Bunny's elusive almond hamburger rolls

 We don't have a recipe for this, it's a placeholder to try and find it. A really simple thing where you have egg, almond meal, and some baking powder and put it in a ramekin in the microwave and less than a minute later you have a slightly crunchy, but weirdly morish low-carb 'hamburger' bun. I tried it and it turned into more of a wet omelette - guessing I didn't put enough almond in. Even the wet omelette was sort of useable for a mini-pizza. 

Lara's spicy one-pot Couscous

Ingredients

•  2 tsp olive oil 
• 2 red onions, thinly sliced 
• 4 chorizo, sliced 
• 1.5 tsp dried chili flakes (or rather less) 
• 2 tsp rosemary leaves, chopped 
• 2 cups instant couscous 
• 2.75 cups chicken stock 
• 150g baby spinach leaves 
• 0.5 c continental parsley, chopped 
• Lemon wedges 
• garlic aioli 

Method

• Heat the oil to mediu to high heat
• Add onion, chorizo, chili and rosemary. Cook for 7-9 mins until onions are golden. 
• Add couscous and chicken stock to pan. 
• Reduce to low, simmer for 7 mins, or until stock absorbed.
• Stir through spinach and parlsey 
• Serve immediately with lemon wedges and aioli. 

Problem lamb kebabs with coronation slaw

 These are a problem because the kebabs got dry. I don't really want to add more fat, I'd rather work to keep the fat that's there in the kebab and not washing away. Anyway the taste was good so I'll work on it. 

Kebabs: Half onion, allspice, parsley/and or rosemary, baharat, japaneno, 'pine nuts' (used walnuts instead). 

Original recipe didn't cook the onions but I don't think that's wise. So I did. The whole Baharat thing was nice. Skewers were mean to be flat, mine weren't, it was fine as far as slipping off goes. I think on the next trial I'm simply going to reduce cooking time to max 3 mins per side, grilled.

Baharat: Corriander seeds, cumin seeds, whole cloves, black peppercorns, cardamom pods seeds only (toast them and whiz), plus unsmoked paprika and grated nutmeg. 

Topping for kebabs: 

Masscerate thinly sliced red onion in lemon for a few hours prior. Add in sumac and chopped parsley at the end. Was pretty effective. 

A side slaw with: 

Yoghur, lemon, curry powder (in this case cabbage, red oinion, carrot, sultana equivalent... or walnut) 

Effectively 'coronation' slaw. Kinda ok.

These were actually pretty tasty inside a wrap, if you can stomach the carbs.  

Dancakes (Oatcakes)

 They're 'Dancakes' because it's a riff on something Dan Churchill from Centr made. Also, the oat flour is ridiculously expensive in the shops but it's perfectly fine to blend some normal oats and hey presto it's cheap again. I like these things with lots of lemon juice and some Greek yoghurt on top. 

Dancake mix recipe

Mix

3 cups oat flour

1 cup plain flour

¼ cup sugar

3tsp cinnamon, cloves, allspice mixed

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

 

To cook, per portion:

1/3 cup mix

1 egg

1 tbsp Greek Yoghurt

Keto Lemon Bars

 Like normal lemon bars only much chewier. Can't say they're the best but needs must. 

Crust with: 

• 80g butter
• 130 g almod flour 
• 40g sweetner 
• tsp lemon zest 

Combine and bake as usual. 

Filling: 

• 60g butter 
• 50g sweetner 
• 80ml lemon juice w lemon zest 
• 3 eggs 
• some gelatine and some cornstarch to thicken 

Cook the curd as normal. They put in the starch and gelatine later. I guess that'll keep it to a minimum. They also cook the curd together with the butter, instead of adding it later. Not sure why. 

Pour onto semi-cooked almosd base. REturn to heat. 180 for 15 mins, or as needed. 

Lara’s Chocolate Nut Cake

 (Lara is a chocolate nut)

 

• 3 eggs separated, medium size, at room temperature
• 110 g butter
• 150 g sugar
• 1/2 tablespoon milk at room temperature
• 50g ish of chopped nuts
• 1 big tablespoon cocoa powder
• 90 g flour (plain)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

 

Preheat your oven to 180°C.

Melt a bit of butter and use pastry brush to rapidly coat the inside of a Bundt tin.

Separate the eggs.

Chop the nuts.

Measure out, combine, and sift together the cocoa, flour, and baking powder. Don’t get it everywhere.

Mostly melt the butter in the microwave (cover with a plate please)

Whip the whites to stiff peaks.

Put butter, egg yolks, sugar, and a good splash of milk in a medium bowl and whisk mightily until floofy.

Combine the flour mix and the nuts into the floofy egg and butter mix. Stirring, folding not beating. If it ends up being super-stiff and solid so you won’t be able to fold in the egg whites, mix in a bit more milk as needed.

Surfer-fold the egg whites gradually into the chocolaty mix. Put in a bit first to get the mix looser, then the rest.

Tip the mix in the Bundt tin carefully so it doesn’t splatter all over the sides… but quickly. If spattered, wipe excess away with a paper towel so it doesn’t burn.

Cook for about 15 minutes and check. Cook more as needed. 

Leave to cool completely. Before turning out, loosen the sides carefully with a spatula (just a bit) and tap the bottom also to loosen it. Hopefully you’ll feel it move before turning it out. 

Hazelnut Bread Things with (or without) custard

 It's a sweet bread dough with hazelnut mix in the middle.

250g flour
7g yeast
25g sugar (I put in much more)
vanilla essence
lemon essense
1 egg
40 butter
125mk milk

Make the dough with the above and when it's all risen and ready form into balls with the following mix inside:
80ml milk
2tbsp honey
160g ground hazelnuts

(actually I just used sugar, it was fine)
Rise again, bake. When done brish over with melted butter and sugar for a nice crunchy finish. Meant to be serves with custard (vanilla sauce) but I found them fine as they were.