What have you baked today?

Hippeechiq

JackieO wrote: »

I made a traybake of carrot and orange cake yesterday from the BBC recipe .Its turned out fine but is a bit longwinded. But it will do for the cake tin this week I have to make another one later this week for a friend and someone has sent me a Bero recipe which I will try.I want to make my macaroons today as I managed to find some rice paper in Sainsbobs.also maybe a lemon drizzle as I have some whoopsied lemons from there as well.

Have you seen/tried this recipe Jackie?
Carrot Cake

It's extremely easy to make, and cheap too I make it at least twice a month....I would make it more, but I'd only eat it

The site is also full of really clever main meal and other snack recipes to make when money is tight and you're on a budget

HoneyBee83

Hello,

Twink's hobnobs,im making a batch every day! They are amazing and daughter cant get enough.
Easy dinner,my meal plan went out the window today so i made up a tuna pasta bake with salad.

Just watched River Cottage,about using up leftovers and they made a lemon drizzle cake with leftover mashed potato instead of flour!! Will be giving that a go as i always do too much mash!!

Hope you are all enjoying your evening!!

Lulubells

Hi All,

I baked 2 Egg and Bacon Pies with " Dad" on top for fathers day gifts - which they loved - yay ! and a bakewell tart - oh and a large jam tart with left sweet pastry (even used savoury left over pastry scraps as "play-doh" :A)

took and age to do it all and clear up, but worth it as everyone was happy

Victory over commercialism !!!

jaxx46

key lime pie for fathers day (oh doesn't eat cake)

Lulubells

I saw the lemon drizzle cake with mash - looked great, will have to have a go at that too - love that show

HoneyBee83 wrote: »

Hello,

Twink's hobnobs,im making a batch every day! They are amazing and daughter cant get enough.
Easy dinner,my meal plan went out the window today so i made up a tuna pasta bake with salad.

Just watched River Cottage,about using up leftovers and they made a lemon drizzle cake with leftover mashed potato instead of flour!! Will be giving that a go as i always do too much mash!!

Hope you are all enjoying your evening!!

Dustykitten

HoneyBee83 wrote: »

Just watched River Cottage,about using up leftovers and they made a lemon drizzle cake with leftover mashed potato instead of flour!! Will be giving that a go as i always do too much mash!!

Reminds me of when I made a wartime cake in school with the kids. It included grated potatoe and dried egg powder. It was fun but tasted disgusting.

I've made a cake with ground almonds and summer fruits in it. Really nice and kids like it too.

Going through a bit of a ground almond phase at the moment

PeachPickle

Made wholemeal raspberry and macademia nut muffins today, and they're calling to me :drool:

ab7

apple crumble x 2, twinks (hidden from kids) and banana loaf

The_Thrilla

My late wife reacted badly to rhubarb. "I like rhubarb, but rhubarb doesn't like me," she used to say. For that reason, I don't think I have eaten rhubarb since I was at boarding school.

After my latest shopping trip, I returned home with four sticks of rhubarb. I decided to try this stuff out, because I was thinking of growing it in my victory garden. But I had never cooked it before. What to do? Well, I had heard of Garrison Keillor's famous Be-bop-a-re-bop rhubarb pie -"sweetening the sour taste of failure through the generations." I took some cut-price shortcrust pastry out of the freezer, and left it overnight to thaw out.

This (Sunday) morning, I went on YouTube for a recipe for rhubarb pie. I encountered Garrison Keillor, and then I found a charming West Indian lady called Jameela, who was making a rhubarb pie with frozen pastry. Her recipe had an apple and a tin of fruit. Her idea was to pour the juice out of the tin, and that would cut down on the sugar she needed to add. Ingeneous! All hail to Jameela! Only problem. I had no tinned fruit, and the only apple I had was a pineapple. Do I wait for Lidl to open, or do I use my initiative. I cut up the pineapple and put that in with a little sugar, and, according to Jameela, too much cinammon. I cooked the lot in the pressure cooker at high pressure for ten minutes, turned off the heat and left it to depressurise by itself. I then put it in the enamel basin I use for pies, and draped the pastry over the top. I then put it in the oven for 20 mins at 180 degrees C. The remaining pastry I fashioned into croissants. I put these on the bottom shelf of the oven. I'm sure it's the wrong pastry, but this town is not exactly Budapest.

Well, I tried it. It's delicious. So I shall be growing rhubarb after all. And my guests will be served pineapple and rhubarb pie. I still have a day or two's mileage from Sunday morning's cooking: I have croissant's for Monday's breakfast; I have half a pie left; and I still have liquor left in the pressure cooker, which I will use to flavour some cous-cous.

annelouise_2

Made Nigellas pancakes before I went to work.

Had 3oz roast chicken breast left over so grated 1/2 carrot,small wedge of red onion,2oz vermicelli pasta,1/2 tsp garlic puree,ketap manis,sweet chili sauce loaded into rice paper and made 6 nice fat vietnamese spring rolls.

Had 25 cheese slices from staff fridge and 8 cookies for the kids..yay

annelouise