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Labneh

December 16, 2015March 3, 2021 7shasha7

Somehow I stumbled upon a site which touts making your own cream cheese. And then I started googling and searching more about labneh – or strained yogurt.

Apparently it’s a staple breakfast dish of the Arabs and hence I thought I’d try making some for the family.

The process was really simple. Just a tub of yogurt, some salt and a muslin or cheese cloth.

pour the yogurt and salt mixture in the muslin cloth over a sieve and bowl

tie it up tightly into a ball and leave it to strain in the fridge for a day

roll out the mixture into a clean well covered bowl

Mind you, labneh is sour. I am going to try different flavoured labneh later.

Updated the next day

Breakfast this morning…a sweet version! (It still is sour, though)

breakfast, Sides

In the mood for spicy eggs

October 28, 2015March 3, 2021 7shasha7

Bread and Batter, breakfast, Desserts, Snack

This morning for breakfast I made scones. This time I tweaked a recipe from the Web, so essentially they are not copyrighted hahaha. Apparently if you change three measurements or ingredients from the original, it’s yours.

So here’s mine recipe:

350 g self raising flour
A teaspoon of baking powder
100 g butter
1 tbsp caster sugar
180 ml skim milk
1tsp vanilla essence
1grated lemon zest
Juice from one lemon

In a bowl I grated the butter into the flour and baking powder mix and used the rubbing in method. Then I added the sugar. The milk I warmed it up a bit and then added the vanilla essence, lemon zest and lemon juice. Or scones you have to work vey quickly and if you live in a hot and humid country like me you’ve got to make sure that all this is done in less than 5 min. I brushed milk onto the unbaked scones. And then bake it a hot 220 oven.

The result was soft lemony buttery scones. 🙂

breakfast, Desserts, food

Introducing cooking to the kids

January 5, 2014 7shasha7

During the December school hols, I wanted something fun and educational for the Little Girl. So I got her this book from Kino.

A few days after, Little Girl wanted to make this badly for dessert. It was supposed to look like this.

What she served me was this.

In all fairness, she did follow the recipe to the T but let’s just say she still needs more practice in the kitchen. 😉

Here’s the recipe if you have Little Girls and/or Little Boys.

breakfast, Cakes and Cookies, Desserts, Sides

Super soft buttery buttermilk biscuits

January 5, 2014January 5, 2014 7shasha7

This morning I wanted to use some leftover buttermilk. So I made biscuits. This time round I was determined to make them like KFCs or Texas chicken.

In a bowl I added 2.5 cups of self raising flour then grated 100g of French butter and rubbed the mixture in. For good measure, I added a bit more butter to the crumbly mixture. Then quickly I stirred in the fridge cold buttermilk. Do not over stir. The mixture was wet but just nice to be scooped with my ice cream spoon. Drop them onto greased trays and pop into a hot oven (190 degrees).

I made two kinds. After the first tray, I added shredded cheddar and black pepper to the remaining mix.

The result was super moist biscuits. Even after six hours, they were still soft and not dry. Of course, it’s best to pop them in the toaster first. Drizzle with honey or eat with butter and jam. Yum!