Cooking From Around The World
I was given some cheap sausages, cod fillets and prawns and told to make dinner with them. So I decided to make a dish I grew up with from the deep cajun south; GUMBO!
You know, for the life of me I can't remember what I put in it that made it turn out better than all my previous attempts. I think what made it good was the spanish paprika, tumeric and garlic. But I'll have to try it again to make sure that was indeed the secret to it's success.
I also made strawberry cupcakes with the kids. Making cakes from scratch is so much more rewarding than making them from a box. The boys love measuring out all the ingredients and using the mixer more than once. I'm sure you've noticed there's no pictures. The boys ate them all within an hour. Which leads me to my next baking tip: never turn you're back on a 3 and 6 year old when cupcakes are in the vicinity.
I made Brioche. The one on the right has mars bars in it (too many left over from halloween). I had half a loaf to myself; obviously to ensure the quality was of the highest standard.
Well the boys just waited for the baking to be done so that I could make their dinner. But I was so fed up with cooking by then, I ordered pizza.
2 comments:
I want the recipe for your cake from scratch ( I usually use the box) and for the brioche:-) DOnt knwo wht it is but it looks DELICIOUS!!!
I have both recipes but I have them in english measurements! I'll try and get them converted before I post the recipes for you ok?
Brioche is Hawaiian Sweet Bread. Although I am fairly certain the french created it. I found this on the internet about brioche which explains why in france they consider it cake.
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his 1783 autobiography Confessions, relates that "a great princess" is said to have advised, with regard to starving peasants, "S’ils n’ont plus de pain, qu’ils mangent de la brioche", commonly translated as "If they have no bread, let them eat cake". This saying is commonly mis-attributed to the ill-fated Queen Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI; it has been speculated that he was actually referring to Maria Theresa of Spain, the wife of Louis XIV, or various other aristocrats. However, this should not be taken as a slight against the working poor, as was probably misunderstood by Rousseau. The "great princess," whoever she was, was probably referring to the urban poor rather than peasants, since it was in cities that the price of bread was strictly regulated. If the poor had no bread available, then the law that maintained that fancy breads had to be sold at the regulated price, and not the luxury price, should have been enforced."
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