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  • Quinoa Pancakes
  • Healthy Juices
  • Quinoa Summer Salad
  • Lamb Cutlets - Kiwi Style
  • Chilli Lime Syrup
  • Sweet Apple Syrup

Quinoa Pancakes

Start your day with some sweet pancakes - why not try using Quinoa flour - say: "Kinoah" this grain is a South American superfood, which can easily be mixed with three eggs, and enough milk for a good pancake batter - mix it up in two minutes and fryin butter for sunday breakfast or midnight snack.

  • Chocolate Icecream, Banana & Jam
  • Fruit & Homemade Apple Syrup
  • Lemon & Agave Syrup
    Agave is like an Aloe Vera plant, it's used to make Tequila - which is why it caught my eye in the health food shop - the Agave Syrup is great in cocktails, sweet and sour stir fry and another yummy alternative to Canadian Maple Syrup.

Healthy Juices

In New Zealand I designed and packaged five healthy juices, and a new brand: Jumpin Jak, produced by PINTO. Since then I've experimented with combinations of fresh fruit and vegetables. Here are my current favourites:

  • Watermelon & Mint
  • Carrot, Apple & Ginger
  • Beetroot, Apple & Ginger

Quinoa Summer Salad

This South American grain is said to be a superfood - and it goes well in a great light salad, mixed with:

  • Quninoa, boiled (like rice) for 10 - 12 minutes
  • Cucumber, diced
  • orange and yellow Peppers
    (cut them first: down the outside, from top to bottom x4, leaving an empty cage and unwanted seeds), diced
  • Tomatoes (cut like above, discard centre / pulp), diced
  • Lemon Juice dressing

Beetroot Salad

One of Mum's classics - a favourite (real juicy) summer side dish

  • Beetroot, cooked, diced
  • Sour Cream / Crem Fraiche
  • Spring Onion chopped finely
  • Mustard / Horseradish Sauce
  • S + P
  • Lemon Juice dressing

Blue Apple Salad

This is my simpler variation on a modern-favourite (it's often done with cubed pear on a bed of rocket)

  • Green apples, peeled, quartered and grated
  • Soft blue cheese (like Roquefort) cubed or crumbled
  • Walnuts, crushed [I always like to soak nuts before using them, apparently this helps tobreak-down an enzyme (which naturally helps nuts 'keep' longer)]

Herby Lentil Feta and Bacon Salad

Another perfect picnic salad out of a tin. Lentils are cooked in a jar, just wash 'em witht he collander

  • Lentils
  • Coriander
  • Basil
  • Feta Cheese (Tin of pre-cubed Feta in herby oils)
  • Bacon Bits
    - optional
    -as this is a good protein salad to cater for vegetarians

Bean Salad

Another perfect picnic salad out of a tin. Lentils are cooked in a jar, just wash 'em witht he collander

  • Beans, washed
  • Rucula
  • Sundried Tomatoes
  • Cherry Tomatoes
  • Basil, chopped
    or leaves clapped and tossed into salad
  • Balsamic dressing

Camping Bowl

Meals on wheels = tins. Learned this one on a surf trip in the Canary Islands

  • Tuna tin
  • Sweet Corn tin
  • Green Olives
  • Mayonaise
  • S + P
  • Bread / Crackers / Lettuce pockets / Toasted Sandwiches / Corn Crackers / Rice Crackers

LAMB CUTLETS - Kiwi Style

w Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Vegetables

A classic recipe (with a twist from New Zealand) Mint is swapped out for Kiwi
- we discovered that some slices of fresh kiwifruit go down well in the oven

  • 2 Lamb Racks
    - I've found the best Export Quality New Zealand Lamb here in Europe!
  • Rosemary
  • Kiwi Fruit

Season racks well, using a few sprigs of Rosemary and Maldon Sea Salts

then seal skin side down

and cook in a hot oven

once they're sizzling (in oil and Rosemary)
take 'em out (keep the oven door shut!)
and use the Rosemary to brush this juice back on top

after ten minutes add slices of Kiwi Fruit to entirely cover the meaty bits

after 20 minutes they should be done, still just a little pink = ready!
[because now you rest them for a further 10 minutes - covered (under aluminium foil) ...while drinks are topped-up

sharpen your knife
Cut along bone to serve as cutlets

serve High & Central
on a cup of Mashed Potato
with Roast Veggies slices sprayed-out

Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Vegetables

Aubergine & Courgette

- sliced thin
- add to oven tray beside lamb
- with olive oil
- later add salt & pepper or your favourite seasoning combo
- and some carrot sticks last

Asparagus

Asparagus can be blanched in boiling water
(start heating the water after adding your Veggies and Kiwi Fruit to the roast)

Melon with Lime-Chile Syrup

the perfect summer dessert

Slices of melon provide a cool, silky texture while the syrup punches up the sweet and adds an exciting bit of heat. The lime balances the flavors and refreshes the palate. But best of all, this dessert is quick and simple and leaves the oven resolutely turned off.

Melon with Lime-Chile Syrup
serves 6-8

  • juice and zest from two limes
  • 1 jalapeño pepper
  • 4 tablespoons sugar
  • 4 tablespoons water
  • 1 ripe melon, about three pounds

For the syrup
Zest the limes (I use a rasp) then cut them in half and squeeze all the juice out. You should have roughly 4 tablespoons. Cut the pepper in half lengthwise and roughly chop one half, leaving in the seeds and rib. With the other half, scrape out the seeds and rib and add them to the rough chopped pepper and chop the remaining flesh in to an even, fine dice. Try to be as neat as possible, as this dice will be used for garnish later.

Combine the juice, sugar, water and the rough chopped jalapeno plus extra seeds and ribs in a small sauce pan and heat gently over low heat, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved, about one or two minutes. Remove from heat and cool completely. Strain the syrup and discard solids. If there's time, refrigerate the syrup to cool it even further.

Just before serving
Slice melon into thick wedges. I got eight medium-sized slices from my 3 pound melon. Gently scrape out the seeds and place wedges on individual plates. Drizzle with the cool syrup and garnish with the finely chopped jalapeno and lime zest. Serve on a plate with a spoon. Optional garnish: finely chopped mint or basil.

Notes: I used a Gala melon (sublime!) this time around, but a honeydew or cantaloupe (or both) should be fine. I also used a red jalapeño for color but you can use any hot pepper you'd like.