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Recipe: Barbecued Yellow Zucchini with Marjoram
Vegan, Gluten Free These yellow zucchinis are show-stoppers! Bright and beautiful they make an easy side to go with a barbecue lunch and look wonderfully cheerful on the plate. They'd also make a great addition to vegetable stacks or sandwiches. Direct from Dennis at Albion Park these local zucchinis travel just over an hour to get to our door. Ingredients 4 yellow zucchinis olive oil salt freshly ground black pepper 2 Tbsp marjoram leaves, roughly chopped lemon wedges, to serve Method 1. Heat barbecue to hot. HalveRecipe: Spelt Banana Bread
Turn over-ripe bananas into a delicious organic banana bread Almost everybody appreciates a slice of good banana bread! Toasted or untoasted, slathered with butter or ricotta- and perhaps drizzled with a little honey and a dusting of cinnamon... This version uses natural ingredients to enhance the flavour and nutritional value of a sweet that is often made with refined ingredients. Spelt is a delicious, complex and slightlyRecipe: Roast Tomato Soup with Quinoa & Feta
Gluten Free, Vegetarian In this recipe quinoa enriches a rustic, rich tomato soup with protein and its distinct texture. We've recently got some fantastic Australian grown quinoa in, and we highly recommend it! Just beware as it needs to be rinsed very thoroughly (at least twice) before cooking to remove the unpleasant saponin coating, which is quinoa's natural pest deterrent. Ingredients (serves 4) 16 medium sized round tomatoes 1 tsp seaRecipe: Strawberry Jam
Vegan, Gluten Free Make your own organic strawberry jam Strawberries are a delicate and relatively expensive fruit but so delicious and rosily pretty they're hard to resist at this time of year! If you ever find yourself with a glut try making your own jam- it's really very easy if you make a small quantity, and even this recipe is easily halved. Bear in mind that your fruit must be perfect- you need to get those strawberries into the potRecipe: Chunky Guacamole
Vegan, Gluten Free Chunky, spicy, tangy organic guacamole Spiced with jalapeno and coriander, bursting with tomato and coriander and bound with a generous squeeze of lime juice guacamole makes a quintessentially fresh summer dip. Serve with corn chips or triangles of toasted flat bread in the sunshine, and adjust the chilli content to suit your taste. As a key condiment in Mexican cuisine guacamole is also fabulous with burritos, tacos and enchiladas.Recipe: Chocolate Mousse
Raw, Vegan, Gluten Free Organic avocado makes a silky, rich chocolate mousse Crazy as it may sound this recipe uses perfectly ripe avocados as the base of an incredible, creamy chocolate mousse. A heavy dose of cocoa and a hint of vanilla cover up the taste: it's all about the texture! Serve with berries for an elegant and not-so-very-naughty indulgence. As far as fruits go the avocado has a relatively high oil content, which is why it makes such a delicious mousse. But it contains good,Recipe: Carrot Salad with Nori Gomashio
Super simple organic carrot salad with salty sesame seeds . This is a salad that comes together in minutes if you've got gomashio in the cupboard. If you don't it's no big deal: you'll have plenty after making this recipe! Gomashio is a sesame salt common in Japanese and Korean cuisines, and an important part of the macrobiotic diet too (as it helps reduce sodium intake). Suitable for seasoning a variety of dishes- from plain rice rice or noodles to omelettes and salads-Recipe: Radicchio, Beluga Lentil & Pear Salad
Organic bitter purple 'greens' teamed with sweet, juicy pear Radicchio is a member of the chicory family. It's a great source vitamin C, carotenes and calcium, not to mention that it's regal colour makes it a visual delight on the table. . Radicchio has a reputation for being very bitter but young heads can actually be surprisingly mild: choose small, tightRecipe: Wild Rice & Walnut Salad with Chevre
vegetarian, gluten free Wild rice makes a satisfying, protein rich salad Wild rice has a uniquely earthly taste that goes really nicely with sweet, rich flavours: in this salad it's studded with cherries and walnuts, lightened with fresh herbs and topped with creamy goat's cheese . The Middle Eastern influence of cumin and pomegranate molasses make it a great partner for lamb. Wild rice is a great source of energy and fibre and contains more protein than most grains,Recipe: Shaved Cabbage Salad with Miso Sesame Dressing
Vegetarian, Gluten free, Dairy free Shaved organic cabbage makes a light, crisp salad Cabbage isn't usually a glamorous vegetable but shaved thinly it makes a lovely, dare-I-say-elegant base for salads. It's also a nutrient packed, near perfect food and when eaten raw detoxifies the stomach and aids digestion. You'll need a sharp chef's knife (or mandolin), a big chopping board and a little patience to get the cabbage sliced as finely as it needs to