Day 5 - Making Fudge

I found this recipe on pinterest...check out my pinterest board here.

The lady who put up the recipe was testing the homecooker for Philips, and she sold this idea of doing fudge like this well.  Not having to stand over the pot stirring constantly because the cooker does it by it's self.




Well, I found, that if I made the recipe exactly as she said to, it didn't work.

All ingredients into the pot, temp set, timer set

Fudge at a rolling boil

  My fudge looked nothing like it!

Finished "set" fudge!!!

The "fudge i ended up with was more like a gooey toffee or something, inedible and with big butter swirls!!
So I thought I would give it another go, I really felt like it needed a proper beating, so I put it into a pot and remelted it, got the electric beaters out and went for it...

.... but part way through this process I got to thinking, maybe it is more about the boiling, maybe it is supposed to boil for a time and then it will set properly... but I didn't have time to do this right now as I was supposed to be at church in about 20 mins and was still in my pjs....

So I left it in the pot on the stove (turned off!)

When I came home the fudge did seem quite well set and right...but it was stuck in the pot and I couldn't get it out in nice pieces....

So I re-melted it....unfortunately, this time the bottom caught which gives it that interested "flame grilled" taste!  I didn't let that put me off and as soon as it melted I got the beaters in there gave it another go and this time tipped it into the cake tin to set.

It looks good. a little darker the take 2 and a lot darker than the picture... but it seemed to be the right consistency, so I tipped it out on to the cutting board.... unfortunately, I tried doing this with one hand as I was brushing my teeth with the other hand...and I dropped most of it on the floor... I saved it quickly and my pieces are more creatively cut...a knife was never used this time.... 

It tastes fine, with that flame grilled feeling.... and in retrospect I think I could make it again, but next time give it a proper beating with the electric beaters when the cooking is finished before pouring it into the tin.

Fudge = Success...in theory

A few of my favourite things...or should I say pins

My favourite pins….Well I spend FAR too much time on pinterest.

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In fact I was trying to “surf pinterest” , as I wrote this, but we had no internet…so I could only stick to one page, and try and remember what it opened too!

So, you would think I could find a few good things to share with you…AND I have. 

First up, a recipe…actually 2 recipes.

The first is something that I just made last night

See my pin

Here is a picture of what it looked like when I made it myself!!  Not too bad really

The recipe is from  Cook Lisa Cook

I was writing thing post before I actually made it and I wondered how it would go down as my husband has recently informed me that he’s not a huge fan of the “potato only meals” But me and the kids love to have Wedges with salsa, cheese, bacon and sour cream as a full dinner, so I wonder if adding the chicken and more sauciness will help…or just take it over the top.  Sometimes I find these pinterest recipes end up being a bit to….ummmm….what can I say…’Americanised’.  Sorry Americans, it’s not you, it’s me…ummmm….lets just be friends?....

So anyway, it was good, a little too oily, but that's easy enough to fix, and I didnt put as much chicken as she said to beacuse I am a real stinge...I probably should have, it was fine, but it wouldnt have been better with more chicken!

 

And my 2^nd recipe is this super divine Cinnabon Roll bake cake dish thingy!!  WOW…. It was so yum.  I made it to impress a couple of friends who came over to do crafts with me one day!  They were impressed, so it worked…but even better than that, they didn’t eat it all and I froze it in parts and my husband and I had yummy desserts for ages afterwards!!  Only changes I would make, is a little less sugar and a little less topping….but then again, if I did that I might end up eating even more in each sitting! So maybe it’s not all bad!?!?

See my pin

unfortunately I didnt take a picture of my own one when I made it, but here is a picture of what inpired me to pin it...and then make it!

 

This recipe comes from Six Sisters Stuff, (I have a tonne of pins from that blog, it’s quite amazing…wow, what would it be like to have 5 sisters!  I don’t have any, and I married a guy with 3 brothers…I have lots of sisters-in-law now though, so that’s good!!)  Six Sisters website

 

And the other 2 pins are things for the kids.

T-shirt to dress pin

This is a gorgeous little tutorial for turning an adult’s tee into a preschooler’s dress!  I made this for my daughter

 

 

 

And then got so inspired that I made another random dress from a t-shirt for her

And another

 

 

And finally a cool idea for the Father’s Day prezzie

My Pin

And here is the pictures we gave to Dad for 2012!

 

Each year we take a shot of the kids displaying how much they love their dad…print it out for 19c a photo and either buy a beautiful frame from the dollar store….or re-use last year’s frame!!

 

Check out Melissa Speelman's website for some great photography inspiration…or get her to do take you pics!!

 

So that was a few of my favourite things this week, head over here and follow me on pinterest too! J  Salubrious on Pinterest

 

Do you love pinterest as much as I do????