Hello again everyone! Today’s Website of the Day brings you a blog all about cheap, easy recipes to produce a variety of great tasting foods. From European to Indian to Asian, no cooking niche goes unfilled as this regularly updated blog pumps out new recipes on a near daily basis. The site features a comprehensible ingredients list, as well as pictures that help you to make sure you are doing it right. I think it is very important to learn how to cook as soon as possible, because, lets face it, sandwiches and instant noodles tend to get a bit stale after a while. Well actually instant noodles are essentially always stale, so I’m told that they can survive a nuclear apocalypse. Below is an example of a recent recipe featured on the website:
Oat and Raisin Cookies
I’m always trying to think of new things to bake, creations that are easy to take to the library on a daily basis. We also took a day off work today, despite the looming dissertation, and thought we’d bake cookies. Now, chocolate chip cookies are all well and good, but they don’t really have a nice spiciness about them. The cinnamon in this recipe really gives these cookies a good lift, also because they are full of oats they have some health benefits and are really filling. Perfect.
Also, take time to notice my improved photos. All the feedback I’ve had about this blog is that it’s well written, but the photos are pants. So I stole my girlfriend’s camera, remember it is only ok to steal from your girlfriend, and low and behold… good photos. I think…
These cookies will take around half an hour to bake and make roughly 8-10, depending on their size. We made fairly large ones so there weren’t too many. Note that when the photos were taken we were making a double batch.
Ingredients:
- 150g self-raising flour
- 80g oats
- 55g dark muscovado sugar
- 55g caster sugar
- 50g raisins
- 1 medium egg
- 85g stork or unsalted butter
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Method:
Cream together the sugar and butter, when pale brown crack in the egg and mix thoroughly. Fold in the flour, remembering to sieve it in, until you have a consistent batter. Pre-heat the oven to 180C.
To this add the oats and raisins, again fold in. Mix this until the oats and raisins look fairly spread out, although your arm shouldn’t reach irreparability.
Shape the mixture into circles on foil or in a buttered oven dish and bake for 10-15 minutes, or until they are just turning golden-brown. Leave to rest for at least 10 minutes before removing from the tray or they won’t have settled or be nearly as nice!
Cost:
One batch of these gorgeous cookies will set you back no more than 80p to make, not too bad really! Nice and frugal.
The website creator is working on getting a new camera and converting some of the units in the future. Until then however, enjoy yummy food!
Cheers!
