Giveaway for Scullery kitchen utensils! Ski Yoghurt supports breast cancer awareness month and recipe for berry yoghurt panna cotta (CLOSED)

October 3 2013
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Sarah from Keep Left recently contacted me to ask if I might be interested in supporting Ski Yoghurt for Breast Cancer Awareness month this October.  Ski Yoghurt has pledged to donate $350,000 to fund a McGrath Breast Care Nurse and have turned a selection of their 1kg tubs of yoghurt the colour pink for a limited time in support of this worthy initiative.  These tubs are available in supermarkets Australia wide until stocks last, so keep an eye out for them next time you’re doing your shopping.

Giveaway:

Ski are also offering a giveaway of sweet pink Scullery kitchen utensils worth $47.73 to a lucky reader of this post (entry details further down).


These cute silicone kitchen utensils (they can be seen here in more detail) include a whisk, brush, spoon, spatula spoon, slotted turner, tongs and mini grater in pink, worth $47.73.  They’d make a nice gift for Christmas!  Some information about them:

  • Heat resistant up to 315C/600F
  • Ergonomic handles
  • Designed to be used on non-stick surfaces
  • Dishwasher safe for easy cleaning
  • Made from food grade silicone
  • Easy to clean

Giveaway entry details:

  • The giveaway is open to Australian residents only and you will need a postal address.
  • To enter, you need to leave a comment to this post or email me via the contact page and tell me your favourite recipe or dish using yoghurt.  Remember to leave a working email address so I can contact the winner.
  • The winner will be chosen at random by random.org and I’ll be emailing the lucky person to inform them.  I will also ask for their full name and postal address to forward to Sarah from Keep Left so they can send the kitchen utensils.
  • All personal information will be kept strictly confidential and will at no time be disclosed to any other party.
  • This giveaway is associated with Ski Yoghurt who are offering the kitchenware at their cost.  Neither the giveaway nor the cost of postage is transferable.
  • The giveaway will be open from today and will close at midnight on Sunday 13th October, 2013 (Eastern Standard Time, Queensland, Australia); entry to be received by that date.

 

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Ski Yoghurt have some heavenly new flavours available such as raspberry and white chocolate, caramelised pear and apple cinnamon.  They offer low fat, fat-free and low sugar, probiotic and double-up (yoghurt with mix-ins such as fruit and muesli) alternatives.  The pack sizes range from 1kg tubs to 125g snack packs, depending on your needs, whether eating from the tub with fresh fruit as I did, buying for your family, taking it to work for a healthy treat or whipping up healthy desserts.

Ski’s yoghurt is really good – healthy, not too sweet and luscious – I tried the toffee apple flavour with fresh raspberries for breakfast one day and although health conscious it was so decadent (dessert for breakfast, yay!).  The thick and creamy smashed berry yoghurt was also the perfect ingredient for the panna cotta.

Recipe:

Ski has also created some gorgeous pink recipes in support of this month and I decided to make one of them; the lovely, creamy and delicate berry yoghurt panna cotta.  This dessert is particularly easy but looks so pretty and is so light and airy, it would be perfect for a morning tea with your girlfriends.

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Thank you to Sarah and Ski Yoghurt for including me in this promotion for Breast Cancer month, October.  Ski Yoghurt sent me a voucher for the ingredients for the panna cotta and provided the kitchenware for the giveaway.  Any opinions given are mine and I wasn’t under any obligation to write a positive review.

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Kung Pao Chicken

September 22 2013
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Although I make ye olde basic curries quite regularly (chicken stock, coconut cream, chilli paste), I don’t do fancy Asian cooking very often because although I love it (Thai, Indian, Chinese and Japanese cuisine are among my favourite foods), I can’t do this type of cuisine justice in the same way they’re traditionally cooked by those folks who really know what they’re doing.  For example, my favourite Thai restaurant in Brisbane makes such lovely curries and stir-fries (how do they get the vegies so deliciously crisp?  The spices so perfectly in harmony? Mine are never like that).

