Lolly Cake

Diane's secret recipe, kindly provided for all the world by yours truly :-)

Ingredients 100g of melted butter 1 pack of crushed malt biscuits 1/2 a tin of condensed milk 1 pack of fruit puffs or eskimos - cut up into bits coconut flakes or whatever they're called Method

Mix it all together, then roll it in the coconut and put it in the fridge till it sets. It's so easy a monkey could do it!

Fried Rice

Quick, easy and rather cheap, plus it uses up left over rice ingredients Cold rice (leave uncovered in fridge overnight) Misc vegies (carrots, yams, onions, whatever) Precooked meat of some description methodFry onions in a bit of oil in a frying pan. Add yams (or whatever) and cook. Then chuck in meat and fry some more. Finally add in cold rice and fry the whole thing, stirring continuously. Mix in a few drops of Worcester sauce. Serve after a few minutes (when the rice starts looking edible) with some spicy sauce. Enjoy. variations Use froxen mixed vegies (its one way to get rid of them)

Chocolate Mud Cake

Escape from boring food! This is absolutely amazingly chocolatey and guaranteed to immobilise anyone. ingredients Flour (1 cup) Baking powder (2 tsp) Salt (1 tsp - optional) Sugar (2/3 cups) Cocoa powder (6 tablespoons) Milk (1/2 cup) Melted butter (2 tbsp) Vanilla (1 tsp - optional) Chopped nuts (1/2 cup - optional) Brown sugar (1 cup) Boiling water (1 1/2 cups) methodMix flour, baking powder, salt, (white) sugar & 2 tablespoons of cocoa. Add milk, melted butter & vanilla & mix till smooth and yummy looking. Stir in nuts (if wanted). Put into a largish dish, leaving a bit of extra space. Then mix rest of cocoa, (brown) sugar & boiling water. Pour over the top of the pudding and bake for 40 mins at 350°F. Leave to stand for 10 mins before serving with lots of ice cream! Stolen from Mum's cook book. variations Use white sugar instead of the brown. Skip the vanilla, chopped nuts and sal...

Chicken Burritos

The tastiest and yummiest and most non-boring thing I can cook.

Ingredients Burritos (6 pack) ($4) 2 tins of baked beans ($2) 2 chicken breasts ($5) Cajun spice (1 jar lasts for a good 6 months) Method

Remove skin from the chicken, dice into small chunks and chuck in the hot frying pan (with a dash of oil in the bottom). After a few minutes drown them in the Cajun spice and keep the chicken moving round. Once most traces of salmonella have gone open up your beans, drain some of the sauce if possible and pour in. Mash them up a bit to get a slightly, erm, soupier mixture that looks less like beans and chicken :-) Once almost done microwave / heat in oven the burritos. Then it's time to make the buggers...

Place one burrito on the cutting board. Spoon some of the mixture from top-center to middle-center. Fold the bottom edge over mixture. Fold left side over mixture. Fold right side over.

You should now have a ni...

Beef Stroganoff

Something which doesn't involve chicken, is very yummy and is even cheap to make!

Ingredients Beef rump steak ($4) Rice (1/2 cup per person) Onions & garlic Flour (couple of table spoon will do) Sour cream Cup of Instant microwave soup Method

Cut beef into cm wide strips. Put some oil in the frying pan and start frying. Add chopped onions and moosh-ed up garlic shortly after. Soon after start cooking the rice (don't wait till the end like me!) When the meat starts looking cooked pour in some of the instant soup and add flour to thicken. Basically make a nice yummy sauce to go with it. When everything is almost done, dollup in a couple of forks of sour cream and stir through. Drain & rinse rice, place artistically on plate with beef mixture on the top. Magic.

Variations Subs in whatever you want in place of the instant soup — white wine, mushrooms, beef sauce...

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