Turn a orange into a candle

Try this a quick, easy and natural orange candle, you can make it in about 5 minutes and with only two ingredients.

Photo from handimania

What you need.
Orange, Grapefruit, Lemon
Knife
Any type of oil, Vegetable, Olive, Canola, etc.

Cut the orange skin only. Use the paring knife to slice into the peel of the orange. Insert only as far as the pith, taking the knife around the middle of the orange, going all the way around the circumference.

Peel the orange. Gently push your finger under the skin of the orange and peel only one half of the skin away at a time so that it separates from the orange without tearing.

Locate the "wick". Once separated from orange flesh, the orange peel should be easy to remove. When removing the orange flesh, a white wick-like “stem” part should remain––leave this intact, still attached to the peel.

Add oil. Pour a small amount of olive oil inside and wait a minute or two until the skin and wick soak with oil. It is really important that you wait because if you do it too soon you will burn the biggest part of your wick and there won’t be enough of it left to burn nicely.

Light it. Usually you have to try few times before it inflames for good but keep trying and don’t give up!

Corn and Feta Fritters

These are a tasty, budget friendly option for breakfast or lunch, serve with a salad or as shown in recipe

Photo: http://www.annabel-langbein.com

Prep time:

5 mins plus standing

Cook time:

10 - 15 minutes

Makes:

about 20

Ingredients
1 1⁄2 cups self-raising flour
3 eggs
1 tsp salt
freshly ground pepper
3⁄4 cup soda water
2 cups corn kernels
2 tbsp chopped mint
1⁄2 cup crumbled feta cheese

Instructions:
Mix flour, eggs, salt, pepper and soda water together until smooth. Stir in corn, mint and crumbled feta. Stand for 10 minutes. Cook spoonfuls in 1⁄2 cm hot oil in a pan over medium heat until golden on each side. Makes about 20.

Serve with sliced avocado and tomato chutney.

Source: www.annabel-langbein.com

Three-Ingredient Chocolate Mousse

Who would have thought such a silken chocolate mousse could be made using only three ingredients? This is a super easy and quick recipe to impress your guests.

Photo: http://www.annabel-langbein.com

Prep time:5 mins + chilling Cook time:10-12 mins Serves:4-6

Ingredients
200g dark chocolate (ideally at least 70% cocoa solids), coarsely chopped
2 cups (500ml) cream
1 cup (100g) chopped marshmallows

Instructions
Heat chocolate, half the cream and the marshmallows in a dry, heatproof bowl over a pot of simmering water, stirring until melted and smooth (about 10 minutes). Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature.

Beat remaining cream to soft peaks and fold through chocolate mixture. Pour into glasses or bowls and refrigerate for at least 6 hours or overnight before serving.

source:www.annabel-langbein.com

Chocolate Chunk Biscuits GF

These are really good and easy to whip up.  If you wanted them to be nut free just use 1 cup on sunflower seed butter.  We made our own almond butter using raw almonds and blending in the Thermomix.

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup sunflower seed butter 
1/2 cup Almond butter
⅓ cup raw honey
1 egg, whisked
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1/2 to 1 cup Chocolate chunks (use a dark chocolate bar roughly cut up or dark chocolate chips)

INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat oven to 180 C
Place all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
Use an ice cream scoop to scoop out a dollop of cookie mix and pour onto baking sheet. Space out so cookies do not form together when they bake.
Bake for 18-20 minutes, be careful not to overcook these.
Put on cooler rack.
Enjoy!

These last well in an airtight jar. They were still great day 3.

Cleaning the Oven

Cleaning the oven is not one of my favourite tasks, but I have learnt if you clean it regularly it is much easier and much quicker to do. The girls and I love to bake and doing it in a clean oven is preferable.

I prefer to use non toxic cleaners, here is my very simple, non toxic method of cleaning my oven:

To remove the baked on food at the bottom of your oven sprinkle with baking soda. Fill a spray bottle with vinegar (I use white vinegar), then spray this over the baking soda, allow to sit for an hour or two. Then it should be easy to remove, if not, repeat the process.

To clean the shelves, place a few old towel in your bathtub (enough to prevent scratches) then place your shelves on top of the towel and sprinkle nappy-san over top. Fill bath with HOT water enough to cover the shelves. Leave for approximately 1 1/2 hours or overnight. Gently scrub grime, should easily come off.



Use a scourer to give a scrub to the stubborn areas this really isn’t much effort at all, it should just fall off. Then rinse the shelves with boiling water.