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The idea to start Tania's Table came primarily from a love of food and cooking and from the enjoyment and pleasure of helping other people make something that is tasty, within budget and was realistic to the time they have available. When you come to Tania's Table, the kitchen, Make yourself at home, relax and enjoy the decor and meeting other people who are looking to expand taste buds and learn new skills Set aside time to experience Tania's Table.

31/07/2024

One pot potato dumpling stew.

I love gnocchi, in this easy recipe it shines and makes what would be a soup a filling thicker stew.

Into a pot fry a diced onion, a grated carrot or two and slice the skins of some sausages and squeeze into pot. Fry until carrots and onions are soft and meat had browned.

Blitz a couple of roasted red peppers from the jar with 2 cans of diced tomatoes and several cloves of garlic.
Pour into the pot with 2 cups of stock a good grind of pepper and 2 Tablespoons balsamic vinegar. Simmer for 15/20 minutes.

Add gnocchi to the pot and cook in the stew before serving. The gnocchi I use takes about 10 minutes from frozen.

27/07/2024

Roast pan chocolate cake.

This is perfect for when you have a little enthusiasm and are looking to make something quick that doesn’t require any faffing about or are looking to feed a bunch of people.

I know it as Joys chocolate cake and the recipe was given to me years ago, I know it’s done many a social gathering!

Oven on to 180, line a roast pan with baking paper. If the roast pan is wider than the baking paper it’s probably too big.

Melt 200gms butter and make a strong cup of coffee (help make it taste more chocolatey)

Into a bowl add
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
Sift in
3/4 cup cocoa powder
4 tsps baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

Add coffee and melted butter and mix.
Add 2 eggs, 1 cup yogurt & 1 &1/2 tsps vanilla extract

Mix with whisk until combined and pour into roast pan .
Bake for 30 minutes.

24/07/2024

This is my go to recipe for calving or other busy periods when you know you want comfort food but don’t have the time. I like the port and chicken soup pouch from the chilled section and will get them on multi buy to stock up for calving or the Wattie’s very special mushroom soup can.
Frozen chicken is fine. It will take 8 hours.
Tarragon is a non negotiable for me in this, highly recommend.
Can toss broccoli , beans or mixed vegetables in the crockpot about 30/40 minutes before dinner to cook with the chicken.
Serve over pasta, rice or mashed spud.

19/05/2024

Easy crockpot chicken curry.
So simple and so satisfying!

Into the crockpot I put 3 frozen chicken breast, one tin of coconut milk and one tin crushed tomatoes.
1 tablespoon curry powder, 1 teaspoon masala 1/2 teaspoon turmeric and chilli flakes and several grinds black pepper.
Cooked on low for 6 hours.
Shredded the chicken and then added two dried noodle nests to the crockpot for 15 minutes. These cooked and soaked up the extra sauce and I didn’t need to make another pot dirty!

I’d maybe change the tinned tomatoes to tomato paste if you have any and change up the spice mix to suit what you have/like but as a takeaway substitute, it hit the mark!

06/05/2024

Feeling very under the weather today. I’ve only just managed to stagger to the kitchen for a second cuppa, this fever is really packing some punches.
I’m craving soup but clearly don’t have the energy, I do have mint and coconut milk so I’m making my Green Goddess soup.

This is fabulous for using up sad limp vege and packing more vege in as you cannot taste it over the fresh coconut mint base.

Ive roughly chopped the base, going to gently fry in a large base pot until softened, time to enjoy my cuppa, then I’ll add 2 cups of stock, season and simmer further. Once the veggies are ready I’ll add the coconut milk and handfuls of mint and parsley. Go nuts with the herbs they really shine here.
Take off the heat and blitz until smooth.

Ive topped it in the past with poached egg or chicken but not today.

30/03/2024

Happy Easter weekend! Lovely day here, getting caught up on my long list with a sunny day finally.

I’ve been making hot cross buns all week, this recipe is a total hit, I’ll attach a link below. Fair warning it’s a very sticky high hydration dough!

https://cloudykitchen.com/blog/soft-hot-cross-buns/ -recipes-10123-jump-target

I’ve also topped up my laundry power and dishwasher powder. Grated a bar of sunlight soap with the food processor for the laundry powder and added 1 cup borax and 1.5 cups washing soda. Blitz till fully combined.
These are easy to find at your local bin inn and once you have these you can then mix the 1 cup borax and 1 cup washing soda with 1/2 cup citric acid for dishwasher powder.
Works out to 28 cents a load of laundry. I use it in my front loader without issue.

I’ve just started making a spray cleaner.
A couple of weeks ago I had a bunch of lemons I peeled first for lemoncello, juiced for a recipe and then thought I’d give infusing white vinegar a go to top up my almost empty bottle of kitchen bench spray.
I always have several 5 litre containers of white vinegar around for cleaning and pickling so I poured some over the 4 lemons and weighed then under the vinegar with a pickle weight. Added some cloves just to see what would happen.
This morning my spray ran out so I drained off the infused vinegar which now has no vinegar smell, just lemon, it’s amazing!
Cut though the mess on my bench no worries. Highly recommend.

30/01/2024

The most delicious thing I have ever tried!

Burnt Basque Cheesecake , it’s smooth and creamy , light with a delicious caramel flavour . I’ve wanted to make one for a long time and I’m glad I finally did. It’s super easy to make.

Oven on to 200 degrees

500 grams cream cheese
500 grams mascarpone
7 eggs
2 cups sugar
200 mls cream
1 Tbsp flour

All goes into the mixing bowl and mix until smooth.

Pour into a cake pan or ovenproof dish. It needs to be lined with baking paper, it needs to over hang to help get it out. I used two sheets. I used a 20 cm cake tin, it was to small, a 25cm at least. I baked for 50 minutes .
It’s going to jiggle when it comes out, I highly recommend this or you can bake for a little longer, you want the jiggle !

Now it needs to cool and to go into the fridge. This is best made the day before you want it. It needs to stay in its pan until serving.

I’m loving it by itself but I could see it going really well with berrys or a berry coulis.

Will you try this?

29/01/2024

Love a long weekend in the kitchen and garden! The rainy weather was perfect for giving the garden a soak and me time in the kitchen.

I’ve been meaning to try the viral Tuscan Chicken and it didn’t disappoint! Very easy and now I have sun dried tomatoes in the pantry I’ll be making it again.

Was totally out of bread so made both vogels style and white loaves for the freezer.

The garden is pumping out cucumbers so I’ve made some relish and pickled a few. How do you like to preserve your cucumbers ?

The fennel is looking gorgeous , it’s a favourite of mine , tried a fennel pesto with some baby beet leaves and parsley .

Burnt basque cheesecake has been on my list of things to try, not complicated at all! Basically mix if all together and bake. So delicious.

If you’d like any recipes let me know ☺️

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The idea to start Tania's Table came primarily from a love of food and cooking and from the enjoyment and pleasure of helping other people make something that is tasty, within budget and was realistic to the time they have available. Helping people when exploring other tastes and food ideas. When you come to Tania's Table, the kitchen, make yourself at home, relax and meet other people who are looking to expand taste buds and learn new skills.