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Mandarin & Rhubarb Crumble

Would you like to make a super yummy and easy dessert?

This crumble is so simple and tastes amazing, it will impress everyone.

If you are taking a dessert to a dinner party this is the thing to make, you can make a big tray of it and all you need to add after heating it up is some vanilla ice cream.

Many of these crumbles call for oranges, not mandarins, I love mandarins and look forward to mandarin season, so adding mandarins to a dessert is vital. Since I have never added mandarins to anything I have cooked before I thought why not give it a go.

All the ingredients ready to make Mandarin & Rhubarb Crumble
All the ingredients ready to make Mandarin & Rhubarb Crumble

 

 

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Chopping up the rhubarb
Chopping up the rhubarb

 

Put oven on 180°C or  356°F to heat up
while you get everything ready

Ingredients

  • 6 cups chopped Rhubarb
  • (I used 1 big bunch of Rhubarb)
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • I small bag of mandarins
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 cup quick-cooking oats
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
  • Ice cream to serve

 

Make sure to cut out the mandarin seeds
Make sure to cut out the mandarin seeds

 

 

Method

Step 1: Cut up Rhubarb into small pieces

Step 2: Peel all the Mandarins and cut out the seeds

Step 3: In a large bowl, add the rhubarb and sugar let stand for 15 mins, stirring occasionally.

Step 4: In a large bowl, mix the brown sugar, oats, flour and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Step 5: Add Rhubarb and sugar mixture to a large baking dish

Step 6: Add the Mandarins on top of the Rhubarb – make sure they are evenly spread

Step 7: Add the crumble mixture on top making sure it fully covers the top

Step 8: Bake at 180° for 40 minutes or until the top is golden brown

Step 9: Eat the yummy mandarin and rhubarb crumble with some ice cream. ENJOY!

Mandarin & Rhubarb Crumble cooling down and getting ready to eat!
Mandarin & Rhubarb Crumble cooling down and getting ready to eat!

I hope you enjoy this yummy recipe.

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Easy Cake in a Mug Recipe

I love easy recipes and ones that are yummy and work well.

I found it hard to find a vanilla cake mug pack from the supermarkets so played around with the cake mix I already had. The reason for wanting vanilla, or as my little boy used to call it, white cake, is due to the fact that he doesn’t like chocolate at all and therefore needs to have vanilla cake. Previously I created this microwave mug cake with a vanilla mix and it worked well.

The one that I have created here is for a chocolate cake but it will work with any cake mix, as I was all out of vanilla cake mix.

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 Tablespoons of cake mix
  • 3 Tablespoons of milk
  • 1 Tablespoon of oil
  • Add icecream or cream – optional addition for after it is cooked

METHOD

  • Add all ingredients to the mug
  • Mix together
  • Add sprinkles if you wish – we did and it tasted great. (This step is optional)
  • Cook in the microwave for 1 minute and 40 seconds.

Add ice cream or cream to the mug and enjoy our moist, yummy and tasty microwave mug cake.

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Make Mini Meat Pies

Would you like a super easy meat pie for your party? How about dinner or lunch? Or your Australia Day celebration?

Well, I have an easy recipe for you and it is very yummy too!

Preheat the oven: Heat the oven to 180°C or 356 °F

INGREDIENTS

  • 500 grams of beef mince (You can choose chicken, pork or turkey if you wish)
  • Frozen puff pastry sheets
  • 2 carrots grated
  • 2 big cups of chopped mushrooms
  • Soy Sauce – I added a sprinkle when cooking the mince
  • 2 spanish onions – finely cut
  • 1 brown onion – finely cut
  • 1 pack of Masterfoods Spicy Chilli Con Carne (this is used as sauce rather than a gravy)

METHOD

  • Take out 4 sheets of pastry to defrost
  • Cut up the onions and add them to the fry pan
  • Add the mince
  • Add the soy sauce
  • Add the grated carrot
  • Add the Spicy Chilli Con Carne sauce mix and then add the pouch with water to get all the sauce out and add to the sauce in the fry pan
  • Cook all ingredients until the water in the sauce has reduced a little but all as you need to have the sauce there to add to the mixture for the pie
  • Once all ingredients are cooked for the inside of the pie, turn off the fry pan
  • I used a muffin and friand tin to put my puff pastry in. I did find that the friand tin did it better. Also you will see that my pastry was not perfect and actually more rustic than I was hoping for.
  • Cut out a good square of pastry that will match the bottom and sides of the tin. I then pressed the pastry down to the bottom and the sides.
  • I then filled the pastry pie in the tin with the filling from the fry pan and finished off each individual pie with more pastry. This was measured by seeing if a big glass was a little bit bigger than the top of the pie width for each pie in the tin. I used a big gin glass to cut out a circle to then pinch closed on top of each indivual pie.
  • Bake for 30 minutes or until the pastry is very golden brown and looking crunchy.

