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Japanese Inspired Quinoa Salad + Win tickets to see Jiro Dreams of Sushi

05 May

This is one of our special Superfoodelicious lunches I made last term for a few lucky people at work. It is one of my favourites and it fits perfectly with our Japanese themed giveaway.

Serves 4

  • 1.5 cups quinoa
  • 3 cups Vegetable Stock
  • 100g frozen shelled edamame
  • 300g Oyster mushrooms, torn up
  • 300g enoki mushrooms, pulled apart
  • 1 red capsicum, sliced
  • 2 radish (120g, thinly sliced on mandolin)
  • 170g snowpeas
  • 2 shallots, thinly sliced
  • 1/3 cup Kecap manis
  • sesame seeds
  • Nori strips

  1. Rinse quinoa then add vegetable stock in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Put the lid on and simmer for 12-15 minutes until the water is absorbed.
  2. Add the edamame in the last few minutes.
  3. Stir-fry the red capsicum, oyster mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, snowpeas, radish and shallots. Add the kecap manis.
  4. Mix the quinoa with the veggies.
  5. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and Nori strips.

Welcome to our first giveaway on No Red Meat. How exciting!!!! We have 4 double passes to Jiro Dreams of Sushi that you can win. It opens May 10th at selected cinemas.

Watch the trailer here.

All you need to do is leave a comment on this post telling us about your favourite Japanese restaurant, preferably in Sydney. We will select 4 lucky winners at random. Pretty easy hey! We love Japanese food, heck we love Japan and are always keen to try new restaurants so we are looking forward to hearing about your favourite places.

Entries close Tuesday the 8th May at 8pm AEST. Only open to residents of Australia. Make sure you enter a valid email address.

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Wedding Cake Success

12 Jan

Congratulations Tinx & Minx!!!!!

Well we promised another cake post in our speech so here are a few more photos of the assembly of the wedding cake. Hover over each photo to see the captions.

You can see in the photo of Tinx and Minx cutting the cake at the top of this post that we also put a few beautiful white gardenia’s on top. Thanks again to Mum for escorting the cakes from Sydney to Queensland and to Peter and Adele for letting us take over their kitchen and fridge to put this together. I was thinking since we had already baked the cakes it would take 1 hour, max 2 hours to assemble it. Nope we took our time, laughed, stirred in a heap of love and took photos along the way and it ending up taking just over 4 hours.

We were pretty excited that the problem we had in our trial cake was solved. When the top tier was lifted off the bottom tier to serve it up, it didn’t take the ganache from the bottom tier with it. Yay!!!! We put a piece of baking paper under the top tier and the dowels stuck up higher than they did in the trial so the top tier was slightly raised. Trying to position the top tier onto the bottom tier was the hardest part of this project because I only had one shot to get it right otherwise it would have messed up the smooth layer of ganache.

Since there was no cake leftover, not even the extra four 8″ cakes we made, I think it’s OK to say that we NAILED IT!

In addition to making the wedding cake we also made Mango Kulfi. You can get the recipe here.

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Amazeballs Salad

11 Jan

I was just about to post a picture of this salad on facebook but then had a bite and OMG  I don’t think there would have been enough space on fb for me to say what is in it. What a winner this salad is and an even better bonus is I threw it together with stuff I already had in our fridge and cupboard. “Why would you want to go out when this gets served up night after night?”

I usually try to include some protein in my salads but we’re all out of eggs and canned tuna/salmon. However this salad does have a little protein from the feta, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and tahini.

The dressing, avocado and feta make this salad creamy (but healthy), whilst the seeds give it a nice crunch here and there. In my opinion this salad is AMAZEBALLS!!!

Amazeballs salad

  • Handful of baby spinach
  • baby roma tomatoes (Fresh from Ricardoes farm in Port Macquarie)
  • 1/4 avocado
  • 1 zucchini, sliced on the diagonal
  • Feta
  • sunflower seeds
  • pumpkin seeds
  • baby beetroot balls (I just used canned beetroot)

Dressing

  • Avocado oil
  • 1 garlic clove
  • tahini
  • lemon juice
  1. Heat up grill
  2. Spray zucchini with lemon olive oil and grill to get those sexy lines.
  3. Whilst grilling the zucchini, make the dressing. Sorry I don’t have measurements. I just made it so it was a nice creamy consistency.
  4. Combine the ingredients in a big salad bowl, toss with dressing and enjoy
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Mango Kulfi

09 Jan

Happy New Year!

We had so much fun on NYE. It was also the George Michael Bollywood in the Bush Bonanza. In addition to making the cake for this spectacular wedding, we also made some Mango Kulfi. Kulfi is a frozen Indian dessert. I think it tastes like a Mango Weiss bar. It was super easy to make and we got the recipe from our mum. We mentioned in our speech that we were going to post the recipe here so thanks for stopping by and enjoy.

Mango Kulfi (Serves 10-12)

2 mangoes, seed removed

400g Sweetened condensed milk (1 Nestle tin)

250ml Reduced fat cream (1 Nestle tin)

300ml Thickened Cream

  1. Line a 1L loaf tin with glad wrap. You could also use iceblock moulds
  2. Puree mango pulp using a stick blender
  3. Combine with the rest of the ingredients.
  4. Pour into loaf tin.
  5. Freeze overnight

This recipe can easily be doubled, tripled or made into whatever quantity you need. We made the kulfi in double batches to ensure an even distribution of the mango. Each double batch filled 3 disposable aluminium loaf tins.

I think the mango kulfi was a success. Some people were asking if there was any leftovers at the recovery brunch and we thought it was all gone, except for 2 melted trays of leftovers the caterers had left in the coolroom. However we were pretty excited to find a few more in the freezer. I sure was happy to announce round 2. Ding Ding Ding! Unfortunately for some people this was too late and they had already left. Sorry!

Congratulations to Tinx and Mick aka George and Michael, aka Tinx and Minx, aka Curious George and Micky Mouse, aka Micky and Minnie Mouse!!! It was a fantastic idea to celebrate your wedding on New Years Eve. We all enjoyed partied on into the night. I’m still recovering but had an absolute blast.

To love, laughter and happily ever after.

xx

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