What is the best meal that you cook??

[Olive]

cupcake recipe

follow the following for normal cupcakes
2 cups s/r flour sifted
3/4cup castor sugar
3/4cup milk
125g butter melted cooled
2 eggs beaten
1 tsp vanilla essence

preheat oven to 200
combine flour and sugar in bolw, make well in center, add milk butter eggs ansd vanilla to flour mixture, using large metal spoon stir gently to combine, spoon into muffin tin lined with patty cases bake for 12-15 mins

for strawberry cupcakes, reduce milk to 1/2 cup and fold through 250g of hulled chopped strawberries bake as above
i ice with normal icing but add strawberry essence, yummo!!

[Janie]

Um, with the pesto, are you forgetting the garlic????? I luuuuuurve garlic, couldn't have pesto without it! Love the pesto with parmesan too mmmmmmmm.

Some faves here are

Spaghetti with prosciutto (Bill's)
Veal Saltimbocca
Crunchy pork (can be chops or steaks)

Anything chocolate!
Choc chip bread and butter pudding with butterscotch sauce (yuuuuum!)
Caramel Banana SS pudding (Bill's)
Nigella's alcoholic hot chocolate (not a meal I know, but any hot choccie with seven ingredients has to be great - and it really is!)

I made Christy's banana choc chip cookies this week and they have been a HUGE hit with DH!

Oh, and Lindsay, good on you for learning to cook (I hope your MIL is nice LOL!). The trick is not to be scared. Just follow the recipe, and you should be fine. Eventually, after practice, you get better at not needing the recipes so much. And remember.....we have all have disasters in the kitchen! It's good to have a laugh about them down the track Oh, and if your MIL is Italian, get her to teach you to make gnocchi one day.......yum!