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Flavoured Syrups: All The Rage In Cooking, Baking, And In Mixing Drinks

Angela Manning Health , ,
Flavoured Syrups: All The Rage In Cooking, Baking, And In Mixing Drinks

Flavoured syrups have recently gained in popularity. They come in various flavors with different options including organic or sugar-free varieties. They are used in many ways and are found in countless recipes in cooking, baking, cocktails, and flavored coffee to just name a few.

Cooking

As the saying goes, “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. This recipe adds extra flavor to your standard French toast breakfast by using a maple pancake flavored syrup. The recipe calls for 8 slices of bread, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 4 tablespoons of butter, 4 eggs, ¼ cup of milk, ½ teaspoon of vanilla extra, and 2 tablespoons of maple pancake flavored syrup (or maple spice flavored syrup if want a slight spiciness to your French toast). Instructions indicate to combine the sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a small bowl. Set aside. Next, in a skillet or pan, melt butter over medium heat. Combine dry mixture with the eggs, milk, vanilla, and syrup. Dip bread in the mixture then fry until it turns golden brown on both sides. Serve French toast with warm syrup topped with butter.

It’s the middle of winter and you’re sitting in front of your fireplace. You dream of a tropical getaway while craving some BBQ chicken and mangos. Break out your George Foreman grill because you can make this recipe indoors (for lunch or dinner) even without actual mangos. For best results, the chicken will need to be marinated for 24 hours. However, if you are wanting to cook this recipe within the day, give the marinade at least 4 hours to work into the meat. The recipe asks for 4 pieces of 4-ounce boneless chicken breast or thigh meat, salt and pepper (to taste), 1 cup of mango flavored syrup (or spicy mango flavored syrup), ¼ cup of BBQ sauce, a teaspoon of red pepper flakes, and 1 teaspoon of sesame oil. To begin, wash and clean chicken pieces then pat dry. Sprinkle salt and pepper on the meat and set aside. In a bowl, combine syrup, BBQ sauce, and red pepper flakes. Pour mixture in a ziplock bag together with the chicken meat. Marinate. Again, 24 hours of marinating time will give you the best results, but at least 4 hours of marinating will suffice. After marinating, remove chicken from the ziplock bag and pour used marinade in a saucepan. Bring to a boil then reduce heat. Simmer marinade for about 20 minutes until mixture is reduced. Add sesame oil and stir. Grill chicken and baste with the reduced marinade. Cook thoroughly and let the BBQ rest for at least 5 minutes before serving. Serve with rice or baked potatoes.

Baking

Another way to incorporate flavoured syrups is through baking. In this recipe, you will be making a s’more flavored sponge cake. The recipe asks for 6 large room-temperature eggs, 1 cup of granulated sugar, 1 cup of all-purpose flour, ½ teaspoon of baking powder, 2 tablespoons of toasted marshmallow flavored syrup, ½ cup of chocolate syrup (for drizzling), 1 tub of whip cream, and 1 to 2 cups of crushed graham crackers. To make, preheat oven to 350˚F. While preheating, line two 9-inch cake pans with parchment paper, do not grease sides. In a bowl that is to be attached to an electric mixer, beat eggs for 1 minute on high. While the mixer is still beating the eggs, pour 1 cup of sugar with the toasted marshmallow syrup into the bowl. Mix for 10 minutes. In a separate bowl, sift together flour and baking powder then pour into mixing bowl, 1/3 at a time. With each addition, fold mixture and scrape the bottom of the mixing bowl with a spatula until mixture is fully incorporated. When there are no longer streaks of flour, stop mixing. This is to prevent over-mixing which can cause the batter to deflate. Pour mixture evenly between the baking pans. Bake for 25 to 28 minutes or until golden brown. Once baked, allow to cool then remove cake from pans. Once removed, divide and empty the tub of whip cream on top of the cakes then sprinkle graham crackers on top. You can either combine the cakes to form 1 cake or serve separately. Drizzle chocolate over the cake and serve slightly warm.

