A Non Food Related Random Post...

You Are a Black Panther

You see through people. You understand others' motives and plans. You have a knack for predicting the future. You just know what people are going to do. People are attracted to you. You are naturally able to influence other people's thoughts. You have the charisma to be a beloved guru or dictator. It's all about how you handle it.

What Big Cat Are You?

Grilled Chicken & Vegetable Stir Fry

Thought I would share this wonderfully easy, wonderfully simple dinner with you! Take one chicken fillet per person and, using a sharp knife slice (not all the way through) slices into the chicken, so taht it kind of fans out. The splash on some soy sauce, fresh black pepper and salt then place under a hot grill until cooked through.

To make the base, I cheated this time, I bought a pack of pre-prepared stir fry vegetables, so you can do the same and cook enough rice for the number of mouths.

Lightly stir fry the vegetables, around 3-4 minutes dependant upon quantity, you are looking for heated through and crunchy rather than soft. Once the rice is ready, drain well and add to the vegetables and stir fry briefly. Mix well.

Spoon the rice mixture onto your serving dish and place the chicken on the top!!

Enjoy!

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Chocolate Easter Fudge Cake

Ingredients

• 50g (2oz) cocoa powder
• 140g (41/2 oz) Self Raising Flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• good pinch of salt
• 150g (5oz) unsalted butter
• 150g (5oz) golden sugar
• 4 medium eggs
• 3 tbsp milk

Topping

• 100g milk
• 100g butter
• 50g icing sugar
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 pack mini eggs
  

Method

1. Sift the cocoa butter, baking powder & salt into a bowl and mix thoroughly.
2. Add the butter, sugar, eggs and milk. Beat until smooth.
3. Sift in the flour and beat again to form a smooth batter.
4. Pour into a 23cm (9in) lined and greased, loose bottomed cake tin. Make a hollow in the centre to encourage even rising.
5. Cook for 30 - 35 minutes. Lave to cool then remove from the tin.
6. Make the topping: Melt the chocolate. Stir in the butter. Sift in the icing sugar and cocoa powder and combine well.
7. Leave the topping in the fridge until stiff enough to spread.
8. Cover the top of the cake and decorate with the mini eggs.

We loved this cake, it was nicely chocolately and moist, the topping is to die for. Go on! Spoil yourself at Easter!!

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Easter Eggs

Here is a nice easy way to make Easter that bit more special! Make your own Easter Eggs!! There are loads of Easter Egg moulds out there big and small and everything in between! The mould I used from this was from eBay and cost only a few pounds. All I did was melt some chocolate and pour it in the mould! May I suggest the following; put in a thin layer first and allow to harden and then add the rest of your chocolate. This just makes sure that you have a nice outside layer to suport the heavy layer of chocolate which creates the thickness. I am going to use some coloured tin foil (eBay once again!) to wrap them and as you can see I will use the chocolates that I made earlier to fill it! Yum Yum!

The mould I used here is 4.5 inches tall and it took 50g of chocolate to fill.

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Homemade Strawberry Jam

Ingredients 1kg strawberries, hulled 1kg jam sugar juice of 2 lemons

Method

1. Wash, drain and hull the fruit and place into a non-metallic bowl. Sprinkle over lemon juice and sugar, gentle mix until fruit is well coated. Cover with a tea-towel and leave overnight.
2. Tip the fruit and sugar into a heavy based pan. Heat gently until the sugar melts completely, don't let the mixture come to the boil before all the sugar has melted.
3. Turn up the heat and boil hard for exactly 4 minutes. Take off the heat and do the saucer test*. If jam is not ready then return to the boil for another 2 minutes.
4. Turn off the heat and swirl in the butter. Skim of any scum that forms. Cool for 10 - 15 minutes. Stir gently and pour into sterilised jars. Seal.
   Keeps for approximately 3 months.

*The saucer test: place a suacer into the freezer for about 5 minutes. When ready for the test, remove from the freezer. Drop a spoonful of the jam onto the saucer. Leave for about 5 minutes. Run your finger through the mixture, if it wrinkles then the jam is ready.