Beef Ribbs, soft and melting

Beef ribs need long slow cooking so all the gelatinous connective tissue can become soft and melt, they are best done for 6 to 8 hours. They often have quite a lot of fat on them a lot of which can be cut off before cooking.  This is about 1.5 Kg of organic grass fed…

Courgette Lasagna

This lasagna uses thinly sliced courgettes in place of pasta sheets. The white sauce is made from cream, eggs and pesto with no flour needed. So it’s grain free and low carb.Ingredients. 4 large courgettes or scallopini. 500-600gms of minced beef or lamb. 2 large onions. 2 tins of tomatoes. 3 egg yolks plus 1…

Crispy Skin Roast Duck with orange dressing

This duck has just about all the fat rendered out for later use, so its crispy on the outside but the meat is still moist and succulent. As an added bonus you will have a jar of duck fat to roast your veges or fry with afterwards. This is a longer slower roast than most,…

Roast red onion and garlic salad with Brazil parsley pesto and feta

The little onions and garlic are roasted until they are caramelised which brings out their natural sweetness, team this with a few roasted olives, the nutty, oily pesto and a sprinkle of feta and you have a delicious salad which is great on its own or as a side dish.Ingredients. 50 gms of feta, any…

Raspberry and rosewater cheesecake

For this cheese cake I am using Thorvald ewes milk cream cheese, this has a wonderfull flavour and is suitable for anyone not able to tolerate regular cows milk. Ewes milk is A2 milk and more easily digestible than regular cows milk. Or you can just as easily use regular cream cheese instead. Here I…

Fast cook beef goulash

This method of making a beef goulash gives all the flavour of a long cooked goulash without all the time requirement. Here I am using schnitzel which is quick cook thin steaks cut from the the thick flank of the animal, you could also use any quick cook steak like sirloin or rump and cut…

Almond and parsley pesto

This pesto is very quick and easy to make and is very useful with so many dishes, great with roast vegetables, chicken, a sauce with courgetti or it can be thinned  with extra oil or lemon juice into a lovely dressing for salads. Keeps in the fridge for a week, try and keep a thin…

Asparagus with tzatziki

It’s asparagus season at the moment in New Zealand and I love asparagus, its high in fibre, vitamins A,C and E and many trace minerals such as selenium, plus of course it is absolutely delicious. We enjoy asparagus in many different ways but this is one of my favourites, grilled with piles of garlicky tzatziki….

Strawberry coconut panacotta

These lovely little panacotta have no sugar in them, the full fat 100% coconut cream I use has natural sweetness and so do the strawberries. So simple to make with only four ingredients.Ingredients. 1  400gm tin of full fat additive free 100% coconut cream.  If you are lucky enough to be able to get Little…