Wednesday, December 1, 2010

My creative space - Ooh la la recipes

I'm a bit early this week with "My creative space", but I thought it wouldn't hurt posting a little early for once! *wink*


This week, my creative space has been in the kitchen!! I love to cook and only about 2 and a bit years ago, I could hardly cook a thing! When I first met Rog, I was a terrible cook! He did most of the cooking and I didn't mind it at all!! hehe
After a while I started to enjoy trying out new recipes to make for him and since then I've just kept going and now I love to cook!

This week I've tried out 2 new recipes and they have both been a hit!

Firstly Rog found the web site Gourmet Traveller and we sifted through the recipes for something garlic-y and we came across this one. (Garlic Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic!!!)


(The chicken ready for the oven!)

When I read that the recipe said 40 cloves of garlic, I was like... What the?!!? But after I read on I realized that the cloves were to be cooked unpeeled making the flavour a little more subtle and not as full on. Once the chicken was cooked, the garlic cloves can be squeezed out of their skin and eaten and if you're a garlic lover... they were de-lish!!

(The finished product straight from the oven... MMMMM yummo!)


Teamed with a swag of steamed veggies... this recipe was a winner!!

Now... for dessert! I had a quick flick through Donna Hay's latest magazine for some inspiration and as soon as I made it to her "homemade ice cream" page I was hooked! I am the BIGGEST sucker for ice cream and would eat it all day everyday if it didn't make my clothes too tight for my body! lol

I tried her caramel flavoured ice cream recipe and you know what? Donna Hay... you bloody genius! YUMMMM!!



I'd definitely recommend to check her latest mag edition out, if you do - try the ice cream recipes and tell me how you go! I'm thinking I'm going to go a little further with this basic cream/caramel combo and add some grated up peppermint chocolates, or maybe some honeycomb and other sweets for different flavours!

All this talk about food is making me hungry! I think it's time for dinner!!

Whats on the menu at your place tonight??

5 comments:

  1. Yes, I make this garlic recipe too! It is fantastic!

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  2. yum - i am coming past your place to steal a bowl of that ice cream - it looks magical - do you have an ice cream maker machine or by hand?

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  3. don't know about all that garlic..but icecream yum! is that from the yellow covered donna hay mag?

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  4. There is no way I am looking up that icecream recipe, it sounds like it should come with a health warning, ie STOP! One spoonful of this and you will forget all decorum and eat like a maniac! Or maybe that's just me. Anyway, tonight we're having mussels in a sort of Asian-ish sauce. Come over next week and I'll hopefully have posted the recipe!
    Have a lovely weekend

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  5. Hey all, I made the ice cream by hand, I've never used an ice cream machine but I'd be interested to give one a go!

    Carol, yep the recipe is from the yellow covered Donna Hay mag!

    Ellie x

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