Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Kanelbullar

Here are some Swedish "Cinnamon-buns"

Ingredients:
75g Butter250ml Milk
25g Yeast
100g Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon of Ground Cardamon, Salt
500g Flour
Sugar
Cinnamon / More Cardamon

Grinding the Cardamon.

Melt the butter, and add in the milk. When warm (if you put your finger in the mixture, it shouldn't be "hot"). Add in the yeast and dissolve. Move to a boul, stirring in the salt, sugar and cardamon. Mix in nearly all of the flour, finishing with as much flour is needed to make the dough. Knead after this for a little while, then leave it to rise for an hour or so.

Half rolled mixture, showing the scattering of ingredients.

After it has risen, knead it again gently, then pop it on a floured surface, and roll it into a large rectangle. After you've done this, spread butter over the surface, then sprinkle on sugar and cinnamon (With this it's just as much as you want!), then roll is up as shown below.

Slicing the rolled creation.

When it is fully rolled, you can then slice it (1-2cm width) along is legnth, then transfer it onto baking trays with baking parchment on. You can then leave them to rise in a warm place slightly longer (We have a 2 - section oven, and I put them in the section with no direct heat, just warmth)
Arranged Bullar

Bullar in the oven!

Cook in your oven at 220 Degrees Celcius for 6-8 minutes!

The finished product!

Potato Salad

We made a potato salad today, nice and easy yet tasty!


Ingredients:
New Potatoes
Mayonaisse
Onion
Peas

Boil the potatoes, still they're softish, then allow them to cool slightly. Then chop them up into thirds or quarters. Finely dice your onion, and then put your potatoes, onion and your peas into a bowl, then scoop in some mayonaisse, and mix it all up!

Sandwichosaurus

Not really a recipe, but something to amuse you all.

Today Sabi and myself travelled into Guildford to have a look around, and ended up looking in Lakeland Plastics, and one of the things we brought was a dino-cutter!

Dino Cutter Link


I guess a more productive use would be to make some Dinosaur shaped cookies, but it said we could do this too!
















And the reason why dinosaurs aren't around any more, they can't swim!

Oh - the "recipe"

2x Slice of Bread
Sliced Ham
Cheese
Mayonaisse
Butter
Sense of humour

Thursday, 18 March 2010

The Kitchen

Welcome to my new blog! It will be detailing all the things I attempt to cook, with the recipes included!