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Sunday, June 23, 2013

PHOTOS & Monday's Menu Zucchini-watercress soup, Sweetcorn, zucchini & carrot pancakes, eggplant pate with olives and capers, Mac 'n Cheese with tomato sauce & veggies, apricot almond bar cookie

Own grown tomatoes and lemons

Eggplant and vegetable mix for the piquant pate with capers and olives, sauteing before blending

"Pre-soaked " almonds for the cookie dough

Baked eggplant slices for the cashew butter-lemon dressing salad

The eggplant pate before processing

This right now is a vegan mix of walnuts, cooked cauliflower, pasta, carrots, parsley, celery ,  Nutritional yeast,garlic..tomorrow will be packed in tomato sauce and layered with cheese to be baked at client's home. A great way to add more vegetables to the diet, any good vegetables can be used.
 This will also be served with a black bean and sweetcorn salad.


The completed eggplant "pate"..will be served with rye bread toast points

The cornmeal batter for the corn cakes with zucchini and carrots and served with an avocado-tomato salsa

These 2 the blended watercress, potato & zucchini soups


Base for the apricot-almond cookies ( almonds are in the pastry)



These 3 the corn cakes with vegetables

The completed almond-apricot cookies to be cooled completely and then cut into bars



Hot summer weather here now, low Los Angeles Basin up to  mid 80's, high desert into triple digits.
The menu that my client's have chosen for tomorrow is:

A raw cucumber-mint yogurt soup..great summer cooler

Zucchini-watercress soup

"French style"  piquant eggplant pate with toast points &  chopped salad

Corn cakes and tomato-avocado salad..these used to be very popular in the 70's and it is time they came back..recipe is also on my website Home page, link at bottom of this page.

Vegetable Mac 'n cheese with sweetcorn and black bean salad


Roast potatoes and vegetables with a cumin infused yogurt dressing


Side dishes are:

Roasted eggplant, tomato ( own grown) and squash warm salad with a cashew butter-lemon-garlic dressing

Red cabbage and mustard green saute with onion

Dessert:
Apricot-almond  bar cookies ( recipe on my website om Summer Specials page)

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