ANTM Week 6

DINNER tonight -  Salmon Slice and  Vege coconut rice

A great food food dinner for in front of the TV

Batteries on my camera are dodgy tonight so not so many photos but you'll get the idea no doubt.

We have a rice cooker - cause we eat so much rice and when I first met Richard and his mother found out I was cooking rice on the stove top she had a fit and rushed out and bought us a rice cooker -  Its the same one 15 years on - even longer than that 16? anyhow - It gets used at least once a week more often than not twice..

so for coconut rice -

put  3 cups of rice a tin of light and tasty coconut  evaporated milk and add the rest in water ( up to the line I mean - I also throw in half packet of diced veges - more on that in a minute..

If you don't have a rice cooker - same deal all in a casserole dish in the oven with a lid - stir every 10 minutes or so and it takes about half an hour.

The result is a tasty but not over the top coconut rice -its a good alternative to plain rice and a nice side accompaniment if you can't be bothered doing veges salad potatoes etc etc..

and for the main dish...

Ingredients

Tin of red salmon
6 eggs
1/2 cup milk
tablespoon heaped of pesto or pesto dip - I used rocket
red onion diced
packet of diced veges

I get these from woolies always have them in the fridge they are good for a quick throw in soups casseroles  crockpot risottos - you name it - if you don't have a woolies - its carrots leeks celery turnip parsnip broccoli stem cauliflower stem and parsley I used half a packet in the salmon slice half in the rice

saute the veges red onion in a pot

Mix the eggs an pesto together - add in the milk

Put veges and broken up red salmon into a casserole dish - pour egg mixture on top- season

Bake for 30 minutes in the oven

ZERT tonight is one of my favourite recipes from  www.taste.com.au I have it in my cookbook - and one of the office ladies at  work makes it regularly for us to share at morning tea. I don't make it often but I sure like to eat it! and with the apples I pretend its almost healthy.

The recipe from the taste website

Apple and Cinnamon Slice

Cooking Time

35 minutes

Ingredients (serves 8)   

• 340g pkt golden buttercake mix
• 1 cup (90g) desiccated coconut
• 125g butter, melted
• 400g can apple pieces
• 300g sour cream
• 1 tsp cinnamon sugar   

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease a 20cm square cake pan. Line base and the two opposite sides with baking paper, extending the paper 5cm over edge of pan.
2. Combine cake mix, coconut and butter in a medium bowl. Press mixture evenly over base of prepared pan. Cook for 15 mins, or until lightly browned. Cool slightly.
3. Spread apple evenly over base, then spread sour cream evenly over apple and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Cook for further 20 mins, or until sour cream has set.
4. Cool in pan. Cut the slice into fingers to serve.

My parting words to the girls as they left this morning were  - apple slice for zert - and I hadn't checked the cupboard - that can be a last minute dash to the shops- and seriously cant be bothered been at a Japanese Professional Development day today - the power was out so we had to make do with very little light my head does not like me and  then I got a flat tyre   - sooo not bothered -however Its not worth my Mumma status if i don't produce the apple slice

..so no cake mix do this instead...

in a mixer put 2 cups of plain flour
1/2 cup oil
1 cup od sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons of baking power
Mix it around



works exactly the same as a cake mix..
disaster averted...

and the final result... is just as good - except its almost double the recipe - I ended up using nearly a 800gm apple tin and two tubs of sour cream ( 500gms )

YUM - its really good still warm too!


Demelza is the name I  have heard  all week - Im not sure if they like her or if they think her name is cool - anyhow  we will see what happens tonight.
Not long to go - Girls are in he bath  and I have time to press publish and get a glass of wine :)
Enjoy your night
Tamar