Betty Bake

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Kind regards

 

Betty Bake

LUNCH BOXES AND EARLY MORNINGS

Seagulls on the beach  – end of the holidays

At the moment i am making lists and making sure the things on those lists get done. As tomorrow is the first day of school and i need to make sure my daughter has everything she needs to start the year off. I’m also thinking about school lunches and what cute healthy things i can put into her lunch box – (no sweets allowed) so i’m thinking little bunches of grapes and cheese cubes with biltong and a rice cake or two. Mmmmm I’m sure i’ll come up with more combinations in the next few days – as i start to get myself out of holiday mode and into back to school mode- up early again for me.

Betty Bake

ps for those of you who have requested my pancake recipe it will follow in a day or 2 🙂

THINGS I MADE OR ATE THIS WEEKEND

Being Monday and  because i don’t do posts on the weekend i thought i would fill you in on the delicious and not so delicious things i ate this weekend.

1) I had delicious but rather sweet wheat-free chocolate cake at the woolworths cafe in cavendish on saturday with Being brazen and the Boyfriend and ofcourse my lovely husband.
2) I made a nice chicken and mushroom savoury pancake last night for dinner – the husband and little one seem to enjoy it too.
4) The husband and i ate camembert and biscuits (corn thins for me, wheat-free and all)
3) The rest was really uneventful – so nothing to write home about there…..

How was your food the last few days? Anything delicious? Did you make something nummy? or did it all burn?

Betty

WEEKEND FOOD – Cheese & Fruit

The one thing i love about summer is all the fresh fruit that is available – strawberries, cherries and pineapples or any of your favorite fruit – fresh, juicy,  numminess all sliced up on a plate or in a bowl. Pair it off with a good cheese and some biscuits. My husband recons a good wine – but i’m not a fan of anything that doesn’t taste like juice.But i’ve heard that wine compliments cheese and biscuits really well. so add your favorite and you have a great recipe of relaxing food for a friday evening sunset or saturday afternoon lunch/ supper and you set. Good book in the sun or some good company 🙂 what a blissful Cape Town summer weekend. Cause that is what we capetonians do 🙂 

wishing you a sunny weekend
Betty

NACHOS CON POLLO – nachos with chicken :) mmmm

NACHOS in the oven

My sister in law Sara introduced me to this wonderful dish of nachos with chicken and mushrooms and it is just so delicious that my husband has been asking me to make it over and over again! It is really THAT good.
I never used to be a nachos fan but now I love it very much and have since put my own spin on it adding different spices and making my own tomatoe and onion spicy sauce 🙂 And it tastes so much better than it looks in the photos.

INGREDIENTS
4 or 5 medium/large tomatoes
2 medium to large oinions
1 red pepper
half a green pepper
1 or 2 chillies
salt and pepper (black and cayenne)
2 – 4 tablespoons sugar
1 packet of Nachos corn chips
1 and a half cups grated cheddar cheese
3 or 4 fresh pepperdews (if available)
4 chicken breasts cubed or sliced into strips
4 table spoons of sweet chilli sauce or chutney
1 punnet of button mushrooms sliced
10cm length of cucumber diced onto cubes
6 table spoons sour cream
half and avocado
2 teaspoons brown vinegar

SPICY TOMATOE SAUCE
Dice the onion and fry in a little oil till light brown with some salt. Blanch the tomatoes in boiling water, then peel off the skins and dice and add to the onions. let simmer for 3 min then add diced red and green peppers  and finely chopped chillies – add as little or as much to taste – mild to burny. Add finely chopped and deseeded pepper dews if available. Simmer and add sugar and salt and pepper to taste. Let the mixture simmer until nice and thick.

CHICKEN
In a separate pan fry the chicken breasts in a little oil and sweet chilli sauce or chutney (which ever you prefer) and set aside in a once cooked through.

MUSHROOMS
In a separate pan or pot fry the mushrooms in a little oil and set aside.

AVOCADO
remove the avocado from the skin and mash till soft and mix in the vinegar and a little salt

ASSEMBLY
turn on the grill of the oven to Hot/ 220 degrees celcius. On a large oven proof dish/plate lay out a  medium to thick layer of nachos chips. Spoon the spicey tomatoe sauce over the chips taking care not to put to much on, roughly a no thicker than your little finger thick of sauce all over. Now layer as follows: spread the chicken then the mushrooms then the cucumber and then the grated cheese all in nice even layers.place under the grill and brown until bubbling and melted all over.

take out the oven and spoon sour creamin the middle topped with the avo and serve while hot.
eat while warm as it will go soggy.

enjoy  – very delicious

Betty

ICED TEA or A.K.A. JUICE TEA

Cherry & Apple rooibos Ice Tea

My daughter loves to drink a fruit ice tea made from rooibos (afrikaans for Red Bush) tea and whatever flavour fruit juice we mix with it to make a delicious cool drink/ ice tea. In the hot summer weather we are having this is a great healthy drink for the kids and family 🙂 and for the adults in the party mood for new years eve this can easily made into an “adult” drink for a party.

INGREDIENTS
3 or 4 teabags (rooibos or tea of choice)
1 litre of fruit juice of your choice
some berries or lemon to garnish
alcohol (if making the adult version)

INSTRUCTIONS
take a 2 litre jug or pot that can handle boiling water. Boil roughly 750ml of water and add to the jug with the tea bags and leave to seep/draw and cool down. When the tea is luke warm add the full litre of fruit juice.
Place in the fridge and once ice cold then add some sliced lemon or berries.
serve in glasses with ice.

if making an alcoholic version add a nice tasting alcohol that blends nicely with fruit juice – southern comfort or peach schnapps, or any fruit flavoured liquer  roughly 100ml or to taste.