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Donairs

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DonairsSo we have this thing in our house called “pick of the month”. Basically everybody gets to pick one thing to eat or drink, kids and husband included, it can range from dessert, snack , meal, whatever they want. Once in a while my hubby decides to challenge me and pick something I have never made before. This month, homemade Donairs. Challenge accepted. Actually turns out they were really easy, just need a long time to cook the meat. A new meal that the whole family enjoyed.

Recipe from   Allrecipes 

  • Meat:
  • 1 teaspoon each, salt, oregano, all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon each pepper, Italian seasonings, garlic powder, onion powder
  • 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
  • 1 pnd ground beef
  • Sauce:
  • 1 (12 ounce can) evaporated milk
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tsp garlic powder
  • 3 tsp vinegar
  • Fixin’s:
  • Pita bread
  • Lettuce
  • Tomato
  • Pickles (Or whatever you want to add)

1. Mix meat spices together in large sturdy bowl. I used a large ceramic bowl so it stays in place. Using your hands mix in all spices. Pick up meat mixture and slam down with force into bowl. Knead meat. Repeat about 20 times.

2. Shape meat into a loaf and place on baking sheet. Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. Flip. Bake additional 35 minutes.

3. Place on cutting board and let rest for 10-20 minutes.

4. After you put meat in the oven make sauce by whisking together all sauce ingredients. Place in fridge until ready to use. Stir before putting on donairs.

5. Warm pita. Cut in half and fill with fixin’s. Thinly slice meat and add to pita. Top with a few Tablespoons of sweet sauce.

6. Eat and enjoy!

Roasted Cauliflower Soup

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Roasted Cauliflower SoupThe temperatures are just starting to heat up. I’m sure winter isn’t even close to being over, not where we live anyways, but the occasional break from the snow comes and we get a few weeks of spring like weather. Of course, everything is still brown, there are no flowers, but it’s still nice to be able to go outside in sneakers and a sweater instead of layering on boots, coat, scarf, mittens. The winter works. A winter staple in this house is soup and muffins, many, many nights this will be our supper when the snow is gently falling outside. Something about soup just makes the world seem right. In the hot summer months, it is one thing I really miss. Last night was Cranberry muffins (Recipe coming tomorrow), and this cauliflower soup, both using up leftover ingredients I had from our turkey dinner last week. The recipe calls for a whole head of cauliflower, I used about 1/4 of it in a different recipe, but otherwise I kept the recipe the same as written.

Recipe from Allrecipes

  • 1 head cauliflower
  • 2 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • 2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • 1 Tbsp onion, finely chopped
  • 3 Tbsp flour
  • 1 (14 ounce can) chicken broth
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 Tbsp dry sherry

1. Heat oven to 450 degrees. Cut cauliflower into bite sized pieces, place in baking dish. Drizzle with olive oil and next four ingredients. Bake for 40 minutes, stirring every 10, remove from oven.

2. Melt butter in soup pot. Add onion, cook over medium heat 10 minutes, or until tender. Sprinkle with flour, cook one minute. Slowly add chicken broth , then milk, bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until thickened. Stir in cauliflower and sherry.

3. Blend in batches, leaving a few chunks.

4. Eat and enjoy!

 

Tips- Looking for an easy side dish. Roast the cauliflower as directed in step one. Serve!

Blueberry Lemon Cake

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Blueberry Lemon CakeI love cake. If I am not baking muffins, cake is almost always my second choice. Neither are my husbands favorite “treats”, so we were kind of laughing at how different our tastes are the other day. He likes salty, and if he is having a sweet treat, he likes Ice Cream or Pie. Or Ice Cream with pie. I prefer to eat cake, sure I like a little ice cream topping it off if it’s the right flavor, but give me cake and you will make me happy. So I made cake, and all was well, because everybody knows if mommy is happy, the world is just a better place for everybody.  I was going to be super wife and make him a lemon meringue pie for tonight’s dessert however, I completely forgot how busy today will be , so the box of girl guide cookies sitting in our pantry will just have to do! Sorry baby, I love you! I found the idea for this cake over at Betty Crocker , but I used a homemade cake recipe, instead of a boxed mix that I got over here at Allrecipes, next time I will add a tsp of lemon extract, as I didn’t feel it was as lemony as I would have liked. Anyways, it really was delicious besides that fact, so eat, enjoy, be merry.

Cake:

  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 Tbsp lemon zest
  • 1 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 1 1/8 cup milk
  • (add 1 tsp lemon extract for extra lemon flavor)

Plus:

  • 1 container whipped vanilla frosting
  • 1 can blueberry pie filling

1. Mix together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.

2. Cream together butter and lemon extract. Gradually beat in sugar. Beat in egg yolks one at a time. Alternately add milk and flour mixture.

3. Line 2 9-inch round cake pans with parchment paper, spray paper with cooking spray. Divide batter evenly between both cake pans.

4. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Test with toothpick to make sure middle has cooked. Remove from oven and cool.

5. Place one cake layer on serving plate and top with half of the blueberry pie filling. Top with second cake layer. Frost sides of cake using the whole container of icing, making a little icing wall at the top to keep the blueberries in. Top cake with remaining pie filling.

6. Eat and enjoy!

Vanilla Ice Cream

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Vanilla Ice CreamMy first batch of Ice Cream from the new Ice Cream Maker I got at Christmas. Excited, yes, I am. I will probably be making the majority of Ice cream in summer as I do love my baking, but I couldn’t resist to try it out at least a couple of times. Next on the list, maybe chocolate, perhaps mint chocolate chip. All I know is, making ice cream is pretty gosh darn fun. This ice cream had an amazing flavor, however the texture was a bit off, maybe because we are not used to homemade ice cream yet, maybe because this recipe used milk as opposed to actual cream. I will be trying out lots of different recipes, in fact if you have one, leave it in the comment here so I can check it out! I’ll even share it on my Facebook page! This recipe I found at Allrecipes, it was too big for my ice cream machine (mine is 1 1/2 quarts) so I used half of the recipe and put the rest in the fridge while my ice cream freezer refroze and then did the second half. Seemed to work fine!

  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 ounce)
  • 1 can evaporated milk (12 ounce)
  • 2 Tbsp vanilla
  • pinch salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 6 cups milk

1. Stir together both canned milks, vanilla, salt and 1 cup sugar. Whisk together until sugar is dissolved. Add milk.

2. Pour mixture to fill line in your ice cream machine, use according to ice cream machine instructions.

3. Remove from ice cream machine and place in freezer safe container, freeze until firm (2-3 hours).

4. Eat and enjoy!