Pig Tits & Parsley Sauce

Here are some recipes which have been published in the weekly column “Pig Tits and Parsley Sauce” and some shown on TV (Good Morning TV One).

Ice Cream – no appliances needed. Lightly whip 300 ml cream.  Separate 4 eggs. Whip whites to stiff then add 1/4 cup sugar. Whip yolks (then add 1/4 cup sugar – optional as it might be too sweet for your taste) – till thick and pale . Combine (lightly fold) all three ingredients with large spoon. Add vanilla or other flavourings as desired ie:  essences, fudge sauce, chocolate chips, fruit etc. Freeze. Enjoy.

Butter – Put fresh cream in food processor.  Do not over-fill.  Process on high speed. It will go thick like whipped cream then thin and then bang – the butter will drop out.  This could take ages…. so be patient but don’t blow your food processor up. Tip the butter milk off and save it.  This is OK to put in drinks or to bake with. Bread and scones are really nice if made with buttermilk instead of milk or water. Put a small amount of COLD water into processor with butter and process for 1 min… this will wash the butter.  Tip this water out and repeat the process.  If you do not do this the butter may go rancid quickly. Drain thoroughly.  Add salt if desired.  Spoon butter into butter mould or container. This freezes well if you make a big amount.

Cottage Cheese - Put 500ml milk in a pot and heat slowly but do not boil.  Add 2 ml of calcium chloride (optional). Add 2 Tablespoons of citric acid (or a generous splash of white vinegar).  You will see curds forming. Do not burn the milk… keep stirring. Once the curds are well formed remove from heat and strain out whey through scrupulously clean muslin, tea towel or cheese cloth.  Put the milk solids (curds) in a bowl and add salt and pepper ( and/or other herbs) if desired.  Refrigerate until needed.  Can add fresh cream before using if you want to. Great for sandwiches and salads or on its own. Save whey for baking.

Easy Hummus (as seen on TV One Good Morning)  http://tvnz.co.nz/good-morning/s2011-e021211-lyn-webster-video-4586994

2 cups of cooked chickpeas, 3 tablespoons tahini (toasted sesame seeds,processed with oil and water in food processor until smooth), lemon juice to taste, chopped fresh garlic to taste, 1 Teaspoon cumin powder, salt.  Serve with rounds of lightly grilled stale bread and celery or carrot sticks.

Flat Bread

Flat Bread – Mix approx 2 cups of flour into a bowl with some melted butter and a pinch of salt. Make into a soft dough using milk. Add spring onion or chopped fresh garlic of desired.  Knead into balls using floured hands. Flatten into rounds on floured surface.  Cook each side in frying pan with a little oil or butter. Makes a cost effective, filling and interesting addition to most meals. Play around with flavour by adding whatever is in your cupboard ie:  chopped almonds, dried fruit, herbs and spices.

Most Beautiful Chocolate Cake

Melt 125g chopped butter and a C milk in saucepan.  Remove from heat and stir in 1/2 t baking soda. Cool for 10 mins.

Sift 2C flour, 2 t baking powder and 1/4 C cocoa into a large bowl and stir in 1/2 C sugar.

Whisk 1t vanilla essence and 2 eggs into the cooled butter mixture.  Pour over the flour and mix lightly to combine.

Transfer mixture to greased tin (20cm diameter). Bake for 45 minutes in oven pre-heated to180 degrees C. Cool on wire rack and ice when cool.

Stevie’s icing recipe:  Up to 50gms Butter, cocoa (to taste) and 1 & 1/2 C  icing sugar and a little bit of warm milk. Cream the butter, add icing sugar and beat, add milk, beat, add cocoa, beat. Make icing sugar by jooshing normal sugar in a food processor (using small whiz attachment – if you have one).

Crock Pot Bread Recipe
Ingredients
15 g dried yeast
4 teaspoons sugar
2 ½ C warm water
¼ teaspoon salt
2 C wholemeal flour
About 4 cups of white flour
Method
Put yeast in a bowl with ½ teaspoon of the sugar
Pour on ¼ C warm water and leave for 5-10 minutes
Place remaining water in a large bowl. Mix in yeast mixture, remaining sugar, salt and WM flour.
Combine with wooden spoon. Mix in enough white four to make a stiff dough. Turn on to floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic – add more flour as necessary.
The dough is ready when it springs back when tapped.
Lightly grease the slow cooker (Butter or oil). Cover and cook on high for 2 hours. The bread is ready when it sounds hollow when tapped.

Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding:

1 C flour, 1 t baking powder, 2 T cocoa powder, 3/4 C sugar, 50g butter, 1/2 C milk, 1 t vanilla essence.

Pre heat oven to 180. Sift flour, bp & cocoa and stir in sugar. Melt butter and milk, stir in vanilla.  Add wet and dry ingredients. Mix well. Spread mixture in dish.

