Blueberry Muffins

I recently went blueberry picking at a local farm and because it was rediculously cheap brought a lot of blueberries. This recipe makes 8-10 depending on size, these also freeze well. If you would like to make it into blueberriy and chocolate muffins just add 1/4 cup chocolate chips and 1/2 cup blueberries instead of 3/4 of a cup of blueberries.

1 1/2 cups self raising flour, sifted 
3/4 cup brown sugar 
3/4 cup blueberries 
1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 egg, beaten 
3/4 cup milk, warmed 
100g butter, melted 
1tsp lemon zest

Preheat the oven to 200C.

Mix the flour, cinnamon and brown sugar together with a whisk, making sure there are no lumps of sugar left. Add the blueberries, being gentle, and stir them in. Mix the egg, milk, butter and lemon zest together (the milk ought to be warm enough that the butter does not solidify when they are combined).

Combine the two mixtures, and fold together with a spatula until there are no dry ingredient pockets left. Be very gentle: overmixing will yield rubbery muffins!

Pour the mixture into greased muffin tins, filling right to the top. Sprinkle each muffin with raw sugar or chocolate chips.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Cheap eats for Uni

Most students are beining to start Uni again so here is a good meal that is in season and can be made in 15mins.

Meal constists of:

• 1 Corn in husk* - 40c
• 1 med Potato* - 30c
• Skirt steak - 250gm steak for $3.50

Total meal cost of $4.20

Extras - Salt, pepper, butter and milk.
*Vegetables are from the market maybe slightly more expensive at supermarket.

1. Get steak out of the fridge and place on the bench to get to room temp.
2. Dice potato and place in bowl cover with hot water, salt and cover. Place in microwave for 6mins checking every 2mins, may need more or less depending on size of chunks.
3. Heat fry pan to high.
4. Meanwhile drain cooked potatoes and mash with a fork, add a teaspoon of butter and 2 teaspoons of milk. You may need to add more to get the potatoes to a smooth consistancy. Cover the mash.
5. Place steak on hot pan.
6. Put corn in the microwave for 3 mins.
7. Flip the steak and cook to your liking.
8. Leave the steak to rest while you husk the corn.
9. Serve the potatoes, stake and corn on plate. Serve corn with butter, if desired.

Crock pot/Slow cooker Vietnamese Curry.

Serves 4
Ingredients:

• 1 Onion sliced
• 2 medium carrots diced into 1cm chunks
• 1 Kumera or sweet potato or pumkin or potato diced into 1cm chunks
• 1 chicken breast diced into 1.5cm chunks
• Optional - more veges like broccoli beans peas ect Ones that don't take long to cook. 
• 1 and 1/4 cup of coconut milk.
• 1 Packet of Vietnamese Curry paste 

Instructions:

1. Place your onions in a pan and saute. Once done place in crock pot
2. Place the carrots, kumera (or whatever you are using) and chicken breast into the crock pot.
3. Pour  coconut cream and curry paste into crock pot. Stir until well combined. 
4. Cook on high for 4-6 hours and on low for 6-8 hours for the last  hour to half an hour add the extra veges in to the crock pot.

Zucchini noodle pasta

Okay so I have to admit I was a little dubious about this one, I mean Zucchini noodles? However I had brought some zucchini's because they were crazy cheap at the markets this week and thought I'd give it a try.

Serves 1
Ingredients

• 2 small zucchini 
• 1 large tomato diced
• red onion slices very thinly
• 1 garlic clove crushed
• 2 tsp of balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar or lemon juice. 
• 2 tsp of oil.

Instructions:

1. Very thinly slice your zucchini into noodle strips. There are three ways to do this:

• Use a julienne slicer/peeler 
• Use a spiraliser
• Or if your like me and don't have anything that fancy you can use a peeler to thinly slice the zucchini and once you have done that use a knife to slice the zuchhini into ribbons. 

2. Put the noodles in a bowel season with salt and pepper and garlic. Coat with oil and balsamic vinegar (or whatever you are using).

3. Dice your tomato and place on top of your noodles. 

4. Drizzle with more oil and balsamic vinegar desired and season with more salt and pepper if desired.