Julie/Lisa experiment

Ok so I've asked for Julie Goodwins cookbook for mothers day
While watching Julie & Julia last night I thought "hey I could do that!", with Julie's cookbook! I've already got a blog. I have some readers, well my Aunty Larelle, Andrea and Wendy :D
It'd be a good way to ensure that I actually cook the recipees.
I love cooking.
I love cookbooks.
I own I don't know how many cookbooks. I once had to cull half of them! I do have a knack for remembering recipees but I'm terrible at actually cooking a decent amount of recipees out of them. I'm lucky to have cooked more than 1 or 2 out of each book.
So I've decided to do this. Thanks to some hubbers who have convinced me.
I'm not sure if I can get through the book by next mothers day.
I have to warn new readers I'm a shocker at spelling and punctuation so I'm sorry about that and I don't pre read the post.
I want be as good as Julie Powel, she is a professional writter, while I only wish I had the skill. And while she had the entire New York City at her desposal with 24 hour shopping, with supermarkets, green grocers, butchers, delicantesants, bakers, chocolate and cheese stores and boutiqu food stores and markets.
I have, 3 wollworths, 2 coles, our butchers and fruit and veg store and a few other heatlh stores.
Wish me luck

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go nuts

My friends and I go to vabys a bit now, espcially that lonestar and chilis have left campbelltown which we use to use for a spare of the moment casual dinner
We all like the go nuts desert so for Christmas I made it for desert for us all

Ingreadiants
8 litters of neopolitin ice cream
800 grams of peanut butter
3 packets of chocolate biscuits ( I used tiny teddies )
250 gms of butter
Chopped peanuts
And chocolate topping
you'll also need a frezzer container or smaller ones to set them in ( I used tupperware artic frezzer containers )

Blend up the teddies into fine granuals then mix with melted butter
Spoon mixture into the base of the containers and flat down
Freeze for 40 minutes
Spreed a generous about of peanut butter onto of the cookie base and then squirt with chocolate topping
Freeze again for 20 minutes
When set, spoon in ice cream using all the flavours equally
Top with topping and peanuts
Then feeze again until set

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Marshmallow Choc chip Muffins

marshmallow Choc chip muffin recipe

Ingredients
2 cups of self raising flour
1/2 cup of sugar
250grms of choc-chips
2/3 cup milk
1 egg
125g butter, melted
mini marshmallows
a teaspoon of vanilla essence

step 1 preheat oven to 180 degrees c, grease muffin pan.
step 2 combine flour, sugar and choc chips
step 3 add milk, butter, and vanilla essence and egg and mix well
step 4 spoon half of mixture into muffin tray, top with a few marshmallows and then top with rest of batter.
step 5 bake for 20-25 minutes

a recipe i found in a kids cook book i brought to cook with the kids. they enjoyed cooking it but some hateed it for some weird reason lol.
jack loves baking them and eating them

Macaroni and Tofu Bake....Actually YUM!!

adrian and i collect cook books, at one stage we had more then 50!. we culled them down and now have less, we probably have 20 now. we dont use them enough and i complain about it. adrian also buys Good Taste Magazine every month from Woolworth's. i have now made a rule that we need to cook the recipes out of the magazine if he wants to buy it. so last night we decided to make Cauliflower and Bacon Macaroni Cheese. i changed it up a bit, by adding broccoli and using tofu "cream" cheese because adrian couldnt find normal cream cheese at woolies. it was very yum. so here is the recipe. 

Ingredients 

290g of pasta (we used macaroni)

1/4 cauliflower cut into small pieces

broccoli cut into small pieces

250g diced bacon.

1 brown onion

1tsp of crushed/minced garlic

250g cream cheese (we used tofu)

2 1/2 cups of milk

1 tbs of dijon mustard (i used american mustard)

150g of grated cheese 

2tbs fresh parsley 

1. in a large sauce pan of boiling salted water boil the pasta for 8-9 minutes or until al dente. steam the vegetables. saute the bacon and onions with the garlic.

2. in a blender combine the cream cheese, milk and mustard. add salt and pepper to taste.

3. in a large bowl combine all ingredients except for 1/3 of the cheese 

4. pour into a large oven dish and bake in a pre heated oven for 20 minutes on 220 degrees. then grill for 5 minutes of until cheese is browned.