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Spring Flower Cupcakes
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
These would make a great mother's day gift or easter surprise for someone
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 50g self-raising flour
- 50g margarine
- 50g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 75g butter (softened)
- 175g icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- Natural yellow food colouring
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Wafer daisies
- Soft silver balls
- Mini marshmallows
- Silver shimmer spray
Crispy Chicken Goujons
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
The art of cooking goujons of any sort is to be well prepared
- 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 3 slices of stale white bread (or fresh bread that has been blasted in a hot oven for a few minutes)
- 3 eggs
- 125g plain flour
- 1 tablespoon polenta / cornmeal
- salt and pepper
- 1 teaspoon chilli powder (optional)
Peppermint Creams
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
It is such a simple recipe that is perfect for cooking with preschoolers and at this time of year they are a classi...
- 340g icing sugar
- 1 egg white
- Peppermint extract or flavouring
- Green food colouring
- 100g bar of dark chocolate
Peach and Parma Ham Salad
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
Remove the stone and slice the peaches as thin as you fancy (I had to do this as our peaches were a bit too firm fo...
- 2 fresh peaches
- 4 slices of Parma Ham or other air-dried ham
- 150g Apetina crumbly white cheese (classic)
- Handful of chives
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon honey
- Ground black pepper and salt to taste
Pasta with Pesto, Roast Chicken and Cherry Tomatoes
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
Tear all of the basil leaves and mint leaves from their stalks and place them in a blender
- A large handful of fresh basil leaves (about 3 full stems or about 30 leaves)
- A large handful of fresh mint leaves (about 3 full stems or about 50 leaves)
- A large handful of fresh parsley leaves (the more the merrier)
- A small clump of chives (about 10 leaves)
- 2 tablespoons cashew nuts
- 1 tablespoon pine nut kernels
- 1 large slug of olive oil
- Ground black pepper
- 1 match-box sized piece of hard cheese (traditionally parmesan, but we used cheddar!)
- 10-15 cherry tomatoes
- 2 roasted chicken breasts (cold, with or without skin)
- Garofalo Dischi Volante pasta 260g (we allow 100g per adult and 60g for Lara)
BBQ Chicken Drumsticks and Spicy Rice
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade
- For the chicken:
- 10-12 chicken drumsticks
- 2 tablespoons Heinz tomato ketchup
- 2 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce (we use a dark soy sauce)
- 2 teaspoons english mustard
- 1 tablespoon malt vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sunflower oil
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon plum jam (any sweet jam will do but strawberries and raspberries may taste a bit weird in a savoury dish!)
- For the rice:
- 1 tablespoon sunflower oil
- 2 small cups of rice
- 1/2 an onion (we used a red onion for colour)
- 2 peppers chopped (we used several different colours)
- 1 small can red kidney beans
- 1 teaspoon chilli powder
- 1/2 a can of chopped tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon Heinz tomato ketchup
- 3 cups of water
Brazilian Garlic-Marinated BBQ Piquana, spicy pineapple & zingy gaucho potato salad.
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
. Traditional Brazilian grills don't put sauce on their barbecue meat but instead use a series of marinades to prov...
- 4 thick rump steaks with plenty of fat (top rump is as close to picanha as you are likely to find in a supermarket)
- 1 pot Knorr Garlic Flavour Pot
- Half a small fresh pinapple
- 1 pot Knorr Mixed Chillis Flavour Pot
- 2 sprigs fresh mint
- 250g new potatoes (chopped into 1-inch pieces)
- 1 Granny Smith apple
- 2 tablespoons raisins
- 2 large carrots (chopped roughly into 1/2 inch pieces)
- 2 tablespoons tinned or frozen sweetcorn
- 2 tablespoons frozen or fresh peas
- 2 tablespoons Hellmann's Mayonnaise with a zing of lemon
Sausage Rolls
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
Preheat the oven to the temperature indicated on the packet of puff pastry that you are using (about 200 degrees in...
- 1 packet of ready-made puff pastry (either fresh or frozen). We use ready-rolled puff pastry as it is EVEN easier to use!
- 1 packet of pork sausage meat (fresh or frozen, it normally comes in a great big sausage shape but at this time of year you may find it in flat packs alongside the sausages in your supermarket).
- 1 egg, beaten
Chicken Soup
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
For the soul!
- A whole chicken carcass
- Around 2.5 - 3 pints of cold water
- 2 onions
- 2 sticks of celery
- 2 large carrots
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 medium potato
- 1 tablespoon plain flour
- 50g butter or margarine
- Ground black pepper
Blackberry Muffins
By Mummy Expert: Emma, Mellow Mummy
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees centigrade Measure all of the dry ingredients into a large bowl
- 75g well softened butter (we used Flora cuisine to give the muffins a really bouncy texture)
- 250g self-raising flour
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 75g caster sugar
- 1 large egg (medium will do too)
- 200ml milk (whole or semi-skimmed)
- A big bowl of blackberries. On reflection, I probably should have weighed how many we had but it was about one full cereal bowl.