Round Up ~Lets cook with Pumpkin

Thankyou to everyone who participated in this event.Here is the wonderful round up of the dishes.

Announcing event~ Lets cook Preserves, Jams and Chutneys

We are soon approaching Christmas and there is nothing better than receiving a delicious homemade preserves, jams or chutneys. In this event I am inviting all foodies to link any Jams, preserves and chutneys that you have made.

To Participate:

1.Prepare any  vegetarian recipe as part of the Ingredient   (eggs allowed) please link your dish using the linky below by entering your Dish Name and Post URL
2.Please link this event announcement with your entry, this is mandatory.
3.Use of logo is  not mandatory but it helps to spread the word if you can use it.

4. Multiple entries are allowed, archived are only allowed if reposted and updated with this event link.

4. In the event of problem using linky you can email me the entry at simplysensationalfood@gmail.com

Please use this format:

Your Name: Recipe
Name Recipe URL
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Event announcement~Flavours of USA and Canada

We are continuing our travels in the Flavours of series to our final destination USA and Canada.

American Cuisine and the names Keylime pie, Jambalaya, s'mores, peanut butter nad jelly are just a few names that come to mind. American cuisine is very diverse and very multicultural since there are so many nationalities with in the country.The cuisine is rich and diverse with wonderful flavours.
Canadian cuisine and the name maple syrup, nanaimo bars and yellow pea soup come to mind, Canadian cuisine has a lot of chinese influence as well as European.There are a variety of cdishes in both Countries which are worth tasting.To get an idea of the different types of Ameriacn and Canadian cuisines check the links below.

http://americanfood.about.com/od/vegetarian/Vegetarian.htm

http://www.vegetarianrecipesandcooking.com/american-vegetarian-recipes.php

http://www.happycow.net/recipelist.php?cat=35
http://allrecipes.com/recipes/world-cuisine/canadian/
http://www.food.com/recipes/canadian-vegan

To Participate:

1.Prepare any vegetarian recipe (eggs allowed). Link your post using the linky below by entering your Post Name and Post URL
2. Please link this event announcement with your entry, this is mandatory.
3. Use of logo is not mandatory but usage is encouraged as it helps to spread the word visually if you can use it.
4. Multiple entries are allowed, archived are only allowed if reposted and updated with this event link.
5. In the event of problem using linky you can email me the entry at simplysensationalfood@gmail.com

Please use this format

Your Name:
Recipe Name
Recipe URL

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Pumpkin Pudding

Rich creamy and delicious with lovely aromatic spiced fragrance.

Ingredients:

I cup pumpkin puree
1/2 cup full cream milk
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon all spice
2 tablespoons clarified butter(ghee)
5-6 almonds sliced thin

Method:

1. Add the clarified butter to a pan and add the pumpkin puree.
2. Saute the puree for 3-4 minutes until the puree thickens.
3. Add the milk and sugar and saute the mixture for about 8-10  minutes until the pudding thickens and starts to leave the sides of the pan.Add the all spice and mix it into the pudding.
4. Transfer the pudding to mini serving glasses and garnish with almond slices.
Can be served hot or chilled.

You may like :
Coconut Shrikand

Submitting to:
Javelin Warriors Cook with Love
Lets cook with Pumpkin event by simply.food
Flavours of USA and Canada event by simply.food

 

Confetti chopping board review and giveaway

Chopping boards, you can never have enough of them especially when you want to chop onions and garlic and then you want to chop some fruit at the same time.I have a collection of chopping boards of all shapes and sizes as its very important to keep them free from odours sterile and bacteria free also.

I was recently sent a lovely large chopping board called Confetti chopping board by Red Candy. The board  is professional grade plastic, dishwasher safe, hard wearing and easy to clean.The boards comes in two sizes Dimensions (Small): 28 x 22 x 1cm and Dimensions (Large): 47 x 28 x 1cm. They are white in colour with rounded silicon red corners to stop the board from slipping on the work top. The small board retails at £ 14.00 and the large at £ 32.00 however they are on a special offer currently at a slightly reduced price.To order your Confetti board check out the Red Candy website.

Red Candy also have some other matching very innovative Confetti range of kitchen gadgets on their web sitel, do take a moment to check out their web site.I am really enjoying using my Confetti chopping board and would like to thank Red Candy for sending it to me.All the views and opinions in this post are my own.

Red Candy have been very generous and to spread a little bit of festive joy, they have agreed to provide a prize of 1 Large Confetti chopping board to one simply.food reader. For good competition Karma you can follow Red Candy on Facebook and Twitter

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Pumpkin Rice

Delicious and tasty spinach and pumpkin rice.

Ingredients:

250g / 8 oz white basmati rice
500 ml boiling water
100g fresh baby spinach
1 white onion finely sliced
3 oz finely diced pumpkin
1 medium potato peeled and finely diced
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon white pepper
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 green chillies finely chopped

Method:

1. Wash the rice and soak it in cold water for 30 minutes.
2. Wash the spinach leaves and remove the stalks, place the spinach in a blender with 2 tablespoons water and blend to form a paste.
3.In a large pan heat the oil when it is hot add the onions and sauté them on low heat until translucent.
4.Drain the rice and add it to the onions and sauté the rice until all the grains are coated in the oil.Stir the rice gently so that the grains don't break.
5. Add the spinach paste, potatoes, pumpkin, salt, turmeric, pepper and chillies. Mix the vegetables with the rice.
6. Add 500 ml boiling water and bring the rice to boil.
7. Reduce the heat to lowest setting and cover and cook the rice for 25 minutes.During this time do not open the pan lid.
8. After 25 minutes open the lid and fluff the rice with a fork.
9. Transfer to serving dish.

You may like:
Singapore five spiced rice

Submitting to:
Javelin Warriors Cook with Love
Lets cook with Pumpkin event by simply.food
Flavours of USA and Canada event by simply.food

 

Pumpkin Muffins-Secret Recipe Club Challenge 21 st November 2013

This is my assignment with the Secret Recipe Club.The aim of the club is that you are allocated a blog from which you have to select a recipe and try  it and blog about it.
My assigned blog was The avid Appetite written by Rachel. Since its October I wanted to cook with pumpkin and I found the perfect pumpkin muffin recipe on Rachels blog.The only changes I made were that I replace evaporated milk with full cream milk and left out the glaze.The pumpkin muffins were delicious.

Delicious  pumpkin muffins with an aromatic spicy taste.

Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients

1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon all spice
1 tablespoon egg replacer (or 1 egg)
1/4 teaspoon salt

Wet Ingredients

1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 cup butter room temperature
3/4 cup full cream milk

Method:

1. Preheat oven at 200 degrees C / 400 degrees F
2. In a large bowl mix together the flour, sugar, all spice and baking powder.
3. In a  blender jug add the pumpkin puree, milk and butter nad whip together all the wet ingredients.
4. Gently fold in the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Do not over mix.
5. Spoon the mixture into 10 muffin cases nad bake in preheated oven for 20-22 minutes until golden brown.

The original recipe suggested a glaze but I did not glaze my muffins.

You may like:

Cinnamon and upside down apple muffins

Submitting to:

Lets cook with Pumpkin event by simply.food
Flavours of USA and Canada event by simply.food