blood orange sorbet *drool*

the other week our italian market had blood oranges (the large ones), so i bought a few and then i saw the little ones (the gorgeous almost moldy coloured ones) in woolworths, so i grabbed a few more.

i had one recipe that i wanted to remake (i made this last year) - blood orange sorbet!

i tweaked a basic sorbet recipe to taste and produced a nicely sized container of freshly made blood orange sorbet. mmmm.

sorbet recipe
3/4 cup caster sugar
1.5 cup water

combine, bring to boil and cool.

my oranges gave 3 cups of juice. so i added this to my sorbet base and churned away in my kitchenaid icecream attachment. the result was a smidgeon sweet for my liking but the juice of 1 lemon solved that problem!

tasty tuna pasta bake

hrmmmppffftttt i don't think this photo does this recipe justice. this is a staple recipe we make every second week because it goes down well with my boys - tuna TICK, vegies TICK and a colourful amass of rainbow pasta shapes TICK. Of course you dont have to use rainbow coloured pasta, 1 cup of macaroni suffices (and thats what the original recipe called for but we always tweak recipes in our home)

this pasta bake makes 6 serves HOWEVER they are large LARGE serves, its great for lunch, leftovers and for husbands taking to dinner when working shift work,

tweaked tuna bake recipe

1 cup macaroni pasta (or ~250g), cooked
425g tin tuna, drained
1 cob corn, cooked and decobbed (thats the correct term right?)
1 head brocolli, cut into florets and steamed
1 onion, chopped
3 tbsp butter
2 tbsp flour
2 cups low fat milk
1/3 cup cheese
breadcrumbs

1. preheat oven to 180 C

2. melt butter in saucepan, add onion and lightly fry. add flour, make into paste. add 2 tbsp milk and slowly add milk to pan until combined. stir until thick and then add cheese.

3. add the tuna, corn, brocolli and pasta to the white sauce mixture. combine and pour into a lightly greased tray. sprinkle with breadcrumbs

4. bake in oven for 20 minutes or until golden on top

apple kuchen

so i finally used the last 7 apples from that box to make this apple kuchen. recipe acquired from hubbies mum. i also made it because i realised i had two cartons of sour cream in the fridge.

its really simple to make and quite tasty.

apple kuchen
butter cake mix
1/2 cup margarine or soft butter
1/2 cup coconut

4 cooked apples
1/3 cup caster sugar combined with 1 tsp cinnamon
3/4 cup sour cream mixed with 1 egg

1 - preheat oven 180c
2 - crumb the butter into the cake mix, add the coconut and put into non-greased slice pan, slightly push up the sides. bake 10 minutes.
3 - put apples ontop of the base, sprinkle over the sugar/cinnamon mixture. spoon over the sour cream/egg mixture
4 - bake for another 20 odd minutes, until browned on the edges

the daring baker

well i have signed up - and will find out on the 01 september if i have been accepted into the daring bakers challenge. fun times ahead!

http://thedaringkitchen.com/

i did have quite a fun cooking weekend and i did take photos - but they are on my mums camera!! will share shortly as i made :

apple + cinnamon scrolls (for freo hospital ICU departments sunday breakfast)
mini burgers (for my little family dinner last night)