Tuesday 22 March 2016

Freshly made pina colada

Hello,

How is everyone? I just have to say the light in Lagos has been horrible, making it really hard for people to do a whole lot of things, we just hope Nigeria gets better. we can only hope.
       Now this recipe requires the use of a blender, which needs electricity, which we don't have. I just hope you guys find the time to try it out, maybe when you're done fuel hunting for your generators.
Lets start:
You'll need:
2 medium sized ripe pineapples
1 coconut
Water
Rum(Optional)



Chop up your pineapples and coconut, this makes for easier blending

         
 Toss both in the blender



Add about half a cup of water, then pulse for 5 seconds. do this up to 10 times.



 Add a little more water if you feel its too thick. pulse for about 5 more seconds.



 So I'm going to sieve one and serve it as a glass of juice and the other as a smoothie. I'm going to pass the former through a fine mesh sieve and squeeze all of the juice out of it.




silky smooth
smoothie
N.B: Most people add rum to their pina colada, you can add white or dark rum here or both even, as much as you'd like in it.
I preferred it as a silky smooth cocktail but my mum preferred the smoothie, if you'd like to leave it a smoothie, I suggest you finish it that day because coconut tends to taste soapy the day after. Not everyone might like to have it this way but I loved it.
I hope you guys find the time and the light to try out this recipe....Until next time

Thursday 10 March 2016

Peanut butter fudge brownies

Hey people,  Been  a while

      So I abandoned my blog for quite some time now, that was only because of stress, excessive stress and also a little bit of laziness but all that's gone now and I'm back. I might have been lazy to post but I sure as hell wasn't lazy to bake or cook. I have a list of things I did over my little "break" and I will be sharing them with you guys one after the other.
      First lets start with this Peanut butter fudge brownies, as usual I had excess peanut butter on my hands and my brothers were going to finish it if I didn't act fast. I don't really like eating peanut butter unless its being used in a recipe but I was craving brownies so I decided to make this peanut butter fudge brownies.
I took my regular brownies recipe and decided to tweak it a little bit and try it out, After baking I gave some out to my trusted tasters(not just my brothers this time) and they said it was wonderful. I hope you guys try it too.

Here's what you need
100grms of dark chocolate
100grms of butter
128grms of peanut butter
1 cup of white sugar (200 grms)
1 cup of brown sugar
! cup of cocoa powder
1/2 cup of flour
1 tsp of salt
5 large eggs
1 tsp of vanilla
1 tsp of coffee granules

 Melt together butter, chocolate, peanut butter and coffee granules over a double boiler.
Double boiler: place a pot of water on low heat, then place over it a smaller pot containing the items you want to melt making sure that the bottom of the smaller pot does not touch the simmering water



 Measure the flour, cocoa powder and salt

 whisk all together


 Measure both sugars
 Add both sugars to the melted chocolate mixture and whisk well


 Crack in the 5 eggs


 Add in the rest of the dry ingredients and mix just until combined, be careful not to over-mix here so you don't end up with a chocolate cake

 Line a 9 by 9 inch square pan with aluminum foil and let it hang over the sides so you can easily pull out your brownie when its done.

Bake at 350°F or 180° C for about 45 minutes or until a wooden toothpick comes out clean.






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 If you live in ikorodu and you want to be one of my trusted tasters and you also don't mind coming to get whatever it is, send me a mail or leave a comment below.