Category: Z_Recipes New

Dried Mexican Bean Recipe
(serves 6) 

500g kidney or pinto beans
2 tsp salt
2 tsp chilli powder
2 tsp ground cumin
1 large onion 

Cover the beans with water, bring to boil. Keep at boiling point for 10 mins. Remove from the heat and leave to stand for an hour.
Then bring to boil again.
Lower the heat, add salt, chilli powder, and cumin. Simmer for 2 hours or more, until tender. Add the diced onion after an hour of cooking.
Leave the lid off the pot for the last 30 minutes or so to evaporate most of the liquid. Mash the beans with potato masher, or puree in a food processor.
Spread out in a thin layer on 2 baking trays greased with oil (not butter). Place in the oven at lowest temp (about 65C) and use the handle of a wooden spoon to hold the oven door open a fraction to allow the air to circulate.
Leave for 6 or more hours, until dried and brittle.
Break up and store in plastic bags.
To reconstitute on the tramp, add an equal volume of water and simmer. Chopped salami and/or grated cheese can be added. Serve with rice.

Dried Meat Sauce for Pasta
(serves 4) 

500g lean minced beef
2 med onions, diced
6 cloves of garlic, crushed
Salt and pepper
365g tin of concentrated tomato paste
2 teasp dried oreganum
100g parmesan cheese 

Fry the mince, onion and garlic without any oil for 5 minutes, or so, mashing the meat with a wooden spoon until it’s browned all over.
Push the mixture to one side of the pan, spoon out all fat that has collected. (Any fat left will turn the mixture rancid, you will lose some meat juices doing this).
Add salt and pepper, stir in tomato paste.
Spread mixture out thinly on oiled baking tray (do not use butter).
Place in the oven set at 65C, and use the handle of a wooden spoon to keep the oven door open a fraction.
Leave for 6 hours or until it is dry and brittle but do not over dry as the tomato will become bitter. Break up the mixture. Add dried oreganum and store in a plastic bag.
Grate the cheese and pack in a separate plastic bag.
On tramp-bring 6 cups water to the boil, add 500g pasta (vermicelli is best). Boil for 3 minutes, then add dried mince mixture. Simmer then cover for 5 minutes.
Serve with the cheese.

Jenni’s Ginger Truffles Recipe: We all enjoyed the lovely treats at morning tea time, thanks to Jenni and Bruce! Jenni told me that lots of people asked for this recipe.

Ginger Truffles

 250 g gingernut biscuits
 395 g condensed milk
 60 g glace ginger
 3 cup desiccated coconut
 220 g dark chocolate
 1/2 cup shredded coconut *to decorate

1. Line baking sheets with baking paper. In a food processor, process gingernut biscuits until fine. (To easily crush the biscuits, I heat oven to about 140-150, pop biscuits in until they are starting to go slightly soft, about 10 mins, then easy to blitz in kitchen whiz).
2. Chop desired amount of glace ginger into fine pieces.
3. In a medium bowl mix together the crushed biscuits, condensed milk, chopped glace, ginger and desiccated coconut.
4. Place the mixture in the fridge for at least half hour – rolling the balls is much easier when the mixture is cool. If you would like to coat some of the balls in shredded coconut, do that now while the mixture is sticky.
5. Roll bite-size balls and place on a plate. Refrigerate again before coating with chocolate.
6. Melt the chocolate. Coat truffles in melted chocolate and place on baking paper to set.

You may also like to keep some truffles plain/uncoated.

See 5 October 2022 Abbotsford and Environs.

 

Original recipe: Bliss Balls

1 1/2 Cups ground almonds
1/4 Cup chocolate protein powder
2 Tbspn Maple Syrup
2 Tbspn peanut butter
120gm dark chocolate
Coconut flakes garnish

My recipe: Nut Fudge

1 1/2 cups ground almonds
1/4 Cup Cocoa
2 Tbspn runny honey
2 Tbspn Peanut Butter
120 gms chocolate chips
Roasted Peanuts roasted blitzed
Dates cut in half.

If you double recipe you also need 2 ozs butter approx.
Put chocolate chips, dates, runny honey & in basin in oven or microwave what ever container using. Give a good stir when melted & put with dry ingredients in beater combine.
Double mixture is big enough for Swiss Roll tin.
Press Coconut over top & put in fridge to set.

from Ady Whitson August 2024.
(see 14/08/2024. Taieri Mouth Excursion.)