These fritters are a great way to get more wild salmon into your diet. In New Zealand most of our fresh salmon is farmed. So I prefer to use tinned salmon which is wild salmon, a good source of omega three and the fish are able to swim free, eat their natural diet and aquire good muscle…
Tag: LCHF
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…
Courgette fritters, roast courgettes, tomatoey green beans and courgette salad
This combination of four dishes is a great way to use the abundant courgettes and beans available at this time of year. Of course each of these dishes can be used separately, the fritters are lovely as a breakfast dish or cold spread with butter. The tomatoey garlicky beans are a dish we often had…
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…
Orange and rosemary baked ewes feta with roast beetroot and walnut salad.
The idea for this baked feta was first given to me by the partner of the master cheese maker at Thorvald ewes milk cheeses. He baked it with honey in a parcel on the BBQ. I wanted a low carb option that can be made in the oven, the pairing of orange zest, olive oil…
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…
Raspberry and mint jelly
I am always trying to get more collagen into my diet, it enhances hair, nails and skin and supports all the joints in the body as well as helping with digestive disorders. The grass fed gelatin in these jellies supplies lots of collagen, the berries are rich in antioxidants and vitamin C and the mint…
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…
Roast Carrots with feta, pumpkin seed pesto and pomegranate
Baby roasted garden carrots paired with pumpkin seed pesto and feta is a delicious combination and makes a very pretty lunch. Here I am using a firm ewes milk feta, but most sorts will work fine as long as it is not too soft. Ingredients. a bunch of young carrots. 75ml of good olive oil….