Monday, 16 March 2009

raw beets and marshmallows

So what would you cook, if given the following ingredients (yes, you have to you all of them!):
yams, zucchini, avocado, raw beets, cilantro (coriander to Aussies), ginger root, marshmallows, pineapple chunks, tinned fruit salad, tinned apricot, green onions, lentils, chicken, and cranberry sauce/jelly.

Well, Ramie and I found all that quite a challenge! We were cooking for 10, with a guest who can't eat gluten, and two guests who are vegan.

So my highly experimental dishes were:
  • Baked chicken breast with chilled Cranberry Cilantro salsa (cilantro, cranberry jelly, grated ginger root, diced avocado, sliced green onion). This was voted my best dish.
  • I was going to make a lentil salad, but the lentils were too well done and got turned into lentil hummus (added some garlic and pureed the lot)
  • No-name Salad: baby spinach, roasted yam and zucchini, raw diced beets, green onion with a creamy poppyseed dressing (from Ramie's fridge :) )
  • Tropical rice pudding (rice, cream, eggs, marshmallows, tinned fruit, cinnamon)
Ramie made a curried lentil stew (veeeerrrrry yummy!), vegetarian stirfry, apricot chicken, and a gluten-free fruit crumble (which, despite being in a huge dish, was eaten in entirety!).
Our friend Thomas was taking pictures, so if I get some, I'll try and remember to post them up.

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