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Recipe of the Week: Cinnamon Doughnut Rings

Cinnamon doughnut rings

It’s National Doughnut Week, now you have the perfect excuse to make these delicious cinnamon treats.

Crisp on the outside and soft in the middle, serve these doughnuts warm as a treat or with ice cream for a dessert.

Cinnamon Doughnut Rings

  • Servings: 8-10
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 200 per portion
Fat 7g (1g sat) per portion
Suitable for vegetarians

Ingredients

  • Vegetable oil for the deep fat fryer
  • Self-raising flour 250g (9oz)
  • Baking powder 1 tsp
  • Caster sugar 75g (3oz)
  • Egg 1 medium
  • Vegetable oil 1 tbsp
  • Milk 90ml (3fl oz)

For the coating

  • Ground cinnamon 1 tsp
  • Caster sugar 50g (2oz)

Instructions

  1. Heat the oil in the deep fat fryer to 170°C.
  2. Meanwhile, sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl and stir in the sugar. Beat the egg and oil into the milk and add to the dry ingredients, beating with a spoon to bind them together. With floured hands, work the ingredients into a smooth ball and turn out onto a floured worksurface.
  3. Roll out the dough to a thickness of just over 1cm (½in). Flour 7cm (2½in) and 3cm (1½in) plain round cutters and use the larger cutter to cut out rounds of dough and then cut out the centres using the smaller cutter. Re-roll the trimmings and cut more rings as necessary. Mix the cinnamon into the sugar in a small bowl for coating the doughnuts.
  4. Cook the doughnut rings 2–3 at a time. Lower them carefully into the hot oil and cook for 3–4 minutes until golden on the bottom and then turn over and cook for a further 2–3 minutes, until they are an even golden colour and cooked through.
  5. Lift onto kitchen paper to drain briefly and while they are still hot dip them in the cinnamon sugar and turn them over so they are evenly coated, shaking off any excess. Place on a wire rack to cool.

Recipe taken from Good Food, Fast.

 

 

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Recipe of the Week: Hummous

Dairy Diary Hummous recipe

With reports in the press of hummous being removed from the supermarket shelves, play it safe and make your own delicious dip.

Yum!

Please let me know how you get on.

Hummous

Whether spelt houmous, hummus, or a different way, we all know it’s delicious! Make your own delicious Houmous at home – it’s easy! This is a Dairy Diary recipe. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

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#foodforfriends

#delicious

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Top 3 Dips to Share

Top 3 Dips to Share

I love a relaxed evening with friends – the impromptu sort when you decide you really need a catch-up, so you throw a few nibbles together and chill a bottle of fizz.

One of the best sharing foods is dip.

I like to serve with a range of crudité (how virtuous we feel eating carrot and cucumber sticks!), breadsticks and some warm pitta triangles.

crudité

Here are the top 3 Dairy Diary dips of all time…

Hummous

Whether spelt houmous, hummus, or a different way, we all know it’s delicious! Make your own delicious Houmous at home – it’s easy! This is a Dairy Diary recipe. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE

Stilton & Walnut Dip

A cheesy and delicious Stilton & Walnut Dip – perfect for sharing! This dip is quick and easy to make and is sure to impress. A Dairy Diary recipe. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE

Hot Artichoke & Chive Dip

This easy and appetising Hot Artichoke & Chive Dip is sure to impress any guest! You’ll make this Dairy Diary recipe again and again. For more delicious recipes, visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE

#foodforfriends

#delicious

5 Positive Things to Do

Positive Thinking

I’m not sure if positive thinking is a learned behaviour…

or if it’s within our genetic make-up, maybe a bit of both. I’m lucky (I think) to be a natural optimist, but my parents did teach me to notice and focus on the beauty around me – from a stunning rainbow to a simple pattern of raindrops on a window pane, and I think that this appreciation of small things makes me more prone to positivity.

It does us all good to step back once in a while and have a think. An article on positive thinking in this year’s Dairy Diary says this:

‘A step towards positive thinking is to take time to appreciate life in general, and your own life in particular. Remember to stop and smell the roses – that may be a well-worn notion but it works.

‘Some people call it living in the moment, becoming aware of everything around you – sights, smells, sounds, tastes, your feelings, yourself. Focus on things as they are at that moment, accept them without judgement, and you will start to see things you have taken for granted in a new light.’

 

Here are 5 things that we can all do this week to help us feel more positive.

  1. Pay someone a compliment; if you think notice someone wearing a pretty dress, doing a good job or being kind, tell them, even if it’s a stranger. It will make them feel good and you feel good too.
  2. Look for beauty in nature; from the dew on a flower to an early misty morning or even birdsong, there’s always something you can find, notice and appreciate.
  3. Find somewhere quiet and concentrate on your breathing for a few minutes. Breathe in slowly, hold for a count of six, breathe out slowly. Feel the sensation of breathing.
  4. Sometimes we so used to being surrounded by negativity that we hardly notice it. Take a few days break from TV; the news, documentaries or even soaps can make us feel very downcast. Listen to some music that you love instead.
  5. Do a little good turn. Something simple like baking a cake for a friend or a neighbour. Why not try the Dairy Diary recipe below. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it.

Try this irresistible Raspberry & Macadamia Cake recipe from The Dairy Book of Home Cookery.

#positivethinking

#baking

#cake

Recipe of the Week: St George’s Steak & Ale Pies

 

Recipe of the Week: St George’s Steak & Ale Pies

Celebrate St George’s Day with one of these scrumptious little pies.

 

St George’s Steak & Ale Pies

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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Calories 961 per portion
Fat 61g (25.3g sat) per portion
Suitable for freezing

Ingredients

  • Olive oil 3 tbsp
  • Onion 1, peeled and chopped
  • Rindless unsmoked back bacon 4 rashers, chopped
  • Carrots 2, peeled and sliced
  • Braising steak 700g (1½lb)
  • Flour 2 tbsp
  • Pale ale 1 x 500ml bottle
  • Beef stock 300ml (½ pint)
  • Dried mixed herbs ½ tsp
  • Puff pastry 500g
  • Egg 1, beaten

Instructions

  1. 1 Heat half the oil in a large pan and cook onion for 5 minutes. Add bacon and cook for 3 minutes. Add carrots and cook for 3 minutes. Set aside.
  2. Toss beef in flour and brown in remaining oil. Return onion mix to pan and mix well, then pour in ale and stock. Add herbs and bring up to boil, stirring. Partially cover and cook gently for 2 hours or until beef is tender, stirring occasionally.
  3. Divide meat between four individual pie dishes. Cool.
  4. Preheat oven to 200°C/Gas 6. Divide pastry into four. Roll each out 4cm (1½in) bigger than dish. For each Pie: Cut a strip of pastry for rim of the dish and attach with water. Press pastry onto dish. Trim excess and knock back edges. Glaze with egg and make a small hole. Set on a tray and bake for 30-40 minutes.

 

A Dairy Diary recipe.

 

#stgeorgesday

Recipe of the Week | Lamb Crown Roast

Lamb Crown Roast

Lamb Crown Roast

This show-stopping Lamb Crown Roast will be sure to impress! This tasty Sunday Dinner idea is a Dairy Diary recipe. For more delicious recipes visit the Dairy Diary Recipe Collection.

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE

 

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