A spoon full of mashed potatoes...

I just wanted to share this from my phone to test if it works and post one more mashed potatoes tip - when your potatoes are cooked and drained put them back on the stove to get a little more moisture out of them. Just make sure you dont burn them. Remember - less water more taste.

 

 

Mashed Potatoes Season

Thanksgiving is slowly approaching and all about turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy. So expect a few cool tips on how to make good mashed potatoes in the next few posts. Lets start with tip no.1 right now!

TIP No.1 For Good Mashed Potatoes

Cook potatoes whole or cut them in really big chunks. This way the will cook longer (which is bad) but they won't soak up so much water as they would if you cut them in small pieces (which is good). Water means less taste in your mashed potatoes.

 

Till next time..ta ta.

 

Simple Waffle Recipe And Waffles For Dessert

Yeah. Today I went totally into waffles. To be more specific - into dessert waffles. But first let's learn a little bit about waffles and how to make them! Waffles are very tasty meal for people who really love crispy and light stuffs. Making waffles is easy and it does not require any hard to come by ingredients. Waffles are to make at home and homemade waffles are much better that commercially prepared and sold ones.

Just follow this easy recipe. All you need is:

• 2 cups of all purpose flour, 
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder(cooking soda), 
• 1/2 tea spoon of salt, 
• 2 teaspoons of sugar, 
• 2 cups of milk with your preferred amount, also take 
• 2 eggs that are separated which are very important in the waffle recipe and 
• one full tablespoon full of melted butter. 

These are the easy ingredients that are always available in all the homes.

And now to making waffles:

1. Preheat the iron waffle maker.
2. Shift all the dry ingredients to a bowl. 
3. Beat the egg white properly until it is stiff in a small separate bowl. 
4. Add the separated egg yolk to the dry ingredients together with melted butter and the milk and mix well until you feel it is completely lump free. 
5. After it is lump free pour some of the stiff egg white on the batter and leave it for a while. 
6. Put one cup of batter in the preheated iron waffle and close it. 
7. Remove the waffle after 2 minutes and leave it out on a tray to cool and then 
8. enjoy, serve it with your favorite toppings on it. My favourite waffle toppings are mango waffle topping and peaches and cream waffle topping. Just follow the links to find out how to prepare them.

This amount of ingredients will give you around 12 waffles.

 

Also easy to make are butter milk waffles.

 

For this all you have to do is arrange the same ingredients and use butter milk instead of ordinary milk.

 

Follow the same procedure for the preparations.

 

This waffle will be good for the people who never like milk flavor and never want to use milk.

 

One tip: if you have left over batter you can store it in refrigerator. If it has gone thick then add some milk or buttermilk and stir well to get it back the normal. Other really cool waffle recipes are blueberry waffle recipe and strawberry, blueberry or raspberry waffle recipe. I love waffles with fruit in them. If you are more of a chocolate fan then try chocolate chip waffles.

 

Waffles make an interesting breakfast in the winter especially, though people enjoy them any season. In winters home made waffles will hit the right spot. And you may quickly run out of them and have to make more. Children will be your fans:)!

 

Well that's it.

 

Actually...one more recipe - when I was talking about children - I have also found these two recipes that I am sure will be kinds favourites - waffle ice cream sandwich recipe and banana split waffle recipe.

 

Uh....this waffle post has turned out to be much longer than planed :).

Orange Apple Carrot Juice

How to make orange apple carrot juice?

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It's really easy :). But you do need a juicer to make natural juices. You could make juice also with a mixer but then they are much thicker and harder to drink. On the other hand if you use a mixer you use the whole fruit, if you use a juice you only get the juice. Then you have to figure out what to do with the dry parts...

OK, just peel the oranges, wash the apples and wash the carrots. I also use a potato peeler to peel the carrots.

Then just throw everything into a juicer and your juice is done.

A few tips:

1. Make a lot of juice! The biggest problem for me is to clean up the mess after making juice. So if you do it, do it proper. Make a gallon. The clean up is the same.
2. How much apples, how much oranges, how much carrots? I use something like 40% oranges, 35% apples, 25% carrots. 
3. Add some lemon juice at the end to prevent oxidation.

That's is, healthy and delicious orange apple carrot juice is done.

But there is no need to stop here. Once you have a juicer you can make all sorts of juices. You can either choose them by taste or by the benefits of drinking them. Here are a few pages the will tell you a few things about the benefits of drinking different juices... health benefits of aloe vera juice, another page with health benefits of aloe vera juice, then there is apple juice that also does many many good things to your body. Remember an apple a day keeps the doctor away? So these are the health benefits of apple juice. 

Oh..one more thing, it is not just fruits that you can use when making juices. You can also use vegetables! We already  used carrots in this recipes but there are many other fruits that you can use. So far I have tried broccoli, cucumbers, carrots, rhubarb. The next on the list are tomatoes. There are also quite a few health benefits of drinking tomato juice.

Uf...this juice post turned out to be much longer then intended :)

Anyway - make fruit and vegetable juices at home and take care!

Banana Walnut Muffins

Yesterday my gf made some delicious banana walnut muffins. I didn't find time to snap a few pictures because she was finished soooo fast :). There really are easy to make, I have to convince her to post her recipe here. After that we made some absolutely excellent natural fruit juice from apples, carrots and oranges. You can like feel the nature flowing through your body and all the vitamins and antioxidants... :) Cool stuff. Maybe this deserves another post, a recipe for this juice?