Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Egg - Plant Casserole

Ingredients:
Beef chilli cube, Knorr aromat, egg plant, tomatoes, onion, thyme, oregano, butter, cloves garlic crushed, basil, celery, cream, toamto paste
Method:
Fry the onions in melted butter until soft. Add in the celery, garlic, eggplant, basil, thyme, oregano, tomatoes and cook until golden brown.
Add tomato paste and beef chilli cube and cook for 2-3 mins
Add in the cream, let it simmer
Serve and sprinkle knorr aromat for a delicious taste
Garnish with to amtoes and parsley

Beef Samosa

Ingredients:
Pastry, homebaking flour, vegetable oil, salt to taste, beef minced meat, onions chopped, chilli powder, ginger chrushed, lemon juice, dania chopped, salt to taste, homebaking flour, water, oil for deep frying
Method:
Put the meat, ginger, chilli and salt in a frying pan and cook for 15 mins. Add the chopped onions, dania and lemon juice. Simmer for 5 mins. Remove from the heat and allow to cool.
Sift the flour into a bowl and add the salt and oil. Add enough cold water to form a stiff dough. Knead well. Divide the mixture into 8 small balls. Flatten one ball at a time, brush it with oil and roll it out to the size of a saucer. Cook over a hot griddle for about half a minute on each side.
Cut them into strips of 3 inches wide. Fold the strip into a 3 cornered case and fill it with the meat mixture.
Make the sealing paste with flour and water and seal the ends of all the cases.
Fry in deep hot oil until gol;den brown. Drain on absorbent paper and serve.

Kachumbari

Ingredients:
tomatoes chooped, dania chooped, lemons, sesame seeds.
Method:
Squeeze the juice out of the lemons and place it in a mixing bowl. Add in all the other ingredients and mix well.

Fruit Punch

Ingredients:
Banana sliced, mango peeled and chopped, strawberries sliced in two, red cherry to garnish, apple wedge to garnish, mango juice, orange juice, soda water or sprite, ice cubes, dash grenadine syrup.
Method:
Place ice cubes at the bottom of a large beer glass. Place the fruits into the glass. In a cocktail shaker place some ice cubes, mango juice and the orange juice and shake vigorously.
Pour the mix into the glass. Top up with the sprite, then add the dash of grenadine. Garnish the glass and serve on a saucer on a paper napkin with a teaspoon.

Mutura

Ingredients:
1/2 metre large intestine, goat meat, kidneys, onion, bunch dania, ginger chrushed, vegetable oil, paprika, black pepper, curry powder, raw blood, salt to taste.
Method:
Clean the intestine thouroughly. Finely chop the goat meat and kidney and set aside.
Slice the onion and chop the dania and fry them in the hot oil with the ginger. Add all the chopped meat and spices into the onion mix and simmer for 30 mins or until the meat is cooked. Season with the salt. leave aside to cool.
Using a piece of cotton twine, tie securely one end of the intestine, then stuff the meat mixture in the intestine and pour the uncooked blood into the intestine until full. Tie the other end securely. Bake or grill for 25 mins at 200 degrees centigrade.

Biryani

Ingredients:
Meat cubed, biryani masala paste, green chilli chopped, ginger chrushed, garlic chrushed, dania, chopped, leaves mint chopped,plain yoghurt, tomato puree, onions finely sliced, salt to taste, basmati rice, cumin seeds, cinnamon powder, cardamon powder, vegetable oil for frying, patatoes cubed, milk with water, turmeric with milk, cashew nuts, sultanas.
Method:
Mix the meat pieces with the next ten ingredients in a large bowl and allow to marinate in a cool place for 2 hours.
Place in apot and cook over medium heat for 10 mins.
Remove and place in casserole dish and set aside.
Boil a large pot of water and soak the rice for 5 mins.
drain well then sprinkle in the cumin, cinnamon. Set aside.
In a frying pan, shallow fry the potatoes until they are evenly browned. Drain and set aside.
Place 1/2 the rice on top of the meat in an even layer. THen make an even layer with the potatoes.
Put the remaining rice on top of the potatoes and spread to make an even layer.
Sprinkle the water/milk over the rice.
Make random holes through the rice and pour into each a little turmeric/milk.
Cover and cook in the oven at 190 degrees centigrade for 1 hour.
While biryani is cooking make the garnish. Heat a little oil in a frying pan and fry the cashew nuts and sultanas until they swell. Drain and set aside. When biryani is ready, the rice should be dry and cooked through.
Sprinkle with the nut/sultana mixture and serve hot.

