Love,Cook and Eat

This is one of my favorite desserts, it just brings memories from my childhood. The best part about it is that is so easy to make and yet so delicious. You should try this one :)

Ingredients:

5 tbs cocoa powder
6 tbs butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
30 plain tea biscuits



Directions:

In a small sauce pan over medium heat, melt butter. Then add sugar and cocoa powder and stir until well mixed.
Gradually add milk while stirring and then add vanilla.
Get the mixture to boil and reduce heat and simmer for 2-3 mins until sauce is somehow thick.
Turn heat off and and move from gas top to cool for 5 mins.
In meanwhile break biscuits to bite size pieces.


Pour the chocolate mixture over the biscuits and mix with a wooden spoon , until all biscuits are covered with chocolate.
Over a rectangular piece of aluminum foil, pour mixture in a log form.


Roll the foil around the chocolate wafer and twist the ends.



Put in Freezer for at least 6 hours or until hard and frozen.

** If you are not serving the whole log , keep it the foil and cut as much as you want.

I always thought that making bread is very hard, but it turned out to be easier that going to the store to buy some. This bread has a delicate texture inside and a crisp crust from the outside. Customize this bread with your favorite toppings.


Ingredients:

3 cups bread flour ( you can use all purpose flour but I like the texture that bread flour produces better)
1( 0.25 oz) package active dry yeast
1 cup warm water
1 1/2 tbs sugar
2 tbs olive oil
1 1/2 tsp salt
Corn meal or semolina flour
1 egg
1 tbs water
toppings: a mixture of 1tbs Italian seasoning + 1 tbs Parmesan cheese

Directions:

Put flour and salt in food processor or standup mixer and stir.
Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water and leave it for 10 mins. 
Add olive oil to yeast mixture and mix.
While the mixer is on , gradually add yeast mixture, until a ball forms.
Transfer to a bowl coated with oil,turning it once.
Cover the bowl and let it rest in a warm place for at least 1 1/2 hours.


The dough will look like this after it rested.


Turn dough on a floured surface. Divide into two doughs and gently form 2  logs.
Coat Baking Sheet with oil and sprinkle corn meal or semolina flour.
Transfer Logs  and let them rest for 20 mins.
 In a small bowl mix egg with 1 tbs water . Brush Logs with egg wash and sprinkle herbs and cheese mixture.
With a sharp knife make diagonal slices in the loafs.



Bake at 375 degrees for 20-25 mins or until golden brown. If not serving right away , let the loafs cool for 5 mins and put in plastic bag. Heat for 5- 10 mins in a 375 degrees oven.

Hope this helps

Delicious savory fried pie which is a popular appetizer in the middle East, It also can be stuffed with ground meat and pine nuts.I will  post the recipe later on. What I like about these pies is that you can prepare them in the morning and put them in the fridge until you ready to fry them, and you can also make a big batch and freeze them .

Ingredients:

For Dough:
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 egg
1/2 stick butter ( 4 tbs) heated for 15 sec in microwave
1/2 cup water

For Stuffing:

2 cups mozzarella cheese ( thick style)
1/4 cup chopped flat leaf  parsley
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp dried mint
pinch of black pepper
1/2 tsp olive oil

Yields 15 pies.

Directions:

In Food processor or in stand up mixer, put flour, salt and sugar and mix.
Add egg and melted butter and the gradually add water until a ball forms.
Rest dough for 30 mins  in oil coated bowl and cover it, so the dough doesn't dry .

In the meanwhile prepare stuffing
In a bowl mix mozzarella cheese,parsley,salt, pepper and olive oil.




After the dough had rested dust some flour on a hard surface( do not use alot of flour because you want the dough to still stick to each other when forming the crescents it).
Form the dough into a big round circle and using a a cover of  Tupperware ( or anything round that has edges) cut circles through the dough.


Take the irregular shaped dough out and roll it and let is rest for about 15 mins .

Now put some stuffing in the circle slightly to one side but keep it away form the edges.




Then close the dough as if forming a semi circle and then with holding the bottom part and pulling it up with a twisting motion all the way until it closes. ( you can also using a fork dipped in egg wash to seal the edges , although i don't know how would the cheese hold in there while frying).I will also post a video on how to close the pies.


After you finish all the pies and after the leftover dough from the previous circle has rested for 15 mins. repeat the previous steps.

Heat fryer to 350 degrees and deep fry pies until light golden brown.

My son who is 2 years old has been really a picky eater lately especially at breakfast. So I thought about making pancakes because I haven't made them in a while now. The original recipe called for sour cream,but since  I don't have any I tweaked it a little bit and it turned out great.The tanginess from the buttermilk against the sweet syrup was soo good, and my son ate three YEEEY :)

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour
2 tbs sugar
1/2 tsp salt
4 tsp baking powder
2 cups butter milk ( I used the powder one since I think its more convenient to have because I don't use butter milk that often)
4 tbs melted butter and slightly cooled
2 eggs
butter or oil for pan coating

Directions:

Whisk all liquid ingredients together ( buttermilk,eggs and melted butter)
In another bowl whisk dry Ingredients ( flour,baking powder,sugar and salt)
Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ones and whisk them, until all ingredients are well mixed.
**Avoid over mixing the batter or pancakes won't be as tender.
Let the batter rest for 10 mins ( don't skip this step or your pancakes won't be as fluffy)
I used my electric griddle heated to 350 degrees and coated it with a tbs of butter. You can also use a pan heated over medium heat.
I used a 1/4 measuring cup to portion my batter.
Cook the pancakes until the edges are set and bottom is golden brown , flip and cook on the second side until golden brown too.
If you are not serving immediately transfer to oven that is heated to 200 degrees.

Makes 13 pancakes.

Recently a friend of mine was visiting and I was shocked when she told me that she doesn't care for  chocolate. What!!! I thought those people do not exist. Who doesn't like chocolate!!!! Although she doesn't like chocolate she tried those cupcakes and she loved them. I think because these cupcakes do not have  chocolate in the recipe, instead it calls for cocoa powder which gives them a smooth mild chocolate flavor . So if you are looking for devil's chocolate cupcakes this is not the recipe  you are looking for.
I like those cupcakes simple with just stawberry on top but you can have them with  frosting or whipped cream.
EnJoY:)