Great home made muesli

Mix together in a large tupperware tub the following, the amounts used can vary in taste, but make sure there is plenty of oats!!

Plain porridge oats
Chopped mixed nuts
Sunflower seeds
Pumpkin seeds
Dried fruit, ie: cranberries, apricots, (whatever you like)

mix together and eat in the mornings with natural yoghurt, you can also add fresh fruit when in season, scrummy!!!

Butternut Squash Soup

Roast a butternut squash in the oven until soft all the way through, about 45 mins

Fry garlic, and a sliced onion in curry powder until soft

Scrape out squash flesh, minus seeds, into a bowl, add onion and garlic, tin of tomatoes and veg stock.

Blend, and enjoy!

Chef Rick’s Louisiana Seafood Gumbo

this is really tasty, and great with a good glass of white! We uses this when we did a creole night, along with the bourbon street chicken
Ingredients:
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 onion, chopped
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
1 cup chopped celery
2 cups fresh or canned tomatoes, chopped
4 cups fish stock
2 cups seafood–shrimp, crawfish, crab, and/or catfish
2 cups okra, sliced into rounds
1 cup cooked rice

Directions:

In a large pan, heat the oil over medium heat.. Add the flour and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until it turns the color of peanut butter. Add the onion, pepper, and celery to the oil and saute until translucent. Add the tomatoes, and stock, and cook until all the vegetables are tender. Stir in the seafood, the okra, and the rice. Cook for 10 minutes, until the fish is just cooked.

To serve, place into bowls and serve with a mound of rice in the middle of the bowl.

Huli Huli Chicken

I first cooked this when a group of us were doing "the world tour of addictott rd" I chose Hawaii, and this was one of a group of dishes I served, and has become one of our favourite chicken dishes. Very simple to do, and great tasting
This popular Hawaiian barbequed chicken barbeque sauce for this dish is flavored with pineapple juice, soy sauce, sherry, ginger, and garlic.

Ingredients:
3 chickens, cut into quarters
1/4 cup tomato ketchup
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/3 cup sherry or white wine
1/4 cup frozen pineapple juice concentrate.
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 inch piece of ginger root, finely minced
Two drops of worcestershire sauce
Instructions:

Mix all ingredients except chicken, and brush over chicken pieces. Cook chicken on an grill until done, will will typically take about 40 minutes. Brush chicken with sauce repeatedly during the cooking period.

Best Barbque chicken EVER

I have talked about this loads in class, its known as drunken chicken or beer can chicken, it is spectacular to serve still sat on its beer can. The beer cooks the chicken from the inside, its great to experiment with beers, guiness, cider etc

1 whole chicken
1 can beer
garlic/onion and herbs to taste

Open can of beer, drink 1/3rd can open the top off, and put garlic/onion and herbs to taste in the can
wash, dry chicken etc
Sit chicken right over beer can, so chicken is sat propped upright using beercan and legs as a tripod,
Rub oils and any herbs to taste into chicken.
put on barbeque, cover, cook until done!

Bourbon Street Chicken

4 Chicken Breasts
Sauce
1 tspn ground ginger
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tblspn finely chopped onion
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup bourbon
1 finely chopped clove garlic

combine all the sauce ingredients and pour over the chicken, cover and leave in fridge overnight.
cook for 1 hour, basting regularly.
Great with rice

If doing double the recipe make sure chicken is still in a single layer

Yummy Scrummy Simple Linguini Dish

Takes about 15 minutes.
Enough Linguini to feed 4
Tomato paste/puree
Olive oil
Garlic
Two 50g tins of anchovies in olive oil
3 slices of bread, ground into breadcrumbs
Chopped parsley

Breadcrumb mix
Squash and fry 3 BIG garlic cloves in 4 tblspn olive oil, until they turn gold
Remove garlic and set aside
Fry breadcrumbs in the oil, stirring continuously, until they are gold, remove and put in bowl
Wipe pan, add 1 tblspn olive oil and 1 tin of anchovies, fry and stir until they are mashed up.
Add the fried anchovies, and good handful of chopped parsley to the breadcrumbs in the bowl and mix in

Tomato Sauce
Blend 3 tblspn tomato paste/puree with a little water,
Chop the fried garlic
Add both to the pan, with remaining tin of anchovies
Add 175ml of water
Simmer for 10 minutes, while you cook the linguine.
When linguini is cooked, drain and pour tomato sauce mix over

Put in a huge bowl, and sprinkle some of the breadcrumb mix on top.
Serve with the remaining breadcrumbs in a bowl to add while eating.

I love this with chunks of Mediterranean bread and a great glass of white. 