Lentil Salad With Baby Beets & Feta
A lovely healthy salad that will keep you going until dinner. I found this on the back of a packet of French style lentils.
Berry Nectarine Smoothie
This is a combo my 2 1/2 year old DD came up with. I let her choose what she wanted in the smoothie and just threw it all together. She’s a pretty good cook for a 2 1/2 year old, it turned out well. The addition of spinach leaves was my input merely for extra nutrition, these are optional.
Cherry Tomato and Bocconcini Pizza
Bocconcini means small mouthfuls of cheese they are semi-soft, white and rind less unripened mild cheese and have a spongy texture. Originally made only from the milk of water buffaloes but cows milk is used now. Bocconcini are now available in supermarkets and packaged in whey or water. The originally recipe asked for 3 x 250 gram of cherry tomatoes but I thought it’s a bit excessive as the 14 cm pizza can hold only about eight tomatoes. I topped ours with basil as I found rocket a little bitter. You welcome to skip the dough and use store buy a pizza bases or Lebanese bread, it’s up to you. This recipe came from Sunday Hearld Sun, Sunday Magazine on 18 March 2007, it’s a Donna Hay recipe
Tuna and Corn Jaffles
In Australia toasted sandwiches with sealed edges are called jaffles and sandwich toasters makers, which are now electric, are called jaffle irons. These are named after the original jaffle iron, which was a long-handled hinged iron implement for toasting sandwiches in a campfire.
Pork Sloppy Joes
Huey’s version of Sloppy Joes, from the Snack Attack section of his website. As always, he has his own take on a recipe and as always he adds lots of heat! Before posting this recipe, I read several hundreds of Zaar recipes for Sloppy Joes and concluded that in 99.9% of cases they are made from ground beef. But that was just my impression so I’ll happily be corrected if I’ve misunderstood the concept. 🙂 Huey’s recipe was sufficiently different from all those I read, so I decided to post it. Increase or decrease the heat to meet your taste preferences. Some conversions: 410g = 13oz; 440g = 14oz. And another conversion I had to make because Huey – in typical fashion – was vague in his specification of ingredients: I have converted his “1 good splash soy sauce” into “1-2 tablespoons of soy sauce”. From watching his TV cooking shows, I know that by a “splash” he means a fairly liberal splash! Please use your discretion and taste preferences to guide you here! 26 January 2009 UPDATE: Thank you to the two reviewers whose reviews have enabled me to make this update. First, you may like to incorporate some of justcallmetoni’s additions. I know if I were making this – minus the heat – I’d be adding onion and garlic. Secondly, appleydapply’s finding that there was too much liquid suggests that you need to be cautious of how much liquid you include. As you undoubtedly know, canned tomatoes vary enormously in how much liquid they contain. Aldi’s Italian tomatoes contain very little liquid compared with other brands. So I’d suggest pouring off all the liquid or most of it and, as she suggested, reducing or eliminated the amount of stock used. I’ve retained the original amount but stated that its addition is optional.
