Saturday, 10 August 2013

iCarly; Mr. Galini's Coconut Cream Pie


Ingredients: 
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  • 3 cups half-and-half 
  • 2 eggs 
  • 3/4 cup white sugar 
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt 
  • 1 1/4 cups flaked coconut 
  • 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract 
  • 1 (9 inch) pie shell, baked 
  • 1 cup frozen whipped topping, thawed 
DIRECTIONS 
  1. In a medium saucepan, combine half-and-half, eggs, sugar, flour and salt. Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring continuously. 
  2. Remove from heat and stir in 3/4 cup of the coconut and the vanilla extract. 
  3. Pour into pie shell and chill 2 to 4 hours, or until firm. 
  4. Top with whipped topping and with remaining 1/4 cup of coconut.

Pizza Pinwheels

Ingredients:
Makes 12

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  • 400g [14oz] puff pastry, defrosted
  • 1 onion
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 capsicums [bell peppers], yellow and red
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
  • 2 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 tsp. dried oregano
  • 2 balls mozzarella, diced
  • 4 tbsp. Parmesan cheese, grated
  • Salt
  • Freshly milled pepper
  • 3/4 cup [150g] tomato sauce (passata)
Method:
Prep and cook time: 1h

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 200'C [400'F] conventional oven
  2. Peel and finely chop the onion and the garlic. Wash, halve, de-seed and finely chop the capsicums [bell peppers].
  3. Sauté the peppers together with the onions and garlic in hot oil for about 5 minutes so that all liquid has evaporated. Stir continually. Remove from the heat and let cool. Mix in the herbs and the cheese and season with salt and pepper.
  4. Roll out the puff pastry to a rectangle 35 x 20 cm [12 x 8 in]. Spread the tomato sauce over the puff pastry, leaving a 2-cm [1-inch] wide edge free all the way around.
  5. Spread the capsicum [bell pepper] filling over the top. Wet he edge of the puff pastry with a little water and roll up, pressing the edge down firmly. Cut 12 slices (pinwheels) and place them on a cookie tray lined with baking paper.
  6. Bake in the oven for about 20-25 minutes until golden brown.