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Ingredients

4 Beef fillets or your favourite cut

Marinade

1 Small onion, sliced
2 Bay leaves
4 Cloves garlic, roughly chopped
11/2 Teaspoons black peppercorns
1 Teaspoon dried thyme
1 Cup red wine

Butter

100g Butter, softened to room temperature
1/2 Stick celery, finely chopped
2 Green onions, chopped finely
1 Teaspoon capers, chopped
1 Tablespoon horseradish (I did quite a generous one)
1 Teaspoon sugar

Method

Butter

1. Combine all butter ingredients in a bowl, make sure you mix well.

2. Spoon butter into some foil, roll butter to form a log shape, twist ends of foil so you have what looks like a mini Christmas cracker.

3. Refrigerate until firm.

Steaks

1. Combine all marinade ingredients in a large bowl, add steaks, cover and refrigerate several hours or overnight.

2. Remove steaks, discard marinade, grill, BBQ or pan fry steaks until cooked as desired. Allow steaks to rest before serving.

Note: I slice the butter and place it on top of steaks while they are resting on a board so they are still hot enough to start to melt the butter.

Serve steaks topped with a slice of butter and mash or roasted potatoes and fresh vegetables.

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Ingredients

Oilve oil
4 Lamb shanks
2 Medium red onions, sliced thinly
250g Mushrooms, sliced thinly
6 Cloves garlic, crushed
1 Cup red wine
1/2 Cup port
1 Tablespoon balsamic vinegar
11/2 Cups water
1 Teaspoon dried rosemary
1 Teaspoon dried thyme
8 Sun-dried tomatoes, roughly chopped
2-3 Teaspoons beef stock granules (depending on brand and personal taste)
1 Teaspoon dijon mustard
2-3 Tablespoons cornflour
Parsley

Method

1. Heat a little olive oil in a large fry pan, add shanks and brown all over. Remove shanks and wipe pan clean.

2. Heat a little more oil in pan add onion, mushrooms and garlic, cook stirring until onion softens and mushrooms brown slightly.

3. In a large saucepan add onion mix and all the other ingredients, except cornflour and parsley, return shanks to pan.

4. Bring to the boil, then reduce heat to low and cook covered about 4 hours or until lamb is falling off the bone. My shanks were quite meaty so time will vary depending on sizes of shanks.

5. Remove shanks and cover with foil to keep warm.

6. Mix a little water with the cornflour and add to liquid, bring to the boil and stir until mixture thickens. (It will not be super thick just a nice gravy consistency.)

To Serve: Place a mound of mash on a plate, top with a shanks and pour sauce all over, garnish with parsley if desired.

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Ingredients

2 (12 ounce) Rib eye steaks or top sirloin steaks, cut 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches thick
1 Tablespoon brown sugar
1 Teaspoon chili powder
1/2 Teaspoon garlic salt
1/2 Teaspoon black pepper
8 Ounces fresh tomatillos, husked and quartered
1/4 Cup water
2 Ounces cream cheese
1 Avocado, halved,seeded,peeled,and cut up
1/4 Cup sliced green onion
1/2 Teaspoon salt
10-12 Green onions, trimmed to 6 inch lengths
4-6 Jalapeno peppers
1 Large tomato, chopped (Optional)

Method

1. Trim fat from around the edges of beef rib-eye steaks.

2. In a small bowl combine the brown sugar, chili powder, garlic salt, and pepper.

3. Pat onto both sides of the steaks.

4. Let steaks stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.

5. Meanwhile for sauce, in a small saucepan combine the quartered tomatillos and water, bring to boiling; reduce heat.

6. Cover and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes or until soft.

7. Stir the cream cheese into tomatillo mixture until melted; cool mixture slightly.

8. In a food processor bowl or blender container combine the tomatillo mixture, the avocado, sliced green onions, and salt, cover and process or blend until sauce mixture is smooth. Store n fridge until ready to use.

10. Prepare charcoal grill or preheat gas grill.

11. Grill steaks on rack of an uncovered grill directly over medium coals to desired doneness, turning halfway through.

12. Allow 14 to 18 minutes for medium rare and 18 to 22 minutes for medium.

13. If desired, brush the whole green onions and jalapenos lightly with oil; grill jalapenos about 10 minutes or untiil soft and lightly charred, turning occasionally.

Serve with sauce, grilled jalapenos, and green onions and chopped tomato is desired.

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Ingredients

4 Chicken breast halves (with skin on)
4 Teaspoons butter
2 Garlic cloves (crushed, in garlic press or minced)
Paprika

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius.

2. Mix butter and garlic together.

3. Gently pull skin back on the chicken breast but do not remove. Spread 1/4 of butter/garlic mixture over meat.

4. Pull skin back over, sprinkle paprika on the top of the skin, then place breasts on a baking tray lined with baking paper (don’t need baking paper if using breasts on the bone).

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 with other 3 breasts.

6. Put in the oven and bake for 30 minutes (35 to 40 if on the bone).

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Ingredients

Olive oil
3 Beef fillet steaks (see note above)
2 Red capsicums, quartered, seeds and membranes removed
1 Large onion, sliced thinly
4 Cloves garlic, crushed
2 Red chilies, finely chopped (I leave a few seeds in.)
50ml Balsamic vinegar
3 Tablespoons brown sugar
2 Corn cobs, trimmed and chopped coarsley
300g Red potatoes, halved and quartered, depending on size
100g Snow peas
150g Asparagus spears
2 Tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

Method

1. Roast capsicum skin side up, under grill, until skin blisters and blackens. Stand for 5 min’s to cool, peel away skin and slice thinly.

