Easy homemade Ice Cream

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Ingredients

2 cups Strawberry yoghurt
1tin Condensed milk
250ml Cream

Method:

1. Whip the cream until thick
2. Beat the yoghurt and condensed milk together.
3. Fold the cream in thoroughly
4. Freeze
5. Enjoy

Carrot Cake

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Ingredients:

500ml Cake Flour
500ml Grated Carrots
1 tin (385g) drained crushed pineapples
10ml Baking powder
10ml Cinnamon
4 Eggs
310ml Oil
100g Chopped Pecan nuts
pinch of Salt

Method:

1. Preheat oven at 190C
2. Mix all ingredients together in a mixing bowl
3. Pour into a Large greased baking tin.
4. Bake for 50-60 minutes.
5. Take out and let cool

Topping:

125g Cream Cheese
180ml Margarine
480ml icing sugar
5ml Vanilla Essence

Method:

1. Mix all ingredients well together in mixing bowl.
2. Pour over cold cake and decorate.

Pineapple tart with condensed milk

1 tin (397g) condensed milk
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 1/2 cup crushed pineapples (drained)
1 pkt tennis biscuits
125ml cream
25ml caster sugar
1tsp vanilla essence

Method:

1. Beat lemon juice and condensed milk till thick.
2. Add pineapples and mix in.
3. Place a layer of biscuites in a tart dish.
4. Pour micture over biscuits
5. Beat cream, sugar and vanilla till stiff.
6. Spread over mixture and place in fridge to set.
7. Serve chilled.

Grenadilla Pudding

Ingredients:

1 410gm tin Ideal Milk chilled
15ml gelatine
250ml grenadilla pulp
3 bananas
12.5ml lemon juice
190ml sugar
125ml water
1397g tin Condensed milk caramelised

Method:

1. Soak gelatine in cold water
2. Mix sugar and grenadilla pulp together and add dissolved gelatine
3. Beat Ideal milk until stiff, fold in the grenadilla mixture.
4. Cut bananas in slices, sprinkle with lemon juice.
5. Add bananas and condensmilk to mixture.
6. Place mixture into serving dish and chill
7. Serve chilled.

Avocado Dip

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Ingredients:

2 ripe mashed avocado pears
2tsp lemon juice
1 cup mayonaise
1 grated onion
salt,pepper and red pepper

Method:

1. Mix all ingredients together.
2. Serve with chips or with a fondue

Vitamin H (Biotin)

Vitamin H is essential for the release of food energy. It reduces symptoms of zinc deficiency. It functions in protein metabolism. Helps in the formation of fatty acids and it could relieve muscle pain and depression. Vitamin H, is considered part of the B complex group of vitamins.

Vitamin H (Biotin) is found in the following foods: egg yolks (cooked), meat like liver and calfs liver, chicken,fish such as Salmon, mackerel, tuna,Clams, veggies like beans,Green peas,Lentils, Mushrooms,Soybeans,split peas, whole grains such as brown rice, Oat bran, oatmeal,Bulgur wheat, nuts like Almonds,Walnuts,Cashew nuts,Peanuts, dairy products like butter, cheese,milk,and chocolate, bananas and peanut butter.

It is best to consume foods that have not been processed. Food processing can destroy Vitamin H.

Pineapple marshmallow mousse

Ingredients:

20 marshmellow
1 cup milk
1 cup cream
250g crushed pineapples

Method:

1. Heat milk
2. Cut up the marshmallows into pieces.
3. Pour hot milk over marshmallows and stir until dissolved.
4. Let it cool.
5. Whip the cream till stiff
6. Fold crushed pineapples and marshmallows when cool into cream.
7. Serve Cold

Fruit Cocktail Pudding.

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Ingredients:

2 cups selfraising flour
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tin fruit cocktail
1 cup sugar
2 eggs

Method:

1. Preheat oven at 180C
2. Mix all ingredients well.
3. Pour mixture in a greased square baking tin.
4. Bake for 30 minutes or until done.

Sauce:

1 cup sugar
50ml margarine
1 1/2 cups Ideal milk
1 cup coconut
1tsp vanilla

Method:

1. Boil together for 5 minutes
2. Once the pudding is removed from oven pour over pudding.
3. Serve with cream of ice cream.

How to separate eggs.

Use a funnel instead of a egg separater its cheaper and does the same thing. All you have to do is crack the egg into the funnel, the white will slide out into a bowl while the yolk stays behind. You must be careful not to break the yolk when cracking the eggs.

Health Benefits of Pumpkins

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The bright orange color of pumpkin indicates that it's an excellent source of that important antioxidant beta-carotene. Research shows that people who includes rich in beta-carotene in there diet are less likely to develop certain cancers than those who fail to include beta-carotene-rich foods in their diet. Pumpkin also has another carotenoid, beta-cryptoxanthin, which may decrease the risk of lung cancer in smokers. Pumpkin is also high in calscium, potassium Vitamin A and C, dietary fibre,carbohydrate.