WWDH - Sticky Miso Roasted Chicken with Sesame Pumpkin

This week’s Wednesday with Donna Hay recipe is Sticky Miso Roasted Chicken on Sesame Pumpkin.

This is a delicious dish where pumpkin doused in a sesame seed mixture is topped with chicken coated with a miso paste sauce.

 I used dukkah in place of just sesame for the pumpkin, and jointed a whole chicken rather than using chicken thigh fillets.

This one is definitely a keeper.

To see more Donna Hay dishes, visit Kayte and Margaret.

TWD - Chocolate-Pecan Cookies

 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Chocolate-Pecan Cookies.

These delicious cookies involve combining finely chopped pecans with Dorie’s good for almost anything chocolate cookie dough, and topping the cookies with a mixture of nuts, sugar and egg whites.

These are simply delish. The cookies also hold their shape well in the oven, so top marks from me.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

TWD - Father’s Day Blueberry-Cherry Pie

 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Father’s Day Blueberry-Cherry Pie. It’s not Father’s Day until September here, so I was OK with baking this out of sync with US Father’s Day.

This pie is a pastry shell filled with a delicious blueberry and cherry filling. I used pastry that I had made previously and frozen. Some of it was gluten free - I was not a fan of the pastry in those as it was a little rubbery. 

I made 8 individual pies in muffin tins using a quarter of the filling recipe. It was more convenient for me to do that as I don’t have any crowds to eat a full pie.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

TWD - Zan’s Birthday Cookies

This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is Zan’s Birthday Cookies. These cookies comprise a chocolate/coconut brownie base, a coconut pastry cream filling and a chocolate crumble topping.

 They taste OK, but probably are not a repeat for me.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

TWD - One Big Break-Apart Chipper

 This week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe is One Big Break-Apart Chipper. As the name suggests, it is a single ginormous chocolate chip cookie, meant to be shared by breaking off pieces.

I didn’t think that the break off and share method would go down well at work, where I am taking this cookie, so I cut it into pieces straight out of the oven while still hot and cuttable.

The spices are cardamom and cinnamon; I chose walnuts for the nut component, and for the chocolate chips, I used half and half chopped dark chocolate and Reese’s pieces. I sprinkled the top of the cookie with sanding sugar for extra crunch.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website. 

TWD - French Vanilla Sables

 This week’s Tuesday With Dorie recipe is French Vanilla Sables. These  are little shortbread style biscuits cut out with a round cutter, but which can also be slice and bake  cookies.

I sandwiched mine  together with ganache for a  work morning tea.

They don’t look fancy but they taste good.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

WWDH - Asian Spiced Lemongrass Pork

 For Wednesday with Donna Hay this week, I made Asian Spiced Lemongrass Pork from Everyday Fresh.

This dish involves making a stir fry paste with ginger, garlic, chilli, lemongrass and Kaffir lime (the latter of which I left out because I didn’t have it). This paste is cooked until fragrant in a fry pan, before the pork mince is added and stir fried until golden. Finally, a sauce of rice wine vinegar, brown sugar and fish sauce is added to the mince and cooked until the sugar dissolves.

Donna suggests a number of ways to serve this mince. I went my own way with rice, green beans and carrots as sides.

To see more Donna Hay dishes, visit Kayte and Margaret.