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Have you ever heard of Bunny Chow? No? Seriously, you gotta try it at least once!   A Bunny Chow is a South African dish consisting of a hollowed out loaf of bread filled with curry. It originated in the Durban Indian community (East coast).   It can be made with chicken, lamb or even vegetable curry.   It is the equivalent of our kebab here in the UK. It is what you buy on your way home after a night out clubbing (or so I have been told). I love eating with my hands (I love street food in general). You tear the side of the bread bowl and you use it to sccop out the curry filling (as it was a chapati). Yum! I love the chicken curry version (cooked with chicken drumsticks) in a nice crispy bread.   Finger-lickin' good :).  

Perfect day for baking today. The weather is awful! I found a quick and easy recipe to make chocolate chip cookies on Good to Know: http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/310732/Jasmine-s-easy-choc-chip-biscuits It makes 20 cookies. Ingredients 225g caster sugar 300g plain flour (sifted) 200g of butter melted 1tsp vanilla extract 1tsp of baking powder A pinch of salt 1 egg 150g chocolate chips Method - Add all the ingredients (apart from the chocolate chips) into a bowl and mix together. - Once you get a dough texture, knead using your hands. - Add the chocolate chips and mix together using your hand again. - Spread some butter onto a baking tray. - Take some of the dough, roll into 2-3cm ball then flatten a little. - Place in the oven and bake at 160C, gas 3 around 15 mins. They're ready when the edges are golden. Enjoy!

Around this time of the year every year, Dylan and I go and pick blackberries to make a crumble :). We did it again yesterday. We did not have to go far, our local park is full of them. It did not take us long to fill up our containers. However by the time we reached home, Dylan had eaten the content of the first container. Needless to say he was not very hungry anymore so we made the crumble tonight instead. I used the Berry Crumble recipe from allrecipes:  http:// allrecipes.co.uk / recipe/26195/ berry-crumble. aspx Ingredients (6 people): 300g blackberries 250g flour 200g sugar 180g butter   Method: Preheat the oven to 200 C / Gas 6. Lightly butter a shallow baking dish Arrange the berries in the dish Mix the sugar, butter and flour with a fork until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over the berries. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until crumble is golden and berries are bubbly. S...

We had a pizza evening last night. I never know what to cook. I can never please everyone. If hubby likes what I cook, the kids don't and vice versa. It is a nightmare. I could not handle any more criticism about my cooking (not last night). Everyone love pizzas at home hence why a pizza evening :). The kids made their own. Dylan made a ham, olives and goats' cheese pizza and Ryan a Chorizo pizza. Ingredients for Dylan's pizza: Pizza dough base Pizza sauce Ham Goats' cheese Olives Grated cheese Ingredients for Ryan's pizza: Pizza dough base Pizza sauce Chorizo Grated cheese Both the boys enjoyed the activity. Even Ryan managed to participate in the activity (he is only 22 months). Daddy helped him place the Chorizo slices and the grated cheese onto the pizza base (more cheese in his mouth than on the pizza though as you can imagine - too tempting). Dylan did everything himself: spread the pizza sauce onto the pizza base, cut...