Lemon Meringue Tarts

I have always wanted to try to make meringues and lemon tart as I know my dh is a great fan of tarts (the edible type that is!). So when I saw this and knowing I had lemons in my fruit bowl I headed for the kitchen.

I have never really been a fan off lemon tart or pie as it is always to citrus and tangy. Now once I had made mine and it was hot out of the oven I had two naughty slices right away. What a delight to my taste buds, tantalizingly tangy but not over bearing. You have got to try it inshaAllah!


I did not have the mini tart cases for baking so I made a big one and my meringue needs some work................it really took ages to whisk but it looks like it needed more but this didn't effect the taste at all.

‘Chrik Constantinois’

A very interesting , bursting of flavour kinda treat. I saw this first here which lead me to here

Which then lead me to produce these



The only thing I did different was to add orange essence as I did not have any fresh oranges at home.

Thank you Heni and Umm Ibrahim for these delights!

can you help

I have lost that recent commet thingy that goes in my sidebar so i can see where recent comments are published to which post. I want it back does anyone know how?

Chocolate pancakes

My daughter had exams and to get her set off for the day, brain food. She told me her teacher at ''eat lots of chocolate'' at 10pm Sunday evening and i said, ''Why did you not tell me soon i could have got some in?'' In Algeria they tell you to take a spoonful of sugar on the morning of the exam so sweetness and a link to brain activity seems evident. Well i was not about to let my dd go deprived so i thought up the perfect

Exam Breakfast

Just your basic pancake recipe and add some cocoa powder or as in my case some drinking chocolate.
For the pancake mixture:
110g/4oz plain flour, sifted
pinch of salt
2 eggs
200ml/7fl oz milk mixed with 75ml/3fl oz water
50g/2oz butter
To serve:
icing sugar (powdered)

and the results are this , everyone had breakfast that morning!

Kerla Curry

Bitter Gourds otherwise know as Kerla

I will update the recipe soon.

Inspired

by Ines and Cindi and most importantly The pioneer woman i invested in her book myself too and have been inspired to make some dishes from there not quite following the recipes word for word but inspired to try my own.

Have a look

Egg in the hole This one is easy and a real confort food the kids love it. Reminds me of the old British ''runny egg and soldiers'' with half the hassle.



Meat balls

Paella (sort of)

There was two types of fish in the bag , so i decided to make a paella with the these and whatever i had at home so a kinda paella but maybe not as you know it. On top of all that i forgot to add the saffron.





here is a recipe similar to my own

Fish in Batter

A few weeks ago dh walks in with some lovely cleaned fish someone has given him , all i had to do was cook it. I am not very confident with fish but willing to give it a ago and her it is.

I got the recipe from here

Everything was ok but i needed to deeper fry the fish in batter , this effect the outcome but still edible and the batter was lovely.

The Crochet Teacher

Who remembers this post ? and my promise of photo's?

Well i have some

my class

we are making flower brooch's for a women's event to display work we have been doing and also if anyone want to buy then they can. Bare in mind these are ladies who could not crochet and this is what we have been learning together.


this is some work the group have been working on before my arrival, patchwork blankets , knitted by various women to give to families who need them but they are still a work in progress and i am happy to bring some homework home for myself and muck in , we hope to sell some and give some away inshaAllah as there are many. Different squares have been knitted by different women and sewn together.
yesterday we had our stall at the event

can you see the brooch's? We sold 3 while i was there so half as there are 6 , i was ecstatic and the ones we sold are the ones my students made mashaAllah. This made me even more happy as it gave my ladies confidence and a sense of achievement and my one didn't sell. I made sure i pointed this out to them but i left early so i will find out next week if they all went or not!
I gave a tutorial on the day on making 5 petal flowers and leaves. Also i spoke to many women who wanted to come to my classes so hopefully new students as well.

In the picture are other crafts ladies make in the group with sewing.

Random pictures

have a few to share