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DONNA'S KITCHEN
BANANA ICE LOLLIES
These are special banana ice lollies, that the children can make all by themselves.... (well maybe with a little supervision from an oldie.) I found these pics on google, they might help you decide what to choose.
You will need
1. 4 banana's (nice firm ones) 2. A medium bar of good chocolate, or two or three. (depending on what colour you choose to use.) 3. 10 flat lolly-pop sticks, (a couple extra incase of accidents.)
Coating a. dessicated coconut. b. chocolate vermicelli. c. coloured sugar strands. These are just idea's maybe you can come up with different ones of your own.
METHOD
1. Cut the bananas in two across the middle. 2. Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the Microwave (1 minute at a time) Don't mix the chocolate, though you could use two colours on one banana. 3. Pop a lolly stick down the centre of the half banana. 4. Pop some of your coconut, etc. into a paper bag and after dipping the banana into your choice of chocolate, dip the whole into the paper bag and cover the chocolate before it sets. 5. Pop the coated banana's on a tray and place in the freezer until frozen, about two hours should do it.
DONNA'S KITCHEN
Here is another lovely Recipe I found while looking through Google Images A Banana Tart Thank you Pink Bites.
A TART SHELL, 9inch, either home made (bake blind)or bought from the super market.
4 oz of chocolate, Dark, Milk or White, use good chocolate
1/4 cup of cream or half cream/half milk
3-4 ripe bananas, depending on their size
1/2 lemon
2 tablespoons of brown sugar
Method
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Heat
the cream until just below boiling point. Pour it over the chocolate
and stir until you get a smooth consistency.
Let it cool.
Peel the bananas and half them lengthwise. Squeeze the lemon juice over the bananas and sprinkle over the sugar.
Spread
the chocolate sauce on the bottom of the tart shell and top it with the
bananas, cut side up, forming a circular pattern.
Bake it until tart is golden brown and bananas are soft, about 30 minutes.
Serve warm by itself or alongside some vanilla ice cream.
Enjoy it!
Possible variations:
Sprinkle the bananas with some chopped peanuts or walnuts half way through baking.
Place a layer of shredded coconut between the chocolate and the bananas,
(remember to warn of nut content.)
Use cinnamon-sugar instead of the brown sugar.
If Pink Bites don't mind, I think I would pipe some spray cream down the middle of the bananas, any colour.
(Not if your dieting :)
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While looking through my stumble upon blog sites I came across this wonderful cookery site. It is from Portugal and all the recipes are really lovely, especially the biscuits or cookie pages, The full recipe for this wonderful picture come cake is made from chocolate brownie cake mix, that you can make or buy from any big supermarket. The Smarties are there (remember to discard the blue ones if you have hyporactive offsprings,) I suppose M&M@s or Chocolate buttons could be used, a lollypop and the tiny vermicelli white stars and green stars. (Don't do what I did and buy mixed ones, took me aged to sort out the geen and white, )
The address for this site is :-
pedidos@thecookieshop.com.br and from there you can find not only these wonderful cookie recipies, but a twitter for you to go to numerous places. Do enjoy your selves, wonderful.
THE RECIPE TO MAKE SOME GULAB JAMUNS, THAT WE READ ABOUT IN
"THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING GULAB JAMUNS" I have copied the story on the pages of "Hopscotch."
AND WHICH WAS FIRST PRINTED IN "DIMDIMA" a wonderful childrens paper, sent to you from India. edition October 2008.
THE RECIPE IS FROM: Samaithu Paarkalaam Recipes from Tamilnadu to Tex-Mex from my kitchen with love
Jammin' with Jamuns.
1 cup of non-fat milk powder
½ cup All purpose flour ½ tsp Baking soda
2 tbsp Melted butter Salt pinch Milk to make a medium stiff dough
Syrup: (make it earlier and keep warm)
1½ cups of sugar 1 cup of water Cardamom - crushed seeds of 2 pods
1. Combine the sugar and water in a pan. Heat until the sugar dissolves. Then, add crushed cardamom and remove from heat. (The syrup should be slightly warm when adding jamuns.) If you like more syrup, just make 1.5 to 2 times the amount stated in the recipe.
2. Heat oil on medium heat. As the
oil heats, combine flour, milk powder, baking soda, salt, and butter.
Slowly add milk to make a medium stiff dough. Take small pieces of the
dough (about nutmeg sized) and roll into balls. (Note: Keep in mind
that the dough will expand and enlarge on hitting the oil, so make the
balls smaller than you want the end size to be!) Keep the dough balls aside, covered with a slightly damp cloth to prevent them from drying out.
3.
Slowly, slip the balls into the warm oil. You may need to fry them in 2
batches, depending on the size of your pan. Gently and slowly, shake
the balls around in the oil to cook them evenly. When they are golden
brown and rise to the top of the oil, remove them and allow them to
cool until just slightly warm.
