An Italian Easter Afternoon

 Just a quick post about my Easter festivities. I headed down to Tasmania to see my beautiful family and one thing I was most excited to do was to make our traditional Italian Easter cake.

 Combine 6 Eggs, 6 Tbs Butter, 1 Cup Sugar and 1 Tsp Vanilla and mix well, Add 3 cups of flour until a firm consistency.

Shape into a fish and put a washed raw egg in the mouth.  Use scissors to make 'scales' and two coffee beans for eyes.

 Put an egg wash over and sprinkle wish sugar.

Such a simple 'Pane Dolce' but something deep in tradition with my family and something I look forward to every year.  This year Mumma Casten made herb pizza for lunch that we had with some fresh figs from our tree.

 

Buona Pasqua!

Comfort Food - Bacon and Potato with Coddled Eggs

 Sometimes I really feel like some comfort food, just like pancakes on a sunday, bacon and eggs just seem like a warm hug from mum after a rough day at work.

Coddled eggs were something that I was keen to try and thought it would be nice to have some bacon and potato to go with it.  This type of food is not something I crave often, and is definitely not something that I would make a habit of cooking but sometimes you need to let healthy eating slide for an evening and let your inner glutton take over.

I chopped up three large potato's and boiled them for about ten minutes.

While the potatoes are boiling away, drop and egg and a teaspoon of butter into a muffin tin and spread some dill or fennel on top

 

Fry some bacon in a non-stickpan and once the potatoes are just softening add them to the mix after straining and patting dry.

Cook to your level of fried perfection!