Frozen cookies

basic recipe
500g margarine
1 tin condensed milk
1 cup sugar
5 cups self-raising flour

optional flavourings
choc chips
mini m&m's
100&1000's
milo and coconut
cherries
nuts

Cream sugar and margarine
Add milk
Add flour
Add choice of flavourings
roll into tsp sized balls and press down with a fork on greased baking sheet
OR
roll into a snake and wrap in cling wrap, freeze, when needed cut off slices and bake!
Bake at 180c for 10-15 min (until golden)

Baked cheesecake (Large!)

This is the cake I make for very special occasions - bit of a hassle but SOOO worth it!

Base
8 digestive biscuits, crushed (marie biscuits are the Aussie sub)
2 TB butter, melted
2 TB sugar

Mix and press into bottom of springform pan

Filling
600g soft cream cheese
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
Vanilla

Beat cream cheese, beat in sugar
Beat in eggs, one at a time
Add vanilla
Pour onto base and bake at 175 for 25 min

Topping
600 ml sour cream
3 TB sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Combine and spread onto baked cheesecake
Bake on 260C for further 5 min

Cool for 24 hours

Baked apples

1 large green apple per person

sultanas or mixed fruit
mixed spice
brown sugar
OR
chopped dried apricots
golden syrup
cinnamon
OR
dried cranberries
caster sugar

Wash apples
Remove cores
Score line around apple halfway down 1cm deep
Mix ingredients and stuff each apple as full as you can.
Bake @ 180C for 35-45 min

Slow cooker rice pudding

3/4 cup pudding rice
3 cups milk (replace 1/2 cup with cream)
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp cinamnon
pinch salt
TB golden syrup /TB treacle/ handful of raisins (optional)
2 TB diced/melted butter (optional)

Rinse rice in cold water
Put in lightly greased slow cooker
Add remaining ingredients except for butter
Stir to combine
Sprinkle butter over

Cover and cook on HIGH for 2 1/2 - 3 hours (until rice has absorbed liquid)
Turn off when still a little 'runny'

Curried egg patties

4 hard-boiled eggs, chopped small
50g butter
40g plain flour
1 tsp curry powder
1 tsp salt
150ml semi-skim milk
1 beaten egg
1 tsp tomato puree
1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp lemon juice

Coating
Seasoned plain flour
1 large beaten egg
Dried breadcrumbs

Melt butter
Stir in flour curry powder and salt
Cook 2 min
Gradually stir in milk, to make thick sauce
Cook 5 min, stirring all the time
Take off heat and add beten egg, tomato puree, W- sauce and lemon juice
Stir in hard-boiled eggs
Season with salt
Chill until mixture becomes firm
Form into 4 rounds
Dip in flour, then egg, then breadcrumbs

Shallow fry in 5mm hot oil until golden brown
Drain on kitchen paper

Slow cooked chicken and rice casserole

I think I cooked mine too long and the rice turned a bit mushy, I'll try it again one day!

1 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 1/2 cups milk
3/4 cup flour
spray oil
1 1/2 cups brown rice
1 diced onion
225g sliced mushrooms
3-4 chicken breasts
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp paprika

Combine chicken broth with 1/2 cup of the milk in a saucepan, heat on med
Whisk remaining milk with flour, when broth boils gradually stir into broth
Cool
Spray crockpot
Add rice, onion, mushroom and seasonings to crockpot
Mix in broth, lay chicken on top

Cook on LOW for 8 hours or HIGH for 4 hours

Slow cooker falafels

Can of chickpeas
1/2 chopped onion
1 TB parsley
2 cloves garlic (crushed)
1 egg
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 tsp cumin
1 tsp coriander
1/4-1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
juice from 1 lemon
1/2 - 3/4 cup breadcrumbs
2 TB olive oil

Mash chickpeas with a fork
Blend onion, herbs and spices, egg and lemon juice
Mix in chickpeas
Add breadcrumbs, mix with a fork
It should still be wet and sticky but forms into balls easily
Pour oil in slow cooker bowl
Form mixture into golf ball size, dip both sides in oil

Cook on HIGH for 2-5 hours