Treats

Thank Crunchie Bits Friday

April 22, 2011

Now that Easter is nearly upon us, I thought I should share a nice chocolatey recipe with you all. I often get a craving for crunchies on Fridays, (I guess advertising really does work). I recently noticed that Cadbury’s have a new product on the market called Crunchie Nuggets. I knew it was possible to make honeycomb at home so I decided to try and re-create these crunchie nuggget bits for myself. I used Nigella Lawson’s recipe for honeycomb, she calls it hokey pokey! I dipped my honeycomb pieces in dairy milk to give it that Cadbury crunchie taste. I was really pleased with how these turned out, and they are a great little treat to have in your fridge for a quick chocolate fix. Continue Reading…

Cake

Am I going bananas cake

April 20, 2011

I have just noticed that I have a lot of banana recipes in my blog. (Note to self -must diversify and buy some different fruit.)  I think the reason I have so many banana recipes is because I always have a couple left in the  fruit bowl and never manage to eat them all on time. I had seen this recipe before in Darina Allen’s Ballymaloe cookbook and the picture alone made me drool. The good thing about this recipe is that it uses 5/6 bananas so it’s great if you have loads to use up. Also this recipe really works with overripe bananas. Its pretty yum and it’s nice straight out of the oven with a cool yoghurt /crème fraîche or butterscotch ice-cream if you’re feeling bold.

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Main Dishes

Cheesy Leek Quiche

April 14, 2011


You might have remembered me rambling on earlier this week about free range eggs and luscious leeks from the garden.  Well, I decided I would have to honour my hearty home grown ingredients with a suitably delicious recipe. I had a big hunk of nutty comté in the fridge as well, which I decided I would add to the mix. So, French cheese, sweet spring leeks and free range eggs….What would you have  made with this lucky dip of ingredients?  Continue Reading…

Ingredient

The Pecking Order…

April 12, 2011

 

To say my Dad’s hens are free range is a bit of an understatement. He was given four hens a few years ago, and had built an average size coop and hen run for them to roam around. He became quite fond of the hens and decided to *extend* the hen run.  Which is great. Now the hens had loads of free space to run around and scratch. The next time I came home I discovered that the hen run had been *extended again* and now encompassed our whole back garden. Fantastic. The hens were now getting really plump and laying lots of lovely eggs. However when I went home last weekend I discovered that that the hens had not been happy with the extension on the extension.   Continue Reading…

Dessert

Love a bit of baklava!

April 7, 2011

You may have noticed I got a new camera! So hopefully my photos will begin to look a little better. I got a bit carried away with this one and went rooting through my cupboards trying to find Middle Eastern style props. Hope it looks suitably exotic and makes you think of far off places as opposed to Dublin 16. Baklava is basically lots of thin filo pastry layered with chopped nuts and spices, then drenched with honey syrup.  It’s crunchy, nutty and it’s a really nice alternative dessert . I like it served with creamy vanilla ice-cream and a strong dark bitter coffee.  I based this recipe on Rachel Allen’s recipe but made a few tweaks.  I have eaten some great baklava in my time, but I’ve also had some really sickly sweet versions that would melt your teeth. So I was interested in making one for myself. This recipe worked out really well and though it seems complicated, it’s not at all and it’s actually kind of therapeutic to make. Continue Reading…

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Matt The Thresher

April 5, 2011

Picture provided by Aoife from I Can Has Cook?

As regular readers of my blog might have noticed, I cook lots of fish but never any meat, that’s because I’m a pescitarian (no to meat but yes to fish!) So, I am always excited to hear about the opening of a new fish restaurant. I was extra excited to find out, that I had won the chance to be part of a bloggers table in the newly opened Matt The Thresher- Seafood Bar & Grill in Dublin 2. Continue Reading…

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I'm Vicky and Stasty is my simple and tasty food recipe blog. I love to cook and I love to talk about food, so this blog is really my ramblings and thoughts about cooking and eating. Some of the recipes are my own and some are ones that I found on the net or picked up from my favorite cookbooks. I cook everything in our little kitchen in beautiful Washington. I am aided and abetted by my I.T guru/tantrum-trouble-shooter/editor and chief-taster otherwise known as the OH or Nelius.