Sweet Tooth

It's hard living with a sweet tooth, when I lived with friends I never made desserts as I am prone to eat every bit until it is no longer. But as of late, my ability to restrain myself is overridden by my unnecessary need for sweets.


Sweet Sweet French Toast with a twist.
This one is very simple and definately a sweet tooths heaven.

Slices of older crunchy bread
Honey
Cinnamon and sugar
Apple
Egg

Slice the bread quite thick and soaked it in honey, only enough to cover it (lightly warm the honey as it spreads easier). The bread needs to be relatively solid or it will fall apart. Then let it sit for a bit. While that is resting finely slice an apple and coat it with sugar and cinnamon, then lightly cook it in a frying pan with butter. Once this is remove them from the pan and put them into a bowl. Then quickly dipthe bread into a whisked egg. Then cook it in butter in the same frying pan. Once cooked (which doesnt take long, as the honey will burn if left for too long) lightly sprinkle on some raw sugar, then place the apple on top.

It can be left like this or served with some marscapone, natural yoghurt or cream.



Visiting my Nannas place recently I was lucky enough to eat my way through one of her famous 'Apricot Pies', that is made from her home made pastry and home grown and stewed apricots.

I had some left over shortcrust pastry and was have a sugar craving, so I cooked it flat, then cut it into squares, then sliced strawberries and placed them on top and drizzled over some melted dark chocolate. Yummy, easy and a good way to use left over pastry.

Summer BBQ

Warm summer days have been few and far between lately, with spring being far colder than it should be. But on those rare warm days its the perfect time to light the BBQ and have a nice cold beer.


We cooked some frenched lamb cutlets, haloumi cheese, asparagus and turkish bread on the BBQ and roasted some sweet potato and carrots in the oven. Once the lamb cultlets were cooked I put a homemade pesto and smeared it on top, this was made from marinated capsicums finely chopped, grated parmesan and a small pinch of bread crumbs. All the vegetables and turkish bread was combined as a salad and the cultlets were placed on the side. Needless to say it was fantastic and soo easy.

Seafood Special

For many years I have been fortunate enough to enjoy the gentle salty air and amazing coast of the Eyre Peninsula holidaying in the beautiful town Coffin Bay. But one of the most amazing things about Coffin Bay is the fishing and the oysters. Coffin Bay is renound for its amazing oysters and are sold Australia wide.

About a month ago I was lucky enough to visit Coffin bay with my parents and with some local contacts were able to source some of the best oysters around, they were in season and they were delicious. Below are some images of Coffin Bay and the amazing oysters we feasted on!

These prawns were not from coffin bay but have become a favourite dish of mine. They are simple and amazing and I got the recipe from Jamie Oliver.

All you need is:

3-4 tbspns of olive oil, heated in a wok

a good handful of green prawns

some chopped red chilli (as much or as little as you want)

grated ginger

a couple of garlic cloves chopped

cook this all together and then turn the heat off and add the juice of a whole lemon

This will make a nice sauce, throw in some roughly chopped flat leaf parsley and eat it with nice crunchy bread.

Delicious and incredibly easy.