Sample recipes from Alice and Megan's Cookbook

Alice & Megan Cookbook: Format: 210 x 142; spine TBC

O’BRIEN

Get cooking with

Alice & Megan!

Alice and Megan are writing a cookbook. But Alice is not the world’s the greatest cook … so could it be a

recipe for disaster? Well, not with Megan’s help – as Megan’s mum, little sister Rosie, Miss Leonard, the Home Economics Teacher …

This fun-filled cookbook is packed with brilliant recipes.

Why not wake up to French toast and tropical smoothies? Or go to school with raspberry muffins and pasta your friends with home-made burgers followed by ice

cream with toffee sauce? All this and more included!

Brilliant Breakfasts j Lucky Lunchboxes j Super Snacks j Marvellous Main Courses j Delicious Desserts j Cakes & Cookies

JUDI CURTIN is the author of the seven books in the best-selling ‘Alice & Megan’ series, as well as Eva’s Journey.With Roisin Meaney she has written See if I Care, also published by The O’Brien Press.

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salad? Or snack on smores and quesadillas? Or impress

Alice & Megan’s

well as advice (whether the girls want it or not!) from

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own, or Quesadillas are nice on their chilli served with ketchup or sweet sauce.

la you will need: For each quesadil 2 tortilla wraps ated cheese About 100g of gr onions 2 chopped spring

Quesadill as These ar e quick to make make th and very ese on F tasty. I o r id ay night up any t ften s, when ortilla w I want to raps left school lu use over fro nches. E m makin ach que people ( g m sadilla w y or one v ill ser ve ery hung t w ry perso o n).

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For ten Petits Four s you will need: A 100g bar of mil k chocolate 10 regular-sized m arshmallows or 20 mini-marshmallows 10 petits fours ca ses (not that fanc y – they’re just ba cases.) by-sized bun What you do: 1. Break up the ch ocolate and put in to a small bowl ov simmering water. er a pan of Stir until the choc olate is melted. (‘ Techniques’, p 15 Ti .) ps & 2. Put the petits fours cases onto a flat tray or a big teaspoonful of mel plate. Put a ted 3. Place a marshm chocolate into each paper case. allo pressing down gent w into the soft chocolate in each pa per case, ly.

4. Use the scrapi ngs of the chocol ate bowl (if you ha clean by now) to ven’t licked it put one dot of ch ocolate on top of 5. Put into the fr ea ch marshmallow. idge to set, and fi nd something very distract you while exciting to do to you are waiting! Th ey should be read two and then you y in an hour or can invite your ni ne very best friend s over to visit.

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ur s o F s t i t Pe w o l l ts a M et trea e c w o s , l h C e smal ours’ ar

f d ,‘petits w o lear ne n I k . ’ ’t n n e d . i v l you d a mea eans ‘little o In case the end of m ice at and it d h e c ? – Al v n ? r e o e r s n F u . r s rance ame i ber B The n n I was in F ed – remem he arn that w t all you le no That’s

Small and sweet, just like me ! – Rosie

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For ten Petits Four s you will need: A 100g bar of mil k chocolate 10 regular-sized m arshmallows or 20 mini-marshmallows 10 petits fours ca ses (not that fanc y – they’re just ba cases.) by-sized bun What you do: 1. Break up the ch ocolate and put in to a small bowl ov simmering water. er a pan of Stir until the choc olate is melted. (‘ Techniques’, p 15 Ti .) ps & 2. Put the petits fours cases onto a flat tray or a big teaspoonful of mel plate. Put a ted 3. Place a marshm chocolate into each paper case. allo pressing down gent w into the soft chocolate in each pa per case, ly.

4. Use the scrapi ngs of the chocol ate bowl (if you ha clean by now) to ven’t licked it put one dot of ch ocolate on top of 5. Put into the fr ea ch marshmallow. idge to set, and fi nd something very distract you while exciting to do to you are waiting! Th ey should be read two and then you y in an hour or can invite your ni ne very best friend s over to visit.

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