!!!

to everyone

Twilight BD Night

Finally part 1 of  Twilight Breaking Dawn is out on DVD in Germany.

And my friend is so crazy about it that she asked me for a Twilight DVD "session" lol.

Van you resist when your best friend ask you for such amazing sexy wolfy awww

I don't know how to tell ya. I don't so we will watch the movie.

Probally if you were a tiny little mouse in our home you might need some oropax

or earmuffs or you could take it with awwwww owwwww.

Ok, where are my pretzel my drink my tissus c'mon I want to see it now.

Don't ya??

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