I served the pies with a salad. It was very yummy and filling.

POST FEAST REVIEW

I thought that making pies would be easy and I was right. It really isn’t hard. However, I don’t really have a pie tin and made do with using a muffin and friand tin as a substitute. It worked out well with these tins but I did notice that the friand tin worked better.

The pastry was a bit clumsy and rustic but worked on the whole. A few pies had their bottom give out a little when I attempted to remove them from the tin.

I found that the pies were just the right size and a salad or vegetables for dinner. If you do decide to make this you can make a few different pies and then mix and match to have a few different ones on your dinner plate.

The pies were very tasty and the Spicy Chilli Con Carne sauce made it very tasty indeed as well as the chewy and melt in your mouth mushrooms.

I did read a few recipes but made it up as I went along, although this alarmed and annoyed my husband. He thought that I was following a recipe and got quite frustrated to learn I wasn’t. I then pointed out it was an experiment and he wasn’t cooking so it really didn’t matter.

WOULD I MAKE THIS AGAIN?

Yes, I would make this again. I think I need to get proper individual pie tins or make one big pie and have it as a slice of one pie for each person at dinner or lunch. It was rather quick and simple and for the remaining pies, I can have them in the fridge and just heat up for the next meal.

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Matcha Green Tea Frozen Yoghurt

Zen Green Tea sent me some Green Tea Matcha to try.  They had no idea that I just love green tea… actually it is so yummy the smell of the matcha powder made me want green tea ice cream.

However, I am trying to watch what I eat and thought why not create Matcha Green Tea Yoghurt.  A healthy alternative to ice cream.

Yummy Zen Green Tea Matcha
Yummy Zen Green Tea Matcha

Matcha has great health benefits

  • Matcha’s whole-leaf stone-ground powder gives you 100% of the health benefits of green tea: from boosting energy and concentration to fighting cancer. Helping your body fight anything is good in my book.
  • Due to drinking the whole leaf – one cup of matcha delivers 137x the antioxidants of a cup brewed with a green tea bag. How amazing is this and great for you!

Did you know?

“The L-Theanine amino acid in matcha is known for its ability to increase alpha waves in the brain and promote calmness and alert concentration giving matcha users a great “Zen” state.”

 

The ingredients I used to make the Matcha Green Tree Yoghurt.
The ingredients I used to make the Matcha Green Tree Yoghurt.

 

Ingredients

  • 3 cups of yoghurt – I used Jalna creamy honey vanilla yoghurt.
  • 3 tablespoons of Zen Green Tea matcha green tea powder (You can change amounts if you don’t like it being strong)
  • 1 Tablespoon of honey (whatever you have available) Note: you can add more honey if you like it sweeter.

Adding the Matcha Green Tea powder to the mixture.
Adding the Matcha Green Tea powder to the mixture.

Method

  • Put all ingredients in one bowl
  • Mix ingredients together with a stick mixer or put in a blender.
  • If you have mixed in a blender pour into an airtight container and freeze.
  • Freeze for 2 nights and then eat!

To serve: Take out of the freezer and wait a bit for the frozen yoghurt to be soft. Once a bit softer you can use an ice cream scoop to put some in a bowl to eat.

Ready to eat and smells so yummy! This Matcha Green Tea Yoghurt is a great summer afternoon treat.
Ready to eat and smells so yummy! This Matcha Green Tea Yoghurt is a great summer afternoon treat.

Enjoy your yummy Matcha Green Tea Frozen Yoghurt.

One finished bowl of Matcha Green Tea Yoghurt.... or should I say what is left of the yoghurt.
One finished bowl of Matcha Green Tea Yoghurt…. or should I say what is left of the yoghurt.

This super easy and quick dessert is a great treat and also super healthy.

Store it in the freezer and just use it whenever you need it. Its an excellent after dinner dessert. You can add berries, nuts and anything else you would prefer to make it your own.

I hope this has inspired you to make your own frozen yoghurt with Green Tea Matcha Powder.

If you wish to purchase the Zen Green Tea Matcha Powder you can shop online at the Zen Green Tea Website

A HUGE thank you to Zen Green Tea for sending me some samples to try.

Coming soon are things to make with Turmeric Matcha Green Tea Powder, plus more recipes for the Green Tea Matcha Powder.

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