Mosaic Biscuits

Hallo all!

 So I am still in the mind set of I can make food into a wonderful, awe inspiring shape after watching lots of Vi Hart. So, about last week, I decided to have a go making Mosaics out of - biscuits.

 So I set to work, making the dough nice and thick and roll-able (mine is usually the kind that needs to be spooned out onto the tray) then got my round shaped cookie cutter, a knife, and then set to work.

 It took me a good half an hour or so to have them finished off nicely to be cooked, and I had gotten rather frustrated several times, but I (and the dough :P) survived.

Here are some pictures of them:

I loved the flower patterns! ^-^

I just had to make myself a Snail shaped biscuit. Who doesn't love snails?

And some more plaits.

 Well, I'd a better be going. Got some thing else to blog on, and then -taa daa! I'll have done what I wanted to do today and I can have dinner and go to bed.

 Hmm... I wonder what Dinner is?

Meat Tau

Hallo hallo!

 Well, I'm back! I'm going to try to post on here more often. I just realized there are about fifteen posts on here, and fifty four on my Blog of poems.

 On Saturday morning I made a lovely Tau - although most people would call it a Pie (or Pi). However, I call it tau because pi needs to be multiplied by two to make it a whole, while tau is just a whole. So that would mean a pie is actually half a Tau. Understand?

 I made some pastry on Friday (500 grams of flour, 250 grams of butter, and some salt and about a cup of water), and then on Saturday morning I put the oven to about 200 and then started browning the mince. I added some stock to the mince, then put in the carrot and potato that I'd diced into it.

 I halved the pastry and rolled out one to fit the tray. I rolled out the other half and cut a bit off to make the Tau sign.
 When the filling was ready I scooped it into the tray and ate what couldn't fit for breakfast. I put on the top of the Tau and added the Tau sign, then popped it in the oven whilst I got ready to leave for my circus class. When I had finished getting ready I turned off the heat and left the Tau in the oven.

 When I got home it was perfect, and I had a piece of it. It was so good cold, I don't want to have it warmed up!!

 Well, it was soon gone come Sunday evening. Here's the pictures of it:

Let me know if you make a Tau! (Or a Pi!!)

Mathmatical dinner

Hallo, Hallo!

 How has all my lovely followers been? I'm so, so sorry about not posting for ages - I've been quite busy!

 Well, on Tuesday I decided to make mathmatical dinner. You see, I've been watching a lot of Vi Hart's youtube channel, and she has such a lot of cool math stuff! I found a video of Borromean Onion rings, and I liked the look of them so much! Then I found Optimal Potatoes (You "math" them instead of "Mash" them - to math them you boil them whole, then when soft you half them, then half them again, etc.)

 So I decided to make Mathed Potato, Borromean Onion Rings, Hexagonal Burgers, and Gravey.

 It turned out pretty well -although I got potato all over the floor as well as in the bowl, and most of the Borromean Onion rings fell apart due to not enough batter. The burgers came out of their nice Hexagon shape, but vaguely resembled a hexagon.

 If you want to check out her awesome food videos, click below:

 Cookie Shapes
 Flex Mex
 Optimal Potatoes
 Borromean Onion Rings
 Greenbean Matherole

I'm Back, with Cottage Pie!!!

Hello every one!

I'm back! Sorry for taking so long to come back to put up new recipes - I've been busy with school work and other stuff!
 I have a new recipe for you today. Yesterday I made a lovely Cottage Pie for dinner, and every one loved it. So I'm putting it up one here:

                           WillowUnicorn's Cottage Pie.

Eight Onions
Ten small carrots
1kg of Mince, preferably beef, but pork will do.
5 tomatoes
One ladle full of beef stock
Pinch of salt
Ten medium potatoes
milk
butter

 Chop up the onions and put them it a big-ish pot. Add some cooking Lard/Tallow to the pot, and let it heat up, mixing it now and then to stop the onions from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
 Chop the carrots in half, then slice them to look like half circles. Add them to the pot.
 Take the mince, and put it into the pot. Mix the mince, onions and carrots together. Put in the salt.
 Chop the tomatoes up and add them to the pot. Take the stock and add it to the pot. Mix it up, and put it on a low heat. Stir every now and then, and leave the lid off.
 Once the meat is cooked, or (if you are waiting for some one to get home) once it is time for dinner soon, bring a pot of of water to the boil. Whilst you are waiting for it to boil, wash the potatoes and chop them into thin slices, leaving the skin on them. When the water is boiling add them to the water, and let them cook until you are able to spear them on a fork.
 Drain the water from the potatoes, and put the oven on 180 degrees Celsius. Put the potatoes back in the pot, and add a splash of milk and a wad of butter. Mash it into the potatoes. I like creamy mashed potatoes, so if it isn't creamy enough I add more milk.
 Spoon the Mince mix into a large tray with tall sides. Place dollops of the Mash onto the Mince mix and spread it around with the fork. Continue doing that until the Mince mix is covered by the Mash (if you have left over Mash, you can either add it to the tray or use it for something else. My Brothers ate the left over mash).
Cook for five minutes in the oven.



