Mieze's plum cake! Recipe #5

WOW did this cake rise or what!!?? The oven was smoking like crazy and probably about a 20th of the cake leaked out the bottom of the spring form tin. Mum thinks I put the tin together wrong which could probably be true! But thankfully it turned out great! It is basically a really buttery sponge cake with plums and a little saucy-ness on top! Love the cinnamon!! Love the plums!! Love the crunchy cinnamony top! The sponge cake part was really fluffy and yummy, although I was saying to Will for the amount of sugar and butter in it, it doesn't taste that bad for you! Which is kinda a waste! If you want to eat some really naughty dessert you want to make it count, if you know what I mean! Like if you were gonna eat that much butter and sugar, I would prefer some really rich divine delicious..thing..Does this make any sense?

Anyway despite my big rave, I enjoyed the cake and hot out of the oven with some cream...delish..below is a pic of my plate after I massacred it a little!
Our guests, Bev, Jeff and Galley also enjoyed it, giving it a 9 out of 10!

My tip to you would be to make sure you check the middle with a skewer as mine took about an extra 20 mins to cook through to the middle!

A nice Autumn dish using juicy plums that are in season at the moment! Makes me think of leaves falling off trees and the chill in the air! Kinda a mix between summer fruits and hot winter fruit pies! Try it...it's goooood (probably cause its full of butter and lots of yummy things..)

Love the R+W stripped apron baker..

Recipe # 4: Vegetable Curry...a grand success!!

So 10 out of 10's all around for this flavour filled beauty! Mum and Will said it was the best dish yet which is rather surprising seeing as we are quite a carnavourous (is that even a word?)...meat eating household! Mum called on the way home from work and said she was gonna go buy some meat for dinner, in which i replied 'no its ok I am making vegetable curry'...'So should I buy some meat to go with it?'....I replied 'Mum, we can eat a meal without meat!'......SHOCK HORROR!! haha no not too much shock and horror..that's abit of an exaggeration!

I would probably give a 9 out of 10 as it needed abit more punch I think..a little bland at times..maybe if i had curry leaves that would of helped..

Anyway the aroma of this dish is wonderful! As the spices are blended together with the oil and mustard seeds and onion! WOW!! The final product is very tasty! Nice blend of coconut milk and spice and yumminess! Didn't have any eggplant so had to forgoe that, however I did add some sweet potatoe and probably quad-rupled the amount of garlic and ginger..I love my garlic!

Even without meat this dish is so flavoursome and a good one for the vegetarians!
Well done Stephanie..a success!

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#3 Joe's spaghetti with prawns

Sorry Joe but not many good thoughts towards your spag!! Man I LOVED IT!! But I love simple flavours! I enjoy some plain boiled rice with salt and pepper or some spaghetti with olive oil and garlic etc but Mum and Gramps weren't too impressed....My theory is people are so used to have a million flavours and sauces chucked into everything that they can't appreciate simple and authentic flavours! Mums first reaction was to jump up and grate some cheese to add to the flavours, although in my mind thats simply a crime!! CHEESE ON OLIVE OIL SPAG WITH PRAWNS AND BASIL!!! CRIME!!!! Grandpa agreed with Mum that a seafood creamy sauce would add lots to the dish...and as you can guess their scores were a little miserable...a 5 and a 6 out of 10!!

Me on the other hand...I love the basil, rocket and olive oil combo and the garlic!! yummmm..I loved being able to taste the pasta for a change instead of just tasting sauce!! Thankfully Will arrived home and ate the leftovers and also appreciated the simple flavours! It was nice for a change..In saying that however, I probably would do this one a little different next time...maybe some pine nuts or lime or even some bocconcini (I know this is cheese but its not tasty!! Come on!! Tasty cheese with this dish!!)....

Anyways a nice simple dish! SO EASY AND QUICK!! Beautiful!!

Signing off, the red and white striped apron chef..

TOMATO SOUP WITH BASIL AND CROUTONS...

So was thinking entree' so thought soup! Plus there were lots of tomatoes I bought the other day to use up so worked well!

I really have never liked tomato soup so was interested to see how my taste buds would like this one! It was rather easy to make, except that I made quite a mess trying to use a sieve instead of a food mill seeing as I don't have a food mill....let alone know what it is!! haha

So anyway when the sieve didn't work, seeing as I am guessing we are suppose to be seperating the tomato skin and onion from the soup although most of the nice chunky tomato bits didn't go through the sieve either...ANYWAY I ended up using a hand held blender which didn't really blend the skin or onion anyway...so chunky soup it is!! haha!! which I love anyway! never been a fan or watery or non-chunky soup so I didn't mind that my attempts to make it smooth and silky didn't work!

Anyway Grandpa and Mum gave it an 8 out of ten and had rather positive feedback (unlike the pasta recipe to follow in next blog)...

So even I enjoyed it..it wasn't like an explosion of yumminess and goodness or anything but I guess rather nice...

Worth a try if you have some lovely juicy tomatoes and the smell of butter, onion and tomato simmering away is divine!!

The journey begins..

So my first recipe (for this blog that is!)?? what do I create? Well lots of lemons in the fridge so off to the lemon section..mmm LEMON SLICE it is!!

So this recipe went well although would of been better if I had a food processor like the recipe says! Mum says we are getting Grandpa's soon seeing as he never uses it so that will be fantastical! A rather simple recipe, easy to make, although I find 20 mins in the oven for the base was too much, so took it out at 15 as it was starting to go really brown..Apart from that a nice recipe..three layers are formed although you only have to make two so thats a nice touch!

So already Will and I have eaten too many pieces so now off for a bike ride! haha

Love the red and white stripped apron baker...