Sweet and Spicy Roasted Vegetables with Tahini Sauce
Delicious way to combine vegetables, equally tasty hot or cold. Oven needs to be quite hot, I set mine to 190 degrees and turned the veg over halfway through cooking.
Chop your chosen selection of vegetables. I had butternut squash; red onions; carrots; cauliflower and broccoli. Steam these for 8 mins then put in a roasting tray with some garlic and chunked courgettes. Drizzle with a little olive oil and black pepper then bake for 30 minutes.
For the sweet and spicy sauce just combine ...
Braised Cabbage Wedges with Melting Cheese and Crushed Walnuts
Don't you feel bad for cabbage being depicted as boring and tasteless? This was an experimental dish but happy with the result.
Chop a couple of onions and sauté until softened. Add a chopped clove of garlic. Cut your cabbage into wedges (tip: they only stay whole if you keep the stem intact..) Add to the pan and fry for a couple of minutes, turn then over and fry for another couple of minutes for flavour and colour. Add a good cup of vegetable stock and simmer for 8 mins. Season to ...
Baked Vegetable and Cheese stuffed Aubegine Rolls
Honestly our boat looks like a harvest celebration right now, I've gone way overboard (pardon the pun) with buying gorgeous organic vegetables and then they also had organic goat milk cheese! Well, it would've been rude not to buy it! The cheese I've got is Pecorino, easy to grate but not too soft. It's mild, substitute for mozzarella perhaps?
Chop a selection of vegetables: red onions, leeks, courgettes - whatever you fancy. Sauté them with chopped garlic, cool then add grated ...
Fish Pie with Butternut Squash and Cauliflower Mash
This takes a while but is definitely worth the effort. I bought a selection of fish at the market this morning. A salmon steak, white fish steak (I have no idea what it is!) and a few king prawns only cost 6 euro and it's enough for two meals.
For the mash: simmer cauliflower florets and diced butternut squash in whole milk until soft. Pour the milk into a bowl for later and mash then season the mashed vegetables.
For the fish stock: peel the prawns (if you don't ...
Vegetable noodles with Chinese flavoured Meatballs
I think I'm in love with my spiralizer gadget http://www.amazon.co.uk/Premium-Spiralizer-Vegetable-Mandoline-Spaghetti/dp/B00JPLDX86/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1453736891&sr=8-2&keywords=Premium+slicer
Again no, I'm not on commission but wow - this cheap piece of kit is good! So I used this to prepare 1 courgette, 2 carrots and a chunk of butternut squash. Looks fantastic right?
For the meatballs: 200g of mince (beef, pork or chicken)
Grate garlic , ginger and ...
Spinach Pesto
Having ordered a whole kilo of spinach from the local organic farmer I had to find lots of uses. Just call me Popeye!
So it was 100 grams of spinach, a handful of basil leaves, zest and juice of 1 lemon, 2 fat cloves of garlic, 60 grams of pine nuts and 30 grams of walnuts. 50 grams of grated Parmesan cheese (but then I added more to taste), good quality extra virgin olive oil.
Just blitz it all together to a smooth paste then add salt, pepper and extra cheese until it ...
Spiced Beef and Vegetable Tagine
This was really lovely served with cauliflower rice. Very healthy and packed with flavour! Substitute the beef for pork or chicken, I guess a firm fish would work? Let me know, thanks :)
Ok, we've all got our own tastes when it comes to spice so here are the ingredients rather than quantities
Cube the protein and add grated ginger, grated garlic, paprika powder, ground cinnamon, freshly chopped chilli, black pepper, a little salt and a splash of oil. Leave flavours to mingle for an ...
Vegetable & Blue Cheese Lasagne
Sauté whatever vegetables you like until softened. I used red onions, garlic, diced butternut squash, chopped leeks and broccoli then added shredded basil and a couple of handfuls of spinach. Pour in a tin of chopped tomatoes, season and simmer until reduced.
Make a white sauce with ground almonds (delicious) or cornstarch, season with black pepper and grated nutmeg and melt in mild blue cheese to taste. I used Gorgonzola dolce.
Layer white sauce and vegetable sauce ...
Chocolate Coffee Amaretto Mousse
I know, it's a bit naughty but I can't be good all the time!
Melt 175 grams of dark chocolate. Cool slightly then add a shot of espresso and 2 tblsp of amaretto. Separate 3 eggs. Add the yolks to the chocolate. Whisk the whites. Add a generous spoon to the chocolate mixture to loosen it then carefully fold the rest in.
Crush some amaretti biscuits until they resemble breadcrumbs. Add a good splosh of amaretto liqueur.
Now the naughtiness is up to you, either use tiny glasses or bigger ...
The amazing Xana salad
Such delicious wholesome goodness just bursting with zesty flavour. The key is that everything gets chopped really small then give the flavours a few minutes to develop.
Simply chop a variety of tomatoes, onion, olives, hard boiled egg and parsley. Season with sea salt, add good quality olive oil and a generous squeeze of lemon juice.
Wait for five minutes or so then dig in! We had ours with this incredible seafood spread :)
