My Summer Citrus & Ginger Elixir...

Summer Hits and the Thirst Begins...

To many times we go for the sugar filled Juices, Fizzy Pop, and Even the KEG building BEER! 

So, I have decided that I am on a quest of thirst quenching, refreshing and hydrating drinks for this summer. We all know water is good for us! This drink does contain water, but sometimes we just need something a little more! So here Is the First of my many to come tasty drinks!

Recipe:

Juice of one lemon

Juice of one sweet mandarin

1 nub of ginger 

1/2 cup of ice

Spring water (sparkling or not) to top

I juiced my lemon, ginger and mandarin. Added my citrus juice to my blender with my ice and blitzed it up! I followed by topping my now slushy like mix with my water. This mix made two beautiful refreshing summer drinks. If you like things a little sweeter you could add a teaspoon of raw honey to keep it on the RAW side!

Thanks Guys!

Indian Spiced Raw Carrot Salad

Easy as!

I thought I would jump back in with some quick fresh and fast recipes!

I've changed a few things in the way I eat! The recipes I'll be posting for the next little while are based on time! I dont have much of it at the moment. 

Im sure you all are in the same boat. I'm trying to live with as much raw in my life as I can! So here is the first 5 minute meal I made tonight for you! I ate this with blackened salmon but didn't have time to post the salmon, but the salad is a stunner!

Recipe:

1/2 one Large Red Onion (sliced)

5 Large Organic Carrots (spiraled, Julianne, or even grated)

4 springs of Fresh cilantro (roughly chopped)

1 teaspoon Fresh ginger (grated finely)

Flesh of 1 young coconut (drink the water, yum!)

3 tsp Raw Honey

2 tbsp Cold pressed Olive Oil

1/2 cup Organic Raisins 

1/2 Raw Almonds (I slivered mine by hand)

1 tsp Mild Curry powder

1 tsp Ground Coriander

1 tsp Ground Cumin 

1/2 tsp Turmeric

1/2 tsp Celtic Sea Salt

Scrape the flesh out of your coconut using the back of a large spoon!

Place the coconut flesh, salt, ground spices, honey and Olive oil in a blender and blitz until smooth and creamy

Grate, peel, spiral, julianne your carrot, add it to a bowl with your raisins, slivered almonds and red onion. Fold your sauce through and lastly your roughly chopped cilantro. 

BOOM!

There you have it! A five minute salad that will impress your taste buds and everyone! 

This Salad garnishes it self. It would accompany almost anything or just eat the bowl to your self! 

Thanks guys, and Remember always play with your food ;)

Sesame Thins...

These are EPIC!

The sesame seeds crackle and kinda pop in your mouth. They are so crunchy. A grade cracker in my books.

Ingredients...

Makes 60 crackers

1 cup ground almond meal

1/4 cup black sesame seeds 

1/2 cup white sesame seeds

1 tsp dried dill

1/2 tsp celtic sea salt

1 tbsp dried onion flakes

1 tsp garlic powder

2 tsp horse radish (if not add more olive oil)

1 tbsp olive oil

 Ingredients

 Place all your ingredients in a mixing bowl, and mix with your hands. Continue kneading until ball form.

 Place a sheet of plastic wrap on your cleaned bench and lay your cracker dough on-top. flatten it into a rectangle shape with your hands. Follow by rolling out very thin.

 Once rolled out and thin cut your crackers into desired shape.

 Place your crackers onto a greased oven tray and bake at 180c for around 8 minutes or until desired color is reached.

My baked crackers looked like this.

These will go down with everyone. Paleo or not. Fantastically crunchy!

Enjoy 

Paleo Pork, Lemon, & Thyme Sausages...

Because Everyone realistically loves a good sausage, right...

Well, Most of them are filled with all sorts of garbage that nun of us need. So here you go. A paleo flavor packed saussie!

Ingredients...

500gms free range pork mince

1 heaped tbsp fresh thyme

zest of one lemon
4 cloves of garlic

2 lg eggs

1 tbsp white balsamic vinegar 

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

1/4 tsp celtic sea salt

2 tbsp coconut flour (plus extra for "flouring")

 Ingredients

 1. Place all ingredients in a bowl or blender dependent on how your going to blitz your ingredients (you need to blitz the ingredients, mince is not fine enough to make sausage).

 2. Your blitzed sausage meat ready to roll out.

 3. I cleaned my bench down, and wet my hands after rolling each into the best sausage shape I could get. I got 12 medium sausages out of this mix.

 4. I placed my extra coconut flour (around 2 tbsp) on a plate and rolled each sausage until they were all lightly floured.

 5. My floured and ready to fry up sausages!

6. As normal fry them up on medium to high heat in a well oiled pan until golden.

Well, These puppy's are fantastic. Enjoy them with your sunday morning breakfast, Wrapped up in lettuce with sauce poured on them, or just eat them! I do hope you enjoy this healthier take on the beloved sausage!

