Turkey Sloppy Joes

The other day we were watching Food Network and there was a special on Sloppy Joes - so Saugar goes "ooh i haven't had one in years". Well I haven't had one ummm ever. So typically I guess they are made out of beef so we decided to make our own with turkey. I didn't expect to like it honestly and was doing it more for Saugar, but i loved it! And it was so easy to make!

 

Ingredients:

1 Pound ground turkey

1 Onion finely chopped

1 Capsicum finely chopped

2 green chillies (or more) finely chopped

2-3 cloves garlic finely chopped

2-3 tbsp barbeque sause

2 tbsp tomato sauce

2 tsp chilli sauce

1 tsp worchestershire sause

1 tsp vinegar

1-2 tsp paprika

1-2 tsp cumin powder

Buns

 

In a hot pan brown the turkey. Once the turkey is fully cooked, take it out. In the same pan, fry the onion, capsicum, chillies & garlic. Half way through cooking the vegetables, add the spices (we used paprika and cumin but no reason not to add others - or increase the volumne). Once they are all cooked, add the turkey in and mix together. Add all the sauces and salt, mix, lower the temperature and let it simmer for as long as you can. We let it cook covered on a low heat for an hour and a half and i think that really got all the flavours together. Once you are happy with the flavours (adjust spice as you want) - uncover, increase the heat till a lot of the liquid evaporates. It shouldn't be totally dry since they are meant to be 'sloppy'

 

Toast the buns on a pan with a bit of butter. Then serve the turkey on the bun

Simplest cake ever - but Oh so Good!

This blog has been asleep for a while so thought I'd wake it up...Haven't lost my love for cooking, so why not :)

 

So a few weeks ago I baked a cake for my Father-in-Law's birthday but since he's diabetic we did it with splenda and the texture wasn't quite right. However it still tasted great, and a couple of weeks ago Saugar wanted to re-try it but with sugar and the right proportions. It was super simple and it is just a plain vanilla cake but the texture (especially when straight out of the oven) was amazing. We thought about icing it but it tasted great by itself so didn't bother :)

 

I think it's a good sponge cake recipe - and i might play with it a bit in the future to try other flavours

 

Ingredients:

 

1 Cup Flour

1 Cup Sugar (warning - it was on the sweet side - at least for me - but don't want to mess up the texture so sticking to the proportion)

1/2 Cup Milk (I used skim and it was fine)

4 tbsp Butter/Margarine

3 Eggs

1.5 Tsp baking powder

1 Tsp Vanilla Essence

Pinch of salt

 

Mix the Flour, salt and baking powder in one bowl

In another bowl, beat the eggs well and then beat the sugar and vanilla essence into it

Combine the two to form the batter

In a saucepan heat the milk and melt the butter into it. Once the mixture is hot, add it into the batter (warning: the batter is on the runnier side so don't worry)

Pour into a greased cake tin and bake in a pre-heated oven at 360F for 20-25 minutes (check the doneness first with a skewer)