Orzo with Roast Tomatoes – the perfect side dish

I defrosted some leftover BBQ steaks for lunch, so all i had to do was the side dish. We love BBQ tomatoes, but obviously I wasn’t going to light up the grill only for that. So I tried out the grill setting on my new oven (when I opened the previous one last week I was suddenly left with the door in my hand 😕 ). Cherry tomatoes in a pyrex some salt, 5 minutes grill on each side at 300 degrees. I paired it with plain orzo, always a hit with the kids. 3 cups orzo in some oil, stir fry for two minutes, add 3 cups boiling water, 1 heaped tsp salt, mix, cover. Done when all the water is absorbed, 5-10 minutes. All done within 15 minutes 🙂

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Magic vanilla chocolate – chip cake

I posted before about my basic chocolate oil cake. Now I present the vanilla chocolate chip cake – no eggs, no dairy, no margarine. And universally approved.

Magic!

Ingredients
1/2 cup spelt flour
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour (I’ve used up to only spelt flour, it still comes out great, just more dense)
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
One heaped teaspoon baking powder
Pinch salt
1/2 cup chocolate chips or to taste
1 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tbsp vanilla (I like a lot, a tsp is fine too)

Preheat oven to 160 degrees.
Sift flour into a mixing bowl. Add sugar, salt and baking powder. Add chocolate chips and mix.

All dry ingredients mixed

Add water, oil and vanilla and mix until combined. Pour into 25×25 cm baking dish.

Before baking

Bake for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

wait until I take a photograph!

still some left here...

Bon apetit!

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