ENJOY

Flavor Packed Raw Beet-Root Dip...

So simple and Packed with flavor!

Ingredients...

2x medium raw beet-root (peeled & diced)

1/4 cup soaked macadamia nuts (soaked 12 hrs)

2x lg cloves garlic

1x tbsp olive oil

6x lg basil leaves

1 tbsp lemon juice

1/2 cup water

1/2 a ripe avocado

1/2 tsp celtic sea salt

1/2 tsp ground black pepper 

 1. Ingredient lot 1

 2. Ingredient lot 2

 3. Place ingredient lot 1 in your food processor and blitz until smooth

 4. Now add your 2nd lot of ingredients and blitz until creamy and smooth...

This dip is so versatile and so fantastically fresh! Spread it on your nori wraps, dip your veggies in it, the list goes on!

I do hope you enjoy.

Keep it Fresh! 

Flax Wraps

I have been mucking around with recipes for wraps since I began paleo...

BAM

She's a keeper. I dedicate this recipe to my first recipe funder as I know this will be a great staple to us all! 

Cheers

Ingredients...

(makes about 6 medium wraps)

1/4 cup egg white powder (I dont know why but its worked the best. Pick it up from any health food shop)

1 cup flax meal (ground flax seeds)

1 3/4 cup water

 1. Ingredients 

 2. Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor and blitz

 3. Should now look as above

 4. Set your heat at medium. I used coconut oil (in spay form) to grease after each wrap is cooked. Pour your mixture onto your already heated flat pan and move around to ensure you get a thin, round wrap. These do take a while to cook. Do not rush them. 

5. You'll know when your wrap is ready to flip when the edges are lifting off your pan. Be gentle when flipping. Once you have flipped your wrap it becomes much more pliable. Set them aside to cool and once cool they are ready.

These are AWSOME.

Eat them as a wrap, burrito, ENDLESS options!

ENJOY

Sweet Potato Skins...

Sweet Potato Skins Topped with Crispy Bacon and Chives!

Ingredients...

Pre heat oven to 200c

4 Medium sized kumara (aka sweet potato) Baked

4 rashes of streaky bacon (diced)

1 cup of baby spinach (chopped)

1 sml red onion (diced)

2 garlic cloves (diced)

1 bunch of chives (chopped)

1 sml red capsicum

1 tsp cumin

1 tsp smoked paprika

celtic sea salt and pepper to taste

   

 1. Ingredients... (plus 4 baked sweet potato's)

 2. Ingredients Prepped

 3. Half your sweet potatoes and then with a small spoon, scoop out the kumara apart from a thin line around the edges. (be careful you don't want to tear the bottoms) Add the scooped kumara to your bowl of ingredients and smash together. 

4. Dived the bowl of ingredients into 8 parts and stuff all your sweet potatoes evenly. Pack them firmly. Place them on a greased oven tray and bake for around 20 minutes.

These are fantastic. Great for kids, entree's, take them to a bbq etc...

I topped mine with organic bbq sauce and my home made coconut yogurt.

ENJOY!

Flax Seed Buns...

Flax Seed Buns!!

Ingredients...

Pre Heat Oven 180c

1 cup flax meal

1/3 cup coconut flour

1/3 cup almond meal

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 cup olive oil

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar 

1/4 cup warm water

5 egg whites

1tsp celtic sea salt

 1. Place all dry ingredients in a bowl.

 2. Add all wet ingredients to bowl and mix.

 3. Your dough should look like this now. Wet your hand, and roll (in your hands) 4 large balls.

5. Place your rolled out buns on a greased baking tray. I used the egg yolks and brushed a little on the top to make them golden on the top. I also put black sesame seeds and Pepita seeds on the top. Now bake for around 25minutes or until the center is firm and they are golden!

BUNS, BUNS, BUNS!

These are great! You could make bacon and egg rolls, take them on a picnic, have them with burgers! 

ENDLESS OPPORTUNITY'S...

ENJOY!

Parsnip Mash With Lemon, Garlic, and Thyme...

A great versatile mash that will go with about anything!

Ingredients...

5 medium peeled parsnips

1/2 the juice of one lemon

1 tbsp fresh thyme 

5 cloves of garlic

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp Celtic sea salt

1 tsp ground black pepper

 

 Ingredients...

 1. Boil your peeled parsnips, and garlic cloves until soft.

 2. Once soft strain your parsnips and garlic place in a bowl.

3. Now with a masher, whiz stick or mouli mash your now soft garlic cloves and parsnips. Once smooth add your olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper and fresh thyme.

There you have it. A very tasty accompaniment to any meal.

ENJOY!