Pea & Ham Soup - slow cooker

My first attempt at pea and ham soup... hopefully I've picked up my Nannas talent here! I'll let you know in 6 hours....


500g bag split yellow peas
2 cloves of garlic
2 medium brown onions
3 baby carrots 
2 medium potatoes
150g diced bacon 
1 ham bone (1kg)
pepper corns
parsley
water to cover


Rinse split peas and layer across the bottom of the slow cooker.
Dice garlic, onions and carrot finely - I wizzed them in a food processor to make really fine. Dice the potato into small cubes - place all in slow cooker and place in ham hock. 
Add pepper corns to taste, a sprinkle of parsley and cover with water. 
Cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 6-8 hours. 
Remove ham from bone and place back into soup with bacon. 

Apricot Beef Cabbage Rolls

Ok this is something I made up tonight - I was originally going to do a tomato thing, but I didn't have the ingredients for the recipe - and out of pure laziness, I decided to go with what I had in the cupboard, so the cabbage wrap idea wasn't mine, however, the filling is.

We'll see how it goes!

Ingredients:

Cabbage leaves

[sauce]

1 x pk french onion soup mix

1 x can apricot nectar

2 tbsp orange marmalade 

[filling]

500g mince beef

finely diced zucchini

finely diced pumpkin

finely diced onion 

cooked and cooled white rice (1/2 cup uncooked, which becomes about 1 cup cooked)

1 egg

ginger (to taste)

seasoning

a few tbsp worcestershire sauce

Mix sauce together in a bowl - allow to blend while preparing the rest.

Remove the outer, larger cabbage leaves carefully and blanch for a few minutes in boiling water until pliable - drain on paper towel.

Combine all filling ingredients together - lay out cabbage leaves and wrap around filling to create rolls. 

Place rolls in baking dish, pour over sauce, cover tightly with foil and bake in over (180 degrees) for 1 hour. 

Churros

Home made Churros - ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!


This one is a really big surprise, because it definitely tasted authentic!! I was shocked, and you will be too when you see the ingredients.
They were so bloody good... I may/may not have made myself sick eating too many - this will remain unconfirmed ;-)


1 cup plain flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 cup water
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp vegetable oil
pinch of salt


Mix flour and baking powder in a large bowl.
Add the rest of the ingredients to a saucepan and bring to the boil. Remove from heat and add to flour mix. Mix until dough forms.


Let cool while heating oil to (deep or shallow) fry - I shallow fried and rolled them.
Place dough into piping bag with extra large star tip (or round tip/cut open end if you're like me and have lost your extra large star tip!). I made lines - cut them into smaller pieces [I was using a small pan] and fried in batches, a few minutes each was all they needed. Then I drained them on paper towel and rolled them in cinnamon sugar.


ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!?
I have no words for how delicious they were. 

Cheats Fried Rice

This is an awesome throw together that I made tonight for something different.
Normally I would have soy sauce on hand, but considering our previous house guests child spilled my entire bottle through my fridge I had to be a little inventive!


The secret to this fried rice - Mi Goreng Noodles! haha!
So steal the sachet of fried onion, soy sauce and flavoured oil from a packet of Mi Goreng (seal the noodles back up in a zip lock bag).


1 cup cold cooked rice 
1 egg
handful of frozen peas & corn
1 baby carrot diced finely
2 slices of ham
ginger
seasoning to taste


Beat egg and pour into fry pan and spread into thin layer, cook on both sides (this is where I seasoned) slice thinly.  Heat small amount of oil in fry pan - stir fry veg with soy, flavoured oil and ginger - add rice and ham - heat through, add egg, remove from heat and serve.


Seriously easy, and it actually tasted really good!
It looked really good too, very colourful and fresh!

Breakfast Casserole?

Ok so this one I am putting here because I want to try it and I needed to store it somewhere...
Will obviously let everyone know whether it's a keeper?

RECIPE: SUNSHINE BREAKFAST CASSEROLE

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INGREDIENTS:
1 lb bulk breakfast sausage
6 Eggs
1/2 c Sour cream
4 tb Chopped onions
4 tb Chopped bell pepper

DIRECTIONS:
Brown sausage, onions and bell peppers in heavy skillet.
Drain. Line baking dish with 3/4 of the sausage mixture.
Combine eggs and sour cream. Season to taste. Pour over
sausage mixture. Bake at 180 degrees until eggs are semi-
set. Stir egg mixture and top with remaining sausage.
Bake until eggs are firm. 

Yield: Serves 4 to 6.