Food Adventures

There have been a couple of great meals at the RVCP house recently. Having got bored already of rice, beans, vegetables, chapattis, more rice, vegetables etc. we decided to make cake, biscuits and pizza. This could have been a bit of challenge since we only have a charcoal stove (the barbeque pit) but we're not ones to be put off by such a small detail...

The biscuits were never going to win any beauty prizes but the taste would have been good enough for Bake-Off. They were mixed spice and cinnamon and simply cooked in a frying pan. Extra good warm with jam on. We have already planned to make these for Christmas - how hard can it be shaping dough into a Christmas tree?!

The cake (made for a friend's birthday) turned out a million times better than I thought it would. We just made a basic chocolate cake batter and steamed it in a pot of boiling water on the stove for an hour. The only problem with it is that it wasn't big enough. Double mixture next time! Other plans for cakes include ginger, lemon and honey. 

The pizza again was a basic pizza dough (with added spring onions), and cooked in the frying pan on the stove. We added guacamole, tomato sauce, cheese, spinach and pineapple and it was AMAZING. Pretty sure this will end up being our Christmas dinner (I think the only thing we wouldn't be able to cook on the stove would be a roast...!)