Melting Moment's & Lemon Chicken

One of the requests when we did this fort nights shopping list was Lemon Chicken...

Being the lazy bum cook I am there was no way I was doing any deep frying of chicken,  but in hindsight that's probably half of the yumminess.

I used this Womans Weekly Recipe

for the sauce.  But first I cooked my rice as per the edc and steamed veg and chopped chicken thighs in the Varoma.
Then chucked all the sauce ingredients in the bowl (after discarding the rice water) and cooked it on varoma temp until varoma temp is reached, I used sp 3.

It was OK enough,  certainly not mind blowingly delicious! Pretty sure I won't be making it again. 

I did have one success today with the melting moments. I am typically not a biscuit maker.  I think maybe I am just making the wrong biscuits,  these were yummy and next time I'll double the recipe. .Once they were all stuck together there was probably 15 biscuits.

I used the biscuit recipe from here, it's a great site to have a look around on,  they're is plenty of recipes I'll be having a go at!   When it came time to make the icing I made some lemon and passionfruit curd from the edc to use ( and what a pity, there's heaps left over! ) is just mixed with some icing sugar before popping in between the biscuits. Pretty fancy yet pretty easy!  You could easily change the icing in between for a change.  Chocolate, orange,  strawberry....nutella??

Cinnamon Tea Cake

This is fast becoming a family favorite.  They even passed on regular type dessert tonight in favor of it.  For some reason though,  it feels weird to make a cake for dessert. . Is it just me? ?

Anyway,  it's an easy recipe quick enough for whenever really! 

160 gm of raw sugar
125gm soft butter
2 eggs
150 gm plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
75gm milk
1tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 180 and grease and line a 20 cm tin or whatever tin you like, just be aware you may have to change the cooking time.

You can cream the butter and the sugar first or just bung it all in together and mix on sp 5 for a minute or so. .. It's up to you! 
Pour it into a greased and lined tin, sprinkle the top with extra sugar and some cinnamon (no need to be shy about it! ) and bake for approximately 30 minutes or until cooked obviously! 

Pizza biscuits, vanilla essence and a failure!

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday... It usually sees me whipping up a storm preparing for the weeks lunch boxes. ..But I found I had none of the right ingredients for what I wanted to make. .. No baking paper... You know,  one of those days! But...

 I made muesli bars....

I ended up making a batch of pizza biscuits they are a keeper ( I didn't use parmesan or sumac, whatever that is!)  best when you don't burn the crap out of them..

I started my batch of vanilla essence,  I think I put 7 beans in most of a bottle of vodka... It will make great treat at Christmas time.

 

Dinner was a flopper... it was a sweet and sour meat balls from the meat cook book.  

 It had potential to be nice but it was bitter. ..3 oranges worth of peel in it?  I think I can use the base of the recipe as a start to a great sauce. ..

 Anyway,  lucky we have English muffins in the freezer. .. but we have run out of honey...  argh!

Hope you have more success than I did today!