Thursday, June 17, 2010

After School Snack Cheese On Toast

Kealin has always bee a little bit of a cheese cone-sure and this is his ultimate go to food is cheese on toast so this is how he does it! Turn on the grill (yes he knows how to do this)
Get your little brother to help you get
A butter knife
some bread
the cheese


Get mummy or daddy to cut the cheese some for the bread and a little for snacking on while you wait for them to cook. Two slices of bread for you and one for your brother.
Nicely arrange the cheese the way you like it on the bread
Then place on the grill tray While snacking on your cheese
Wait till all the cheese is nice and bubbly then put the grill tray out and care fully transfer them to your plate using an egg flip or your mummies fingers : )

Slice the way you like it and take out to your bother

And enjoy the after school cartoons
And thats the way Kealin does it!!

Long Soup

Ok so there will be actual measurements for this Soup as it is all to taste. But in saying that you shouldn't really go wrong if you follow my awesome sons instructions.

Actually this Long Soup recipe is a family hand me down. I remember my grandma Majid (Nana Semah) making this soup for me when i was younger and actually any time that i see her. Nana Semah is a great cook and all of her children are. She thought my mum how to cook this soup, my mum taught me, and now my kids know. Kealin especially loves it and often requests it. So here you go we are sharing the Heavenly bliss you now. Having a special tutorial from my Nana is the best way to learn but Kealin is good too.

You will need

1 good sized chook ( i got two small ones on special)
the rind of a lemon
chicken stock
ginger
an onion
egg noodles (my Nana uses Asian noodles but they don't sell them where i live)

Start by putting the chook in a good sized pot you want enough soup in there for left overs : )
Add the rind of the lemon and the whole onion not chopped or anything its just for the flavor.
Grate in some ginger. As a tip we keep our ginger in the freezer and just grate off what we need with a micro plane its way easier and you always have fresh ginger.
Enough chicken stock powder to make up to the quantity of water you will add we just go till it looks like enough.
Salt
and pepper
and then you find a little boy and get him to add some more stock powder
(just for extra flavor don't tell Kealin lol)
Then add some water
Till you have covered the chook or chickens !! Turn on the stove to medium high and boil those chickens till they are nicely cooked. We turned the stove down to medium low half way through cooking. When the chickens are cooked remove them from the pot and set aside. At this stage i like to strain the soup through a fine sieve to remove all the chunks of lemon, and onion.
I guess you could top your soup with whatever you like but then it wouldn't be my Nana's Long Soup so this is what we do. I slice up the spring onion, make a omelet of the eggs, and then chop and fry off the bacon. These all get layered on to og the soup.
When the chicken is cool enough to shred, Shred it! And then cook the pasta according to the directions . Now to layer the soup. First the cooked and strained pasta, some shredded chook, some egg, some bacon and then top with the onions. I like to pour the soup over the top of the onions this will draw the flavor through the soup.
We like to sprinkle with a little soy sauce at the end,
Enjoy!! This is really very yummy

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Choc Chip Muffins

When my baby girl was about 5 years old she asked if she could cook some muffins. I said yes but she had to wait till i could help her. Well as far as patients go in children she couldn't wait so i told her to go for it without me, i thought it would be good for her to experiment. And you know what she did! When 45 minutes later i was enjoying a nice tasting muffin i asked her what she did (i knew she couldn't read so she didn't use a recipe), she said she put some flour, milk, cocoa, sugar and butter and an egg in a bowl and mixed it and put it on the number i use 180`C ( I helped her put them in i am a responsible parent) on the oven. You know they were really good. So today she is the muffin queen we have although graduated to recipe following now that she can read. This recipe for choc chip muffins is good because i always have the ingredients for them around, she can even measure properly now.

Charnas Choc Chip Muffins

300g self raising flour
1tsp baking powder
50g butter
80g caster sugar (she often just grabs the normal granulated sugar)
150g milk or plain choc chips, Sometimes Charna just breaks up a block i may have around
2 eggs lightly beaten
225ml milk
1 tsp vanilla

Pre heat oven to 200`C Grease a 12 cup muffin tin
mix the flour, baking powder in a lg bowl, Rub in the butter until mixture resembles bread crumbs. Stir in the sugar and choc bits. In a separate bowl mix all other ingredients and then add to the flour mixture. Mix gently being careful not to over mix. Bake for 18-20 mins or until golden and firm to the touch.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Hair creations

Since discovering the princess and her hairs blog Charna has been looking at the wonderful creations everyday, picking one for school and church. It has been so wonderful sharing this find with her. I love doing hair styles like this, i used to do this sort of stuff all the time on the little girls when i was a little girl, and she loves all the fun things she has discovered her mummy can do with her hair inpired by this fun Blog

Sunday, June 13, 2010