Cheese Popovers - or - what to do with those little Tupperware moulds

Looking for savoury snacks during the holidays, I turned (of course) to my McAlpin's Recipe Book from about the 1950s. I had just found a really cute Tupperware Petite Baking Form (a silicon baking tray with teeny tiny holes, not nearly as big as mini muffins). I thought it was really only useful for chocolates (and that's not bad) but it would be a waste not to put them in the oven.

So I tried these : little cheesy nibbles. I swapped onion for celery, and halved the recipe, and haven't metricated it yet, but it's pretty easy.

The Tupperware form worked, and the rest I baked in an old fashioned gem scone iron, also fantastic.











Cheese Popovers
Ingredients
8 oz SR flour
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp celery salt
pinch cayenne pepper
2 oz butter
½ cup finely chopped celery
2 Tbsp grated cheese
1 egg
¾ cup milk

Method
Rub butter into dry ingredients, add celery and cheese. Add beaten egg and milk and mix to a soft dough. Place in hot, well-greased gem irons and bake in a moderately hot oven 10 to 12 minutes.

The Alien Truth About Tupperware

I'm kicking myself. I had some spare Tupperware mugs, a really nice lot with matching coasters, and I sold them on eBay. No problems there, that was a good thing to do.

But I forgot the best bit of the sales pitch!



These particular mugs are famous for : being used in SPACE!

In particular, they were/will be used on the spaceship Nostromo, which as everyone knows is the setting for the film "Alien". Here's proof - Ripley is refreshing herself during the tedious journey home with something from a Tupperware mug.

Pretty exciting, huh?










But wait, it gets more exciting than that!

In the famous scene (you know, the gory one), the little alien - umm - bursts into view; knocks over a Tupperware mug, and scuttles off the table! Now THAT is cool. Earl Tupper would be proud that his invention was serving the people of Earth so many years into the future. Aliens clearly don't appreciate it though.

See? Told you we'd make another one!

That second gingerbread house has been made - not too much difficulty really. I made the parts yesterday (which is a bit easier than baking a standard batch of bikkies), and got my team onto decorating it today. 

So Jessamy, James, Xanthe, Catriona and Connor decorated the house with smarties, freckles and spearmint leaves. Very nice, only just a little messy.

And here's a useful organisational note - the cooked pieces of gingerbread all fit into a Tupperware Slice'n'Store - that's a standard slice container. Very handy to know when you need to put your house parts away overnight. 

Packing for my hospital visit

Just getting ready for tomorrow's hospital visit - it's a repeat of the last one, so I know what to expect. So :

Fruit for supper : check
Fruit for breakfast : check
Backup Fruit : check
Freshly baked strawberry cake for snack : check
Colourful Tupperware bowl to put it all in : check

Oh, and I suppose pajamas and stuff too.

I'll be home on Friday. See ya then.

Snowman Cake!

I got this cake tin from an op shop - well, of course. It's a Tupperware silicon one (they are 'spensive, so I pounced). This is the first time the cake's actually come out - my first try was a mess. But - how to show off the snowmanniness in the best light? Thomas suggested a thin drizzle of runny white icing, and I think I agree now. The dusting just doesn't do it.





Mmm, it's rather rich... buttery! Needs a really hot cup of tea with it.

The Tupperware Book

How you can use Tupperware to make a really cool notebook (probably rugged enough for a worksite, too).

1. Open some tins with the Tupperware can opener. It leaves the edges nice and smooth.

2. Use a Dremel tool to cut a "flap" off the side of one tin, and replace some of the lid with a sturdy gaffer tape hinge.

3. Drill some holes in the lids.

4. Cut some paper circles and punch holes in them too.

5. Assemble the whole shebang into a book with cord to tie it up.

6. Oh, and I dare say you can decorate it too. My Tupperware lady was most impressed. But then, she just likes it when I buy stuff.