The best Sausage Rolls ever!

Vegetarians looks away! These are packed with yummy sausage mix and it's so easy to make, better than those store bought ones where they've probably added a bunch of fillers. All you need is:

Pork Mince
1 can of liver pate
mixed dry herbs (optional)
diced and cooked onions and garlic
dash of nutmeg
1 egg
salt and pepper
egg wash

Mix everything together except the egg wash. Spread onto your puff pastry sheet and either wrap the pastry around the sausage mix or add a lattice effect and 'blanket' it over the sausage mix like I did in the picture above.

Pork mince with Pate I guess is probably weird for some people, but this is how my mum has always made it and hey it works and is the tastiest sausage rolls I reckon.

Second Attempt at Making French Macarons - SUCCESS!!

Since my last attempt at making macarons, I kept on thinking about trying my hands at them again. I trawled youtube and came across this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbpeP-heEQ and thought the recipe seemed pretty straightforward and I liked the smaller recipe proportions. So if it didn't work out at least I wouldn't have wasted too much of my ingredients.

This time I ditched my silicone mat and went for baking paper as many sites had suggested is the best liner for making macarons. The last time I had also over mixed my batter, I couldn't control the flow of the batter when I tried to pipe it out. So this time I was very cautious and checked on the consistency of my 'lava' to make sure that it wouldn't be over mixed. And they worked!! I was over the moon and did a happy dance in my kitchen when I saw the macarons rising and showing their little 'feet'! I just couldn't stop smiling :)

After they were piped out, I let them stand for about half an hour to dry out. I was convinced they would never dry out in Singapore's humid weather. But to my surprise they did! And they dried out faster than I had expected, I thought I would've had to wait at least an hour. Some sites like Bravetart say it's not necessary to do this, but I think it wouldn't hurt to do it, seeing as it worked. 

This recipe only calls for a baking time of 12 minutes.

Well hello there "feet"!!

I don't know if you can see, but the macaron bases are a bit brown. I'm not sure if it was because they were cooked too long or it was my black baking pan? 

My Babies were beautiful!

Previously I had used Bravetart's recipe, which seems to be less sweet and you could taste the almond a bit more. I'm going to try it again and see if it gives the same results.