2. Heat a little olive oil in a pan, cook onion and garlic, stirring until soft.

3. Add chillies, vinegar, sugar and capsicum, cook, stirring about 8 Min’s.

4. Meanwhile cook steaks, on an oiled grill plate, or grill or BBQ, until browned on both sides and cooked as desired.

5. Boil, steam or microwave vegetables, until just tender.

6. You can either do the same with potato and just boil or do as I did, which was to only par boil them, drain, sprinkle with paprika and garlic powder and finally roast in pre-heated oven of 180 degrees celsius, until browned and crisp, so take your pick.

To Serve: Place vegetables on plate, place steaks on veg and top each steak with capsicum relish, sprinkle with parsley.

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Ingredients

10 Ounces frozen chopped spinach, thawed
1 1/2 Cups sour cream
1 cup mayonnaise
1 7/8 Ounces Knorr vegetable soup mix
Water chestnut, canned, drained and chopped
3 Green onions, chopped
1 Loaf bread, round

Method

1. Squeeze spinach until dry.

2. In medium bowl stir in spinach, sour cream, mayo, soup mix, chestnuts and onion.

3. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

4. Hollow out bread and put dip in center.

Serve with bread, chips and veggies to dip.

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Ingredients

250g Ginger biscuits
400g Crystallized ginger
100g Chocolate (I used creamy milk chocolate)
300g Chocolate, for coating. (I used dark chocolate)

Method

1. Pulverize the biscuits in your food processor until fine crumbs.

2. Add the ginger and process 30 seconds, re-arrange and process another 30 seconds.

3. Add the chocolate, broken into small pieces, and process until it all comes together in a tacky ball.

4. Spread on a tray and refrigerate until you can easily roll it into small balls.

5. Put the balls on baking paper, and return to fridge overnight.

6. Melt the extra chocolate and dip each ginger ball to coat, refrigerate until hardened.

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Ingredients

8 Lamb loin chops
4 Teaspoons lemon pepper seasoning
2 Tablespoons oil
1 Clove garlic, crushed
60ml Dry white wine
180ml Chicken stock
4 Teaspoons lemon juice
1/4 Cup roughly chopped fresh chives
Fresh ground pepper

Method

1. Sprinkle the lamb with the seasoning.

2. Heat the oil in a fry pan and cook the lamb until it is browned on both sides and cooked through.

3. Remove from the pan and cover and keep warm.

4. Add the garlic and wine to the frying pan and bring to the boil.

5. Add the stock and the juice, and bring to the boil again.

6. Boil uncovered until the liquid is reduced by half.

7. Stir in the chives and season to taste with freshly ground black pepper.

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Ingredients

Salmon

Cooking spray or olive oil
1kg Salmon fillet
1/2 Lemon, juice of
1 Tablespoon olive oil, extra
Ground sea salt
Ground black pepper
Coriander sprigs, for garnish (optional)
Lemon wedges or spirals, for garnish (optional)

Coriander/Cilantro Mango Salsa

1 Mango, peeled, pitted and diced
1 Large avocado, peeled, pitted and diced
1/2 Cup finely diced red pepper
1 Red onion, finely chopped
2 Tablespoons finely chopped coriander/cilantro
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
2 Tablespoons balsamic vinaigrette dressing
1 Tablespoon honey

Method

1. Make salsa first by combining lemon juice, dressing and honey in a screw top jar, shake to combine.

2. Combine dressing with remaining ingredients in a glass bowl, refrigerate until needed. Salsa can be made up to 2 hours ahead of time and stored in the fridge.

Salmon

1. Pre-Heat oven to 190 degrees Celsius.

2. Place salmon in an oven proof dish, that has been lightly greased with either cooking spray or oil.

3. Brush salmon with olive oil, squeeze lemon over salmon, Sprinkle with ground sea salt and pepper.

4. Bake for 30-35 Min’s or until fish flakes easily, cooking time will vary depending on thickness of the salmon.

5. Remove salmon from pan, allow to cool for 15 minutes. Either serve now, lukewarm, or refrigerate salmon for at least 2 hours to chill. Will last longer but chill no more than 24 hours. (I have done both and both are equally nice.)

To Serve: Place salmon on a serving platter, Spoon small amounts of salsa over, garnish with lemon and coriander sprigs. Serve remaining salsa in a bowl on the side.

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Ingredients

1.1kg Leg lamb, de-boned and sliced open ready to stuff
1/2 Packet sage and onion stuffing mix, made up
1 Shallot, chopped finely
5 Cloves garlic, 3 crushed, 2 sliced thinly
1 Tablespoon rosemary, chopped finely
8 Sun-dried tomatoes, chopped finely
Sage, Rosemary, Thyme, garlic powder and paprika (For sprinkling over top of lamb)

Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

2. Open out lamb leg, I pounded with a meat mallet to even out thickness. (Read note above about cutting leg for stuffing.)

3. Heat a little oil in a pan, add crushed garlic, and shallot and cook until shallot has softened.

4. In a bowl combine stuffing mix, garlic/shallot mix, rosemary and tomatoes, spread stuffing evenly over lamb, carefully roll lamb up to form a log roll, secure with kitchen string.

5. Slice slits into top of lamb at intervals, push sliced garlic into slits, sprinkle top with listed herbs.

6. Place in an ovenproof dish and roast for about 1hr 30-45 Min’s or until cooked as desired.

Let meat stand before slicing.

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