Jessie McKinnon

Last night for dinner, we had burgers. Burgers are an awesome, cheap and easy meal. It uses loads of pantry staples so if you have lots of sauces and spices, you won't end up having to buy very much! This recipe is to make about 8 or 9 large burgers. You can make these a few hours ahead of time and you can freeze any uncooked leftovers for next time! Jessie's Easy Burger Recipe Serves 4. Prep time: 10 minutes (with 20-30 minutes time in the fridge). Cooking time: ~8 minutes. Utensils you need: a teaspoon a grater a large plastic or glass mixing bowl a large frypan a spatula a large plate cling film/glad wrap Ingredients: 500g of 3-star beef mince mince 1 large brown onion grated (unless you like chunks of onion, then diced) 1 large egg 1/2 cup of breadcrumbs Seasonings of your choice (I used the following but you can put in whatever you want) - Tomato sauce - BBQ sauce - Worcestershire Sauce Dried herbs : ros...

Yesterday morning I made some Wholemeal Carrot and Walnut Muffins , and they are actually awesome. I've never baked with wholemeal flour before and thought that they turned out really nicely. The recipe I used is roughly the recipe used on  Anna Saccone's banana muffin video . I had absolutely loads of carrots that needed using, so decided to making 'carrot cake muffins' would be a great way to use them up - especially because I don't have a juicer.. wah! There are so many different recipes for carrot cake and carrot muffins, but I really liked the look and sound of this recipe because of how little sugar it uses. I know there's still a bit of sugar in them, but a lot of the natural sweetness comes from the dates which is pretty cool. I also really just wanted to see if wholemeal flour would be that different... and it wasn't, so I'll be using that loads more in my cooking! :D I completely winged it in terms of the icing - I ha...