Fruit and Nut Snack Mix
It’s the beginning of the year again, well Kinda, and almost everyone talks of weight loss. We are told weight loss is a lot about what we eat and that its good to have a healthy snack between meals. Well nuts are one of those healthy snacks, they’ve got the healthy kind of fat (monosaturated and Omega 3), and they also lower the risk of heart disease and fruits well we all know fruits are good for you. This is a great snack to keep in the office, your back pack or even in a small container in your handbag, so that at least when you’re hungry you don’t have to look for a samosa. The only issue here is that it is VERY easy to over eat this snack, a handful should be enough other wise if you’re watching your calories you will be doing yourself no good, also try and avoid picking on the fruits only because they are sweet. My pal Q is a culprit of this, she always comes to my office asks for a snack, i give her the mix she picks half the fruits 🙂 and two nuts heheh no pun. Anyway if you’re not watching your calories I guess you can go Nuts 🙂 and eat all you can. ooooh and please use roasted unsalted nuts.
Ingredients
Roasted Cashew nuts
Roasted peanuts
Roasted almonds
Roasted hazel nuts
Roasted macadamias
Sultanas
Raisins
Dried mangoes
Dried papaya
Method
Mix all the ingredients up together. The ratio of nuts: fruits should be 2:1. I like hazel nuts so I always use more of that. How easy is that!!!
NB: you can find all this dried fruits at Nakumatt in the section where they put baking stuff like decorating flowers, raisins, edible silver balls etc The nuts are also available at Nakumatt
Easy (one bowl) Chocolate Cake
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Easy (one bowl) Chocolate cake A few years back when I really frustrated I went home and decided to bake. I did not have many ingredients so I took what was available out of the pantry and decided to Google for some recipes for cake. I came across an easy chocolate cake and I really liked it. Truth be told that was also the day I begun to realize how therapeutic baking is. Well since then I have tried many other recipes all revolving around more or less the same ingredients but when I tried this one from All Recipes and I was in love. They have quite a number of them there but try this one first then the others. You will not be disappointed. From the photos above you can tell that I was not able to get a picture of the whole cake. First time I made it I decided to share it with my friends so as to distribute the calories 🙂 by the time I thought that I should take a photo more than half the cake was gone. On the second Instance one of the friend I gave the cake to loved it so much that she asked me to make it for a bridal shower and I sliced it up before realizing I should have taken a photo! All in All photos or no photo this cake is great you will not be disappointed if you try it. HAPPY BAKING!
Ingredients
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two nine inch round pans.
In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 2 minutes on medium speed of mixer. Stir in the boiling water last. Batter will be thin. Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cake tests done with a toothpick. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
HAPPY EATING!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/easy-one-bowl-chocolate-cake/Mushroom Fillet Steak and Fries
Two weekends ago I woke up feeling like I could really use some Java food. Well unfortunately being in the bush the closest Java is at least 1000kms away 🙂 . So I decided to try and recreate my favourite Java dish, mushroom fillet steak with spicy fries. I looked around for spicy fries recipe and I was too lazy to try them out as they required a bit more effort and I did not want to deal with the disappointment, just in case they backfired so I stuck with my own “spicy fries”. Truth be told I LOVED IT!! It even smelled like Java in my house for a minute there. HAPPY COOKING!
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- Fresh pumpkin leaves
- Baking soda or magadi
- Onions, chopped
- Garlic, crushed
- Tomatoes, chopped
- chillies
- Dhania (coriander), chopped
- Cream/ milk (sour cream is the best)
Instructions
Instructions
Wash the pumpkin leaves then remove the rough part of the stalk by pulling it out all the way into the leaf.
Roughly chop the leaves and the stalk, place them in water, pour some baking soda and boil for about 20-40 mins depending on how old the leaves are. If its young leaves 20minutes is plenty. Once the leaves are soft. Remove and discard the water.
Put the onions in a pot with a little oil. Fry the onions till they are soft, add the garlic and cook for a further 2 mins. Add in the tomatoes, salt, pepper and chillies. Stir well. Reduce the heat and cover the pot. Let the tomatoes cook for about 5 minutes. Add the dhania and mix well.
Once the dhania has cooked for about 1 minute add the boiled pumpkin leaves, mix well and cover. Let this cook for 3-5mins then add the cream/milk. Bring to a boil and serve hot with Ugali or rice.
HAPPY EATING!!
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