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Recipe, South Head

Creamy Vegan Mushrooms

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Creamy Vegan Mushrooms, served with freshly-baked and toasted Ciabata
Creamy Vegan Mushrooms, served with freshly-baked and toasted Ciabatta

Creamy Vegan Mushrooms


Makes approximately 600 grams (4 x 150 gram portions)
Calories: 296 per serving

Ingredients

  • 500 gm white mushrooms (washed and cut into 1/6ths)
  • 1 small to medium-sized onion, finely chopped
  • 6 tbsp coconut oil (90 ml)
  • 1 x 160 ml can coconut cream
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 tbs freshly chopped marjoram or oregano
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt (or to taste)
  • Freshly ground black pepper
Mushrooms and coconut cream simmering until sauces is reduced to the desired thickness
Mushrooms and coconut cream simmering until sauce is reduced to the desired thickness

Method

  1. Using a large pan, saute the onions in 2 tbs coconut oil until golden and transparent.  Meanwhile, finely chop the marjoram with the garlic.
  2. When the onion is ready, add the herbs & garlic to the mix and cook through.  Remove from the pan and set aside.
  3. Add the remaining 4 tbsp coconut oil to the pan.  When hot, throw in the white mushrooms and stir to evenly mix the coconut oil through.
  4. Keeping the heat medium-to-high, and stirring at intervals, cook the mushrooms until their juices are starting to ooze out, then a little more to dry some of them up.
  5. Add the herb & garlic mixture and stir through.
  6. Reduce the juices a little, then pour in the coconut cream.  Stir through.
  7. Reduce heat to medium.  Stirring regularly, simmer the mushrooms until the coconut cream has reduced to the desire thickness.  This would depend on personal taste, i.e. on how much sauce you wanted to serve up with your mushrooms.

Creamy Vegan Mushrooms is ideal for brunch, or as an addition to a main meal.  It’s yummy served with lightly toasted Ciabatta.

Recipe, South Head

Pear and Avocado Smoothie

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Ready to eat. Yum Yum!
Ready to eat. Yum Yum!

At this time of year when there are lots of avocados and pears around, this recipe is just perfect.

I came across it in the book, ‘Good Housekeeping Easy to Make Smoothies & Juices (2009), Collins and Brown’, and the result is an incredibly yummy smoothie-dessert.

The texture is velvety, the colour is sublime and the flavour!  Well, let’s just say that although the combination of pear and avocado may sound unusual to some, it’s definitely worth trying.

Ingredients

  • 1 small lemon
  • 2 ripe dessert pears
  • 1 small, ripe avocado
  • Juice of 1 lime

Method

  • Peel and core the pears.
  • Cut the avocado in half, remove the stone, and separate the flesh from the skin.
  • Peel the lemon, removing as much of the white pith as possible, cut into segments and remove any pips.
  • Put the pears, avocado and lemon  into a blender, along with the lime juice.  Blend until smooth.

If you’d like to add a ‘zing’ to your smoothie, a dash of something hot would enhance it.  Add a dash of ‘Kaitaia Fire‘ or Tabasco sauce, or a tiny piece of habanero chilli to the blend.

Pears are falling daily from the old pear tree.
Lovely fresh, ripe pears.