Mum's recipes

My mum is an amazing cook. She can cook ANYTHING and cook it well. Over the years she has accumulated an impressive array of recipes from innumerable sources. OLD recipes from elderly relatives, books, magazines, friends, my food technology classes at school, tv shows and more recently, websites. Mum has modified old recipes for a modern twist, combined different recipes into one “Super recipe” and flat-out invented new recipes. My goal is to immortalise these amazing recipes as best I can using this blog. I not only want to make sure these tasty morsels don’t get lost to the ages, but also to share the wonderful flavours with all of you. This weekend, I sat down and raided my mum’s recipe book and came up with approximately 40 different recipes ranging from starters to mains, side dishes and sauces to biscuit and desserts. Some are simple, some are complicated. Some are budget friendly (German potato pancakes), some are not (Carpet bag steak). Over the next weeks and months (hopefully not stretching into years!!!), in addition to my normal blogging, I plan to make ALL these recipes (and more), photograph them, then blog about them. I endeavour to include not only the ingredients and method, but also a brief history about how this recipe came to be.

Recipes to look forward to:

Sweet	Savoury
Pavlova (Both crisp and marshmallow centre)	German Potato Pancakes
Pecan Pie	Sweet and sour sauce
Sponge Cake	Canneloni
Cinnamon Tea cake	Pasta Cabonara
Rock cakes	Steak with whisky sauce
Angel cakes	Lasagne
Honey Joys	Carpetbag steak
Cornflake biscuits	Meatballs in tomato sauce
Honey jumbles	Herbed Chicken Marylands
Jam drops	Prawn toast
Mrs Thomas biscuits	Sweet Chilli chicken
Creamy Caramel Sauce	Satay Chicken
Strawberry Yogurt cake	Béchamel Sauce
Lemon Meringue Pie
Raspberry coconut slice
Chocolate rough slice
Maple Fritters
Chocolate caramel slice
Spiced peach pudding
Caramel marshmallow slice
Skywalker scrunchies
Anzac biscuits
Coconut crisp biscuits
Date loaf
Christmas Cake
Traditional Christmas puddings
Carrot cake
Blueberry muffins
Lattice slice
Chocolate mousse