Spring Vegetable Medley

Boil some royal white quinoa add some minced garlic

In a frypan combine with lots of olive oil
2 sliced brown onions
400gms of cooked shelled broad beans
4 cloves of garlic
200gms of swiss brown mushrooms, cut in half
2 bunches of asparagus

I served the quinoa in a mold
Veges spread around
Garnish with caper berries

A couple of fillets of fish for the meat eaters.

Cajun Style pork - Slow cooker

This is an experiment with the slow cooker and a rolled pork loin.

In the bottom of the slow cooker I added

4 potatoes cut into halves
2 red capsicum cut into strips
1 sliced brown onion
4 garlic cloves crushed and chopped
2 diced carrots

2 cups of chicken stock
1tbs of corriander, cumin, chilli
Liberal amount of cajun seasoning and vegeta

I placed the pork on top of this and cooked for 6 hours

Then I added a pack of Zatrain's Rice and Red Beans and cooked on high for 50 minutes.
( Regular rice with more of the spices and red kidney beans could be an alternative)

Stuffed meat loaf

1 kg of mince.
3 hard boiled eggs
carrot
capsicum
diced bacon

generous seasoning made a sauce to glaze with ketchup, spicy bbq sauce and chilli garlic sauce

covered with bacon

5 hours in slow cooker

Spicy Chicken Mince

Dice finely 1 brown onion
1 carrot finely diced
3 diced celery ribs
1 diced red capsicumm
For finely chopped garlic cloves
Simmer in olive oil until soft

Brown 500gms of chicken mince
Add Chilli bean paste
Cocnut milk or grated coconut to taste

Serve on a bed of rice with nuts

Caramel Ice Cream

In your Ice Cream maker add

400mls condensed milk
200 gms of condensed reduced cream (low fat)
2 cups of milk (I used skim)
1 can of caramel filling
3/4 cup splendour
1 egg

Stir in ice cream maker until set and transfer to the freezer

Lamb Obsession

This is another slow cooker gem.

Roughly chop 1 brown onion
Place one packet dry french onion soup
1 tin condensed cream of mushroom soup
Rinse tin and add the water
On top of the onion place your lamb (I used a rolled loin )

Slow cook for 6 hours

Serve with mash or cous cous and vegetables