These are only a few recipes that incorporate the use of flavoured syrups. As previously mentioned, flavoured syrups are also used to flavor coffee and make cocktails. You will find a number of recipes doing a quick search online.

CBD Edibles – A Popular Way To Take Medical Marijuana

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CBD Edibles – A Popular Way To Take Medical Marijuana

People who have been using marijuana for decades will know that when it comes to edibles, it can be a bit of a mixed bag. While there are THC edibles and THC-free edibles, each does a very different job and would be taken for very different reasons. With that said, why would you take each? Which is better for you and why would you prefer THC-free ones? Here we break it down a bit to show you the difference, effects and results of edibles and why you might want THC-free ones.

Edibles – An Overview

Edibles! They’re great, they’re tasty and they get the job done. Depending what you want out of your day in taking your medicinal marijuana, edibles can do just about any of the jobs you need doing and they do them well. Edibles come in a couple of formats, all of which are great for various reasons. CBD infused edibles which help you chill out, relax and can help reduce pain and anxiety and THC edibles which get you high – sometimes to a level where you ‘trip’ a bit if you take too much. Trust us – the latter is not what you want if you’re looking to chill, so you’re better off with CBD, or THC free edibles which will just help take the edge off when you get home from work – or even if you’re at work and need the edge off.

THC Edibles

These edibles are commonly known as things like hashcakes or hashbrownies, pot cookies or the like. They exist mainly for fun and to get you high, but in a slightly different way to smoking a joint. This is more of a heady mixed with body high, and if you eat too much you can end up having auditory and some visual hallucinations. Don’t worry though – if this isn’t your bag, they’re easily avoidable. Just look explicitly for THC free edibles.

THC Free Edibles

These are the perfect edibles for anyone who wants to take the edge off of their pain, anxiety, depression or any other issues they may have without getting high. Ideal for those who want to use an all natural product for their symptom management but want to remain able to function, go to work and generally still be productive. Many edibles with THC can make you generally very unmotivated due to the heavy relaxing effects, so CBD or THC free edibles are perfect for people who just want the edge taken off their issues in a great, health conscious, non-pharmaceutical way.

If you’re wondering which to try, the answer is easy: if you want to get high, THC edibles can be fun but go careful and don’t take too much. If you want to chill without the high, THC free is the place to be. It’s up to the individual in what they choose – some want the intense relaxation that THC can provide but don’t want to risk the anxiety or paranoia it can cause too. So at the end of the day – do your research and see which sounds the best for you!

Boost Your Cocktail With This One Frosty Ingredient

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Boost Your Cocktail With This One Frosty Ingredient

Put a twist on your regular cocktail order by adding an extra ingredient: a single ball of mochi ice cream. Skip the fancy liquors and expensive bitters because one sphere will add plenty of flavor to any mixed drink. Play bartender for the night and reinvent your cocktails by placing just one mochi ice cream dessert inside your glass.

Mochi ice cream is an unbelievable treat made of a scoop of premium ice cream blanketed with a layer of soft mochi, which is a sweetened rice dough. The texture is unlike any other scoop of ice cream you will try — in one bite, you will taste the soft, gooey mochi and the thick, velvety ice cream. The unique texture is not the only thing that makes the treat extraordinary — the flavors are what set it apart and make it the perfect ingredient for a boozy cocktail. The creator MyMo Mochi ice cream has seven fantastic flavors that you can try: vanilla bean, mint chocolate chip, sweet mango, ripe strawberry, cookies and cream, green tea and double chocolate. You should try out all the different flavors of mochi ice cream when you are making cocktails — each type can transform a drink as long as you pair them with the right alcohols.

If you’re anxious to start dropping mochi ice cream into cocktails in the hopes that it will taste good, just think ahead about the flavor pairings. Vanilla is a clean and light flavor that can balance powerful ingredients — it would be an excellent choice for a drink with tart or bitter liquors. Chocolate is smooth and sweet and will mix well with creamy cocktails filled with coffee and hazelnut liquors. Mango is a fruity and tropical flavor that will be a great partner for strong summery drinks like Tequila Sunrises, margaritas and traditional Palomas.

