Mmm tasty, but be careful – they really do expand a lot!

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this is making me hungry

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10425/fruit-and-nut-granola

It uses no oil so it’s not greasy, but don’t try and be healthy by using low fat soft cheese for the icing else it won’t set!

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again. Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous). And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

• 425g of Ready Rolled Puff Pastry [link]
• 250g Spinach (frozen or fresh)
• 4 flat mushrooms
• 2 eggs
• garlic
• a knob of butter
• a pack of Feta cheese
• a 10 inch square dish – or a dish to make the pie in, about 3 inches deep

What to do:

1. Cook or defrost the spinach
2. Chop the mushrooms into chunks, crush the garlic and cook them in in a frying pan using the knob of butter
3. Roll out your ready rolled puff pastry so that it fills your dish and have some spare for the top
4. Chop the Feta into cubes and lay it out in the bottom of the dish, cover it with the spinach and mushrooms
5. Beat the two eggs together and pour over the top
6. Wang on the extra bit of pastry for the top
7. Chuck it in the oven (200 degrees centigrade) for about 25 minutes – eat with mash potato!

To help you out I thought I’d start posting some recipes that are both warming and pretty environmentally friendly too!! So here goes!!

Leek and Potato bake

What you need:

• A kind of casserole pot with a lid (if you don’t have one then go get one from Robert Dyas or [Woolies] it’s only £6 ish..)
• Half a pint of double cream
• A knob of butter
• Enough potatoes that they fill the dish (before you’ve done anything to them)
• A good sized Leek (currently in season!)
• Some sausages to eat with it (peppery ones are good!)

What to do:

• Peel and slice the potatoes, put half of them on a plate and whack it in the microwave for about 7 minutes so they get a head start on the old cooking thing
• Once they’re done cover the bottom of the casserole dish with most of them (watch out they’re funking hot and so’s the plate).
• Now for the leek, chop then ends off, then slice it down the middle long ways and give it a good wash, then put half of it on top of the potatoes in the pot and cover with what was left of the potatoes on the plate
• Whack the rest of the potatoes on the plate and into the micro for another 7 minutes. Put some pepper on the stuff in the dish while you’re waiting (aka season to taste)
• Once the final lot of potatoes are done make a decent layer with some of them, make another layer of leek, and then put the rest of the potatoes on top
• Finally whack some more pepper one, pour the cream all over it and put the knob of butter on the top!
• Stick it in the oven for about 40mins – 1 hour and take the lid off for the last ten minutes. Also don’t forget to cook the sausages for an appropriate time

And that’s it. Enjoy the taste of soft potato and buttery leek :)

note: you can do this if you have a dish without a lid, but it doesn’t turn out too great so try and improvise something.

You can also check out some more of my recipes in the [recipes section of the wiki]