4. Add the cooled balls to the
warm syrup.
Allow the flavours to develop in the refrigerator for 24
hours before serving, for best results. Warm jamuns before eating and enjoy every luscious bite!
THE BANANA BOAT SONG
Day-o, Day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Work all night on a drink a' rum
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Stack banana till the mornin' come
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot BUNCH! Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot BUNCH!
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home
A beautiful bunch a' ripe banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Hide the deadly black tarantula
Daylight come and me wan' go home
It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot BUNCH!
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot BUNCH!
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Would you like to put some music on the Juke Box! whilst you look what Donna's Diner has to offer you today.
Coffee Punch
5 cups hot coffee, 1 pint of vanilla ice cream/ice milk 1 pint chocolate ice cream, 1 teaspoon creme de cacao In
a meilley phuinsh: punch bowl, pour coffee over ice cream. Beat lightly
until partially melted. Add creme de cacao. Pour into punch glasses;
sprinkle with nutmeg.
Lambswool: Apple Punch 2 quarts hot milk, 8 apples, 1 cup of honey Preheat
oven to 180°C: 350°F. Bake apples in a shallow glass pan for 40 minutes
until soft. [or roast them over a fire suspended on strings]. Squeeze
pulp from apples, discard skins, fluff purée with fork. Heat milk, add
apple purée, honey.
Peppers and Sausages with Pasta
Ingredients: pasta, 6 spicey sausages, 1 onion, 2 garlic
cloves, 1 red pepper, 1 yellow pepper, paprika, tabasco, 1 tin chopped
tomatoes, 150 ml vegetable stock
Boil the pasta in boiling water with some salt until al dente. Bake
6 spiced sausages until the sausages are brown. Scoop the sausages from
the pan and keep warm. Bake in hot oil 1 chopped onion and 2 finely
chopped garlic cloves (optional)until the onion has softened. Then add 1 chopped
red pepper, 1 chopped yellow pepper, paprika (after own taste) and some
tabasco . Stir fry a minute or 5. Then add 1 can diced tomatoes and 150
m vegetable stock. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes on low heat. Add
the sausages and heat a bit more. Serve with pasta, garnish with parsley and sliced peach.
Use Cauldron or Quorn sausages to make a vegan or vegetarian dish.
On Top of Spaghetti
(On Top of Old Smokey)
On top of
spaghetti,
all covered with cheese.
I lost my poor meatball,
when somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the
table,
and onto the floor.
And then my poor meatball,
Rolled out of the door.
It rolled in the
garden,
and under a bush
And then my poor meatball,
Was nothing but mush.
The mush was as
tasty,
as tasty could be.
And early next summer,
It grew into a tree. The tree was all
covered
with beautiful moss.
It grew lovely meatballs
and tomato sauce. So if you eat
spaghetti,
all covered with cheese.
Hold on to your meatballs,
and don't ever sneeze.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES FOOR KIDS TO MAKE
Ingredients 125g butter sugar. 175g brown sugar. 1 tsp vanilla extract. 1 tablesp milk & 1 egg (beat well together) 175g plain flour 200g bar plain chocolate. (chopped into small pieces) (or buy small packet of chocolate drops for cookies}
1. Cream 125g buter with 175g brown sugar. 2. Beat until fluffy. Add 1
teaspoon vanilla extract, 3. Add the milk and beaten egg.
4. Add 175g plain flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder and beat to combine.
5. Break 200g plain chocolate in little chunks and spoon it into the
batter. 6. Line a tray with baking paper and drop 1 tablespoon batter on
the tray. 7. Leave about 3 cm space between the cookies. 8. Place the tray
into a preheated oven 160C (fan) for about 20 minutes. 9. Get the cookies
out of the oven and place them on a wire rack to cool.
Then don't forget to enjoy them and Don't forget to give one to who ever helped you.
Home Cooked Spagettie Bolognaise Home Cooked Steak and Kidney Pie. Two Sausages, with one egg and tomatoes or Beans. 2 Quorn Burgers/ 2 Quorn Fillets Cod, chips and peas/beans Plaice, chips and peas /beans
Baked Potatoes with variety of fillings. All served with a portion of chips or potatoes
A slice of bread and butter and cup of tea/coffee with order. Childrens portions available cold drinks and ice creams
ALL DAY BREAKFAST's and SUNDAY ROAST Served all day, every day
Now here are some lovely delicious Pizza to make-:
Pizza
You will need a two 8 inch Pizza Base Stonebaked Pizza Base with Garlic, very nice (Tesco) (unless you have a cool way of making the pizza dough, if so then go for it.)
Tomato & Herb Pizza sause or can of chopped tomatoes, add your own herbs.
