This combination of coconut cauliflower rice with rich salmon and clean tasting fennel and apple salad is a perfect winter dish. Cauliflower is abundant in the winter as is fennel and crisp apples. This a quick easy dish to make the whole thing can be made in less than 30 minutes. I like to serve…
Tag: lunch
Cauliflower kedgeree
Traditionally kedgeree is a breakfast dish made of rice and smoked haddock with some spices and hard boiled eggs. But I like to have it for lunch and because I don’t eat grains I make it with cauliflower rice, which makes it light and fresh tasting. It is buttery and packed with parsley and…
Liverlove : liver & onions
Liver is one of the most nutrient dense foods in existence, it should be tender and melt in the mouth. There are two things that can ruin liver and onions, one is cooking the liver too much, which makes it go tough like leather and the other is not cooking the onions enough, they should…
Broccolissimo
Broccoli is so abundant at this time of year and I love using the whole of the broccoli. Here we have broccoli three different ways, lightly steaming the delicious stem that many people discard, turning the middle branch bits into grain free vegetarian burgers and roasting the florets with pine nuts.Ingredients. 2 large heads of…
Moroccan roast chicken with winter vegetables
This is an excellent way of cooking chicken, first it is marinated then boiled and then roast, the result is a very moist roast chicken. In the spring we like to eat this chicken with big piles of asparagus, in the summer with a green salad, in the autumn with the last of the summer…
Beety McBeetface Soup
This glorious soup is so pretty, the colour so intense that it’s hard to think of it as food but it is packed full of nutritional goodness and has a deep and complex yummyness that is totally delicious. The toasted fragrant fennel seeds and the bouncy orange zest perfectly compliment the sweet earthy beetroot. As…
Winter Moussaka
This is called winter moussaka because it’s winter here in New Zealand so instead of aubergines which are a summer vegetable, I use leafy greens as a layer between the meat sauce. As I didn’t want to use flour in the custard topping I have used pumpkin with eggs and cream. This recipe is for a…
Boozy Oxtail stew
Oxtails make fantastic rich unctuous stew, they have marrow and lots of collagen rich connective tissue. Here cooked long and slow with wine and Whisky and served with puréed cauliflower and stir fried kale. I am lucky to have some wonderful friends in Golden Bay that grow beautiful organic beef cattle and also make…
Long slow roast leg of lamb
A beautiful leg of lamb like this one lends itself to a long slow roast. It spends over four hours in the oven, it is covered so it retains its moistness and at the end of the cooking the succulent meat falls of the bones. Ingredients. a leg of lamb, this one is from the…
Mushroom cauliflower rice risotto
Using cauliflower rice instead of actual rice is a win win in this recipe. Not only do you get a low carb version with the added nutritional benefits of eating cauliflower instead of rice, it is also much quicker to cook than the traditional sort of risotto. Ingredients. 500gms of mushrooms, any sort will be…
Beetroot hazelnut and orange salad
This pretty salad is a fantastic way of using winter Beetroot and winter oranges, both in season here in New Zealand. Ingredients. 2 medium beetroot. 1 orange. 1/2 cup hazelnuts. 2 tablespoons of olive oil. 1 large bunch of mint. I am using apple mint. 2 tablespoons of cider vinegar or lemon juice. If you…
Roast pumpkin and crispy beef salad with tahini dressing
This salad is packed with filling pumpkin, fresh green salad leaves, crispy beef and topped with a creamy tahini dressing. Served warm it is a fantastic hearty winter salad. ingredients. 500gms prime beef mince. 4 cups chopped pumpkin. 2 small red peppers. 1 orange. 1 tablespoon fennel seeds. 2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds. large bunch…
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