2015 - August - oranges

2015 August 25

Why do oranges wear suntan lotion?

Because they peel.

Why did the Orange go out with a Prune?

Because he couldn't find a Date!

Yes, we are doing ORANGES this issue!!!  Good afternoon my fantastic XCentric family and friends!

http://www.xcentricideas.co.za/images/2015/XCentric%20Ideas%202015%20Issue%208.pdf

Since Friday, we’ve had 4 awesome days in Joburg!!!!  I do believe I smell Spring around the corner.

I thought about this issue and what ingredient to use ... and decided on Oranges.  A fruit that most people use to eat fresh or to squeeze for juice ...  but have you thought about what else you can do with Oranges?

As usual, I’ve not given you the ‘run of the mill’ recipes.  And yes, I know there are tons of other fantastic Orange recipes out there ... but I’ve decided on these few.

Every single recipe is ‘liquid gold’.  And for wheat-intolerant people ... I have a fabulous Orange cake.  Noooooo ... not made with ALMOND FLOUR (way too expensive and too fatty!!!) but with coconut flour.  Have a look in your shops, the coconut flour is more than half the price of almond flour.  And yes, I’m definitely working on an entire issue using coconut flour.

What’s new?  A fantastic Sunday lunch was spent at Moyo, Melrose Arch https://www.moyo.co.za/moyo-melrose-arch-options/ – listening to jazz music and eating with friends.  Too bad the restaurant didn’t have any mopanie worms for me ...

After numerous tries baking oat crunchies and numerous flops, I do believe I have the answer:  a recipe from ‘Kook en Geniet’ (Cook and Enjoy) – our ‘cook bible’.  What a huge relief that is.

TESTED AND BEST SO FAR OAT CRUNCHIES

(Kook en Geniet Kookboek)

750 ml (3 cups) coconut

250 ml (1 cup) cake flour

1 litre (4 cups) oats

375 ml (1 ½ cups) sugar

2,5 ml (1/2 tsp) salt

5 ml (1 tsp ) ground cinnamon powder

250 ml (1 cup) (227 g) butter

45 ml (3 tbsp) golden syrup

10 ml (2 tsp) bicarbonate of soda dissolved in

60 ml (1/4 cup) milk

Preheat oven to 180 oC. 

Mix all dry ingredients together.  Melt butter and syrup together and add to dry ingredients.  Stir the soda-milk mixture in.  Mix till no dry bits are visible.  In a greased baking tray, press down the mixture till about 1 cm thick.  Wet your hands or spatula to press down the mixture firmly.  Bake 15 – 20 minutes long, till golden brown.  Cut into squares as big as you prefer – remove from pan and let it cool on wire rack.  Keep in cake tin.

No, I haven’t had any spectacular cakes yet in a coffee shop / restaurant.  The search is still on.

And with the sun streaming through our study window and warming my feet, I say ... go peel an orange, go squeeze an orange and go bake a cake!