If you’ve been following the updates that I have been writing over the last few months you will know that I run a community project in Melton Mowbray, The aim of the project is to convert some unused waste land in town The idea of the project Is to give people who don’t have the room or the time to grow in their own gardens the opportunity to come and grow fresh produce that they can take home to use and cook with. We already have a group of 8 people who have agreed to come and start growing on the site and are hoping that more families want to get involved to. We plan to hold a class once a month for children and parents to teach them about the veg we grow, where it comes from and how to cook it.

We will be clearing the site on 7th September with a group of 25 graduate volunteers from Mars UK plus 7 of my friends and family.

Before we clear the site and the real work starts I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone that has given their time, resources, money and most importantly support. This project could go a long way to helping a lot of people but it can’t survive without people helping run it.

We’re always looking for people who want to grow their own veg but don’t have the time or space or the know how, that’s what we are here for.

Get in touch if you want to get involved or want to donate resource or make financial donations to the project. If you already run a project like this I’d love to hear from you to.

Check out the contact me page for my details

Thank you

Recipes for Thanksgiving Desserts

Thanksgiving is fast approaching and all the hosts seem to have been all-set to plan for the Thanksgiving dinner. If you too are hosting a get-together and are deciding about the dessert menu, we are here to help you with it. Thanksgiving Dinner is not complete without a dessert dish. . If you are planning to try your cooking skills and surprise your guests with a few mouth watering, delicious desserts on this Thanksgiving day, you can go through the following suggestions. 

Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes:

Apple Pie Cake:

Ingredients:

• 4 apples peeled and cut into small pieces
• ¼ cup orange juice
• 1tsp vanilla essence
• 1 tbsp grated orange
• 1 cup oil
• 2 ½ cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 3 ½ tsp baking powder

Procedure:

Pre heat the oven at 350 ⁰ F. Grease and flour a large pan.

Mix the chopped apples and 5 tbsp sugar in a large bowl. Combine the left over sugar, vegetables oil, eggs, orange zest, orange juice and vanilla essence in another large bowl. Whisk so as to blend the mixture well. Add the salt, baking powder andflour into the mixture and stir it well. Spread 1 ½ cup batter into preheated pan. Top it with half of apple mixture. Again add a layer of 1 ½ cup batter and top it with the remaining apple mixture.

Bake this mixture until the top turns golden brown in color. It will take around 1 1/2hour to bake. Cool the cake for 1 hour before serving. If you wish you may also dust the apple pie cake with confectioner’s sugar.

This dish can serve around 8-10 guests. . It tastes much like apple pie but in the cake form.

Honey-Vanilla Ice Cream:

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cup milk
• ¾ cup honey
• 1 ½ cup cream
• ¼ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg

Procedure:

Mix honey, milk and cream into a saucepan with a heavy bottom. Stir continuously while it boils. Honey and cream will dissolve in the milk within 5 minutes. Add vanilla extract to this mixture and keep this mixture into a large bowl placed again into another large bowl filled with ice. Stir continuously until the mixture is chilled.

Take the egg white in a separate bowl and whisk till it is soft. Also, whisk egg yolk in another bowl. Now mix both, beaten egg white and egg yolk. Now mix egg mixture into the milk and honey mixture until well blend. Take an ice cream maker and process the ice-cream mixture as per the user manual. Serve this soft and delicious ice-cream to your guests after it is fully frozen.

Rice Pudding:

Ingredients:

• 6 tbsp short grain rice
• ¾ tbsp vanilla extract
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ tsp salt
• 6 cup milk
• 10-12 Raisins 

Procedure:

In a bowl soak rice in water for 30 minutes. In a heavy-bottom saucepan, mix milk and vanilla extract with soaked rice. Cook it on medium flame. Stir often and let the milk be absorbed by the rice. Bring the mixture to boil once and add sugar and salt to it. Stir continuously until the rice is tender. It will take around 20-25 minutes. Remove the saucepan from heat. Add raisins and keep it for cooling. Serve chilled to the guests.

Thanksgiving is the feast time and you can enjoy cooking some special dessert dishes for Thanksgiving Day. Buttery sweet desserts are delicious to taste and mouth-watering too. Above given are some useful recipes that you can try to please your guests while you host the Thanksgiving dinner. www.ethanksgivingday.com here are some useful ideas for you. Hope you like them and have a fun-filled celebration this year on the Thanksgiving Day.