Tag Archives: raisins

Fruit & nut rice

fruits & nuts, we all like them in chocolate, but have you tried them in rice? It may just be better…

Sweet purple cabbage salad

Just look at those colours! Have you ever had purple cabbage? I had it for the first time two years ago. It was a catered lunch at the office. One of the dishes was a simple coleslaw made with purple cabbage and a sprinkle of pine nuts. It was delish. I can’t say the purple cabbage tastes any different from the regular green one but it makes such a huge difference when food just looks good and appetising.

Raisins with raw almonds and cashews

So I’ve been looking for healthy snacks lately, ones that I can make at home. Hubby likes to snack a lot so he buys a lot of pastries. I would like us to start taking some healthy stuff too when we snack.

Hubby bakes by proxy: Part 2 — the ultimate fruit cake!

Here we go again! This time we put back the lemon grates and added a few other dried fruits…

Hubby bakes by proxy: Part 1 — cake in raisins!

Sometimes he has ideas, here is one that I tried out. He loves those raisins in his cake…

Raisin pancakes

This was inspired by a post I saw on another food blog. Some good local food blogs coming up (^_^)

Risotto from leftovers

Risotto is usually rice cooked in a stock with several ingredients. Every time I do something like that I tend to burn though, so i think this is a great workaround…

Oatmeal raisin cookies

This is the first time I’m making cookies since I was in high school! There’s a recipe my mother has that was super easy (no, this is not that one), I would prepare the dough and store it in the fridge, then roll it out in portions every morning to make a fresh batch for snacktime for me and my siblings. But that was a long time ago…

Cake for the Maasai Morans

I was so glad when he asked me to bake the cake. He could have just bought one somewhere, but he asked me to make one.

Raisin scones

Of course it had to happen! There was no way I was going to get away with making scones without raisins again (^_^)

Spicy rice with raisins

All it takes is a little imagination and your plain old rice can be something special! Try this out…

Lamb curry and rice

I pulled out what I thought was a meaty thigh piece to defrost but it turned out to be a back bone piece. Not a lot of meat. It was quite a task to get it off the bones!

Lemon cake

I think the best recipes out there are the ones that have been tested by time, they get passed on from generation to generation over centuries. I don’t have anything like that in my family but I hope yo one day come up with something worth passing on.

Banana-raisin cake

Adding raisins is an easy way to freshen up an old cake recipe. If you have a recipe that you make often and you just want to change things up a bit, throw in a handful of raisins. I do reccomend soaking them in something ahead of time, even if it’s not alcohol, I might even steam them a little, just so they’re not so dry.