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gateau Diana

Line 3 trays with parchment and draw 7" circles on each. Oven at 140oC

Whisk 3 egg whites until stiff add 3 oz caster beat in then beat in 3 oz more caster. Divide into three and put onto parchment smooth into round. Cook till crisp and dry leave to cool.Melt 5oz good plain choc in a bowl with 41/2 TBsps water. Leave to cool. Whip 1/2pt double cream until it starts to thicken then gradually add melted choc, till thick do not overbeat. Spread this over each meringue layer together with some grated choc. Leave in fridge for 3 hours or overnight....Scrummy............THIS CAN BE FROZEN

Will be back with next recipe after lunch

Elaines Chocolate Cake

In a pan melt In a Jug

4oz margarine 1/4 pt milk
4oz syrup 1 egg
4oz soft brown sugar 1 1/2 tsp Bicarb soda

In a Bowl
6oz plain flour
2oz cocoa

oven at 180oC. Grease and line 6" sponge tins.

Whisk the egg milk and bicarb well. Pour into flour and cocoa, then beat in and add the melted marge syrup and suagr mix. Iit will be sloppy but do not worry. Cook for 35 -40 mins depends on your oven, but ready when skewer comes out clean. When cool sandwich together with cream or butter cream, s I said you can put in fruit or make into a Black Forest. Whichever it will be the best choc cake you have ever tasted

Thanks, am going away for a couple of days but will definitely be trying these when I get back.

Last choc recipe as promised

Black Magic

4oz plain flour, 2 tsp baking powder,1 tsp vanilla extract, 2 TBsp cocoa, 5 oz caster, 5 fl oz single cream

Oven at 180oC Grease a 21/2pt dish Beat all the above ingredients together till smooth. Put into dish. Then mix together 3 oz Demerara Sugar, 1 TBsp cocoa, sprinkle this on top Pour over 10flz boiling water. Cook for 50 mins until skewer comes out clean from sponge. Serve with custard or cream. You will have a sauce at the bottom...also good cold

The words Black Magic always brings my mother close to me. black Magic chocolates were her favourites, I will have to try this just for the name, and of course it sounds delicious.

Please will someone write some easy soup recipies, I had some delicious free range chickens this weekend but the soup I made from the bones and meat not used was not that good,..

Thanks

22.58hrs Spain

Yes Black Magic was my Mums favourite tooooo



Hope you enjoy the dessert, will look out some soup recipes

8.55 am Norfolk

Black magic sounds yummy, cannot wait to try it.
Does anyone please have the recipe for the cake Nigel slater did last week with beetroot.

(should I put time and place at bottom)
9.47am Cambridgeshire

Good Morning Ladies
Agatha - just google 'Nigel Slater Beetroot Cake', I just did and it is there. My sister told me last year that she had made a beetroot and chocolate cake that went down a storm.
Greenfingers, those last thre recipes of yours ar bad,bad,bad. Bad for me cholesterol,me diabetes, and bad for me figure. But oh lordy, I am going to have to have some,but which one to choose. Decisions,decisions,decisions. LOL

Julia in Derbyshire
10.02 Derbyshire

I will google it then, it did look nice.
Do you think it counts as one of our five a day

Agatha, to be sure, so it does. It is a vegetable after all, isn't it.
Take Care
Julia in Derbyshire

11.18 Derbyshire

Sorry julia...but you don't have to do them all at once !!!!!!!!!!!
I did do a healthy Chicken recipe tho.......................


1.08 pm Norfolk

Agatha
Welcom to our great interest in food and I suspect drinks! Drinkks are not necessarilly alchoholic!!
Green fingers dwhen did you do the healthy Chicken recipe, whay am I missing it. I wanted one from the leftovers but love Chicken soup,
The only reason I put time on mine is that we no longer have tiome on the heading from GR and also for us to know more or less where in thw world we are...you never know there may be a UK person in India for examl and the =y could give us even more food for thought .., "wishful thinking me suspects"
No time for cooking etc today simple pork chops and veg for us.
We have the Gardeners in and they are reducing our 40approx evergreen trees, which have overgrown in the last two years and the sunshine is right now coming back into that part of the garden, and also the palm tree which was bloking the view and all the bits and pieces kept falling in the pool.

Well that is all for now
so bye bye until tomorow as we are out with OH doing the fortnightly Quiz toningt.
Will add some Delights tomorrow

17.01hrs Spain

Spanish Eyes

The lower fat chicken recipe is on page 18 called Maple Chicken.

Leftover chicken bits could be made into Coronation Chicken have you the recipe ?

I know this is not for leftover chicken, but you could boil up a carcass and use the stock.

Easy Minestrone

Serves 4
In a large saucepan heat 1 TBsp oil and put in 1 medium onion peeled and chopped, 2 celery sticks sliced thinly, 1 garlic clove crushed and 1 carrot peeled and diced. Cook until veg softens. Then add 1 1/2 pts chicken stock 2 large tomatoes deseeded and chopped, 1 handful of spinach chopped, a 400p can of either red kidney beans, or chickpeas drained and rinsed, and 1 oz uncooked small pasta. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 10 mins. Then chop 1 small courgette into dices, and add cook for a furthe 5 mins. remove from heat season and add 2 TBsp fresh Basil torn into pieces.. Serve immediately.

Green fingers thanks for the chicken recipe.

Pleased to say that the connections for the comp are staying on most of the time today but we have been sweeping and cleaning the gardens for most of the day and the 30 stairs that weh have to use if we go down to the pool area@
Have to go as builder now here to replace some of the patio tiles
Sorry
15.48hrs Spain

Hi Spanish Eyes and everyone else

Did you know that under General Topics there is a thread called "Home Made Soups" they all sound delicious, it shouldn't have any affect on this thread and could complement it rather well. Though the way the weather is at the moment you wouldn't want soup

regards 2.45 pm Norfolk

PS have forgotten to say its on page 5...I have posted a message extolling the virtues of our site and asking them if they might like to join us...keeping their own thread of course

Dished up my Gateau Diane today for our daughter and her fiancee as I hadn't made it for a while...........but oh its sooooooooooo good, and not too sweet


4.55pm Norfolk....Sunday

Greenfingers, I have visited the thread Home Made soups and some certainly caught my attention. I also have left a message for the posting people and now I hope that we can work in unison which you suggested. We like soups and I used to have some good recipes for summertime soups as well bu lord knopws where I have left tyhem, maybe I did not bring them with me.
The Gateau Diane I hope to make for next weekend, and as I have my eldest son visiting for Easter with a lady and her son neither of whom I have met before I must be on my best behaviour and have some good fingerfoods as the weather forecast is looking very good indeed.
Well I am cooking to=day so will add some other dishes in the next few days.


19.17hrs Spain

You will impress with the dessert, just make sure it is a high cocoa solids choc 70 % at least and it is lovely with some fresh fruit.............


Saw your posting on the soups site we can all benefit

Regards

6.25pm Norfolk,

I have just delighted my message instead of sending it !

So I start again. Good morning everyone. I am looking for some inspiration for Easter weekend. I will have my eldest son his German girlfriend and her 10 year old son staying from Thursday until late on the Monday.
I would like to make the Easter specials for them but not sure whstbthey would hsve in Germany at Easter time.

Any help appreciated

Thanks.

I will be back later with one or two new recipies

07.39hrs Spain

That should be deleted not delighted!