Easy peasy recipes - please share yours.

[ecomama]

Hello BBers

Please share an easy recipe you love. If you have a story of where your recipe(s) came from, chat away. Feel free to write your recipe in any format you like! I can't wait to try Mara's specialty Rocky Road..... like yesterday.

Here's mine. A perfect 'day off' meal and absolutely wonderful for Winter. You can prep in the morning and put it together at lunchtime for dinner. I made up the recipe after a few dismal failures lol. I have ideas for any leftover cooked stock mixture later...

Beef brisket - the BB easy peasy way.
You'll need:
1 beef brisket that fits into your baking tray with some room.
1L beef stock. 2L if the brisket is BIG.
Worcestershire sauce.
2 onions sliced anyway you like.
Mushrooms sliced thickly - as many as you like.
Oil - any type.
Salt.
Pepper.
A baking tray... the best tasting one I've made was cooked in a cast iron, enameled baking tray but any will do.
Aluminium foil to cover the baking tray.
A frying pan / skillet.
Utensils for pan and tray.
Oven gloves.
Oven & stove top.

To cook:
Pour cold stock & 2 tblsp W sauce into baking tray.
Saute onions in oil in pan & add to baking tray.
Brown mushies as above & add to baking tray.
Sprinkle salt / pepper over brisket.
Brown both sides of brisket in pan then add to baking tray.
Cover whole tray with foil & scrunch under edges.
Spoon stock mixture over brisket to coat.
NB: The stock mixture needs to come up to around half way on side of brisket. Add more stock if needed.
Slow cook in warm oven c110C for about 2h.
Check.
Turn brisket.
Repeat.
Taste to see if more W sauce is needed.
Rest meat for 15 mins.
Slice and serve.

Note: IF you want a pulled beef effect then you can cook longer until beef is falling apart. Add to sliders, Turkish bread.

If this isn't easy for you, sorry! I have a great Boscaiola coming up later that is super easy, promise.

EM

[ecomama]

2 ingredients good chow.

BB Café style poached eggs
Ingredients
* Eggs
* vinegar (I use white)
* boiling water

Method
Boil water in a pot on stove top.
Stir in some vinegar, however much you like, I put in a splash lol.
Using a spoon stir the water so a swirl begins.
Crack one egg into the swirl at a time. You can swirl around each egg if you're keen, otherwise use this as a few moments meditation watching the swirling water - it's actually fun!

A slotted spoon is great to get each egg out.
You can put it on a paper towel to soak up the water (I don't like soggy toast).

EAT! SO YUMMY.

Are we getting close to your happiness level for cooking quirkywords?
If you turn out to be some gourmet chef, I'm telling you now...… lol.

Just in case you're serious, another one's coming up.... it's wow.

🙂

[ecomama]

3 ingredients yum yum

Yulara BB Rocquette salad
Ingredients
* Rocket leaves - or any dark green leaves like baby spinach.
* Parmesan cheese
* Extra virgin olive oil.

Method
Put rocket leaves in a big bowl.
Shave parmesan cheese on top.
Pour olive oil on salad.
Stir.

I ate this salad for the first time in Yulara near Uluru when my children were working out there.

It's amazing how delicious this simple recipe is.

EM

[Matchy69]

Here's a tip I love growing Silverbeet as you can continuusly pick leaves all year round and I use them in a lot of my cooking like stir frys and my spaghetti Bolognese.

[Matchy69]

Its breakfast time so i think some french toast and very easy to make.

Ingrediants

4 slices of bread.

1 egg

1/4 cup of milk.

Whisk egg and milk together and dip bread in place in preheated frypan on medium high.Turn over to both sides are golden.

Serve with maple syrup.

[smallwolf]

Be making apple crumble tonight... a rough and ready recipe.

And preheat oven to about 180 degrees C.

- 4 or 5 applies peeled and cored

cook in butter and bit of sugar to til soft(ish). The pieces of apple look like apple and not baby food.

the crumble part

- is a mix of flour, brown sugar and butter.

- can also add oats

- a tsp or so of cinnamon helps.

there is no real science to the ratio. I go about 150g of flour, 100g sugar, and 60g butter. I don't add oats after a disaster at a restaurant (?) we went to when the kinds were young and the whole thing looked and tasted wrong!

