PUFF PASTRY WITH CREAM FILLING

This is an easy dessert made with puff a pastry.  Much better than store bought version not just in taste but also in cost.  I used a puff pastry dough (meaning it requires to be rolled out) but I recently discovered that I can buy puff pastry in a box that comes already rolled out.  My guess is it'll be too thick to try for this recipe but if I do decide to try it, I'll post separately.

1 package of puff pastry (please see picture of the package below)

2 cups (500 gr) milk

2 egg yolks

85 gr sugar

1/2 cup (60 gr.) corn starch

40 gr. butter

1 package vanilla

1 package dream whip

1/2 cup milk (60 gr)

To decorate: Icing sugar, Strawberries and Chocolate sauce (store bought version for ice cream topping)

• Roll out the puff pastry as thin as you can without breaking it
• Cut into equal sized rectangles (each will make a top and a bottom). 
• Preheat oven to 350 and bake until golden brown
• Prepare the "cream" filling by mixing 2 cups milk, 2 egg yolks, 1/2 cup corn starch and 85 gr. sugar together and cook on medium heat until it thickens.  If you get lumps, you can use a hand mixer to remove them.  I found it cooks without any lumps if you continually mix it during cooking.  Remove from heat and set aside.
• Mix a package of dream whip with 1/2 cup milk until it thickens and mix into the pudding.
• Put 1 layer of pastry, 1 tablespoon filling, 1 layer of pastry.  Continue until your pastry is all done.  I had a bit of filling left over.  We ate it like a pudding.
• Decorate with icing sugar, strawberry and chocolate sauce like the picture
• Let it rest in the fridge for a couple of hours.  Then enjoy!

KIDNEY BEAN AND CHICK PEA SALAD

This is a quick salad that you can serve with just about anything.  Great with barbeques.  Nice and colourful too.  Good choice for a pot luck.

1 large can chick peas

1 large can of kidney beans

1 medium sized red onion

1 large green pepper
Sauce: salt, vinegar and olive oil

• Drain and rince the chick peas and kidney beans
• Wash and dry green pepper and slice them lengthwise
• Peel and cut onions
• Prepare the sauce by mixing all the ingredients
• Mix everything together in a bowl and serve.

BEEF RIBS IN SLOW COOKER

I bought beef ribs for a barbeque to take advantage of the last few good days of the summer.  Unfortunately, life got busy.  Still wanting to have it for dinner, I changed to a slow cooker recipe.  They were simply delicious.  Beef was so well cooked that it was almost falling off the bone (just the way I like them).

2 kg. beef ribs
1/2 cup ketchup

1 cup honey

1 tablespoon garlic salt

3 tablespoon soya sauce

1 tablespoon worchishire sauce

1 tablespoon hot sauce

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
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• Cut ribs into pieces
• Fry each side a little.  Salt and pepper.
• Mix together ketchup, garlic salt, honey, soya sauce, nutmeg,  worchishire sosu and hot sauce
• Put the ribs in a slow cooker.  Pour the honey mixture over the ribs
• Cook at low heat for 4.5 to 5 hours.
• This time I served with rice, corn and salad