Salmon salad

Spicy salmon, avo and sesame seed salad

Happy 30th to hubby

Exactly the same as my henna cake except the middle frosting is fresh cream caramel treat and peppermint crisp 

Funghi Bianco

Melt two table spoons butter in a wok

Add two teaspoons crushed garlic (less if you prefer)

Add 1 tablespoon cake flour

Ensure its not too dry. If it is add a bit more butter. Should make a paste.

Cook until it just starts to brown

Add about two cups coarsely chopped mushrooms and coat in flour mixture 

Add seasoning, salt, black pepper, origanum, crushed chillies and Italian herb mix. Continue  stirring on high heat for another  3- 5 minutes and but avoid mushrooms burning.

Add half a cup of fresh cream and about a cup of low fat milk. You can add more milk if you prefer more sauce.

Bring sauce to the boil and keep stirring. 

Add al dente cooked pasta ... Linguine works well. Coat in sauce and dimmer for about 3 minutes. 

Add fresh coriander or parsley. Serve with slices of Parmesan cheese. 

Quick Sunday dinner - pizza bread

Recipe courtesy of our brother in law...

Toast bread in a pop up toaster 

Mix some chilli and garlic in a ready made tomato salsa and spread on the bread. We used Woolies spicy tomato salsa.

Add your choice of toppings like satueed mushrooms, chicken, peppers, onions etc 

Top with grated cheese and a good sprinkle of origanum. 

Grill in oven until cheese melted.

Everyone's favourite snack... Paaturi

Batter made with

1 cup Inkomazi

1 cup Chana/chickpea flour

1 and half cup water

Green chillies

1/2 tsp Tumeric

1/2 tsp salt 

1 Tsp Sugar

Dash of lemon juice to taste

Steam batter until cooked. See below for pictures on how to roll 

Sprinkle coconut before rolling into mini Swiss rolls

Topping: heat two tablespoons oil, add mustard seeds and sesame seeds. Wait until they pop and pour over Paaturi rolls. 

Garnish with coriander 

Peppermint crisp Ganache with mendhi design

Saturday project ... Inspired by all the mendhi designs and peppermint crisp phase, I combined all to come up with the below . 

Using different components I researched  - I can say this is my own creation.

It's a 2 layered chocolate cake. 3 types of frosting. 

1.Sandwiching frosting is a peppermint crisp icing ( icing sugar butter beaten fresh cream and crushed peppermint crisp).

 2.Top glaze is a dark chocolate ganache (fresh cream and dark chocolate with a few spoons of kalua liqueur). 

3.Mendhi design icing is a basic icing colored with gel food color. Putting my school day henna classes to good use. 

Such a fun day creating this delicious art piece :)

My version of Kingklip Thermidor- my own "invention test"

Tuesday nights are MasterchefSA nights so there is always inspiration to come up with something new. Fishmonger has a similar dish which also triggered this "invention". The dish I made was a cheese crusted baked Kingklip in garlic and dill sauce with a potato bake base. Baked deliciousness served with roasted carrots butternut tomatoes and onions.