Cook Up With Donna Hay....

My latest cook up with donna hay and Irina saw me using the Spices Cinnamon and Star Anise 

Green Apples

and the last of the Season's Mandarins

All from this beautiful issue of donna hay magazine No 69 Jun/July 2013

Beautiful in that there are some lovely Flourless Cakes recipes in it.......Perfect for Gluten Free people

The menu......Mandarin and Soy Braised Ribs

Boiled Rice

Red Cabbage

Fennel 

Telegraph Cucumber with Fennel Tips

Spiced Layered Apple Cake

I started off by slicing the apples in my new super-duper Food Processor

Look how beautiful the apple slices look......seeds'n all!!!

I used Rapadura Sugar instead of White Sugar

The apples had to be held down by cans when finished cooking

donna's version above

and my version ready to be chilled for Dessert

Now it's back to work preparing the Ribs

All done now

Red Cabbage

and Cucumber

And here'tis......all ready

And the flavour combinations were just delicious!!!

The Layered Apple Cake was just sublime nice and cold

With or without some Whipped Cream!!!

I love doing these cook ups especially now that Irina has joined me

If you want to join in just leave a comment or email

It's all easy.......just cook something from the latest magazine and blog it!!!

Bon Appetit......Dzintra

~Dutch Ginger Slice~

~Dutch Ginger Slice~

Oh how I love this beautiful slice!!!

Organic Crystalized Ginger

Rapadura Sugar

Rapadura sugar – is an unrefined sugar, made from minimally processed organic sugar cane. After the cane is harvested it is pressed to squeeze out the cane juice, which is then clarified, filtered and evaporated to remove excess water. The resulting syrup is then crystallized, and is rich with molasses flavour and the vitamins, minerals and trace elements that are naturally found in the molasses of the sugar cane plant, as it is not separated from the nutrient dense molasses part of the sugar cane. It is a high quality whole sweetener. It has a low /medium sweetening power with a marked molasses flavour. Simply substitute 1 cup of rapadura for 1 cup of other sugars.

Thank you to Rustic Pantry for the info above

Butter melting

Adding ingredients

Blanched Almonds atop

All done

Sliced

and ready to have with a cuppa!!!

RECIPE for JEAN'S DUTCH GINGER CAKE

* 125g ginger

* 200g unsalted butter

* 1C Caster Sugar......I used Rapadura Sugar

* 13/4 Plain Flour......I used Gluten Free Flour

* 1 egg

*  Melt butter, add all other ingredients including beaten egg

* Mix well

* Press into greased and lined tin

* Decorate with whole blanched almonds and glaze with egg yolk if desired

* Bake in moderate oven approx 25m

How easy is this!!!

Thank you so much to Jean for this recipe as was given to me which I have a pic of above 

I worked with Jean many years ago whilst in Bathurst......

Bon Appetit and Happy Baking......Dzintra