Please let me know if you make it, and if you add anything, like spices! I love to see knew recipes.

See you later!
WillowUnicorn (AKA, Lucy_Fu)

My Shop

Hullo!
 This has nothing to do with cooking, but it's really cool - I've finally got my shop on Etsy up-and-running! If you would like to see it, here's the address:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/HomemadeHandicrafts?ref=si_shop
Now I'm off - Mum is making pancakes and I don't want to miss out! :P
WillowUnicorn xx

Meat Loaf

Hullo cooks!
Sorry, I have taken longer than I meant to - I've been updating my Poem blog:http://theblogofpoems.blogspot.com.au/
and my story:https://community.lego.com/t5/NINJAGO-Stories/Stormchild-and-the-Ninja/m-p/7191144#M92565
But I now have I recipe for you - Meat Loaf! Hopefully you'll all like it :)

Meat Loaf
2 carrots
2 onions
Italian Herbs
1Kg of mince meat

Put oven on 180
 Grate the carrots and put them in a large bowl. Grate or finely dice the onions and add them to the bowl.
 Sprinkle the Italian Herbs on to taste - it can be as much or as little as you like, depending on how you want it to taste.
 Put in the mince and mix it all up. Add the egg and give it another mix.
 Pat the mixture into a cake tin. If you have more left over, put it into another tin.
 Put the tin/tins into the oven. I don't time it - it tastes nicer the longer it cooks.


I hope you like the Meat Loaf - I have only made it two times and my Mum, Dad and bros love it :)
WillowUnicorn

Your Turn!

Hullo readers!
Now it's your turn to post up some of your favorite recipes! You can post one or two, it's up to you.
Let's see where this go!
I should have a recipe next week.
WillowUnicorn

Italian...

Hullo!
Sorry for taking so long to write, I have been very busy. I don't have a recipe for today, but I should have one next week.
Last month my Mum, Dad, Brothers and I went to the new Jamies Italian for dinner. It was so nice in there. The food is amazing. I had a type of pasta and a drink, which I have forgotten what it is called. The Dessert was amazing- Icecream topped with butterscotch sauce and smashed honeycomb. Yum! However my youngest brother wasn't impressed with his bowl of icecream - he only had one small scoop.
Here is the shops website:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/italian/australia/home
I have also wrote a letter to Jamie Oliver asking him to dinner. Fingers crossed he says yes!
Don't forget to comment if you go (or have gone) to Jamies Italian! :)
WillowUnicorn

Apple Crrrruumble!

Hello!
I have been busy with school,and cooking dinners. I was looking through my journal full of recipes today, and I found my apple crumble recipe. I have been looking for a recipe to put on here for a while. So here it is!

Apple Crumble

200g flour
100g butter
apples
cinnamon

Put the flour in a bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles bread crumbs. Butter a glass dish. Chop up some apples and put them in the dish(use as many as you need). Get a handful of the crumble and put it ontop of the apples. Use as much as you need. If you still have some crumble left over,chop more apples and put the rest on. Turn the oven onto 180c. Put some cinnamon on the crumble. Once the oven is heated put the dish/s into the oven for 20-40 minutes. Serve with yoghurt,ice-cream,or just plain.
If you want sweet crumble,add Rapadura sugar to the flour.

I hope you like this recipe!
WillowUnicorn

Sauerkraut

Hello everyone!
Sorry I haven't posted recently as school holidays have been busy!
This recipe is Sauerkraut, and it tastes much nicer than the ones from the shop!

Sauerkraut

1 cabbage
1tblsp salt             (you can put the salt in at any time)
caraway seeds        

slice the cabbage and put in a large jar. Get a wooden spoon and bash the cabbage. Sprinkle some of the seeds in and bash more. Continue bashing,adding cabbage, and bashing until the cabbage juice is over the cabbage. Put the lid on and put in a warm,dry spot for three days.


I hope you like it!
WillowUnicorn

Whens Dinner?

Hullo!
Today I am finally posting this up; I meant to do it on  Tuesday. I make dinner every week on Tuesdays and cook with my baby brother on Mondays, so I do cook as often as I can! This recipe is pork chops and mash. I do hope you like it.
(Note: Get the pork chops,potatoes,milk,butter and chives from your local Farmers Market . Make sure the pork chops are organic and free-range,and the butter and milk Organic.)


