combo meal with cashew cheese

This cashew cheese idea from a raw website I visited. There are many with variations. My one is....

a cup of cashews, juice of a medium lemon, clove of garlic, tablespoon of nutritional yeast, tablespoon of grape seed oil. Blend together until smooth. It starts of a bit runny but soon thickens in the fridge. Chop parsley and mix through to serve on top of salad.

September 2011 view

In the forground is chia plant.

grandmas spaghetti

We call this Grandma's spaghetti from my Dad's mum's version. Ours has tinned tomatoes rather than the original Heinz tomato soup and garlic .My mum makes it Grandma's way.

amounts don't matter much really just start with

500g  organic spaghetti  and cook that up in the usual salty boiling water.

while that is happening:

fry up bacon , onion and garlic

when cooked add a large tin or two 440g tins of  organic crushed tomatoes.

Add dried chives, sugar  (1tsp)  salt & pepper. Dried paprika is nice also.

cook for a while to get the flavours tasty

add cooked, drained spaghetti and simmer until it thickens a bit.

Add cream about 1/4 cup or milk about 1/2 cup (this tames down the acid I think in the tomatoes as does the sugar).

Serve with cheese.

this picture is after the milk has been added.
My Mum adds cheese in the pot but it sticks to the pot and is hard to clean off easily for me!

Indigo 's Avo face dip

Cooked pickled Beetroot

INGREDIENTS:
it takes about an hour to cook on a low heat. The beetroot softens and melds with the flavours. Taste along the way to see if you like the flavours and add more flavourings as you like.
quantities vary depending on amount of beetroot and quality of flavourings ....
butter/oil in frying pan to coat
fresh grated Beetroot
tablespoon of vinegar to start
garlic
fresh thyme (dry works but I think not as good)
powdered cloves, a pinch
salt pepper
sugar if beetroot not so sweet (i usually wait til it is cooked for about 30 min before adding sugar and be sure there is enough moisture to prevent sticking with the sugar)
water if it starts to stick
Eat warm or cold!

simple food, simple equipment

I still can make some ok food with my simple tools. Simplest is my inbuilt food processors, hands and mouth!!

Today's progresesion:
A child wanted an apple smoothie. Sounds a bit strange? It's apple juice in cows milk (I like almond), it taste quite nice. So I had some apple pulp, and apple juice left. I didn't want to waste it so I got the cut up  pineapple  I had in the fridge and juiced that also, now we have apple pineaple juice.

The pulp I added to a mixture of almond meal and shredded coconut I was playing with and had left in the fridge for "something later". I've added ground linseeds, vanilla seeds, coconut sugar and raisins. The mix is drying in the dehydrater in the shape of cookies. Hope they taste OK.

Kale chips worked quite well.
Kale,olive oil, nutritional yeast, salt and fresh finely chopped rosemary. Had no cashews!!

Vegie almond sprinkle:
This happened over a few days.
I dried some shredded cabbage, red carrot, parsnip, orange carrot and onion that had beed lightly coated in oil with a little homemade "herbamare" from a few years ago.
It was ok but a little....(I think i would like them dried separately then do somethings with them) I ground it all up with some dries almond meal and it tastes quite nice, on avacado so far.

a while ago.
Tomato soup
This was yummy.
Fresh and semi sundried tomatoes, 1 medium peeled zucchini, basil, rosemary(just a few lillte leaves), salt, pepper dash olive oil a bit of water and blitzed. I warmed it a little to take the chill off, topped with pepper and rawmesan.

now I'm waiting for nice tomatoes again.