Recipes

• Beef Tagine with beetroot and oranges
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• plus a knob of butter
• 3-4 cloves crushed garlic
• 1 red onion, halved
• lengthways
• 40gm grated fresh ginger
• 1 red chilli, sliced and deseeded
• 2 teaspoons coriander
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 3-4 beetroot, peeled and quartered
• 500gm lean beef cut into cubes
• 2 thin skinned oranges cut into
• segments
• 1 tablespoon dark runny honey
• knob of butter
• 2-3 tablespoons pistachios
• parsley
• salt
• pepper

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• 1 cup dried chickpeascup tahini
• ½ cup lemon juice
• 3 tablespoons olive oil,
• plus extra for drizzling
• 2 cloves chopped garlic
• 1 teaspoon cumin salt
• sweet paprika for garnish

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Serves 3 to 4

• Wholemeal pipe Loaf
• 1 tblspn butter
• 6 eggs, beaten
• 3 tblspns milk
• 4-6 lettuce leaves
• 1 medium onion, peeled and sliced into rings
• 1 medium tomato, sliced
• ½ cucumber, sliced
• Parsley

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Serves 4

• 4 large potatoes
• 4 spring onions
• ¼ cup of cream or yoghurt
• 2 slices ham, chopped
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 4 eggs
• ½ cup grated tasty cheese

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Baklava

This is a popular delicious Greek sweet.

Filling

• 1½ cups finely chopped walnuts
• 1 cup finely chopped almonds
• cup granulated sugar
• 1 tspn ground cinnamon
• ¼ tspn ground cardamon
• tspn ground cloves
• 20 sheets filo pastry sheet
• ¾ cup unsalted butter, melted
• Syrup
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup honey
• 1 x 10cm strip of lemon peel
• ½ vanilla bean, halved lengthwise
• 1 cinnamon stick

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• 1 tblspn butter, plus ½ cup butter melted
• 1 small diced onion
• 2 cloves crushed garlic
• 1kg fresh stemmed spinach
• tspn ground or freshly grated nutmeg
• Salt & pepper to taste
• 1 cup crumbled Feta cheese
• 1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
• 3 tblspns heavy cream
• 8 sheets filo pastry  

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Filling

• 8 small eating apples. They do not
• have to be cooking apples.
• 2 tbspn flaked almonds (optional)
• Sprinkle of cinnamon
• ½ cup sultanas
• 2 tbspn castor sugar
• + 1 tbspn for topping
• Strawberry or raspberry jam
• A little milk & pastry brush Read more >>