donuts

Super fluffy and healthy recipe,super simple to make. Once I saw the video giving use to the chocolate left overs I was delighted. My kids receive so much chocolate during Christmas that it reaches Easter, it happens again then... But then the recipe was so soft and fluffy that I had to play around with it and you can easely opt to leave the chocolate out for younger kids or switch to raisens. I always wanted to make donuts, but it is hard to find a healthy recipe for donuts and this one is so easy. 

Ingredients :

- 2 small bananas

- 2 eggs

- 6 table spoons olive oil

- 8 table spoons self rising flour

- 4 table spoons brown sugar 

Cinnamon, ginger, lemon zest, chocolate bits, to your liking.

Just put all the ingredients in your food processor. Then use small forms and bake in the pre-heated oven at 180C for 10min.

Based on https://fb.watch/pQFGgmhHuG/

banana cream pie ice-cream 🍦

Ingredients :

- 2 X 200gr heavy whipping cream

- 2x cups of hlaf- milk

- 4 small ripped bananas

- 1x table spoon honey

- 1x table spoon caster sugar

- 1x tea spoon cinnamon 

- few butter coockies

1 - whip the cream with the honey and one cup of milk until thick and creamy.

2 - in a food processor blend the bananas, one cup of milk and sugar and cinnamon until homogeneous and starting to get bubbles.

3 - add the banana mixture to the cream mixture and whip a little further until blended.

4 - put it in the ice-cream maker for 45min.

5 - serve with broken cookies topping. 

meat bread - bola de carne

It is very típica in Portugal, to make bread with meat stuffing. 

Usually we opt for lots of types of dried meats such as chouriços and hams. I prefere to use the minced meat leftovers and lots of cheese. 

Dough:

- 1kg all purpose flour

- 1 tea spoon baking east

- 1 tea spoon of salt

- 250gr margerine (softened by heat) 

- 100gr olive oil

- 2 eggs + 1(egg saved for crust) 

Just use a wooden spoon to mix the ingredients and then use your hands or some tiny ones that really want to handle it. 😁 The dough should be soft and easy to handle, not too sticky nor too runny. 

Then use about half of it and spread it against a form. Should be fairly easy considering the softness of the dough. Use you fingers to spread it thin and around the borders of the form.

Add your choice of fillings. Mine was a layer of cheese, then minced meat (already cooked) and finally cheese again. 

Top it with the remaining dough. Beat the remaining egg until homogeneous and spread it over the dough. 

Bake it in a preheated oven at 180C for at least 45min.

home made chocolate ice-cream

Ice-cream is one of those decadences no one can reason with. It is usually so full of sugar and heavy on greeze that we find it utterly unhealthy. This version you at least know how much good, and bad, goes into it. 

Ingredients :

- 250gr dark high quality chocolate

- 250gr cold cream to wip

- 370gr can of condensed milk (consider leaving some on the can, it is on the sweet side) 

Fast bread

Perfect for when you want to have hamburgers but totally forgot the bread and you have 1h until dinner time. 

Ingreedients:

3 yogurt

6 yogurt cups of flour

Tea spoon backing east

2 tea spoons of salt

1 table spoon of sugar

Basically knead all the ingredients together until homogeneous. 

Heat the oven at 180C.

Then dust a surface with flour and roll the dough on it until the surface of the though is filled with flour and it doesn't stick so much to your hands.

Cut the dough in 4 using a knife and for each roll them again in flour until they don't stick on the surface.

Set the 4 buns on the oven tray covered in a thin layer os flour. 

they will rise and fluff and be a bit dense and humid when ready. Perfect for a hamburger. 

Portuguese custard pie

Heavy cream 500ml

Eeg yolks 8

150gr sugar

10gr flour

1 Folie dough (it is a nightmare to make, just buy it fresh, extended and provided as a roll. 😏

Mix the ingredients and take them to low heat. Mix until it almost boils, then remove them from the heat. 

Use small round forms for scones or a big one (my case, no patience for the smaller ones). 

If you have the time have the base cook for a while under heavy pressure. 

So it doesn't blow.

banana bread

Ingredients :

- 4 ripped bananas (two for the dough and two to add in the end as topping) 

- 2 table spoons of honey

- 250gr flour

- 2 eggs

- 1 pinch cinnamon

- 50gr butter

- 1 tea spoon baking powder

- 2 table spoons of fruit juice 

Just soften the butter on the microwave, join the eggs, honey and juice and wip it a bit. Add 3 ripped bananas smashed by hand. Add the flour, cinnamon and backing powder. And fold it into an homogeneous dough. 

Put it in a bread Form and into the oven at 180C for about 60min.

Still need to test a yogurt oat version, but this one is so yummy I don't want to lose it. 

Based on Buddy's recepie Banana bread

Banana bread II

Based on my mother's recipe (not really hers but God only knows where she got it from by now).

3 ripped bananas

80 ml olive oil (extra virgin or sun flower oil)

110gr cast sugar

2 eggs

200gr all purpose flour

3 small spoons of east

Pinch of salt

1 natuur yogurt 

1 cinnamon stick or a pinch of powder cinnamon 

Get all the ingredients into a blander. 

I like to always add caramelized bananas on top. 

Need to try a top bottom version and will let you know how it goes. 😉