Pork chops and Mash
 
four pork chops             2Kg potatoes
salt                                 butter
paprika                          milk
chives
( one pork chop + 400g potatoes per person)


Preheat the oven to 180C.
Put the pork chops into trays. Season with salt and paprika. Put them into the oven. Leave in for at least 20mins.
Peel the potatoes. Chop them into quarters,or halves, if they are small. (Use all if the pork chops are small, or you have very hungry people.) Put them into a pot of boiling water.
Check the pork chops after at least 20 mins. To see if they are ready look at the under-side. The under-side should look brown. Filp them over if they are. Check the potatoes while your at it. You should be able to poke a fork through the biggest bits. If ready pour the potatoes in to a colander and shake. Put them back into the pot and put in a bit of salt,butter and milk. Get a masher and mash well.
Put the chops and mash on a plate. Sprinkle the mash with chives. Drink with sparkley water.
 
Enjoy!

WillowUnicorn

                      

Breckfast! Or dessert.............

Hullo!
Today is time for pancakes! These are some of my
 favorite home-made recipes. I  love waking up and cooking some pancakes, getting out the maple syrup,drizzling it on top, then eating them!

Pancakes.
1 cup of flour                        
1 cup of raw milk
1 egg
1 teaspoon of Whey (if using pasteurised milk)
lard, or some other fat that is solid at room temperature (butter, tallow, coconut oil)
 topping of your desire

Put the flour,milk,and egg into a bowl. Beat together. Mix in the whey(if using). Get a tea cloth and cover the bowl. Leave over night. In the morning (or afternoon!) heat up a pan. Put in some lard. When the lard is melted get a small ladle and ladle some mixture in a pan. When the edges of the pancake are starting to brown flip them over. Leave in for a minute and put  on a plate.  Add topping of your desire.


Enjoy!!



WillowUnicorn

Sweet tooth!

Hi all!
Sorry I haven't posted for a while, as I have been rather busy!
I have made a cookies and a Ice Chocolate recipes.Here they are!

One day I went out to a Cafe with My mum,dad, and brothers and found out the place was shut! So mum suggested that I make Ice chocolates for every one. It turned out to be a success. This a really simple recipe that anyone could make.
Enjoy!

Ice Chocolate
1 tablespoon of cocoa
1 table spoon of Maple syrup
a dash of hot water
milk
vanilla ice cream

Put the coco in to a cup. Add some hot water to it and stir together. The mixture should be thick and glossy. If too watery add some more cocoa. Add the Maple syrup and mix well. The mixture should look syrupy. Take Ice cream out of the freezer. Pour the milk into the cocoa and maple syrup mixture. Scoop the Ice cream into the cups. Add a straw and spoon.

Another day when I was cooking I wanted to make some chocolate cookies, there was no chocolate, so I made up these yummy Cinnamon cookies. They were so yummy they were gone the next day!

Cinnamon Cookies
200g sugar            2 eggs
200g butter         1 teaspoon cinnamon
200g flour             1 tablespoon of yoghurt

 Cream the sugar and Butter until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and mix in well. Mix the flour and cinnamon together. Then put two (2) spoonfuls of the Flour-Cinnamon into the Sugar and Butter mixture. Mix in well. then put another two (2) more spoonfuls of the Flour- Cinnamon into the mixture,ect, until it is all mixed in. Mix in the yoghurt. put a cloth over the bowl and leave over night. In the morning preheat the over to 180. Butter a tray. Get a spoonful of the mixture in your hands and roll into a ball. Press down gently with your fingers and put on the tray. When the tray is full put in the oven for 15 minutes.

Tasty Tip: Try putting 3x1/8 teaspoons of ginger in.

                                                        The cookies!

                                            
I hope you like my recipes!

Willowunicorn

busy,busy,busy!

Hello Everybody!
These holidays  are busy! I have been doing some cooking and have made Iced-chocolates,and cinnamon cookies! Next week-end I am going to do a little more cooking.

Thanks,
Willowunicorn

2010, My birthday

Hi there,
Its my birthday soon,and to-day I have been making food!!I made fairy cakes,mousses & dips!!!! Last year for new years I made Lemonade!!The recipe is:                                                 LEMONADE
     a lemon a cup
      tsp of sugar
      sparkly water


Juice the Lemon and pour in to cup with the water. It should fizz and/or froth.
add the sugar and serve.  


good luck & happy drinking!!!
Willowunicorn

Making soup

Hello a-gen
On Tuesday(& on Wednesday!!) I made soup!!! It was potato & beetroot soup,maybe I could put the recipe on!!!!  not much apart from that!
                                                                                                                                                                           Willowunicorn