You don’t have to simply experiment with cocktails, you can also pair mochi ice cream with wine along with various types of beer and cider. When it comes to classic wine and ice cream pairings, you need to be careful not to have an overpowering wine — this will make the taste of the frozen dessert disappear completely. When pairing your beer with ice cream, you will want to make sure it’s a good quality beer that has undertones of other flavors like fruit and spices.

Flavors Examples of Cocktail/Wine/Beer Pairings:
Chocolate Espresso Martini, Brachetto d’Acqui, Belgian Ale
Vanilla Limoncello Cocktail, Prosecco, Peach Lambic
Mint Chocolate Chip Grasshopper Cocktail, Shiraz, Coffee Porter
Mango Tequila Sunrise, Riesling, Mango Ale
Strawberry Champagne Cocktail, Zinfandel, Hefeweizen
Cookies and Cream Irish Coffee, Cabernet Sauvignon, Stout
Green Tea Jasmine Collins, Viognier, Honey Ale

Buy different boxes of MyMo Mochi ice cream and stock up your bar, so that you can find the right pairing for your favorite boozy beverage. Whether you choose a cocktail mix, a glass of wine or a pint of beer as your drink, know that a single sphere of cool mochi ice cream will make it delicious until the very last drop.

5 Reasons To Switch To Grass Fed Beef

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5 Reasons To Switch To Grass Fed Beef

With every supermarket product sporting a label that professes it’s produced to be “cruelty-free”, “organic” or things of the likes, being inundated with these terms can make buying meat a hard task. Not only that, but the added prospect of your decision making influencing the world at large makes choosing tonight’s roast seem like life or death.

Fear not. We’ll make dinner tonight a little less dramatic by explaining what “grass fed” beef is and why it’s the best choice when it comes to your grocery shopping.


  1. Grass fed beef eats what it’s meant to, grass.

While the common standard is for cows to be fed grains, this in fact has a deleterious effect on their health. This option may be much cheaper for farmers, but the high starch concentrates effect the PH balance in the cow’s system, making them very ill and in need of antibiotics.

A diet of cow’s milk and grass (as nature intended), ensures that the cow’s inner equilibrium is maintained, making grass fed meat the healthier option for your dinner table.


  1. Grass fed meat can potentially hinder cancer.

While you wouldn’t compare a salmon to a cow, grass fed meat contains high levels of beta-carotene and those scrumptious omega-3 essential fatty acids too! Studies have proven that these key ingredients reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes and other health issues related to high blood pressure. Not only that, but the meat is also richer in vitamins A and E, more-so than the traditional grain fed option.


  1. E-coli issues are banished.

With the grass diet causing their stomachs to become stronger (due to the regulated pH balance within) grass fed cows produce microbes in their guts that fend off diseases related E-coli. The open pastures also limit the chance of disease spreading amongst the cow’s due to the open space, unlike cramped unhygienic quarters characterised by feedlots.


  1. Grass fed beef is lower in calories.

Did you know that grass fed meat helps lower cholesterol levels, consequently being lower in calories? Studies have shown that a 6- ounce steak from a grass-fed cow carries 100% fewer calories than a grain finished animal. A revelation for meat eaters who are also health conscious!


  1. Grass fed cows are cruelty free.

With the reality of factory conditions becoming more exposed to public scrutiny, it’s plain to see that the level of cruelty inflicted on cows in traditional factories is inexcusable. Grass fed cows are given ample space to live and feed, improving not only their quality of life, but the meat they produce.

Cannings prides itself on being a completely free-range butcher of speciality meats located in five permanent locations in the Melbourne area. Together with a passion for produce excellence and animal welfare, we aim to bring quality meats to the community at large at a price that won’t cost the planet.

Contact us today via the link below to view our produce with the option of purchasing your meat online, coupled with our delivery options.

https://canningsfreerangebutchers.com.au/how-it-works/