Menu Monday

Menu Monday has been AWOL for a few weeks, but we are back with a yummy Lamb Recipe for you tonight.  There is a list of great recipes to follow in the coming weeks.

We would love to hear your favourite recipes, so if you have one you would like to share email us at thesewingsisterhood@live.com.au and each week we will feature a recipe from us (The Sisterhood) and one from you, our wonderful followers.

Tonights family favourite comes to you on behalf of Bel from Little Sew & Sews.  We hope you enjoy!

Tracey
My Obsession Designs

Moroccan Lamb with Orange Couscous

(serves 4)

Ingredients for Lamb

800g lamb fillets, cubed

1 brown onion, finely sliced

2 garlic cloves, finely chopped

1 tbsp olive oil

2 dsp ground cumin

1 dsp ground coriander

1 tsp hot paprika

2 cinnamon sticks

1 tsp ground cinnamon

2 cups beef stock

1 x 400g tin of tomatoes

Ingredients for citrus couscous

1 x 500g pkt couscous

40g butter

1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

juice and zest of 2 lemons

2 oranges peeled, pith removed and cut into segments

pinch sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

2 tbsp finely chopped continental parsley, and some for garnish if desired

Method for Lamb

In a large pot saute onion and garlic in oil for a few minutes. Add cumin, coriander, paprika and cinnamon and cook for another two minutes.

Add cubed lamb and combine well to coat the lamb.  Cook for two minutes. Add stock, tinned tomatoes and cinnamon sticks.  Simmer for an

hour until lamb is tender and sauce is syrupy.

Method for couscous

Place couscous in a large bowl and pour over boiling water to about 1.5cm above the couscous.  Allow to stand for about five minutes, until water

is absorbed. Stir through butter and oil.  Season to taste and add lemon juice, zest, orange segments and parsley. Combine well.

Serve couscous in pasta bowls. Top with lamb mix and garnish with parsley if desired.

Name That Skirt

Name That Skirt!

On Tuesday 14th June at 8pm at our regular monthly market night we will be releasing our newest creation, this gorgeous ruffle skirt. This skirt will be gorgeous during summer with a t-shirt or during winter with a pair of legging underneath. The only problem with this skirt is, it doesn't have a name! What do we call this skirt?

To help celebrate one lucky person will get to shop one hour earlier and buy any items available in the Market Night album!

All you need to do to enter is name this skirt.

Comment below to enter.

Also if we get to 1500 likers by the release I will be giving away one custom made skirt, with any fabrics in the fabric folder.

So start inviting friends, family and colleague's to the La Crafts Facebook Page  and ask them to become a liker today.

Introducing Menu Monday

Introducing Menu Monday….

I don’t mind cooking dinner, but the one thing that I often struggle with is deciding what to cook.  I like quick and easy, because let’s face it – we are all busy, but I do get bored with the same meals over and over again.  Mince is a nice quick option in our home, but I do get a little bit sick of cooking Spaghetti Bolognaise, Cottage Pie and Tacos over and over again (although the kids actually LOVE these ones!).  So I for one am looking for some alternative mince recipe ideas!  We also eat a lot of chicken, but again, I tend to cook the same things and am often looking in recipe magazines for new ideas.

So what is Menu Monday??  Each Monday we, the ladies of The Sewing Sisterhood will share with you one of our favourite recipes.  Something that is loved in our homes - a tried and true meal idea that you can love too.  But it might not just be dinner – we might throw in a dessert or a cake or maybe even a nice lunch idea, who knows what might come up!

We also invite you to email us your favourite recipe.  Each week we will feature one of ours and one of yours.  If you have a yummy recipe you would like to share email us at thesewingsisterhood@live.com.au.  We would love to hear about the favourite foods in your home!

So this week we are going to start off with a well worn recipe in my home.  It actually comes from a Readers Digest Recipe Book that must be close to 30 years old.  I remember Mum cooking out of it when I was a kid and in her travels to Op Shops she has picked up one for me and each of my siblings!  This one is loved by everyone – Mr 4, Mr 3, Miss 15mths (but she eats anything) as well as my husband and myself.

Chicken Scaloppine

Ingredients:

2 whole chicken breasts (4 halves) skinned and boned (I generally cook about 500gms for our family)

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

½ cup plain flour

½ teaspoon salt

Pinch black pepper

40g butter or margarine

Grated rind of 1 lemon

2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped

1/3 cup finely chopped parsley

½ cup chicken stock

Method:

1. Lay each half chicken breast on the work surface, place your hand flat over it, and cutting parallel to your hand, slice the breast in two.
2. Heat the oil in a heavy medium sized frying pan over moderately high heat.  In a shallow dish, combine the flour, salt and pepper.  Press the chicken into the flour mixture, coating the pieces on both sides.  Shake off any excess flour.  Place half the pieces in the pan and brown them for 1 minute on each side.  Transfer to a warm plate.  Cook the remaining breast in the same way.
3. Add the butter to the pan, along with the lemon rind, garlic and parsley.  Add the chicken stock, scraping up any brown bits stuck to the pan.  Bring the liquid to a boil and let it cook until it thickens slightly.
4. Return the breasts to the pan, along with any accumulated juices, and coat with the sauce.
5. Serve with mashed or boiled potatoes and veges

Things to note:  If you like lots of sauce or gravy with your meals, just increase the chicken stock to 1 cup.  The flour that coats the chicken will thicken the sauce up nicely. 

When filleting the chicken I normally cut it quite thin (and end up with 3 or 4 slices out of the breast) depending on how thick they end up.  They will cook quicker this way and tend to go a bit further.

Enjoy!

Tracey

My Obsession Designs

It's Treasure Hunt Time!

Here are the rules:

• Visit each of the pages listed below and answer the question.
• When you have answered all questions come back here and enter your answer.
• If you have any answers incorrect I will respond with "you have x answers incorrect".  You can then revisit your answers and re-submit.
• The first 3 correct responses will be the winners.

Prizes are:
1st Place - 20% off your next order
2nd Place - 15% off your next order
3rd Place - 10% off your next order

The prizes will be valid until 31st May.

Questions:

1. Name one of the newly released products over at Perigren Creations
2. How many Babushka doll soft toys will be up for sale at Little Sew & Sews next Market night on Tuesday 12th of April?
3. A bit of a cryptic one from Baby Chilli: 
   A large bird in the sky is flying up high
   Sunshine around its sure to be found.
4. From M's Cute Bottoms:  In the current available nappies, name my favourite nappy?
5. From Puppy Dogs Tails:  What are chesty-warms?
6. From Lil Pip: Name the first Boobooks who start with the letters M and O.
7. From Unique Babeez:  What is the name of our Limited Edition Designs in the toilet training range?
8. Another cryptic one:  Tea for Evie is stuck on vintage linen.
   

Questions from Me:

9. How many Swimming Back Packs have I custom made? 
10. How many children do I have?
11. What fabric have I used for photo 28 in tonights sale album?
12. How much is a large nappy pouch?

Thank you to all my sewing sisters for supplying questions for the Treasure Hunt!

Good luck everyone.  I hope you find some wonderful new pages on your travels.


Tracey
My Obsession Designs