Chicken in Basket

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Chicken in a Basket

Ingredients

  • 2 kg chicken pieces thawed.
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/4 cup cream
  • 1 tbl Dijon mustard
  • 1 Tsp white pepper
  • 3 tsp salt
  • 3 cloves garlic finely minced
  • 2 cups fine dry bread crumbs

Instructions

  • In a large bowl mix together the eggs, cream, mustard, salt, pepper and garlic.
  • Put the chicken pieces in the mixture and coat well.
  • Put the bread crumbs in a supermarket bag
  • Add the chicken pieces, well coated in flavoured egg mixture, 2 at a time to the supermarket bag and toss until the chicken is well coated with crumb.
  • Place on a well oiled oven tray into a 190 C oven for 45 mins. Turn once.

Coleslaw

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Coleslaw

Ingredients

  • 1/2 a cabbage
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 apple
  • 1 red pepper
  • 1/2 tub sourcream
  • 2 Tbls oil
  • 3 Tbls brown sugar
  • 3 Tbls cider vinegar
  • 1 Tbls mustard powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp Salt and pepper to taste. approx 1 1/2salt

Instructions

  • In a BIG bowl, mix together the sour cream, oil, sugar, mustard powder and cider vinegar .
  • . Chop the onion very finely and add to this mixture.
  • Add salt and pepper to this mixture and set aside.
  • Slice the cabbage as thinly as you possibly can
  • Peel and grate the carrot,
  • grate the apple and slice the pepper thinly
  • Throw all vegetable matter into the bowl
  • Toss with the dressing.
  • Cover and let stand for at least an hour.
  • Toss again and serve

After Dinner Delight

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After Dinner Delight

Ingredients

Base

  • 1 1/2 Cups Roasted hazelnuts
  • 3 Cups Sifted flour
  • 2 tbsp Cocoa
  • 1 Cup Mainland Butter melted
  • 2 tbsp. Brown Sugar
  • 1 Cups Icing sugar
  • 8 Egg Yolks

Peppermint White chocolate ganache

  • 1 cup Cream
  • 440 g White Chocolate chopped finely
  • 1 tbsp. Peppermint Essence
  • Green food colouring
  • 1 Tbsp. Mainland Butter

Ganache

  • 1 Cup Cream
  • 220 g Dark Chocolate chopped finely
  • 3 Tbsp. Mainland Butter

Instructions

Base

  • Put the roasted hazelnuts in a food processor and blitz until fine crumbs
  • sift in the flour and cocoa.
  • In a separate bowl, mix the egg yolks and sugars.
  • Slowly fold into the dry mix in.
  • Add the melted butter
  • press into a tart tin with a removable base.
  • Fan-bake at 200C for 20minutes.
  • Base should be soft but cooked.

Mint Ganache

  • ! bring 1 cup of cream to the boil then pour over the white chocolate in a bowl. Slowly stir until chocolate is melted, add 1 tbsp. of butter and the mint essence, add a few drops of food colouring to desired green colour pour into the cooled tart base, refrigerate for an hour. !Ganache Bring the last cup of cream to the boil, pour over the dark chocolate stirring until melted. Add 3 tbsp. of butter and melt together. Pour over top of the set white choc ganache, chill for another hour or until set. Slice just before serving. 

Caramelised Chicken cutlets

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Caramelised Chicken cutlets

Course Main
Servings 4
Author Mike

Ingredients

  • 2 tsps Vegetable oil
  • 4 Chicken thigh cutlets
  • 1 medium Red Onion
  • 3 cloves Garlic
  • 55 g Brown Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Dark Soy Sauce
  • 1 tbsp Fish Sauce
  • 0.30 cup Chopped Coriander

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 200° C
  • Heat oil in a large frying pan, cook chicken, both sides until btowned.
  • Place chicken, in single layer, in baking dish.
  • Roast chicken, uncovered, in oven, about 25 minutes or until cooked through.
  • Meanwhile, heat same frying pan, cook onion and garlic, stirring, until onion softens.
  • Add sugar and sauces, cook, stirring, 3 minutes.
  • Return chicken to pan with coriander; then turn chicken to coat in mixture.

 

Nearly time to travel again.

It’s 5 days until we leave on our first international flight for 3 years.

With Covid still around we won’t be certain if we can travel until Saturday, our departure day.

The USA still requires a negative pre departure test. To make things worse Jo fell ill last week. She never gets unwell.

So the last week has been spent taking RAT tests and checking, hoping they are negative.

Are the results correct, there are reports that they are only 50% accurate. Can 4 tests all be wrong?

Well there are lots of little jobs to get done before we leave. Like eat all the perishable food before we finally go.

Check back later to see if we do get away.

Hauraki Rail Trail

This is going to be our second trial run, before our European tour.

The ride is again, not so much about the distance covered, but about the logistics of vlogging it.

This time we remembered to bring the drone with an sd card installed.

There is now getting to be quite a network of trails on the Hauraki Rail Trail. It originally started in Thames and went to Waihi.

Now there is a branch off at Kopu that goes around the coast to Kaiaua, and another that branches off at Paeroa and goes the Matamata via Te Aroha.

Today isn’t the day for us to cover the full trail, we just covered a small section from Paeroa to Waikino.

On our ride, we rode through a 1.1km tunnel and past some old gold mine batteries.

So why don’t you pop over to our video on YouTube to see how our trip went?

Below is a map of our route.

Waikato River Ride

Today we went for a test ride alongside the Waikato River.

This was not only to test our ability to ride, but also test out how we would vlog along the way.

Most of the time it went well, the only exception was when I got too far ahead when Jo wanted to film us together. I ended up having to turn back when I realised she wasn’t close behind me.

The route is split into 2 maps as I test tracking on both my Garmin Edge & my Garmin watch.

To see what happened pop over to our youtube video.

In the meantime here is a link to our route map.