Peanut/groundnuts Soup/Sauce

Ingredients:
peanuts, salt, onions, tomatoes, spices (Optional), water
Methods:
Warm sufuria and put salt and peanuts
Cook until ready then crush into powder
Put the crushed nuts in the blender and blend
Cut onions into small pieces then peel off the skin in tomatoes
Fry onions and tomatoes, put 1/2 cup water. pour in the blended paste
Put milk in the paste until ready and let it boil
Serve with matoke/mashed potatoes.

Fish Fillet

Ingredients:
Fish fillet, spices
Method:
Cut the fish into small pieces
Season
Dry in the sun
Shallow fry

Meat Balls

Ingredients:
minced meat, onions, wheat flour, eggs, salt, cooking oil, chilli powder, spices optional in powder form
Method:
Boil mince meat slightly
Cut onions into small pieces
Put the onions and spices and salt in the minced meat
Cook a bit
Remove in the heat and let it cool. Whisk an egg and pour the eg in to the mixture and mix. Put wheat flour
Apply thin layers of wheat flour /bread crumps and deep fry
Serve with vegetable salad/macaroni/rice

Doughnuts

Ingredients:
self raising flour, coconut cramps, blue band, milk, sugar, mango jam, eggs
Method:
In plastic bowl, whisk an egg, pour milk, mix with a spoon
Sieve flour and mix with egg and milk to make a dough
Add blue band in the dough
Roll the dough in a board
Use a cup or glass to cut the dough
Use a bottle to make a hole in the middle
Deep fry
Apply on one side of doughnuts and sprinkle coconut cramps.

Creamy Cucumber Salad

Ingredients:
milk, white vinegar, salt, cucumbers sliced, cloves, garlic, onions sliced into rings
Method:
In a large bowl combine milk, vinegar, salt and garlic. Mix well.
Fold in other ingredients chill for one hour to blend flavours (cucumbers release moisture as salad is chilled)
Serve.

Nyirinyiri

Ingredients:
Meat (steak), Cooking oil, Salt to taste
Method:
Cut meat into small pieces
Dry the meat in the sun
Heat cooking oil
Put the meat in the coking oil
Add salt
Cook until tender, drain the oil and store in a bowl

Garlic Potatoes

Ingredients:
Potatoes, onions, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, red chilli poweder, garlic paste, penut oil, salt, coriander
Method:
cut potatoes lengthwise, chop coriander, slice onions.
heat oil and add mustard. LEt it crackle
put cumin and turmeric powders. Saute for 3-4 secs
Put sliced onion and garlic paste. Fry onion untill transparent
Stir chopped potatoes, chilli powder and salt and mix well. Cover and cook on a low flame until potatoes are tender.
serve hot.

Oprah Tips

Stay Young
Consume: whole grains, magnesium, dates, soyabeans

The Skin:
Alpha Hydroxy Acid, AHA products, 2 baby aspirin everyday

3 Things to always do
Fiber
Water at least 8 glasses
Always check your blood pressure (normal 115/75)

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Homemade Fruit Juice

Ingredients:
pawpaw, banana, tree tomato, passion, biscuits, sugar
Method:
Blend tree tomato separately and sieve.
Breal biscuits into small pieces
Add sugar
Blend the mixture

Vegetable Salads

1.) Ingredients:
Tomatoes, carrots, onions, capsicum, coriander
Method:
Grate carrots, cut tomatoes into small pieces, cut onions into round shape, Fry the mixture.
2.) Ingredidents:
Lettuce, vinegar (white), sugar,
Method:
serve raw
3.) ingredients:
cabbage, carrots (grate), vinegar, sugar
Method:
serve raw

My cooking

Ginger Chapatis
Onion French Toast

Tuesday, May 27, 2008


Vegetable Soups

Ingredients:
White onion, Tomatoes, Carrots,Dhania,Leeks,Celery,Ginger,Garlic,Cucumber/Courgettes,Auburgine,Capsicum,salt to taste.
Directions:
Fry the mixture then blend. Serve when hot.

Ingredients:
Pumpkin,Garlic,Potatoes, Salt to taste
Boil/ Fry then blend the mixture. Serve when hot.

Ingredients:
Young Potato leaves/pumpkin leaves/spinach
potatoes, garlic,salt to taste
Boil/fry then blend the mixture. Serve when hot.