A choice of toppings as suggested below:
A large piece of Pepperoni 4 Mushrooms A small can of Pineapples 4 slicesHam Coloured Peppers, (If you like them)
Cheese, different types are nice.
Peel the mushrooms and slice them, then
cut the ham, pepperoni, pineapple etc and grate loads of cheese.
Do be careful with the grater and the knives, ask mumy for help if you don't think you can do it yourself. I think it is always best to make two Pizza's that way every one can have a choice.
If you have your own Pizza dough, you can make little 4 inch round pizza's with lots of toppings Here are a few alternative toppings. Tuna, onions, sardines, tomatoes, pork slices, chicken, marmite.
Just about everything goes to make a delicious pizza. Then all you do next is, take one pizza, spread the top with tomato puree or chopped
tomato then place whatever you want on top as the topping. Cook for about 15/20 minutes at 220°C or until the cheese is golden brown. Get a grown up to take them out of the oven and leave them to cool on a wire tray for a few minutes, we don't want you to burn your tongues.
Why not turn the sleep-overs into a bit of fun by letting the kids make themselves a pizza each for their supper. Maybe a jelly to follow.
JUST CLICK ON ^ THE DVD SLOT NEXT TO START ON VIDEO BOX IF THE "ERROR" SLOGAN SHOWS, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH VIDEO
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD.
Yes that's the title Diddily's given the Diner's picture show. Donna came with me to the Youtube website to pick them all out. Oh my it took some doing I can tell you. It must have taken us about four hours altogether, but so long as you all enjoy them that is all that matters.
Don't forget to ask Donna for some popcorn and squash on the way into the Video House. xxx
SNAIL SANDWICHES
You will need a few slices of bread, white
and brown A filling that you like, jam, cheese spread, meat-paste, fish-paste, sandwich filling even chocolate spread and peanut butter. Yummy, yummy.
Small pieces of carrot and angelica
Trim
the crusts off the bread and then spread your chosen filling
so that it covers one side of the slice completely. Carefully
roll up the bread until you have a log shape, Then the best thing to do is read the following and look at the pictures, of course you could mix and match the bread, white on one side and brown on the other,
you can then slice into pieces about 3cm thick.
Stand the bread rings on their sides with the edge of the bread
just poking out from the bottom, as shown above, you can
then add some small pieces of either carrot or angelica
to make the stalks for the eyes and antenna.
Place the snails on a bed of chopped up lettuce, with some grapes and apples and tomatoes to look like a garden. Another idea is to buy some of the miniture swiss rolls and do the same with them as a dessert, only stand them on a bed of fresh fruit, apples, pears, grapes etc. Something else the kids can make for their midnight feast.
Banana Muffins
Banana Muffin Recipe
(makes 12 large muffins)
Ingredients
2 cups plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt (optional) 4 ripe bananas, mashed 2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 egg & 1 egg yolk, lightly beaten 1/2 cup butter, melted 1/3 cup coarsely chopped walnuts (optional)
Method
1. Preheat oven to 190 degrees C. Line a 12 cup muffin tray with muffin cups or grease lightly with butter. 2. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl. 3. In another bowl, beat the mashed bananas, sugar, eggs and melted butter together. 4. Stir the banana mixture and walnuts into the flour mixture until just combined. 5. Divide the batter into the muffin tray. 6. Bake in preheated oven on the middle rack for 20 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the centre of a muffin comes out clean.
Buttermilk Biscuits
1/4 cup shortening 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 2 cups self-rising flour 3/4 cup buttermilk
Cut shortening into flour. Stir soda in milk and pour into flour and shortening. Stir until well blended. Pour out onto a floured surface and knead 12 to 15 times. Roll out and cut. Place on a baking sheet and bake at 450 degrees F. until brown.
I must thank the Gingerbread Man Unit for this lovely recipe to make to accompany the story on Homepage our
Gingerbread
Man (and woman)
2/3 c. flour
1 1/4 c. sugar
2 tablespoons
molasses
2 eggs
2 tablespoons
vinegar soured milk
1 teaspoon
soda
3 c. flour
1 teaspoon
salt
1 teaspoon
baking powder
1 teaspoon
cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon
ginger
1/2 teaspoon
nutmeg
1. Cream shortening
and sugar.
2. Add eggs
and molasses.
3. Add sour
milk in which soda has been dissolved.
4. Add dry
ingredients.
5. Slightly
grease big cookie sheet.
6. Children
add chunks of dough to create GB man shape.
7. Decorate
with candy and raisens.
8. Bake in
375º oven about 15 minutes.
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Work all night on a drink a' rum
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
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Home Cooked Spagettie Bolognaise
Plaice, chips and peas /beans
All served with a portion of chips or potatoes 
Served all day, every day
A choice of toppings as suggested below:
Banana Muffin Recipe 
1 tsp baking powder
Method
and melted butter together.
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