Topping:  1T cocoa, 1/2 C sugar, 1 C hot instant coffee. Mix sugarand cocoa together in cup and spread over pudding.  Carefully pour coffee over pudding (do not stir).  Bake for 40 – 45 mins.

Crumbing: Save bread heels and freeze.  Crumb in food processor with a little salt and pepper.  Remember FEB.  Flour, egg, breadcrumbs.  Rub meat or fish in flour, then egg then breadcrumbs before cooking. Crumbing makes a small amount of meat go further.  Egg can be replaced with milk or oil if unavailable.

Banana Cake:  Google recipes until you find one you have the ingredients for.

Home Made icing Sugar: Don’t go running off to the supermarket because you want to ice a cake and there is no icing sugar left.  Get ordinary sugar and blitz it in the food processor using small attachment.  We will not be buying icing sugar again.

Exfoliant/Hand and Foot Cleanser/Facial Scrub
I discovered this mixture by accident and it is great – especially for people who get their hands dirty ie: Farmers, mechanics, gardeners etc
Mix Baking Soda and Sweet Almond oil into a paste. I use 3 parts baking soda to 1 part Sweet almond oil. Use to remove dirt and grease off hands, get black marks off your heels or just as an all round body cleanser – way cheaper and better than anything you would buy. Try my link to www.amoraromatherapy.co.nz for sweet almond oil at a good price

Cow Shed Cleaner/Mould Remover/ Deck Cleaner

Equal amounts of washing soda and white vinegar – can use soda ash instead of washing soda.

Ie:  2 cups of each in a 20 litre bucket

Warm water and a good squirt of detergent (eg: Dish washing liquid)

Spray on walls and waterblast or hose off and/ or scrub.  Also really good for getting cow poo off cups as it doesn’t hurt your hands.

Cheaper and nicer to use than XY12 which is blimmen expensive these days considering what it is.

Get washing soda in bulk from Bin Inn or try Aakland Chemicals for a bag of soda ash delivered 0800 100 350 

Toothpaste:
1T baking Soda
1t salt
A few drops of glycerine.

Peppermint essence to taste. Experiment with the amounts to get a taste you like. You could add tiny amount of artificial sugar if you really can’t stand the taste.

Mix to a paste in a small container.  Dip brushes in.  Should last about 10 days

Mouthwash
1 t Baking Soda
1 t of salt
500 ml water

Store in recycled Listerine container – because you won’t be spending money on that again. There is now one less plastic container in the landfill.

Rinse out mouth as you would with Listerine but at a fraction of the cost.

Hair Washing
Wet hair
Sprinkle with baking soda
Massage in
Rinse out

Optional:  rinse out with small amount of white vinegar before final rinse. Leaves hair looking and feeling beautiful and, surprisingly, leaves no smell.

Conditioner
Try a home made conditioner.  Heaps of recipes on Internet.
1 Egg Beaten
1 T Olive Oil

Mix together with warm water

Apply to hair and leave as long as desired

If this leaves a residue, rinse off with white vinegar, then water.

Smelly Feet Remedy
Soothe aching feet in a this solution.
4 T baking soda
Enough hot water to cover feet in a container

Soak feet to dissipate odour, and bring comfort to your tender toes.

Baking Soda may also help with athletes foot problems.

Glycerine Soap Base – you need a crock pot for this.  Plastic soap mould, gloves for handling Lye

Stage One Ingredients:  200g Tallow, 110g coconut oil, 85g olive oil, 60g castor oil, 70g sodium hydroxide (Lye), 160ml water

Stage Two Ingredients:  140g granulated sugar, 70ml boiling water, 140ml glycerine, 280ml vodka.

Stage One :

Melt tallow, coconut oil, olive oil and castor oil in a crock pot.

In the meantime…

Carefully add lye to water and dissolve. Wear gloves and long sleeves when handling Lye.  Be careful. Keep away from children and pets.

Carefully add lye to oils and stir to trace (until it leaves tracks in the mixture) – this could take quite a while (20 minutes or more)

Cook on low for 3 hours – gel stage.

Stir soap until there are no visible white bits

Stage Two:

Stir glycerine into soap.  Cook on medium for 30 minutes. Carefully stir in vodka (alcohol) and cook until soap has dissolved.

Pour boiling water over sugar (dissolve sugar)

Stir sugar solution into the soap and continue cooking until liquid & syrupy

Pour into plastic mould and leave overnight to set.

Freeze for 2 hours before removing from mould.

Lave to firm up for two weeks then use for melt and pour.