Prawn, pea and tomato curry

This recipe came from BBC Good Food. It is quick, low-fat and pretty tasty.
A good mid-week meal.

Vegetable stirfry al fresco

Had this simple, quick and tasty stirfry at my sister's. Just a supermarket basic stirfry with some added soy sauce and vegetables from the fridge.

Jamie Oliver's vegetable rogan josh, carrot salad and lemon pickle

This is one of Jamie's 30 minute dinners - although it took my mum a lot more than 30 minutes!

Made good left overs too.

Molly cake

This is a lovely moist fruit cake - tastes a bit like Christmas cake.

It contains no refined sugar or fat. It is free of eggs and dairy products and it works fine with wf flour. It's really easy. Put the chopped dates and water in a pan and bring to the boil. Then remove and set aside.

Mix all the dry ingredients - wf flour, wf baking powder, mixed spice, dried mixed fruit and ground almonds. Stir in the wet date mixture and orange juice. Bake in a loaf tin for 45-50 mins.

Goes down well with my whole family.

Liz's green salad

Liz made this delicious salad when she came to stay over the recent bank holiday.

Packed with goodies!

Rocket, lettuce, coriander, parsley, dill, oregano, sage, mint, wakame, kelp powder, spirulina. And also some non-green ingredients; buckwheat, kidney beans, chickpeas, tinned sardines, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, liquid aminos.

Liz also has this with quinoa or rice. 

Pink 'sushi'

This raw food recipe came from a magazine clipping.
The sushi nori is lined with watercress, julienned carrot and cucumber, sliced avocado and pink 'pate'.
The pink pate is made by blending raw beetroot, red pepper, olive oil, tamari, cider vinegar, cashew nuts, ginger, red chilli and maple syrup.

It turned out quite well and was fun to make. I was nervous using raw beetroot for the first time but it wasn't as messy as I expected.It was tasty.

I seemed to have a lot of pate left which I had the next day in salad and  over salmon.

Prawn, spinach and red pepper stir-fry with shiitake mushroom and gojii berry rice

This stir-fry is delicious and quick. I served it with a new convenience food I found in a local health food store - rice with shiitake and gojii berries that is partially pre-cooked. All it needs is 5 mins in boiling water. I served it with furikake (Japanese sesame and seaweed sprinkle).

Jamie Oliver's tray-baked salmon

I got this recipe from Naked Chef cookbook. It's very simple. Just blanch the green beans and mix them in a bowl with the cherry tomatoes, black olives and olive oil. Put salmon fillets, seasoned with salt pepper and lemon juice at one end of the tray and bean mix at the other end. Lay some anchovy fillets over the beans and roast on high heat for 10 mins and hey presto.