Orange marmalade with a twist

Well really its not Marmalade as we know it, In my opinion its far superior than any shop bought  or home made other brands. No added sugars, no fats, low Gi, high in protein.

Ingredients

3 large Organic Oranges
1 fl oz honey 30ml
2 fl oz  agave syrup 60ml


Preperation

Quarter cut all 3  Oranges and feed through  your food processor slicing into thine slices do not remove orange peel. If you don't have a processor then cut by hand as thinly as you can.  Place  into a medium saucepan and add enough water  to fill have way up the pan, cover and bring to a simmer cook for a further ten minutes until the orange peel is softening.

Remove from heat drain and discard  juices, Return orange peel to saucepan add honey and agave syrup mix thoroughly to coat all orange peel.

Simmer over a low heat for approximately 40-45 minutes stirring  occasionally. The orange peel will begin to break down and begin to thicken a little.

Remove  and cool,  spoon into a kilner jar and seal,  stores in a refrigerator for about three weeks .

Delicious with  Organic Bread and ricotta cheese.

Breakfast organic bread and cheese with a twist.

A really nice refreshing taste at breakfast time, in the time it takes for your kettle to boil ready for your first brew of the day the most important one, the life saver, already prepared earlier and stored in the refrigerator  get your  (see) Marmalade out and your ricotta cheese  simply pop in the toaster the  organic  bread slices,  the rest its simple.  Enjoy.

Roast lamb shanks

I had these tucked away at the back of the freezer now for some time  just waiting for a special time which never seem to come round, well,  temptation  got the better of me , I simple love lamb shanks.

 Ingredients

2 lamb shanks
1 head broccoli
2 medium carrots
1 small sprig Thyme
Organic Olive Oil
Black Pepper
Salt.
Mint
Sugar
Malt Vinegar

Preparation

First take the sprig of thyme and De-leaf all leaves from stalks, wash  and chop them as small as you can get them  place to one side, next drizzle lamb shanks with olive oil, shake salt over to your  taste now rub  in the salt and olive oil into the skin of the lamb shanks,  next place  thyme on the shanks and rub in to the olive oil, place in preheated oven  on gas Mark 5  for 2 hrs.

Whilst cooking prepare the veg, broccoli  and carrots along with (see)  mint sauce.

Home made mint sauce.

Now that a lot of my herbs have been replaced this year after so called gardeners who didn't know the difference between them and weeds, Its time to start making home made Mint sauce again.

 


Ingredients.

Mint  leafs, Vinegar, Sugar,  Pinch of salt.

Prearation.

Pick over the mint leave (far left photo), to remove any  that are not 100%  rinse in cold water  remove all stalks and dice  as small as you can get it ( middle photo).  Into a small bowl add I tsp sugar and add a pinch of salt (to taste) add all the diced mint and  slowly drizzle Vinegar to suite your thickness of mint. store in fridge till needed.

Organic Pizza

Hand made organic pizza, well nearly  we never made the bases for  them, but next time they will be made by us,  but that's another recipe.

Organic Ingredients

2 Pizza bases
1Tbls tomato ketchup
2 Tomato 
1 Red pepper
2 Mushrooms
   Grated  cheese
   Drizzle of olive oil

Dressing Ingredients. 

3 Romaine lettuce leaves
1 Bunch of water cress
   Salt and pepper
   Olive oil.

Preparation.

Preheat oven to 360 f / 180 c  degrees. Place the pizza  bases on a large baking tray spoon on one tbls of ketchup into the center of the base  and spoon outwards in circular motion to the outer edge of the pizza base so all the surface is covered with ketchup.  Now sprinkle the grated cheese evenly over the  surface till it covers the entire base .  Slice red peepers, mushroom and tomatoes layering evenly over surface.  Drizzle olive oil, add pepper and salt to taste. Place in preheated oven. Cooking time approx  12 -15 mins.

Preparation of  Dressing.
Roll  lettuce leaves  and water cress  together into a tight ball and slice  very thinly  into  strands, toss in a bowl to loosen,  add  pepper and salt  to taste, drizzle with olive oil.

Remove hot Pizza add dressing and serve immediately.

Remember folks tomatoes hot, hot, bloody hot be careful. enjoy.

Accompaniment.

Serve with  chilled Organic orange  squash.