Beef and cabbage quinoa rolls

Using Quinoa for a cabbage roll, a simple yummy dish.

Quinoa:
Place half a cup of quinoa in 1 cup of boiling water
Cook until done
5 minutes simmer with cover on

Filling:
Combine 500gms beef mince
1 diced brown onion
1 egg
1tbs lemon juice
Season

Blanch cabbage leaves
Wrap with filling
Cook with passata
Top with cheese

German Sausages with potato dumplings

I love authentic German sausages. Thanks to Rudi's a great butcher these are readily available.
http://rudisbutchery.com.au/

I combined this delicious meat with sauerkraut and potato dumplings.

The sauerkraut I bought and heated with some spring onion and caraway seeds.

For the dumplings I boiled 4 potatoes in their jackets and allow to cool.
Then peel the potato or if you are lazy like me use a ricer.
Combine with diced chives and butter, add flour 1 egg and mix into a paste
Roll into golf ball sized dumplings and refrigerate.

Into boiling salted water drop the dumplings when they float they are ready.

Having a saucepan full of juices from the sausages I coudn't help but fry the dumplings.

Stuffed Zucchini

A simple vegetarian dish, tasty and fresh.

Take 2 zucchini cut into half and scoop out the flesh.
Dice filling and combine 1 thinly sliced spring onion
Mix with goats cheese and with blue cheese.
Fill the shells and place in a hot oven until cooked.

Sizzling Sichuan Pork

Marinate 500gms of pork in
2tbs light soy
2tbs Shao Xing wine
1 tsp dark soy
1 tsp cornflour
Pinch of brown sugar
Salt
Ground Sichuan pepper
2 minced garlic cloves

Take 200 gms of beans
2 bunches of asparagus
Blister in oil in a very hot wok and set aside

Cook the mince in the hot wok
Add the beans and asparagus
Stir through 1tbs xo sauce

Serve with rice and cashews

Fish Pie

A traditional dish, tasty and straight forward to prepare.

Start by boiling your potatoes for the mash to top the pie.

Take a greased baking dish.

Add firm white fleshed fish cut into chunks (i used monk fish)
A handful of peeled prawns (frozen is fine)
A generous quantity of peas

Mix equal amounts of sour cream and milk with 1 tsp of corn flour and poor over contents.

When the mash is ready use it to cover the contents, top with tasty cheese

Oven bake at 180c for 40 minutes.

Pork Cabbage Rolls

A simple idea for when you are stuck as to what to prepare for tea.

Start with some flavoured pork sausages strip them of there casings and place in a bowl
To this I add my flavouring
1 Diced onion
2 tsp diced garlic
2 tsp chilli sauce (I used peri peri)
Combine well.

Boil a large saucepan of water

Take a cabbage and strip of the leaves taking care to keep them whole
Blanch the leaves briefly in the boiling water till soft drain and set aside.

Place a spoonful of the pork mixture onto a cabbage leaf, roll and place in a greased baking tray.
Repeat until tray is full or you un out of mixture.

Cover with pasata , generously top with cheese and oven bake until golden at 180c.

Beef Paprikash

This is a simple but hearty stew I serve with olive oil mash.

Brown 500gms of diced steak remove and set aside
Saute 2 diced brown onions in olive oil
Add 150gms sliced mushrooms and more oil if needed
Add 3 tsp of hot paprika
500mls of beef stock
Stir in 1tbs Dijon mustard
2 tbs of sour cream
Return the meat and simmer gently until beef is tender

Serve with olive oil mash and baby green beans