Yorkshire Pudding is incredibly easy to make and an excellent vessel for gravy. The fiance and I made a batch to eat with our Prime Rib Roast dinner. The Yorkies from this recipe puff up like balloons and deflate to create a perfect well. I’ve also been eating the extras for breakfast this week and the egg flavour and fluffy texture is perfect. 

Yorkshire Pudding

2014-12-18 00:09:17

Yields 12

A perfect side for roast beef dinner, well for gravy

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Prep Time

5 min

Cook Time

30 min

Total Time

35 min

Prep Time

5 min

Cook Time

30 min

Total Time

35 min

Ingredients

1. 4 eggs
2. 2 cups all purpose flour
3. 2 cups milk
4. 6 tsp roast drippings

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees
2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, eggs and milk until smooth
3. In a muffin tray, spoon 1/2 tsp of roast drippings into each tin
4. Place the muffin tray into the oven until the oil begins to smoke, ~3-4 minutes
5. Carefully take out the tray and ladle the batter into each tin, filling up to 3/4
6. Bake for 30 minutes

Notes

1. The puddings will collapse once out of the oven, they are best served hot

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Assemble Ingredients

In a large mixing bow combine eggs, flour and milk

Whisk until smooth

Spoon 1/2 tsp roast drippings into each muffin tin, put tray in over until the drippings just begin to smoke

Ladle the batter into each tin and bake for 30 minutes at 425 degrees

I am not a baker. I have no patience for measuring and I have a tendency for estimating. Despite that, there’s something about the holidays that make me reach for my mixing bowls (buried under many other kitchen gadgets). One thing I love about cookie recipes is that they’re usually a single step. Cream, stir, bake and eat. This dried cranberry and white chocolate chip cookie recipe was easy to whip up, even for me and the results were delicious, soft and chunky. The dried cranberries are perfect for holidays and balance with the sweet white chocolate chips, a perfect cookie to sip with tea by the fire.

Dried Cranberry & White Chocolate Cookie

2014-12-03 00:45:55

Yields 24

Quick and easy cookie recipe with festive dried cranberries and white chocolate chip

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Prep Time

15 min

Cook Time

10 min

Total Time

25 min

Prep Time

15 min

Cook Time

10 min

Total Time

25 min

Ingredients

1. 1/2 cup of butter at room temperature
2. 1/2 cup of packed brown sugar
3. 1/2 cup of white sugar
4. 1 egg
5. 1 tsp of vanilla extract
6. 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
7. 1 tsp of baking powder
8. 3/4 cup of white chocolate chips
9. 1 cup roughly chopped dried cranberries

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Grease cookie sheets (I like to save butter wrappers to do this)
3. In a large bowl, cream together the brown sugar, white sugar and butter until smooth
4. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract
5. In a separate bowl, combine the flour and baking powder
6. Add dry ingredients to the creamed butter and stir together
7. Add in white chocolate chips and chopped dried cranberries, stir together
8. Drop balls of dough onto the baking sheet, making two dozen
9. Bake for 8-10 minutes, remove from the oven, let sit for 1 minute and transfer to wire racks to cool

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Prep ingredients

Cream sugar and butter

Beat in egg and vanilla extract, combine dry ingredients in another bowl

Mix in dry ingredients and then dried cranberries and white chocolate chips

Spoon onto greased cookie sheets, bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes

I love to eat duck at restaurants, but my mom never cooked it at home and therefore it was a foreign and intimidating ingredient. This recipe from The Fiance’s mom changed all of that. With a few easy steps and some TLC, the duck comes out tender, with authentic Chinese flavours (sweet and sour) and renders a delicious stock that can be re-used.

Chinese Plum Duck

2014-11-30 21:34:16

Yields 1

Easy oven roasted Chinese Plum Duck

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Prep Time

15 min

Cook Time

3 hr

Total Time

3 hr 15 min

Prep Time

15 min

Cook Time

3 hr

Total Time

3 hr 15 min

Ingredients

1. 1 whole duck ~4 lbs
2. 6 cloves of garlic
3. 2 tbsp of rock sugar (cane sugar)
4. 5-6 pickled plums (per preference)
5. 2 tbsp of dark soy sauce
6. 2 tbsp of cooking wine
7. 2 cups of water

Instructions

1. Rinse off the duck and pat dry with a clean tea towel or paper towel
2. In a roasting pan, bake the duck at 350 degrees for one hour
3. Remove duck from oven and drain liquid
4. Mince the garlic, smash pickled plums, break apart rock sugar and mix all together (Tip: Use some of the pickled plum juice to help dissolve the rock sugar)
5. Place half the garlic mixture in the pan, stuff the other half in the body cavity of the duck
6. Place duck back into the pan breast side up and brush with dark soy sauce
7. Add water and cooking wine to the roasting pan
8. Bake for 2 hours at 350 degrees, flipping every 30 minutes and brushing again with dark soy

Notes

1. Tip: If the duck is frozen, be sure to thaw in the fridge overnight
2. Optional: Add corn starch to thicken the sauce and serve alongside or save and use as sauce for noodles later

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Prep ingredients, bake duck at 350 degrees for one hour

Mince garlic, smash plums and break apart rock sugar

Put half the garlic mixture into the pan and stuff the other half into the duck cavity

Brush the duck with dark soy sauce

Bake for 2 hours, flipping every 30 minutes and brushing with dark soy sauce