As Easy as Pie

Heat up the frying pan with a tad bit of oil. Add chopped onions and fry until translucent.

Then dump in all the things that you'd like to find inside the pie...... the meat(s) of your preference, mushrooms, capsicums, sun dried tomatos (mmm...)..........whatever takes your fancy!

A wee bit of white wine or vinegar helps to infuse the flavours together.

Don't forget the salt and pepper!

Grease and line up the pie dish with pastry dough.

Chuck the filling into the pie base, add tons of grated cheese, and if you, like me find that the filling is not enough to fill-in the whole dish, just think of something to make it full, maybe pieces of bread or some leftovers or something.

Use another pastry sheet to cover up the pie. Leave an incission on it to let the steam escape.

And pop it in the oven (pre-heated of course).

Your nose will alert you when it's done

Enjoy!

Pani Kadju!

Crush the cashews


Caremelize some sugar
Stir in the crushed nuts into the mixture
Pour it over a flat surface and cut into squares


Simple as that!!

What goes into a Marshmallow

Heaps of sugar mixed with a little bit of water



A touch of Gelatine for that sticky feeling



Pinch of colour & essence
And a dip in icing sugar for the finishing touch



And loads and loads of air bubbles trapped inside!!

Mini Pizzas

Ok, so they are not exactly pizzas for they were made out of puff pastry. But they look pretty much like pizzas! So that's good enough to call them pizzas. and if you really love pizzas you can use the pizza dough instead of pastry dough.

Eeeeazy recipe, great for an afternoon snack, or any other time for that matter.

Just get a layer of puff pastry (yeah the frozen ones the that come all packed up for your convenience) cut out circles of the size you would like them to be. Well, if you are the very traditional kind of person with lots of time to spare, you can spend a few hours to make the dough, knead it and what not......as for me I've got other things to do.

So next apply a bit of tomato puree (or again if you want to go conservative, do it the traditional way) on the pastry. Top it with a slice of cheese, mozzarella preferred, but any cheese would do. And add bits and pieces of whatever you like. I used mushrooms, capsicum and tomato.

If you want to get the browned pastry effect just brush the pastry with some egg wash.

Then pop it in the oven (180 degrees Celsius) for about 15 minutes, when the pastry aroma begins to leak out into the kitchen, you'll know they are ready to be consumed!!