Easy Fruit Cake ~just four ingredients

I shared this recipe over five years ago on my other blog. 

 I remembered about this fruit cake after reading Annabel's posts on Christmas gifts this week. This really is a great recipe,  so simple with not many ingredients.

FRUIT CAKE

750gms mixed fruit

2 cups of orange juice

Mix together and leave overnight.

Add 2 cups SR flour and 1 tspn mixed spice.

Mix well and bake for 1-1.5 hours in a moderate oven.

Enjoy!

* Edited to add: This cake can be made using different juices, chocolate milk, cold tea, cold milk coffee.  Go here for the recipe. 

On the Menu this Week

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Monday: Chicken curry using leftover chicken

Tuesday: Schnitzels, vegetables and gravy

Wednesday: Chow mein and vegetables

Thursday: Chicken Pasta slice and salad

Friday: Calamari, chips and salad

Saturday: Hamburgers and chips

Sunday: Roast Chicken and vegetables

Desserts:  Chocolate Pudding, banana caramel pie

Baking: Chocolate cake, Hooty creek biscuits

CEREAL CRUMB SLICE ~ Cheapskates Recipe

This recipe is fantastic for using up leftover crumbs from the bottom of your cereal  box.  Normally I would put them in the chook bucket, but then I discovered this recipe from one of the members over at the Cheapskates site. 

I needed to make something quick for hubby to take to work today, so this slice is great when time is short...

Yum, yum!!

Cereal Crumb Slice

Ingredients:

2 cups of dried cereal crumbs ( I save them from the bottom of the Weetbix, Weetbix Crunch, Mini Wheats etc and put them in a zip lock bag until I have 2 cups) 

1 cup of any flour(self raising, plain or wholemeal) 

1/2 cup coconut 

2/3 cup of any sugar (brown or white) 

1 cup of any choc bits (Homebrand is good) 

1/2 cup of any dried fruit 

4 oz melted butter or marg 

1 or 2 tablespoons of milk

 Method: 

Melt butter in microwave or on stove. Add all other ingredients and enough milk to get a slightly moist consistency. Press into lined slice tin and bake in moderate oven for about 30 minutes. Make up a simple icing (about 1 cup) such as lemon or chocolate and smooth over slice while still warm. Sprinkle with coconut to decorate.   

Enjoy!

Back in time for dinner - 1950's

Thank you to my lovely friend Sue who shared this You Tube link on Facebook.

"One British family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover how a post-war revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live." BBC Two

   

There are more in the series if you are interested J
I love You Tube!

Enjoy!

Easy Peasy Pineapple Chicken

PINEAPPLE CHICKEN

8 Chicken drumsticks

3 tablespoons seasoned flour

3 tablespoons oil

450g crushed pineapple

435g cream of chicken soup

Place drumsticks and seasoned flour in a plastic bag and shake to lightly and evenly coat the chicken.  Discard excess flour.  Heat the oil in a pan and brown the chicken.  Add pineapple and chicken soup, cover and simmer for about 20 minutes until chicken is tender.

Serve over rice 

Serves 4-6

*I used diced chicken breast for this recipe and prepared it as described in this post. I tossed in cornflour, dipped in beaten eggs and fried in oil. I drained the oil then added pineapple and chicken soup.

Enjoy!

On the Menu this Week

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Monday: Braised Steak and onion with vegetables

Tuesday: Chicken and pasta slice

Wednesday: Beef stir fry

Thursday: Hamburgers and chips

Friday: Pineapple chicken and rice

Saturday: Whiting, chips and salad

Sunday: Shepherds pie and vegetables

Desserts:  Golden syrup pudding

Baking: Banana cake and Leftover cereal slice.

I didn't stick to last week's menu plan because we were away Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. This is what my life is like, it seems I can never plan anything lol....I should be home all this week though, which is good because I need to get cracking with my spring cleaning and gardening.

Something different for menu planning

One of my friends posted this on facebook recently.

Seven tubs for seven meals.  

Place ingredients for each day in the tubs. 

Wonder if this would work?  

What do you think?