Mock Chicken - Sandwich Filling

Ingredients:

1and 1/2 Dessert Spoons Butter (around about)
I and 1/2 Medium Tomatoes - Chopped
1 Smallish Onion -  Chopped (or half a medium one)
3 Eggs -  Beaten
1 Cup Grated Cheese
1 1/2 - 2 Teaspoons Mixed Herbs
Salt and Pepper to taste

Method:

Melt Butter in Frying Pan on a Medium heat.

Add in Onion and stir.

Fry until it starts getting soft (starts to look transparent).

Add in Tomato to fry with the Onion and stir it all together.

Stir occasionally to make sure it's not sticking and everything cooks fairly evenly.

Remove frying pan off the heat and stir in Grated Cheese.  Once it starts looking like it's melting and mixing in - put it back on the heat.  Continue stirring until the cheese is all melted.

Stir in Beaten Egg.... Mixed Herbs and Salt & Pepper.

Cook while stirring until the mixture gets thick and the egg looks like it is cooked.

Spread on bread once it's cooled down.

Creamy Garlic Prawns

Ingredients:

500 grams large peeled Green Prawns
25 grams Butter
2 Cups Cream
4 Cloves Garlic finely chopped
1 Chicken Stock Cube
1 cup sliced Spring Onions
Salt and Pepper to taste.

Method:

Put Cream, crumbled chicken stock cube and half the diced garlic into a saucepan, bring to the boil then turn the heat low and simmer until cream thickens.

Heat a frying with butter to high, add the other half of the garlic and all of the prawns. Stir prawns until cooked (there should be a little or no moisture at this stage.

Pour thicken cream over prawns, add spring onion and mix together.

Season with salt and pepper to your taste.

Serve with either rice or pasta.

This recipe comes from the Secret Man's Business Cookbook - which is one of the best "simply explained" cook books I have ever seen (pretty pictures and all!). So far I have bought three, kept one and handed two on - fabulous book!

NB: I use this recipe as a steak topper - using only one cup of cream (same amount of everything else though...especially the prawns!)

Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding

Pudding Ingredients:

1 cup SR flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cocoa (or more!)
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons butter

Sauce Ingredients:

1 tablespoon cocoa
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cup boiling water (or more)


Method:

Sift all dry ingredients in an oven ware dish. Add milk, vanilla and melted butter. Stir until smooth.

Mix all together and pour over uncooked pudding. Bake in moderate over for 35 minutes.