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.

Cauliflower Tabbouleh

 Extremely tasty carb alternative.

Blitz up head of cauliflower and microwave for 4 minutes. Add in finely chopped large bunch each of mint and parsley, and some chopped red onions / shallots, microwave for another 1 min. Season massively. Add chopped nuts of choice. Even the kids say it's a 'do again'.

Mega Porkballs Thai style

  Shrimp paste, spring onions, an egg, some green curry powder, seasoning and yes, a bit of panko to hold together your pork mince meatballs. We were done with stuffing around with small ones so we did half the size of a fist and they turned out really nicely. 

Chop veg (whatever you're putting in)

Prep coconut milk mix with more shrimp paste, green curry paste, lime juice

Prep cornstarch thickener

Get yer wok out. Meatballs, veg, sauce, thicken. Some had it with noodles. It was great. Will try to take pics next time

Liverwurst and linseed meal biscuit

 Less than half a red onion, seasoning, an egg, allspice, and some booze (whisky, brandy, etc). Blends really finely. Add a tidied pack of about 600g livers, blend really finely. Bain Marie it covered for about 2 hours, possibly uncovered at the end, make sure it comes away from the edges a bit by the end. Cool, turf out or keep in the pot, depending on your receptacle. 

To serve, I tried some Linseed meal biscuits, which weren't bad. 

Tried raising it with egg, melted butter, seasoning and yeast, but it didn't rise at all. It did however seem to soften the linseed. Left it for about an hour and then dealt with the pasty mess. Lined a brownie tray with baking powder, cooked at about 170, took about 15 mins. Took out and scored shortbread-finger-type slices. Left in at the end to make it dry out a little without browning, not sure if it did anything, but the texture was OK considering. Actually better than standard bread with the liverwurst (I tried both).  

Satay sauce

 Satay sauce

Peanut butter, lime, chili, soy and fish sauce, (tamarind), sweetener, coriander, coconut milk (sesame oil) 

Left the chicken overnight in this with some cornflour. Then had some more afterwards... without the cornflour, more lime, for dipping.