Lissy's Frozen Chocolate Delight {THM S}

This morning I awoke to beautiful spring skies! I'm looking forward to warmer weather and frozen treats! I've been especially keen to make a treat which I saw on a friends Facebook time line. Lissy is an inspirational cook (keep those ideas and photo's coming!) and I've been admiring this recipe all winter long! I messaged her over the weekend and she has given me the freedom to share this recipe with you. If you are on a low carb' diet or following the Trim Healthy Mama plan (this falls in the S food category) then this will be on plan for you.

Lissy's Frozen Chocolate Delight

Ingredients

• 3.5 oz (100 grams) 85 % cocoa dark chocolate
• Half pint (240 ml) Heavy Whipping Cream.

Optional

• 1 Tblsp (15 ml) Gelatin (optional)
• Gentle Sweet

Method

• Take your favorite chocolate (if you're doing THM do 85% dark or an on-plan chocolate like Lillie's) put it in a bowl broken into very small pieces. 
• Bring a half pint of heavy whipping cream (or any other milk-like product: almond milk, cocoanut milk, half n half, etc) to the point of scalding (but not boiling). 
• Pour over chocolate, and let it sit WITHOUT siring for a few minutes, then gently mix until well incorporated (you're basically making a form of chocolate ganache). 
• Put into popsicle molds and freeze!

Extra tips

•  Add a table spoon or two of gelatin for an even fudgier consistency. 
•  If you're doing THM, add a little Gentle Sweet for added sweetness.

SUPER EASY! This is an "S" treat on THM. Enjoy!

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Lemon Butter Cake in a Mug {THM S}

A few months ago I tried out this amazing recipe for a Lemon Butter Cake that I found over at The Coers Family blog.  It is to die for. I got to thinking about how it could be tweaked to a mug recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 tblsp plan approved sweetener blend
• Dash of Vanilla Essence
• 2 Tblsp Cream Cheese
• 1 tsp butter
• lemon rind
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 3 tblsp almond meal/four
• 1/2 tsp baking powder

Method 

•  Beat the egg in your mug
• Add remaining ingredients. Mix well
• Microwave for 2 minutes on high
• Let it stand for a minute. Tip it out onto a plate.  

Serve with

• A dollop of cream
• You can make a lemon cream cheese icing with cream cheese, lemon and sweetener blended well.

Sit back and enjoy guilt free

Blessings
Chareen

Home Made Bread {THM Style - Crossover }

My Mom's has been trying to create a bread to use on plan with Trim Healthy Mama.  This bread had a lovely full flavour and good texture.  It was easy to slice and took less than five min to make.

Ingredients

• 1 cup rye flour 
• 1/2 cup oat meal flour
• 1/2 cup flax meal 
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon coconut oil 
• 2 eggs 
• about 1 cup fat free yogurt 
• pinch of salt

Method
Mix all together mixture to form a soft dough if not add more yogurt.
Bake at 180c for about 30 minutes.

My mom added garlic powder and onion flakes for a savoury taste

Blessings
Chareen

South African Milk Tart

Milk Tart is one of my all time favourite tea time deserts. We are currently studying South Africa in our Expedition Earth series so wanted to share it here with you.

Recently while on holiday in South Africa  I asked my Mom in law to please teach me how she makes Milk Tart.

She shared with me that she makes the crusts well in advance and stores them in a cake tin for when ever she wants to make a milk tart. She either bakes them in a glass pie dish and removes and stores the crust or she bakes them in aluminium pie dishes and stores them in those.

Crust (I do not know how many this makes I think around two)

• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 1 egg
• 4 ounces butter
• 1/2 cup sugar

Method

1. Cream butter and sugar
2. Beat egg well and add to mix.  Mix well.
3. Add dry ingredients and combine.
4. Roll out and cut circle to line pie dish.
5. Line pie dish(s) decorate edge with a fork.
6. Prick the center
7. Bake at 180'C till light brown (approx 10 Min)

Filling (This is enough filling for ONE tart)

• 2 cups Milk
• 6 teaspoons sugar
• 5 ml vanilla Essence
• 1 Tablespoon butter
• Pinch of salt
• 2 teaspoon corn flour
• 2 teaspoons flour
• 2 eggs beaten well.

Method

1. Gently heat milk in pan with sugar, vanilla, butter and salt.
2. While the milk is heating, add a splash of milk to a jug and mix corn flour and flour in the jug till no lumps are present.
3. Add eggs and mix well.
4. Once Milk is warm and all sugar is dissolved just before it boils pour in the flour/egg mix while whisking fast.
5. Return to stove and cook till it thickens.
6. Pour into crust and set aside to cool for 15 min
7. Sprinkle with cinnamon and place in fridge to cool down completely.

Serve cold with afternoon tea.


What dessert / afternoon tea delight do you enjoy from your country ?

Blessings
Chareen

Home Made Pies (Argentina)

Last week we were studying Argentina and while I was surfing YouTube looking for some interesting video's to show Sir N on Argentina I stumbled across some one making pies and thought oh yes we can do that

Ingredients

• Puff Pastry (home made or bought)
• Mince (precooked with vegetables)
• Milk (to baste the product before baking)

Ingredients ready

Cut out circles

Add a spoon of mince mix

Fold in half and pinch pleat the edge

Ready to bake.  The pinch pleat was to difficult for Sir N so he used a fork.
Baste with Milk. Bake for 20 min till golden brown. 180'C fan forced.

Golden Brown and enjoyed for dinner

You can watch a great video on how to make these on 

From Argentina with Love

Blessings

Kumara Soup (NZ recipe)

 Ingredients:   

• 2 small onions (1 large)
• 3 medium kumara (Sweet potato)
• 1 teaspoon butter (or margarine)
• 1 Litre chicken Stock (I like my soup thick so used 500 ml)
• 1 teaspoon curry powder
• 1 medium leek
• 250 ml cream (optional)

Method

Finely chop leek & onion

Fry onion & leek with butter till tender. Add curry and fry for two min.

Peel and chop sweet potato and add to crock pot

Add fried leek and onion and stock to potato

• Cook till sweet potato is tender.
• Purée using a stick blender till your soup is a smooth consistency.
• Serve warm with bread or a dash of cream for a creamy taste.

I like my soup quite thick so if you want your soup to be of a runny consistency add in extra stock or cream for a creamy taste.  Kumara is the Maori word for sweet potato. We made this soup as part of our Expedition Earth journey to New Zealand.

Thank you Mrs C in Christchurch New Zealand for this lovely soup recipe.

Blessings