bread machine!

After 2 months of confusion I finally brought home a kenwood BM250. Tried out the brioche recipe that came it, it worked! tried again and added cinnamon this time, yum! Also tired the raid bake white bread and the seeded wholemeal, both were ok too. The main reason to the the machine was to make brown bread, as its hard/expensive to buy.
I don't have all the exact ingredients, like I don't have milk powder or real butter (for the sweet bread), so i'll have to try again when I do. Looking for more wholemeal recipes to try. Also not sure what flour I'm using, it comes from the market, I call it plain white flour which they say not to use in the machine but seems to be ok.

this blog has how to make cottage cheese and pesto with stuff that i could actually get hold of, although i still need to go to the supermarket to get it their ingredients are easier/ cheaper than other options- eg pesto made with sunflower seeds and one type of cheese

Hoping to try making golden syrup dumplings with palm sugar
http://mumsrecipes-m.blogspot.com/2012/03/golden-syrup-dumplings.html

Want to try making pizza things on the stove one day, heres one way of doing it http://www.cooklocal.com/2011/05/30/fried-pizza-a-family-tradition/

today's kitchen experiments include steaming beef with ginger and garlic
and making a banana cake in the rice cooker but using palm sugar instead of white -which makes it extra moist but i'm also using wholemeal flour instead of white, and coconut cream instead of oil/butter

honeycomb made with palm sugar

about 110 grams of palm sugar (comes in liquor form at the market) with about 55 grams of sugar (castor/super fine would be better but i just had normal white)
- boil until it makes hard toffee (drop a bit in some water)
then mix in 2 teaspoons of bicarb

tipped/spooned onto some greased foil on a plate, and into the fridge out of the hot humid weather we have here, later i took it out and smashed it up and put into some air tight containters

The recipe actually used golden syrup but palm sugar is easier to get here, 110 grams cost 500 riel at the market, about 25 us cents.

aka hokey pokey/ seafoam toffee / cinder toffee

choc cocnut rice cooker cake

125g flour
175 g sugar
1/2 teaspoon of both baking soda and baking powder
60 g cocoa

mix then add 2 eggs and 400ml of coconut cream

cook for around an hour in rice cooker