Recipes
Pork, Blue Cheese and Apple
- Baby spinach or salad greens
- 70 g lightly toasted walnuts
- Zest of orange
- 4 lean pork steaks
- 1 apple, cored and thinly sliced
- 100 g crumbly blue cheese
Dressing
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp orange juice
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 clove crushed garlic
Combine the dressing ingredients and then mix half of the dressing with the salad greens, walnuts and orange zest in a large bowl.
Grill or fry the pork steaks until just cooked and remove from the pan. While they are resting, drizzle a little of the reserved dressing over the sliced apple and cook in the pan until just coloured.
Arrange the pork steaks, salad greens and apple slices on a platter and crumble over the blue cheese, and drizzle over the remaining dressing. Serve immediately.
Spicy Yoghurt Cake
- 250 ml natural yoghurt
- 125 g butter
- 375 g sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- ¾ c self raising flour
- ¾ c wholemeal flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 2 c grated carrot
- 100 ml sunflower oil
- 2 tbsp desiccated coconut
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp mixed spice
Preheat the oven to 180C. Cream the butter and sugar and then beat in the eggs one at a time. Add in all the other ingredients and fold to combine. (Don’t over mix)
Pour the mixture into a prepared 23 cm cake pan and bake for 40 minutes or until golden and firm to touch.