Tag Archives: Pies

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Sweet Success.

Bean.Red.Munchkin.Eating

I spent a bit of time today catching up on cake recipes from the Festive Season for Belize Wild Recipes. I simply had to write about them because this year, for the first time ever, they actually worked out.  This is a typical baking disaster…this one was Christmas Spice Cake:

Sesame.Cookie.Disaster

This year, we were made “Apple” Pie from jujube (Chinese wild plum):

Jujube Pie.
Jujube Pie.

The  wild chinese plum  has a very tart flavour similar to crab apples.  These plums are about 1inch (2.5cm) in size.

Wild Chinese Plum.
Wild Chinese Plum.

And Gnome made the pastry with the pasta machine:

Making Pastry.
Making Pastry.

Oh, and look at these…

Christmas Chaos Cake:

Christmas Cake.
Christmas Cake.

Spice Cake:

Spice Cake.
Spice Cake.

I have also posted up a “Black Cake” recipe which was very kindly given to me by Barbara Nightingale.  I haven’t tried the recipe yet…it will have to wait until next Christmas!!  And sorry no picture because we polished it all off before we could get a photo!

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Gnome Has Brought Out The Pasta Machine!

Together.Eating

What a treat and a carbohydrate lover’s delight to make yummy stuff with a pasta machine.  Yes, every now and then we have a total carb blitz and Gnome cranks up his pasta machine.

Rolling Out Dough.
Rolling Out Dough.

My contribution is the making of the dough which just takes a couple of minutes.  Now, the real Italian way of making pasta is actually to use the machine to “knead” the dough.  So, no need for Munchkin to knead…just a quick mix is required:

Mixing Dough.
Mixing Dough.

And the rest is Gnome know-how with the pasta machine (taught diligently by his mother).  He has been churning out some lovely fresh pasta and pies!

Fresh Pasta.
Fresh Pasta.
Gnome Mini Pies.
Gnome Mini Pies.

Pasta machines are actually very versatile because, besides the pasta, you can also make pastries for pies, croissants, puff pastry, filo pastry and whatever else you can imagine.  We have been eating pasta (noodles) everyday.  Getting bloated and sleepy but still getting the farm work done at the same time.  Well, we still have to work off all the calories!