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Beans Orange Salad and Thumbprint Cookies.

Hello everybody.

Had visitors last night with no time to do lots of stuff,so I made this easy salad and some cookies and arranged some fruits,with coffee,tea and nuts turned out a pleasant evening.

Salad contains red beans,sweet corn,chopped colored sweet peppers with orange slices on top,dressing was salt,oregano,lemon,vinegar and olive oil.

As for the cookies, these are ingredients and method:

* 1/2 cup butter.

* 1/4 cup sugar.

* 1 large egg separated.

* 1 cup flour.

* pinch of salt.

* 3/4 roasted finely crushed nuts.

* jam

 

* beat egg yolk,butter,sugar and salt till creamy.

* add flour and knead till you form a ball.

* form small balls then press them  with your thumb a bit in the middle.

* beat the egg white and coat cookies with them.

* roast and crush finely the nuts then coat cookies with them as well.

* bake in a moderate heated oven for 13-15 minutes.

* when cooled add a little bit of jam in the thumbprint.

 

Yummy yummy 🙂

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Day Off!

Hello everybody.

Today I decided to take the day off,we  had cheese sandwiches at noon and maybe we’ll have an early dinner somewhere out, I’m in no mood  to cook at all,so excuse me for not posting a dish today. I know many of you have the same feeling every now and then:)

Nevertheless remember yesterday’s berries? I made the rest of them jam cause I washed them all so this morning they were not so fresh, same way I did the apricot jam but I sieved them when done to remove all seeds.

I also made miniature jam cookies,same dough as the ones I made in big tray but molded it in small cupcake papers,added jam and nuts and baked them for 15 minutes. Nice treat to my son’s friends when they gather at night .

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Fig Jam and Raisins Cake.

Hello everybody.

Back to school,which is by the way last week of it,I can’t believe how quick this academic year was,do you like Summer vacation or no?

Today’s lunch is stuffed courgettes like the ones I did before with it’s pulp as a side dish, it’s my eldest son favorite so it must be repeated at least once every month 🙂

I found a jar of fig jam about to be expired in the fridge,then remembered that I do have a recipe somewhere that has it in the ingredients,so I took out all my cookbooks,searched till I found it in my small favorite book Cafe Cakes, you know that these small specified books you find in bookshops are a lot better than big famous ones, that’s what I found out after all these years of cooking and baking .

Very easy to do and delicious.

Ingredients and method:

*125 gm butter ( I used 2 tablespoons butter and 1/4 cup vegetable oil,worked out just fine)
* 2 eggs.

* 1/2 cup brown sugar.

* 1 1/2 cup flour.

* 2 tsp baking powder.

* 1/2 cup fig jam.

* 1 cup raisins ( I added a bit of walnuts also)

*1/2 cup milk.

 

* beat butter and sugar till creamy then add eggs,jam,raisins,flour and baking powder till you get a creamy batter.

* pour in a medium sized baking pan ( any shape you like) and bake in a medium heated oven for 45-50 minutes.

* cool and decorate with cream cheese topping or whipped cream if you like.

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20140526_154704   today’s lunch.

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Apricot Jam.

Hello everybody.

A dear friend of my mother in-law called me saying that her apricot tree is overloaded and most of it is over ripe so she wants me to come pick as much as I want

A custom of mine each year I make this jam just as my late grandma used to make it,she had a big tree in her garden and we used to help her pick it and make ripe ones jam,she even used to break the seed and add the nut inside to the jam,but this is really hard work,poor teita. she was very patient and did them all without grumbling at all,God bless your soul my dear grandma<3

Well I did go yesterday to auntie Haifa’s ,had a cup of coffee and took a big big bag of beautiful fresh apricots,perfect for jam.

last night I cleaned and pitted them then added sugar and cooked them today, by the way lunch today was steak sandwiches,same that I did before.

 

Ingredients and method of jam:

* 1 kg ripe apricots.

* 1 kg sugar ( you need equal amounts of fruit and sugar,you can measure in cups also)

* 2 tablespoons lemon juice.

 

* add sugar to apricots stir well then put on gas on medium heat till bubbly.

* reduce heat to minimum and keep boiling for 40-50 minutes removing froth whenever it’s formed.

* keep stirring mixture then blend it with hand mixture if you like or leave it in chunks as you prefer.

* add lemon juice and leave it boiling for another 15-20 minutes or till it’s thick .

* cool and fill in cleaned glass containers,then keep in fridge.

 

I usually wrap jars with ribbons or accessories, great gift full of love 🙂

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