I’m always a bit embarrassed by my attempts and end up apologising to whoever I’ve made it for.

Still, every now and again I feel like dragging out the wok and whipping up a stir fry or whatnot and I really wanted to cook this classic Chinese dish, firstly because of the cool name but secondly because it’s just so pepper-hot and packs such a punch, I couldn’t resist giving it a go.  Sadly I couldn’t find any Szechuan peppercorns but if you manage to find some yourselves, I reckon they’d be well worth it; from what I can gather, Asian grocery stores and delis are the places to find them.  I ended up buying those coloured peppercorns and toasting them like my dad used to.

I was so happy with this!  It’s very easy and I felt vindicated from my previous attempts; a bowl of this awesomely spicy, peppery, subtly sweet stir-fry, some fluffy rice plus an icy cold beer was awesome.  Some days you just need a curry.

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Lemon berry scones

September 8 2013
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A while back I made scones using cream which worked out really well and yesterday, a breezy, sunny Saturday morning which was marred only slightly by having to vote in our federal election, I thought I’d use some leftover Greek yoghurt to make some scones.  Happily it had the same effect as the cream did; soft and tender on the inside with crunchy tops and I added mixed berries and lemon drizzle for a spring flavour.

I used to be terrible at making scones, they’d turn out like hard little lumpy things!  I’ve worked out quite recently though, that the trick is not to handle the dough for very long, to add raising agents to the flour and use a rich liquid like cream, yoghurt or buttermilk.

 

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Sharehouse posters from my youth

August 30 2013
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I’m starting to feel a bit gloomy about the recent trend of bagging the 90s (hey, it was the last iconic era and it ruled ok?!  Get back to me in 10-20 years’ time and tell me if any of us even vaguely remember any music or movies from the last decade), anyway … posters from your sharehouse past is quite funny and spot-on.  Not the least because either my friends or I owned quite a few of these posters, or at least similar ones, in various sharehouses I lived in throughout the 90s/early 2000s.

And yes they’re pictured below along with others I remembered, in the interests of full disclosure.

Proceed to mock me.

Have a great weekend!

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Spicy roasted chickpeas

August 25 2013
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roast chickpeas
I’ve wanted to make these for ages!  I love chickpeas and I also love snacky things like chips and nuts to have with cocktails and thought these would be a healthier option.  These little morsels were nutty, spicy and crispy not too long out of the oven and I really enjoyed them.

So give them a go!  They’re not at all difficult to make and well worth it for a delicious, guilt free snack.

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Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate fudge icing

August 4 2013
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It seemed like a chocolate day so I made some chocolate cupcakes for absolutely no reason at all.  Is there anything better than biting into a soft, squidgy cupcake and getting icing all over your face?  I don’t think so!  The batter in this recipe is very thick but it somehow results in a soft crumbed, tender, chocolaty cake and topped with the fudgy icing, these were lovely with a cup of coffee.

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Spicy sweet potato black bean burgers with chilli lime coleslaw

July 28 2013
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I see a lot of recipes for sweet potato vegie burgers around so thought I’d give them a go.

I roasted/sautéed the sweet potato and onion first as it gives a lovely caramelised flavour however apart from that, these are so easy to put together, they’re well worth it.

I loved the sweet and spicy taste and so hearty and satisfying, you’ll never miss having a meat patty; packed full of vegies, beans and flavour, they’re super healthy also.  The crisp, zesty and creamy coleslaw was a great accompaniment and, as I’ve been discovering, you don’t need store-bought mayonnaise when you have some decent Greek style yoghurt on hand and few other easy ingredients.  This mayo is subtly sweet and has a lovely fresh and spicy flavour throughout.

In fact, you could add a bit of crushed garlic to the mayonnaise and voila!  You have aioli dipping sauce or .. use the lime and chilli mayonnaise dressed coleslaw as a side for barbecues or chicken.

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