Vegetable Soup
Cut in cubes the following: 1 onion, 3 carrots, 1/2 c. turnip, 2 branches of celery, 2/3 c. cauli flower and 1/4 c. red peppers.
Add 4 c. of water, then cool until vegetables are half-way done.
Add 2 c. tomato juice and 1 c. fines herbes.
Cook until the vegetables are tender.
Quick Potage
Wash and cook 1 brocoli and 1 small cauli flower.
When cooked, well… make them into a purée.
Add 1/4 c. of cream and some salt (Herbamare de préférance)
Mix well and serve.
Oh, soupoudre de persil too. It looks nice.
Veggie Crêpes
In a bowl, whisk 2 eggs and then add 1 c. of whole wheat flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt and 1 c. of milk. MIx well, then cook, thin and big.
Then cook: some brocoli, cauli flower, onions. When your veggies are cooked, take off the fire and add some lemon juice and 1/4 Tbs of thyme.
Grate a carrot.
Put a crêpe in a plate, then “butter” some real mayo, place carrots, onions and all other veggies. Roll the crêpe and enjoy.
Rooibos Punch
1. Get some water boiling and make yourself a cup of Rooibos herbal tea.
2. Fill a glass with ice and pour your herbal tea in it.
3. Add the juice of half an orange (or well, if you’re lazy or don’t have oranges, use orange juice…) in your glass.
4. Add a tsp of sugar if you feel like it needs it (mine always does!).
5. Enjoy.
Icing (Cream Cheese!)
That’ll make about two cups of icing… if you double it’ll be just a little less than a 900 grams margarine container (this is quite a lot).
Blend together: 1 package (about 8 ounces / 250 g) of cream cheese + 1/4 c. butter + 1 c. of icing sugar + 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
Le tour est joué.
Honey Substitute
If you find yourself with a chicken to cook and it’s labour day, so the grocery store is closed and you desire to make honey garlic chicken… but have no honey (or money), what do you do? At first I thought I’d just “omit” the honey in the recipe. But my roomate opened her grandma’s recipe book to find a substitute for honey. Here’s the recipe to make 1 c. of “honey”:
1 1/4 c. sugar + 1/4 c. water (well, it said “liquid”). Mix them up and you’ve got “honey”.
It for sure doesn’t taste like it, but it does the job on honey garlic chicken!
Sweet & Sour Sauce (100)
16 T. cornstarch
8 c. brown sugar
8c. water
4 c. vinegar
4 c. ketchup
Combine and simmer 3-5 minutes
Chocolate Sauce
6 c. sugar
1 ¾ c. cornstarch
2 tsp salt
2 2/3 c. cocoa
4 c. cold water
Mix all ingredients, add water gradually to form smooth paste
14 c. boiling water
(add water slowly while stirring)
Boil 5 min. Add 3 c. marg. stir to blend.
Condensed Milk
1 c. skim milk powder
3 T. marg.
1/3 c. sugar
1/3 c. boiling water
In bowl combine milk powder with sugar. Stir into boiling water until melted. Pour into sugar mixture. Beat about 2 min. or till smooth and creamy.
Refrigerate 8 hours.
Baked Oatmeal (2-9×13)
8 beaten eggs
4 c. brown sugar
2 c. oil
4 c. milk
Add:
12 c. oatmeal
8 tsp baking powder
2 tsp salt
Bake at 350 for 30 min