I always butter the dish I am going to put into the oven.Just make sure the dish is not too large. I like the finished product to be at least 1.5" high at end.

Put the apples into an even layer on the bottom of the dish in a even layer. Sprinkle the crumble mixture on top (evenly again) and then cook in oven til golden brown.

Let it cool for about 5 minutes outside oven and serve with whipped cream.

[ecomama]

Matchy! Awesome recipe for French toast! Thankyou for coming through like I thought you would lol.
Btw I am so jealous of your vege patch pic, I want to DIVE right in there and wriggle around lol.

Smallwolf, excellent recipe!!
Yeah I have no idea why oats can taste so bad in this when others make it lol.
I add rolled oats to our apple crumble.

Variation: combine mulberries, any types of berries fresh or frozen and make crumble as above - yum.
Cheats version: use tinned pie apples. I always have some in the cupboard for recipes like yours above and my following one....

BB Apple pastries
Ingredients:
* Tinned apples
* Sultanas or raisins.
* Brown sugar or honey if you like.
* Puff pastry sheets.
* Melted butter to coat pastry.
- walnuts if you like.

Method:
In a mixing bowl put all tinned apples, sultanas, walnuts & brown sugar to taste. Chop up and mix well.

Pastry options....
1. apple triangles - great cold for packed lunches.
Cut 1 sheet of pastry on the diagonal ie from corner to corner.
Lightly score one triangle into 2 (this will be your fold line).
Leaving about 1cm border place mixture on ONE half of the triangle.
Fold over so points & edges match.
Push down around edges with your finger to seal.
Paint top with melted butter.
Repeat with remainder of mixture.
Place on baking tray lined with baking paper for easy cleaning.
Bake in a moderate over until the pastry is as lovely as you like it.
Rest.
EAT!

2. Muffin pastries
Spray muffin tray holes with spray oil.
Cut sheet of pastry in quarters.
Place 1 quarter into a muffin hole and push down a little.
Put apple mixture in to the top.
Repeat.
Bake.
Rest.
EAT!

3. Apple strudel variation -great for dessert.
Use one or two sheets of pastry.
Place on baking tray lined with baking paper.
Put mixture down centre and seal up both edges in any way you like.
Bake.
Rest.
EAT!

This is so much easier to make than to type lol.
Hope you love these as much as we do.

EM

[Matchy69]

Here's my Grandmothers Passion fruit cordial recipe.I use to make this all the time.

Passion Fruit Cordial.

18 passion ruit

2 Tspoons citric acid

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 cups of water

Remove pulp from fruit and place in glass bowl and sprinkle citric acid on top of pulp.

Boil sugar and water to sugar is dissolved.

Pour over pulp and citric acid.

Let cool and strain into a bottle.

Add 1 tablespoon of pulp and shake.

[ecomama]

Thanks Matchy! Sounds deeeeelicious. I love passionfruit. Yum.

With inspiration from you, I was reminded of a yummy recipe including rosemary.

Sorry vegans and vegetarians - look the other way!

BB Lamb Roast with garlic and rosemary
* 1 leg of lamb
* sprigs of rosemary
* cloves of garlic

Method
Skew lamb with a metal skewer or knife.
Slice cloves of garlic and shove down each cut - as much as you like.
Spike rosemary sprigs down into the cuts also with the garlic or make new cuts. Cut off any sprigs off at the meat level.

Cover and roast as usual.

EAT!

EM

[ecomama]

Our gardening thread got me thinking about yummy ways to use oregano. The following recipe is absolutely my favourite for oregano. If you don't have any growing, it so AMAZINGLY easy to grow in a pot, it LOVES living in Australia lol. Here's my favourite and ONLY 3 ingredients too!

These are GREAT with poached eggs as above, so yum.

BB mushroom in oregano
* Mushrooms
* Fresh oregano
* Butter.

Method
Slice mushrooms thinly. Stalk on or off whatever you like.
Melt butter in a frying pan and add mushrooms.
Strip oregano stalk of all leaves. Put oregano in pan JUST as mushrooms begin to brown on the edges.

EAT! Seriously good lol.

EM

[SapereAude]

Going to have a good read through this thread! I'm a terrible general cook (good on the barbie).

Thanks for sharing and I'll pick a few and see how I go 😄