Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Cake

2 ½ cups water

10 oz pitted dates chopped

2 tsp baking soda

½ cup unsalted butter

1 1/3 cup brown sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

3 cups all-purpose flour

Toffee sauce

1 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup half and half or heavy cream or water

1/3 cup butter

2 tsp vanilla extract

Cake

1.Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°f. Butter and flour your choice of cake pan or Bundt cake mould or muffin tin

2. Place the water and dates in a large heavy bottom, bring to a boil, and cook until dates are pureed. Add baking soda

3. Remove from heat; add the butter, brown sugar, eggs (one at a time, mixing all the while until all traces are gone), flour and lastly the vanilla extract.

4. Pour into pan; bake 30 to 45 minutes, until the centre bounces back

Toffee sauce

To make the sauce, put the cream in a saucepan and heat gently. Add the sugar and butter and whisk until melted. Whisk in the vanilla extract

Serve warm with whipped cream or an excellent vanilla ice cream

The victory of a good meal

You know you've had a good meal when your breath stinks like your feet.

Chicken Paprikas with Spaetzle

Chicken Paprikas with Spaetzle  
(Csirkepaprikas)
2 onions chopped
4 tbsp. shortening, flavourless oil or lard – bacon drippings or chicken fat are best
3 tbsp. Hungarian paprika
1/8 tsp. black pepper or whole pepper corns
2 tsp. salt
4 to 5 lbs. chicken disjointed, use legs, thighs, breast and back for best flavour
1 1/2 cups water or chicken stock
1/2 pt. sour cream
Brown onions in fat, add seasonings and chicken, brown for 10 minutes. Add water, cover and let simmer slowly until it is tender. It will smell wonderful!
Remove chicken, add sour cream to drippings in pan and mix well. To thicken gravy, mix into a paste 1 tbsp soft butter with 1 tbsp. of flour and stir into drippings.
Serve dumplings with chicken on top.
Spaetzle: (Little Sparrow dumplings)
1 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. Salt
1/8 tsp nutmeg
4 eggs
Mix flour, salt and nutmeg in mixing bowl
Beat eggs slightly, and then add to flour Stir until batter is smooth and thick.
Let stand 20 minutes
Work through spaetzle grater into salted boiling water, cook until dumplings look done and they float to the top. Drain and serve.

Two things that annoy me the most.

1. When someone squeezes a lemon over my food, I always end up with the pips, especially when squeezed over a salad.
2. I always seem to end up with the bottom slice of the onion with the root core on my burger.

Sammy'z BBQ Sauces

 

Well my sauces are bottled and can be purchased at the following: Ades Meat Mkt 1995 Tecumseh Road West Windsor, ON. N9B 1V7 Phone: (519) 256-8806,Colonial Coffee Co. Ltd. 3110 Marentette Avenue Windsor, ON Canada N8X 4G2 Phone: 519.966.9733 Fax: 519.966.6301, Far Flung Foods The Farmers Market at the Market Square 2109 Ottawa Street, Windsor, On. N8Y 1R8 519-253-4466

It's finally up

Well with great procrastination and deliberate delays my food blog is now up.